Fun pictures of Brooklyn

She loves to look at her reflection in this toy. She just stares at it for quite a while, then looks at us and stares at it some more.


This is her NEW toy! She already loves it! She doesn't quite know how to jump on her own yet, but she likes to bounce with our help. And she loves all the "bells and whistles".


She is already a really good eater. She started solids about a month ago and has now moved on to vegetables in addition to cereal... and she LOVES it! She eats cereal for lunch and then another bowl of cereal plus some vegetables for dinner.


She already demands to hold the remote... our little couch potato. Her favorite shows are the morning cartoons on HBO.


It was a little chilly one morning, so I dressed her in this adorably, snuggly, velvet outfit and couldn't stop taking pictures. She liked it, too.


She is so much fun!

Falling Asleep

Our typical evening schedule ends with either Matt or I bouncing with Brooklyn on the exercise ball until she falls asleep and then put her into her bed for the night. However, last night and tonight, she would not go to sleep while we bounced her. She would just play with our faces and talk to us. So, after 20 minutes of that, we put her in her bed awake and she just rolled over onto her side and fell asleep ALL BY HERSELF... without fussing or crying! I can't believe she already goes to sleep all by herself!

We are glad that she can do this, but we already miss having her fall asleep in our arms every night. :(

New Growth

I thought I would post about something other than Brooklyn for a change. Don't get used to it, though. :)

My hair has finally started coming in again, after falling out like crazy these last 5 months. I really thought I was never going to have my thick hair again. I am so proud of my little baby hairs that I had to take a picture. Stupid, I know. But all you mothers who have breastfed their babies know exactly what I am talking about here. And in case you don't - it is common for breastfeeding mothers to loose a great deal of hair due to hormones, etc.


Also, I bought some flowers a while ago for my front yard and am surprised that they are still blooming like this and at how big the blossoms are. I left them in their pots instead of planting them because I am still trying to decide what I want (i.e. what kind of plants/flowers, colors, where to put them, etc.). Hopefully I will have decided what I want by the Spring. But for now, I am just enjoying having a little color in my yard.

Rolly Pollie

Brooklyn is now rolling over to her tummy ALL the time. She did it by herself for the first time about 2-3 weeks ago, but we hadn't actually seen her do it till recently. We would look away for a split second and, bada bing bada boom, she was all of the sudden on her tummy! It's like she was trying to avoid being caught in the act of rolling over or something. Now that she does it all the time, I was able to catch it on video.

Now, she even rolls over onto her tummy in her sleep. She started crying (more like screaming) in the middle of the night two nights ago and there she was on her tummy and apparently very upset about it. I rolled her back over and she went right to sleep again. What a good baby she is.

Sorry about the sqeaking. I was pretty excited to catch it on video. :)

5 Months Big - bath-time pictures

I've always posted a bath-time picture or two at her monthly posts, and I did not have any recent ones until yesterday. So, here she is at bath-time 5 months old. She now has to play with her cup for at least a minute before she's done with her bath, or she gets pretty mad.

Brooklyn Laughs at Mommy!

I finally got her laughing at me... and pretty hardy, too! She likes my doggie impressions. She does a pretty good doggie impression herself, too, as you can see in the second video of her.

I even got her laughing like this (well... she was laughing at the water bottle, really) in the waiting room yesterday at my doctor's office. All the people in the waiting room and the receptionists got a big kick out of her hardy laughs.

Laughing at Mommy!

Doggie Says What?