From Monday to Tuesday. What a week.

Where to start? This has been a crazy. First mommy was off on Monday AND Tuesday. How cool is that? Monday was not too exciting daddy went out to the garage for a bit and I let mommy go out there too for a bit. See sometimes I can be nice to them, just don't tell them that I just wanted some alone time my self hehehe.
Tuesday was fun. Mommy was able to go to under one club with daddy and me. It was lots of fun. I got to show off how well I can sit up and also showed off my belly crawling skills which I am getting good at if I don't say so myself.
On Wednesday daddy let me go to the babysitter. I had so much fun there. When daddy dropped me off I was full of smiles. The babysitter is really surprised at how easy I am to watch and how easy going and happy I am all the time. When daddy picked me up I gave him big smiles cuz I was so happy to see him.
The rest of the week was not too exciting. I just spent most of my time getting better at sitting up and pulling myself around on the floor. I have lots of fun playing on the floor and then when daddy is not looking going where he least expects me to go. Yesterday I pulled myself over to the coffee table between the chairs. I thought it was fun to do but daddy said there was too much stuff there for me to get into so he moved me, how mean is that? I didn't even know what was there, so as soon as he put me down I went back to look. He must have moved all the interesting stuff though cuz there was nothing there.
The last couple of days has been boring too cuz it has been raining. I don't like the rain, I don't get as many walks and when I do daddy puts a rain cover on my stroller so I don't get wet but then I can't feel the fresh air on my cheeks and that is no fun. And everything looks strange through it too. Anyway, long story short I have been napping more, which is good too cuz it helps me grow, and it means that I am not too tired at night so I go to bed earlier. Have I told you that I am sleeping in my own room now? I have so much fun there, I don't get woken up when mommy's alarm goes off in the morning or when daddy stays up late. The only problem with it is when I wake up in the night and can't find my pacifier it takes a few minutes for daddy to come down and find it for me. I have also learned how to turn on my mobile. That really surprised both mommy and daddy they didn't think I could do it.

Well today is Monday again and mommy is finally off work. Today we are taking the doggies to a trail. Daddy or me have not been to this o e before but mommy has taken Madison and Nanuk. She says that Nanuk likes this one cuz there is water that she can swim in. We are going to meet up with mommy's friend and her dogs, I sure hope that Madison and Nanuk behave themselves, though I am sure they will.
We all had lots of fun at the trail. Madison went crazy and started running around before daddy was able to get her leash off. It was funny to watch her. Once daddy was able to catch her again her and Nanuk went running everywhere. Sid and Choco the other two dogs we were with could not keep up, though Sid tried. And no I am not calling uncle Sid a doggie, he wasn't there, I think it would have gotten too confusing if he was. Anyway, Madison and Nanuk were good and they didn't travel too far, except when they ran around the small lake. It was funny when they got back on the trail. We were waiting for them and saw them but they couldn't see us and were sniffing the ground looking for us. Once they saw us they came running but slowed down about half way, I guess they didn't know how far it was. Once they came back they both were tired and stayed closer. When we got home both of them were tired and both smelled like swamp and wet dog cuz they were swimming. They slept the rest of the day and all night.
Yesterday mommy had to go to work early but she got off early so it was not too bad. Daddy took me to under one club. It was so much fun. I sat up for a bit but then went on my belly. It was fun showing every one there how I can scoot around with out crawling. It is fun now cuz when I see something there that I want I can go to it myself. Daddy weighed me there too. I didn't gain too much. I only weigh 17lbs 8oz but daddy still says i am getting big. One of my favorite things to do there is have daddy hold me in front on the mirror, it is real cool cuz I can see daddy in front of me but when I look over my shoulder he is there too, how weird is that? The baby there is fun too we like to play slap each others hand, no matter how I move my hand her hand is always there to hit mine. I am not sure how she does it but I am going to keep trying to beat her.
Well I should get going. Daddy says that it is Halloween tonight. I am not sure what that is but mommy and daddy seem to be excited about it so I think it should be fun. I sure hope that there is turkey, turkey is good and I haven't had any in a while. I'll keep my fingers crossed and let you know what this Halloween thing is once I find out.
Well talk to you all later.

