a little update . . .

So I took Brooklyn in for her 1 month appointment and she is sure growing. She is alread 10 lbs 4 oz and 21 inches tall. She is starting to smile and she is definitely more alert these days. She pretty much sleeps 7-8 hours during the night which is great for me. I am getting more sleep which is nice. However our little Ethan boy keeps on waking us up between 5-6 am when it is still pitch dark outside; not sure why he is doing that but thankfully he went back down today.






Just a funny story from Ethan's journal: "So I went in for my 4-week check up after having Brooklyn and for whatever reason I don’t know, I brought you kids along. I am not sure what I was thinking when the nurse told me to undress from the bottom down and the doctor would be into see me. Oh, no. I didn’t remember that this was going to be happening. So Briggs wants to sit on the table and is making so much noise with the table paper, Brooklyn is on the verge of crying and I look over and I see you with a big grin on your face looking at me and chewing on the stirrups; yes, the stirrups. Much to my dismay, it was pretty funny about 10 minutes later as I recounted my “experience” at the doctors office to daddy." Lets just hope my thinking things through is a little more clear in the future; it's a good story though.





Briggs and Ethan love brooklyn. I try not to get frustrated by Ethan constantly waking her up by trying to kiss her while she is asleep in her car seat, or he wants to see her. The other day she was sleeping in her swing and he went and got the bouncy chair, pulled it up to the swing, sat down and started pushing the swing as hard as he could with his feet; actually the whole scene was quite funny; I guess he just loves to be with her and that is a good thing. Briggs has a little bit more of a mature approach to Brooklyn and he loves to be soft with her and give her kisses and smell her hair after she's had a bath. He is constantly saying "she's so sweet." I feel so very blessed!