Grammy's Camera

I have come down to San Diego for the weekend to kill time and have a little help with Brooke since Kip has been and will be gone for the entire month. It has been fun being down here, as it always is! I am SO grateful that both Kip and I's families live so close to us! I am so grateful for the special times Brooke gets to have with her Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins! We feel so blessed to be so close to them all and will definitely miss it when we move away.
While down here this weekend I got ahold of my Mom's camera and was just flipping through the pictures. I found a bunch that I either forgot were ever taken or did not even know they were taken in the first place. I thought I would blog them while I am down here so that I have them in my hands now and get to share them with you all!
SO here goes, random pictures from Grammy's Camera!
These were taken one Sunday while we were down here. This is one of my favorite Sunday outfits that Brooke has. The dress was bought by Papa Wyrick and I made the bow to match.

I hardly have ANY pictures of Brooke and I together. I think I dont look so much like me here but it is still a decent picture of the 2 of us so I will take it :)

Here is a proud Pa Carlson teaching Brooke all about a Cross Bow! CUTE!

I like this picture of Kipper and I, it was taken on Christmas Eve. I didn't even remember we even took this picture.

Brooke is ALL ABOUT stacking things these days and I must say she is pretty dang good at it. She can make a pretty tall tower with all sorts of shapes and sizes!


Brooke and Makenna are quite the little buddies together these days! Brooke ADORES Makenna and calls her "Ka". Makenna can make Brooke laugh just about any time, even in the middle of a tantrum. They are going to be good buddies and I can already tell they are going to get into some trouble together. Sis and I are going to be on our toes when we are all together :)

So the other night Amanda and I were dressing our kiddo's after Grammy gave them all their baths and as we had Brooke and Conner laying next to one another we could not help but notice that they were pretty much the SAME SIZE!!! Conner was born the day before Brooke's 1st Birthday making Brooke 18 months in this picture and Conner 6 months. Yes I grow them small and Amanda grows them BIG!!!! Can you believe this?

This is a better idea of their size with their legs straight. Brooke IS longer but I think Conner's head is bigger and is a little higher than Brooke's in this photo. Still can't believe that kid is a GIANT!

I am so glad I got my hands on these shots! I need to keep checking her camera when I come down to make sure there are not more pictures that I could be missing out on!
Hope you all are having a WONDERFUL Valentines Day!!!!! I am away from my love today, but will have a nice date night with him this coming up weekend when Brooke and I go up to visit Daddy! CANT WAIT!!!!
Love sent to you all!!!!

SO BIG!

Today I looked at my baby and did not see a little baby anymore! She looked like a little girl, so I had to capture this moment on camera! It is so amazing how fast time fly's by!
Maybe it was the jeans? I never put her in jeans, mostly because I have a hard time finding ones that fit. These ones were PERFECT!!!
Well here is our BIG girl! I guess that is a good thing since she is going to be a BIG sister in a few months right?

Recent Happenings

I know I have been super lame at keeping up on my blog. Sorry :( I am trying to get back into the swing of things and get things back in order. My problem is that I have not been taking photos lately. I know what in the world is wrong with me? Normally I am totally picture happy and lately I have hardly been picking up my camera. I am getting back on top of things here. So these are a few of our most recent happening!
This is Baby Kipper and I's Shadow at 15 weeks!

Here we are at one of Brooke's FAVORITE places in the world right now TARGET!!! She call's it "The Ball Place" and requests to go there daily. Ok Im not going to lie, I love Target too!!!! We just walk around there sometimes when we are board and most of the time we run into our friends there :)

We also just LOVE going to the park! Brooke would be outside all day every day if she could!

Ever since Brooke started Gymnastics she can not see a curb without wanting to balance and walk on it! I think it is SO CUTE that she loves Gymnastics type stuff the way I did as a child! It makes me proud!

One of the things I can almost always get Brooke to eat is Peanut Butter, especially when I stick a few Mini M&M's in it to tempt her! The thing I hate is that for some reason when she eats Peanut Butter she thinks it belongs in her hair. SO HARD to wash out!

Brooke LOVES her Daddy SO MUCH!!! She adores him!!! He adores her! Here are a few photo's of them together! Seeing them together ALWAYS melts my heart! I am SO happy that Brooke has a Daddy like Kip! We are both SUCH lucky girls!

IT'S A..............

BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
His name will be:
Kip Garr Robinson III




We are THRILLED!!!! 
Kip and I both felt that this little baby was a BOY, we are stoked that we were actually right! We have felt SO in tune with this pregnancy. I prayed for months before we started trying to know if this was the right time to bring a new spirit into our lives, at that point I felt that the next spirit would be a little Boy.
This pregnancy has also been so very different than the pregnancy I had with Brooke which is what sealed the deal on us thinking he was a HE. 
~ I have felt nauseous since the day after we got pregnant, I was hardly nauseous at all with Brooke
~ My hormones have been much more effected this time around 
~ My skin is not clear the way it was with Brooke 
~ I crave totally different foods (almost the opposite of what I craved with Brooke)
~ I am showing very quickly (Im sure because it is my second?)
~ My chest seems to be preparing much more for a Boy than it did for a Girl (if you are picking up what I am putting down)

We are thrilled that we now have 1 of each!!!