A few words from me

Well I can't believe that it has been seven months already. Where does the time go?
Brooke has grown up so fast. I am not looking forward to going back to work next month.
Brooke has started sleeping in her room the last couple of days. That is going good, for the most part. The first night she slept all night but the second night she woke up at about 11 and wanted a little snack. So I brought her up to Jen and Brooke fell back to sleep. I took her back down around 12:30 just before I went to sleep and she slept the rest of the night. We heard a little movement in the monitor just before 6 I think it was, Jen went down to get her and Brooke had turned on her mobile, she is such a smart girl.
So the crib seems to be working except that Brooke does not want to wake up in the mornings anymore. She use to get up when Jen did so she could eat a little before Jen goes for a walk then get up again at 8 for another eat before Jen goes to work. Now Jen has to go and wake her up at 8 to feed her and she eats a little then falls back to sleep. She has just started waking up so I got her bottle ready, as soon as she saw it she wanted it and now she is snoozing again it is now 9:30. Looks like Jen and I will have to change our morning schedule, oh well. I am not surprised that Brooke is tired, she didn't want to go to sleep last night. Jen took her up to our room and when I went up at about 10:30 Brooke was wide awake. She played with my watch, both remotes as well as the baby monitor until Jen tried feeding her again between 11:30 or 12. I put Brooke in her room at 12:30 but she woke up again about a half hour later. She finally went to bed just after 1 I think. I tried to put her down but all she wanted was her mommy.
I will have to try to get Brooke to have a nap at some point today so she doesn't get over tired at bed time, the trouble with that though is she usually doesn't want to nap more than 30-60 minutes during the day. Oh well. I hope tonight goes better.

So. I hope that everyone who reads this blog enjoys it. I know Brooke enjoys writing it and letting everyone know what she has been up to.
Well I should get going and maybe do something while Brooke is still sleeping.

It has been too long

Wow it has been a while since I put something on here. I don't even remember everything that I have done.
Last weekend when mommy got home from work mommy daddy and I went into town to get supper and look at front doors. We went to supper first, that was cool. There were so many people around that I couldn't watch them all at the same time. I also got to sit in a high chair. That was fun. Mommy and daddy forgot to bring my chair from home so I got to sit in the big girl chair. That was fun cuz I could play with my toys and eat at the same time. It was also fun to drop my toys. Did you know that if you drop them just right they will go under the table or chair and mommy and daddy have to bend in strange ways to pick them up? It was funny to watch so I made sure to do it more than a few times.
After supper I was starting to get a little tired but I couldn't sleep yet, we were going to one of my favorite stores , home depot. I know it is strange of me to like a store like that but have you ever seen one? It is so big and there is so much to look at. Also daddy likes it, though I don't know why, when ever we go there he ends up needing to do work at home. Anyway we got there but they were closed, maybe mommy and daddy should have checked the store hours before they went. I got up set and started crying, I didn't understand why we couldn't go, but I calmed down when daddy said that he would take me the next day, and buy me a 12" sliding compound miter saw. I am not sure what that is but it sounded cool so I calmed down. He still owes me the saw though hehehe.

On Monday mommy and I went to the city and met aunt Nicole. We has lots of fun shopping and walking around. My mommy even got me a new toy. It is a mat that goes on the floor when I am in my jolly jumper and makes sounds when I jump on it. It is so much fun and when I am done jumping in it I can roll on it and make funny noises. The first time I got to lay on it I has to figure out where the noises were coming from and guess what, I found it in no time also I figured out that I'd you move the switch you can change the noises or even turn it off. How cool is that?

On Tuesday daddy took me back to under one club. We missed the week before because I was too tired and slept through it but this week I was awake and we had lots of fun there.
I always have fun watching the other kids crawling around and I have almost figured out how they do it, so now I am practicing it every chance i get though it is a lot harder than it looks, but I will get it sooner or later. Daddy also weighed me and I was 17lbs 3oz daddy says I am getting real big.

