Our New Apartment

So here are a few pics of our new place. Sorry, this is all I have and I refuse to take any more until it's a little cleaner in here. But you get the idea...

Our first "party" (Pizza break during moving day)

In this picture Brooke is helping me unpack...by eating the packing tape. Thanks, Brooke. I was glad you ate it so that I wouldn't have to go the extra mile to throw it in the trash.

We were VERY tired after a long day of moving.

10-Month Update

So it is way past Brooklynn's 10-month birthday but decided to post something anyway. We have been absolutely crazy busy with the move that I simply haven't had time to do anything. The day we got our Internet hooked up I had 634 emails. I'm down to about 300 but really? I still have yet to get our post office mail key, I put the request in over a week ago and still haven't heard anything.
On the flip side, 10 months is such a fun stage. It's actually my FAVORITE age for babies everywhere, so having my own daughter be 10 months old is pretty exciting. I'm just a little annoyed that I have so much unpacking to do so I can't fully enjoy it as much.
Brooklynn's favorite activities include putting everything and I mean EVERYTHING into her mouth.

She also loves to pull every single one of her books off the bookshelf and read it, then throw it on the floor. This activity keeps her busy until they are all on the floor then she finds something else to do. If I would endlessly put them back on the shelf (which is what happens a lot of the time) she would play this game all day.

She also really loves to climb the stairs and we do this all day when we are at Kai's house. She also loves to point at things and reminds me a little of E.T.
She is such a joy. We are so proud of her and has adjusted so well to the move into our new place. Stuff is still everywhere and it's overwhelming and she thinks it's all a fun game of, "Oh, look at all the new stuff I get to get into!"

Brooke is cruising everywhere and though she has taken some steps still likes to hold on to things or crawl. That is fine with me, I think she has plenty of time to walk. She will often stand all by herself and just clap because she is so proud of herself; I think she is too busy being proud that she is standing that she simply forgets to try and walk. Then she will knock herself over with the force of her clapping. What a cutie.
She is definitely a Mommy's girl lately. She's doing better about going to other people now, but if she sees me at all she only wants me to hold her. I don't mind so much.

A New Era...

Mommy is so Funny

Brooke Teaches Andrew Her Favorite Game

After seeing this post, we decided to figure out the answer...
http://addykay.blogspot.com/2009/11/what-new-trick-are-you-going-to-teach.html

It turns out that Andrew LOVES to wear Brooke's hair bows! I was simply doing Brooklynn's hair and all of a sudden I looked over at Andrew and he had put all these bows in his hair ALL BY HIMSELF, without any assistance. Sorry James and Charity, but I might have to change Andrew's Christmas present to some of his very own hair stylers.

Brooke's Latest Blog

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Brooke is keeping me VERY busy with the stair climbing. This is actually an earlier video of her, now she flies up those stairs. I put her all the way across the room and she crawls right over to the stairs to climb them. I can't keep up with her.

Brooke's Friend

Brooke LOVES herself and spends quite a bit of time flirting with the other baby in the mirror. It is so cute to watch her.

Goodbye to the Murrays :(

The family I babysat for the last 3 years, the Murrays, are moving back to California. :(
On a positive note, while they were busy packing up, Brooke and I got to spend a lot of time with them before they left. We had fun. I'm glad we got to spend some more time with them before they left. I'm sort of in denial that they are leaving; I was just getting used to being around again. It is more like I have three babysitters for Brooke when we go over instead of me babysitting them. She LOVES you. It was so fun and cute to see her whole face light up whenever we would go over when she would see first her buddy, Page, and then Nell & Camille when they got home from school. We both will miss you so much!

Playing in the Murray's Playhouse

Brooke LOVED playing in the Murray's playhouse! She was especiallyinterested in the fake food.