A Swinging Good Time!

We took a walk to the park tonight and decided to let Brooklyn try out the swings. It was super funny! She's laughing like she does when you throw her in the air. I guess it all feels the same to her! As you can clearly hear, I couldn't stop laughing! I thought it was hilarious!

Here are some still pictures. It was a little difficult for me to time and these are the best ones of the many I took. Thank goodness for digital cameras!

She's cruisin' for a bruisin'!

Brooklyn has been very busy the past couple weeks learning how to pronounce 'b' sounds, cruising on furniture, army crawling backwards and just yesterday moving forward in hands and knees crawling! Her incentive to crawl you ask? Her mom? Her dad? Nope! The laptop! It's by far one of her favorite toys! Too bad all of her favorite things just happen to be Mom and Dad's electronics! My job is about to get a lot busier! Here are some pictures from the past couple days.

"Oh...computer...so close!"

"Whew! Getting tired. Gotta take a break!"

"OK, back to it!"

The other day Greg and I needed to do some cleaning up around the house so we put Brooklyn in her crib to play for a while. I literally came back in 2-3 minutes and this is how I found her!

"Oh no! She caught me!"

This was the first time (at least as far as we know) that she's pulled herself up in her bed. It might be time to move the mattress lower!

"And I can walk down to get you one-handed!"

This is where the cruising all started!

Taking a break from eating avacados to take a pic.

DJ'ing with Uncle Ryan's headphones that he let us borrow.

More standing on whatever is in her path!

Florida Trip

Despite it being unseasonably cold while we were there, we had a great time in Florida a couple weeks ago. Brooklyn seemed to enjoy playing in the sand and didn't mind when Greg put her feet in the cold ocean water! We enjoyed some delicious food and had a wonderfully, relaxing few days! Brooklyn did awesome on both flights even after getting stranded in New Orleans for a few hours! Now we're back in Dallas where it's been 75 and sunny one day and 30 and snowing the next! Literally! Crazy weather!

Our only family pic from the trip. See the nice lady on the side trying to get Brooklyn to smile! She was the wife of the random guy taking our picture!

It was so cold waiting for the sun to set! But Brooklyn was a trooper!

Swimming with Dad in the heated pool! It was too cold for me!

Taking a dip in the ocean!

Chillin' with Dad!

Brooklyn wanted to ride one of these huge bikes, but we said she had to wait until she could touch the handlebar.

My favorite picture from the trip! Brooklyn loves being tossed in the air!

Hanging out on the beach in long sleeves.

Brooklyn didn't mind the cool weather.

Hamming it up for the camera

We went to the lake this past weekend and A.J. and Curt were nice enough to come down and help Greg clear the brush. And we were very fortunate that they came because Brooklyn and I were sick and couldn't help much! All of us have been fighting off something the past few weeks. We're ready for our mini-vaca to Florida this weekend! Woo hoo!

Despite feeling under the weather, we've been pretty busy around here. Brooklyn has begun solids! It's been super fun! She gets so excited when she sees it coming. She actually only likes when Greg feeds her. She just blows bubbles when I try to feed her. These are pictures of her trying carrots and rice cereal.

The picture in the upper left-hand corner is a picture of Brooklyn's rash she had a couple weeks ago. No idea where it came from, but it's gone now! Also pictures of Brooklyn hanging out with uncle A.J., playing with a wrapper and my phone (real toys are boring!) and showing off her standing skills. She's been practicing her standing for a few months now and we've been getting more and more daring (i.e. taking pictures from a few feet away) since she's able to stand now for about 10 minutes with someone guarding!

Greg has a picture wearing a Cardinals' outfit when he was about 6 months old, so we thought we'd recreate it with Brooklyn since she looks so much like her daddy. Here are some of the cute pictures!

We'll have more pictures from this weekend in Florida!

World Record Holder!

Brooklyn is now in the Guiness Book of World Records!

OK, so are Greg, me and about 108,000 other basketball fans who attended the NBA All-Star game last night! It was the highest attendance for a basketball game ever! We had a really good time and it was our first time at the new Cowboys Stadium!

The jumbotron really is ridiculously big! Brooklyn did very well given that the game started at her normal bed time and we were outside for about 20 minutes in 30 degree weather walking to the stadium and then waiting in line to get in! She also did surprisingly well with how loud it was in the stadium. We borrowed Uncle Ryan's gun range earphones, but she wasn't very fond of them. I think she thought it was weird that she could see our mouths moving but not hear anything. Also, they were a little big on her and she had trouble turning her head because the earphones kept hitting her shoulders!She still looked cute! She was asleep as soon as the car started on the way home! It was the perfect way to spend Valentine's Day!

This morning she had her 6 month checkup. More pokes and prods and she did great again. She's growing right on track. She gained almost a full pound in a little over a week! I had to bring her in before we went to St. Louis and found out she had an ear infection. Now that the ear infection is cleared up, she has hives! She woke up with them all over her face and legs yesterday. Poor girlie! Turning 6 months is rough!

Let it snow!

We woke up to a Winter Wonderland this morning! Brooklyn and I flew back from St. Louis last night and Greg attempted to fly out to Austin this morning. He missed his first flight that took off on time (even though he was at the gate 5 minutes before the scheduled departure). But he did get a seat on the next flight...and sat for over 4 hours waiting for the plane to be deiced! They were the 14th in line!

Meanwhile I built a snowman while Brooklyn was sleeping and then we took some pictures when she woke up! I have to say, this is some good snowman-building snow! It took me all of 10 minutes to put it together! It's not the prettiest, but it'll do! I put Brooklyn in the bumbo so she wouldn't have to sit in the snow. But she is doing great sitting on her own. And while we were in St. Louis, she began showing signs that it won't be too long before she starts scooting and crawling. Yikes! We're in trouble now!

Tonight Brooklyn and I are hanging out together. Greg is now stranded in Austin as they have canceled his flight! Hopefully we'll see him tomorrow! We just want him safe and sound!

Eating the snow off her sock

Happy girl

Playing with the new camera lens

The 10-minute snowman

4.5" and it's still coming down!

Close up with the new camera lens

Looking at the 10-minute snowman

Finally warm with socks on our hands

Making snow angels, but it's so cold when the snowflakes hit your face!

Flu, Bronchitis, Pink Eye and maybe Pneumonia

What do all these things have in common? Greg has ALL of them! Awesome! Brooklyn and I are attempting to stay far, far away from him (we were sick with colds last weekend) and we're Lysoling everything that Greg even looks at! Our house is on lock down. Hopefully we're all better by Friday so we can go to St. Louis! In other news, Brooklyn has been practicing her rolling from her back to her stomach...in her sleep! Lovely! It was funny to watch on the monitor until she kept waking herself up trying to get onto her back. So last night we decided Greg would sleep on the other side of the house and Brooklyn would sleep with me in our bed. I weighed Brooklyn down with the covers so she wouldn't flip over and today we worked on rolling with her arms in different positions. Oh this poor family!