I have also tried some new foods. Have I told you about apples yet? They are good. Mommy has tried giving me beets but I am not too sure of them yet. Mommy also mixed some chicken with apples one night. I don't like puréed meats but mommy thought I would be fooled by putting it in with my apples. I knew what she did but ate it anyway so she would be happy. Don't tell her that I knew what she did I like he to think she put one over on me hehehe.

Daddy took me to the babysitter yesterday to see how I would do. It was lots of fun. I think daddy was a little sad when he left me though. To make him feel better I gave a little bit of a pouty face at first then smiled to make him feel good. I had so much fun there. There was a few other kids there but they were all older than me. I think the youngest was about 2. It was fun watching them run around and play and I enjoyed showing them how I can scoot around by rolling, I think they were all surprised how fast I can move. I can't wait to go back. Daddy said that he might let me go back next week for a few hours, I sure hope he does.

Wow was that ever a lot of typing. Now I don't know what else to put on here.
Oh yeah, mommy and daddy got me some soft mats to play on when I go on the floor. They are cool, they connect to each other and also have thin pieces that can come off and I can play with them, it is fun to hit daddy with them hehehe. It isn't my fault that he gets in the way of me swinging them. I can't take them off myself yet but I almost had one this morning. Maybe when mommy gets home I will figure out how to do it. They also make bouncing in my jolly jumper fun to. I am getting so good at bouncing. I almost bounce right out of it, and I have also learned how to bounce so that I go front and back and side to side, that is fun. Daddy still won't let me do a flip though, he is such a party pooper sometimes doesn't he k ow how much fun it would be to do a flip? Oh well.
Well I should get going now. I am getting hungry so I should wake daddy up so he can get my bottle ready, I should learn how to walk soon then I can get my own food.

Talk to you all later.
Brooke.

Thanksgiving 2012

TURKEY IS AWSOME!!!! Have you ever had it? I had some in Sunday and it was great, and by great I mean the bestest. I think thanksgiving is my favoritest holiday ever! Though I haven't had many of them yet.
This weekend aunt Nicole and uncle
Sid came out with Simba, Sora and Luna. It was fun to see them and I am happy to say that Nanuk and Madison got along with Luna this time. I like it when they come over cuz their doggies are a lot different then my dogs. Simba is very calm and always has a worried look on his face. He let's me pet him if someone is holding me, and he will sniff me a little but he is still unsure of me. I can't wait to get bigger and for him to get used to me cuz he is a big softy and likes to cuddle and I want to cuddle with him.
Sora is a very funny dog. She is nervous but is also very playful. It is funny to watch her get scared in the house when she is up stairs and uncle Sid goes up there. Sora will bark at him then run down stairs to get away, it is funny cuz she has to run past him to get down and sometimes she wil get to the bottom only to get scares again and run back up past Sid again. It is real funny to watch. She is even unsure of me at times. I can be sitting in my excersaucer and she will be back about five feet and see me and bark at me, I just smile and look at her and most of the time she lays down. Even when she wants to come in the house can be funny. She will bark at the door but when someone opens it she will run away a bit then turn around and maybe bark at whoever is at the door then work up her courage and bolt past the door through the kitchenand to the bottom of the stairs. Even though she is a nervous dog Sora loves to play with other docs and Madison and Nanuk let her get away with almost anything. It is a lot of fun to watch them play.
Luna is aunt Nicole's poodle. She is a nice dog and she likes me a lot, just like my Nanuk. Maybe that is why the two of them don't get along sometimes. Luna would give me kisses and let me pet her, I would also pull her hair sometimes and she wouldn't care, but someone was always there to remind me not to pull but to pet the doggies, I am still learning that.