Kip is so excited to think about Father/Son campouts, shooting bb guns, building tree houses, riding dirtbikes, you know, all those little Boy type things a Daddy looks forward to doing with his Son!

I am thrilled to have a little Boy as well! I hear that Boys are super attached to their Mommy's which our Girl is attached to her Daddy so I am thrilled to get mine! I also hear that it is fun for a Mommy to have like a little Boyfriend that just adores her and loves her to pieces! I can't wait to see what Mothering a Son is vs Mothering a Daughter! 

We LOVE being a Mommy and Daddy to our little Brooke so I am SURE we are going to love being a Mommy and Daddy to our little Kipper!

18 Months Of Bliss!!!!

Brooke Lyn Robinson

18 months old

~ Full of Energy
~ Full of Chatter, she is ALWAYS talking and is quite the good talker. Our favorite words she says are Please, Thank You, and today she threw out Your Welcome.
~ She LOVES airplanes and can spot them a mile away and in the night sky as well.
~ Loves to look for the moon at night, sometimes she still calls it the "big white ball"
~ LOVES TARGET she calls it the "ball place"
~ Loves Echo (used to be our dog, now is Grandma and Grandpa's dog) she talks about him daily, opens the blinds and yells outside "Echo Come"
~ Loves going on walks, we try to go on one daily, she almost always finds some type of hiking stick and holds onto it almost the whole time.
~ Loves, Loves, Loves to 1-2-3 JUMP or bounce on our friends trampoline she calls it a "bouncy, bouncy"
~ LOVES to be outside
~ Just started gymnastics and is doing very well at keeping up with all the kids that are almost a year older than her, she can even do summersaults all by herself! Also any time we see a curb she has to try to walk along it and balance. I love it!
~ BAD eater but doing better day by day, still mostly survives off of 3-4 Pediasures a day! EXPENSIVE, but it keeps her alive and growing (slowly) so it is WORTH IT!!
~ 12 month pants, 18-24 month shirts
~ Her favorite song is "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" in the car she requests it and every time it ends she says "Again?", she also loves "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" and knows how to do the spider motion, SO CUTE!
~ She loves to run from us ANY time we call her, not good when we are outside heading to the car, and she usually finds the farthest place she can to hide from us, she thinks it is SO FUNNY! I think it's funny when we are indoors but not so funny when we are outside.
~ The kid can run FAST!!!!
~ Very interested in the potty, flushing the toilet, putting TP in the potty, and sitting on her own potty as she says "Pee pee, PSSSsssss......". I hope to have her potty trained a little before or near after this next little baby comes. Im not going to push it.
~ Her favorite shows are Elmo or Wonder Pets
~ Brooke LOVES animals!!!
~ In bed at 7pm up at 6:30-7am without a peep in the evening!
~ Down to 1, 1 hour nap a day (not long enough for mommy)
~ Timid around other kids, especially ones she does not know well.
~ Does not like learning things with other kids around, likes to figure it out on her own first.
~ Has some impressive stacking skills with blocks of all shapes and sizes.
~ Loves to read and draw.
~ Is ready to get out of the house BY 10am and starts to melt down if we are not out by then!
~ Brave and Wimpy at the same time, Shy and NOT AT ALL at the same time.

Brooke has been the biggest blessing to our lives. We can not imagine life without her and cant even remember life very much before her. She has changed us forever, has changed our home forever, changed our hearts forever, and even Kip and I's relationship forever! Kip and I have never felt such joy, experienced such laughter, and felt such LOVE as we do now with Brooke in our lives! 18 months ago our lives changed in the best way they possibly could FOREVER!!! She is our Angel!

It's Been A While.....

..... this year has had a slow start on New Years Resolutions and well EVERYTHING!!! Somebody in this house has been sick every day since before Christmas. We have had colds, sinus infections, strep throat, pregnancy sickness and tiredness, and I just got a call from my sis, who I happened to share a salad with today, who apparently just got her first symptoms of the 24 hour flu they have all been passing around down there. SO looks like I will be sick as a dog in about 36 hours. Hopefully at some point all this sickness will end so we can get started on the GOOD things to come in this New Year! We are determined that this is going to be a wonderful New Year and we are just looking at this first month as getting the bad and sickness just out of the way right away!
Hope to be up on the posting and even more up on the Resolutions!
Talk to you soon, HOPEFULLY!!!

She's A Doll!!!!

Literally!
Meet the doll that, to me, was designed after Brooke!
Similar features, the eyes, the dimples, the curls, the blonde, the bow, the hair part, and even more fun the fact that the baby is created to bounce and talk!
Yes I HAD to get it!