Not So Small!

Our little Brooke is now 7 months old! I seriously can not believe how fast time goes by when you have a child!!! In some ways it is so exciting to see your little baby grow and change and learn new things, and in other ways it is so sad to see those same things happen. I just wish time would move just a little bit slower so I could enjoy each and every stage more before it is over! I have absolutely loved every single stage of this little girl's life. I just feel like it gets better and better! Every single day I find myself more captivated by this little person, I feel my heart grow every single day, I feel myself fall even more deeply in love then the day before. I can not even imagine how much I will love this little lady the day she gets married. If my love keeps growing the way it is each and every day, I am honestly frightened by the love I will have for her! The power her life has is amazing to me!
Brooke has brought so much joy to our home, so much laughter, so many smiles, I could not even imagine our home without her. I try to think back on the days before she was here and they just seem boring! My days are filled with joy! Her daddy and I are so smitten!
This past month has been a month of growth and discovery. I feel like it has been a window to a whole new world that is to shortly come! Brooke has gotten SO good with her little hands and fingers! She LOVES to point at everything, it is SO CUTE!!! There are moments where it looks like she is trying to sign something to me but at the same time what she is doing does not look familiar to me quite yet. She does the same thing over and over so I assume it means something? She can now pick up small things with her fingers and can place little foods in her mouth without a problem. Brooke eats all kinds of stuff, it is SO NICE that she is eating real foods and not baby foods because I just feed her pieces of my meal most of the time. We LOVE Submarina because she gets to eat a bunch of my veggies, meat and bread. The ladies at Submarina are IN LOVE with Brooke and even give her her own little plate. She is a GOOD EATER and has just discovered that she LOVES Mac n Cheese (which she also LOVED while in my belly)! Brooke is also making all kinds of new faces, noises, and gestures! She days Dada, Gaga, Rara, Bbbrrraaa.., but not MAMA yet! I do not think she knows what she is saying quite yet so I feel it does not count that she is saying dada first until she KNOWS what she is saying :) Brooke talks baby talk ALL THE TIME and gets quite a bit of attention because she brings it on to herself with her big voice! She is working on the crawling thing but has not quite figured it out yet! We shall see when that happens??? AND she just cut her first tooth this past weekend!!! It is still super low so you can't really get a picture of it yet but it should be up in no time. I am going to cry when it looks like she has teeth :( Brooke can also understand the words dada, mama, doggy, baba, binka binka (pacifier), blankey, bath, all done, lay down, nappy, and nigh night! Well it seems she understands them! I think that is the big stuff from this month. O and she still LOVES her Baby Einstein movie, she cracks up to it and gets SO EXCITED, it is SO CUTE!!!

7 month stats:
18.3 lbs.
27 inches long
(these are done by mommy so who knows how accurate they are?)

Now for some pictures!


Now for the many faces of Brooke!
This face is SO Brooke!!!

Cute and Tired!

Simply Silly!

This is the best shot I have gotten so far of her new fishy lips face! She does it all the time and I can't get an in focus picture of it for some reason!

SMILES!

Attitude!

This is her new thing as well, she loves to turn her head sideways, what a silly goose!


This is the new toy, purchased with the money Papa Wyrick gave Brooke for Valentines day, thanks Papa!

Pointing!

Another form of soothing! Much better then a binkey says Mama!

Another new thing, grabbing her head and pulling her hair! Silly Kid!

Snoozing with Daddy!

Mommy thinks Brooke is starting to look more like her? What do you think?


And this is daddy, I think a little younger than Brooke is now but you get the idea right?

It has been a great month! Can't wait to see what this next month brings! Love you Brookie!

Toes to the Pacific

WOW, I am WAY behind here on this lovely little blog!
SOOOOoooo..... back on Valentines Day Kip, Brooke, and I headed out to Laguna Beach to visit Kip's dad and brother who were staying out at this totally sweet beach house right on the water. It was so nice to go out there and spend time with Uncle Rick and Grandpa. The day was totally BEAUTIFUL and the weather was perfect! We ended up taking little Brooke down to put her toes in the ocean for the very first time. Here are some shots we got. Grandpa had left already to go pick up Grandma from the airport so Brooke got some shots with Uncle Rick, Mommy, and Daddy!
At first Brooke was not such a fan! The water WAS super cold so I do not blame her!


Then she learns to love it!


How about some family shots!




All in all a great day and so much fun to get those little toes in the Pacific Ocean for the first time :)

Tears to my eyes!

This was the very first time I gave Brooke her bottle to feed herself while I ran around the house trying to get things together to leave. I set her down, handed her the bottle, started to run off, then I looked back and tears came to my eyes :( my little baby looks SO BIG!!! It is SO SAD to me! I had to stop and take a picture to remember the moment that broke my heart, and made me proud at the same time. I love and hate that my baby is growing up!

And the tears are coming back from just looking at this picture. I need to make sure I cherish every single moment!!!

Biggest Loser Week #7

We are at the half way point about now!!!
The competition is still going on I have just been slacking on posting the results, partly because it has been hard to get some of the numbers. From this point on if I do not receive your numbers by Sunday evening I will just put your # down as a 0 for the week until you call me and tell me otherwise.
I decided to do a post on the total pounds lost up to this point from January 1st. This way we can all kinda see where we are at. So here goes!

Tony Toliver 23 lbs.
Kip Robinson 15 lbs.
Todd Moran 14 lbs.
Melissa Gargalis 8 lbs.
Sarah Robinson 7 lbs.
Gregg Gargalis 4 lbs.
Tammy Carlson 3 lbs.
Meagan Hacker 2 lbs.
Katie Bruer 2 lbs.
Tammie Jones +1 lbs.
Dev Patel +4 lbs.
Lisa Patel +5
Hilary Hanson ? lb.
Hayley Hanson ? lbs.
Jackie Hanson ? lbs.
Jess Allen ? lbs.

Great job guys and keep up the hard work!!!

Look what I can do!

WOW!!!!!

The day has FINALLY arrived!!! I can put a bow IN my hair!!! Kinda, it is hanging on by just a few hairs, but it is there!!!

Isn't that SO exciting???

A few of my favorite things...

These are a few of my favorite things, well because they are a few of Brooke's favorite things, and what makes my baby happy makes me happy!!!

This is Brooke's Buddy that she cuddles with in her crib! She really loves this little guy, and I love that she does because it is a horsey!! Good Choice Brooke, Good Choice!! I will let you name him but for now I will just call him your buddy!


THIS IS OUR LIFE SAVER!!! Brooke is a blankey girl for sure! Her blankey goes everywhere with us! I would say she is way more attached to this then any other comfort object. It is so cute, if you touch it to her face when she is tired her eyes roll back and she is out! I am so thankful for this pink piece of material!



And Brooke adores her daddy! Every time she sees her daddy she gets the biggest smile on her face! He sure knows how to make this little girl laugh! My heart skips a beat every time I see them together. I am SO glad we had a little girl first! I am also so glad that she looks just like her daddy, it is super cute and super sweet! I love these pictures of them! (Daddy, just got back from the gym so he has his shirt off, he is not nude, don't worry :) )



Daddy has his girls smitten!!!

What a wonderful life!

Going Backward!

So Brooke has been working on her crawling, she still has quite a bit of work to do :) I practice with her at least once a day, but we seem to be going backward. The other day I left her on her blanket with her toys and a few minutes later I found her here....


She literally backed herself into a corner! It was quite funny! I love her face in these shots!

One of these days she will go forward right?? As for now we are working on tempting her with some of the things she loves. And this is how it is going!

Not interested!!!