So those are the doggies that I spent my weekend with now back to the important stuff, TURKEY!!!!!!
Mommy and aunt Nicole had to work on Sunday so it was just daddy uncle Sid the dogs(all five of them) and me, Brooke. We had a fun day and at one point daddy and uncle Sid had to go to town to pick up a few things so they put Madison and Nanuk into their doggie pen and the others stayed in the house ( even though they were good all weekend they still don't trust Madison and Nanuk alone with Luna) and went to town. Don't worry they took me with them. We had to go to Walmart, I like going there with daddy, he always pushes the cart fast and then skids the cart around the corners, we go zoom zoom zoom, screech but we have not hit anything, yet hehehe. After that we went to one of daddy's favorite stores, home depot. He needed to pick up some more trim to finish the trim in the kitchen. I like that store too, it is so big and there is a lot of things there. It was funny cuz mommy had her jeep at work and aunt Nicole had her car( they both worked at different times) so uncle Sid had to squeeze in between daddy and me in the truck, I though it was tight with Andrew hehehe.
When aunt Nicole got home from work she started making supper. I have never seen so many pots being used at the same time. While she did that uncle Sid cleaned up the yard for mommy and daddy while daddy cut and put up the trim. While they did that I played in the kitchen and helped aunt Nicole. It was lots of fun.
When mommy got home it was time for thanksgiving dinner. I didn't know what that was at first, but now I think it means that you make lots of food and put it on the table. I have never seen so much food on the table before. There was so much that they all had to pass it to each other. It was kinda funny to watch. When every one has food mommy gave me a pice of turkey. I was not too sure of it at first but once I put it in my mouth WOW, it was soooo yummy. I couldn't get enough. Mommy tried to take my pice away from me after I started to rip pieces off of it, but she gave me another pice so it wasn't that bad. I thought that ham was good but I think turkey is better.

On Monday morning we all took the dogs to the trail for a walk. Mommy pit me in my new carrier, it is a backpack that I can sit in. That was fun cuz I get to sit up high and see everything.
The dogs had lots of fun running the trail and exploring, though we did loose Sora once she came back, I think she just went down the wrong trail. Madison even started to play with Luna and they had a quick game of chase, and Nanuk and Luna even walked side by side for a bit. I like when we go to the trail but I think there is something wrong there though. Last time we were there all the trees were green but now they are orange, yellow and red and someone also dropped a hole pile of leaves on the ground and didn't even pick them up. I think it is the same person who put them in the back yard as well as on the side walk. I don't know who did it but isn't that littering? Even though it does look pretty and makes lots of noise when we walk through them. And it is not just the trees on the trail that are going funny colors, all the trees out my windows are doing the same thing except for my favorite tree in the back yard, it is still dark green. I sure hope that the trees are feeling ok, maybe they are not feeling well cuz it is cold out, maybe they should put a sweater or coat on, that would make them feel better it works for me. Maybe mommy can get a pook toque for them like I have. I like my pook toque. It is so warm and everyone comments on how cute it is, and the best thing is mommy has one too so we can both be cute together.

Well I should get going. Hope you liked reading about my thanksgiving and I hope you all had a good one. I'll leave you with a small thought
You can tune a piano but you can't tune a fish. Hahahaha I am so funny. Talk to you later.

Brooke's week off with mommy.

I had a really cool week. I got to go and travel with mommy and daddy and see moms family. It was lots of fun, when we first got to Grandmas we had to go and see her at work. That was lots of fun as Grandma had to show me off to everyone. Everyone liked it when I smiled at them... Adults are so easily amused.

On Friday I got to meet my Grandpa he was happy to see me. I got to sit on his lap and play with the tv remote. He also made faces at me to make me laugh. It was fun. When I got fussy I got to play on the floor so I could show grandpa that I am really good at rolling over and playing with my toys.

On Saturday we went and saw daddy's family. We got to go to Tracy's house. Here I got to play with the girls... They really liked to keep me entertained. It was fun to watch them as they ran around and made lots of noise. I can't wait until I can chase after them. They have such cool toys but I am too small, once I can sit up without help I can have the cool toys. I want the drums, those made lots of noise!!

On Sunday we went for a nice long hike everyone was tired when they got home I don't know why? It seemed easy to me. I got to sit in my cuddly wrap while aunt Teri walked me around. I even got to have a nap, it was a relaxing hike I don't understand why they were complaining. Everyone even kept stopping to find caches I don't know what that is but they kept finding them. There was plenty of rest time. While Teri was walking me around I got to look at lots of trees, I really like trees! Some of them were funny looking though... They were red, most trees I see are green. Oh well they are still fun! While we were hiking Grandma left some containers behind, I hope she is able to find them again! Although I am told they are left there for someone else to find like we were looking for other caches but I don't really understand.

Sunday night we had a big dinner. I was able to try some ham that mommy puréed... It was yukky! I made lots of faces and spit it out. The potatoes werent very good either. Really I just wanted my peanut butter and bananas instead. Of course mommy gave them to me so that I ate something. On Monday Grandma gave me a piece of ham to suck on that was good!! I ate some of it while no one was looking hehehe!! I will teach mommy I just don't want them to be puréed!

After dinner on Sunday I was able to go in my jolly jumper well at least after the hook was installed! It took the "men" a long time to find a ceiling joist and put the hook in. I was laughing at them but secretly telling them to hurry up so I could JUMP!! I really love to jump.

Monday wasn't anything special but we did go shopping at Costco with Teri. I got some new clothes yay!

On Tuesday we had to head home :(. It is a long car ride although I was nice to mommy and daddy and was quiet for most of the ride but then I got hungry and tired so I started crying. Mommy was smart though and pulled over to get my bottle ready so I was happy again!! Once we got home I got to go to my under one club again!! Mommy even got to come which was cool. Mommy finally got to see me play with my friends.

Later that night I finally got to see my puppies again!! They spent the week with aunt Nicole and uncle Sid. When they saw daddy and me they went crazy! Madison was running all over the place. Daddy says Madison was smiling at him but all I saw was her teeth... I guess that could be a smile. While it has been a busy week, now that my mommy is home again with the puppies I am off to bed. See you all later!

I almost forgot to tell you all about my little buddy wriggly. He is grandma's puppy doggy. He isn't as big as Madison and Nanuk but he is cute. He even tried to play with my toys but he mostly played with his own. Daddy would throw wriggly's favorite bouncy ball and wriggly would run around and try to grab it. He would zoom zoom zoom around on the floor sliding every witch way while the ball bounced everywhere, it was fun to watch. He would also wait at the bedroom door in the morning until mommy opened it up so he could come and see daddy and me. He would jump on the bed and cuddle with us, but he is a little more clumsy than Nanuk, that or he couldn't see me cuz he would step on me or sit on me sometimes, good thing he is small, but daddy was there to make sure that I was ok. Some times when I was playing on the floor Wriggly would lay down with me. He is such a good doggy, he made it easier not having my Madison and Nanuk with me.

Oh yeah last night mommy gave me a pice of something that she called chicken, it was so tasty, not as good as the ham but still good. Have you ever had chicken? Mommy told me not to swallow any cuz I don't have any teeth yet to chew with but when she was not looking I swallowed a small pice. Then another and another. Mommy finally took my pice of chicken away from me and decided to purée some up for me, it just isn't the same but by that time I had enough and just wanted my bottle.
So as you can see I had a busy week. What did you all do? Hope you had as much fun as I did. My mommy tells me that uncle Sid and aunt Nicole are coming over this weekend it will be nice to see them and when they come more doggies come too!!! How cool is that, I will not only have Madison and Nanuk but I will also have Simba and Sora (she is a funny dog he is scared of everything even me, but she is getting better and loves to run and play with Madison and Nanuk) and I think Luna is coming too, I sure hope Madison and Nanuk get along with her, if not I will have to yell at them but I am sure that they will all get along. When they come out mommy said that we are going to have a turkey dinner. I don't know what that is but I am looking forward to trying it, it sounds yummy.
Well I really should be getting to bed now, I am not sure what we are doing in the morning but I should get some sleep so I can play. Talk to you all later and I will let you know what a turkey dinner is when I find out.

OH YEAH I ALMOST FORGOT, I am getting bigger, I weigh 16lbs 4oz. Also when mommy and daddy went shopping they out me in the cart, and not in my car seat, that was so much fun, though mommy would not go close enough to the shelves to let me grab things for her, but soon I will be able to help her fill it hehehe.
Well I am off to bed now. For sure this time. I have lots of happy things to dream about. Night night.