Flower Girls

Ah yes the duty as a flower girl.

I never knew what was going to happen with Brooke walking down the aisle. Really for that matter if she even did walk down the aisle. Everyone had been prepping her for Kelly's big day from the moment she asked her to be the flower girl. Prepared she was and so was I. My sister was sitting by the doors right when Brooke would have caught glimpse of a church full of people looking at her. Was she going to freak and freeze or eat it up? My parents were at the other end of the church. Brooke knew they had her backpack full of goodies to keep her occupied through the ceremony. Eat up the attention is exactly what she did. Brooke was trying to get the ring bearer to hold her hand and walk with her but he wasn't having any of it. Off she went 1...2..3..big handfuls of flowers up in the air over her head with a big smile on her face.

Uh oh those were big handfuls and she is out before she makes it half way down the aisle. She tips her basket over and notifies everyone, "ohhh I am all out of flowers" as she turns around to go find more. When she realizes she can't get more she wants to pick up the flowers she has thrown. The church is laughing and Kelly is hidden behind the doors wondering what is going on out there. Brooke makes it down the aisle and just as it goes with the flower girl you never know what they are going to do.

Lindsey, well I had no doubts about her. I mean c'mon a church packed full of people looking at her plus being pulled down the aisle in her very own wagon. Lindsey smiled the entire time looking around at everyone. The answer to the question the rest of the night. Yes, she IS always that happy.

Congratulations Kelly & Eric

Kelly & Eric were married yesterday and all four of us were pleased to be a part of their wedding day.

Plenty of stories and pictures to come.

Congratulations Kelly & Eric

and we are back

It is safe to say when it rains it pours at my house. WOW, is July really almost over? Things have been crazy busy around my house and I am ready to slow down in August. Afterall, Brooke will be starting preschool in the fall. Sniff, Sniff.

Long story short with all the craziness both girls also ended up sick. Two totally different things treated with different antibiotics. I was trying to finagle just how and when I could get them both to the doctor. The antibiotics just get lined up in the am and pm for both girls. Thankfully they don't put up a fuss and Brooke thinks she is special getting Kool Aid as a chaser.
Hopefully things will slow down for us so we can enjoy more days like these.

Will return

Our computer is toast so I will be taking a short leave of abscence until it is replaced. Hopefully soon. Laptop vs desktop is the question.

Anyday is a Zoo day

I say this all the time but we are really spoiled having the Zoo so close to our house. Just any random day I can decide to get out of the house to walk around Zoo. Brooke is always happy to go and never seems to get bored. Lindsey loves it when she is awake. She usually makes it until lunch and once her belly is full she thinks it's time to take a nap.

Most of these pictures are all just Natures Neighborhood since she spent probably 2 hours just there. I had a moment here. She kept asking me if she could climb this contraption and I kept telling her no. The thing looked huge and surely she shouldn't be climbing it yet. I soon saw many kids Brooke's age climbing it with ease and their parents weren't freaking over it. I did agree to let her try and as I stood there with my arms out ready to catch her Brooke climbed it with ease. She made her way to the top and with a big grin on her face she yelled down to me, "Look at me Mommy". Oh girl, you are growing just way too fast. Preschool this year, sigh.

Brooke other favorite place of the day was in the butterfly house. There weren't any flying around yet but she still managed to find something interesting. She was in there so long the girls called her their Butterfly Scientist and put a jacket on her. Now you know she just loved that.

Datebook

That six month mark has approached where it seems the entire month is filled with appointments. Here is a quick update
ENT-tubes ARE still there. Whohoooo!!! He said her ear canals are so small and it is so hard to visualize the tubes already that when you count in the inflammation the would have been difficult to know if they were in or out. BAER test scheduled during her nap time hours since we are going to try and go without sedation as long as possible.

Cardiology-The VSD is smaller and there is tissue building around it so he is optimistic that it will close. Back in 4 months. This is a great milestone. You kind of know how your kiddo is progressing as he increases the amount of time between visits. She weighed in at 19lbs 10oz and was 29.5 inches. Lindsey didn't mind the ECHO at all since the tech put a Baby Einstein video in for her to watch. They weren't ever able to get a BP to register and the bubbles didn't help during the EKG. Still a good visit.

Eyes-They made some adjustments to her glasses and told us to give her some time off and not to fight with her about them for a couple weeks. We shall see. Tear ducts still good and her eyes have been crust free.

On a side note-I am pretty sure the top front teeth are making their way in along with possibly the back molar on the opposite side. Guess that would explain the thumb in the mouth and all the chewing.

Drive In

While visiting my parents last week we decided since the weather hadn't been "beach hot" we would try out the drive in that night. Brooke and I are both Toy Story fans. I was probably more excited when the commercials started for Toy Story 3 than she was. The drive in had Toy Story 3 playing followed by Grown Ups. What a perfect combination. Off we went to the drive in. Everyone started all set up outside to watch the movies but it wasn't very warm so everyone pretty much ended up inside their cars. Brooke was thrilled and her face was priceless the moment she really figured out what was going on. She stayed up for Toy Story 3 and was asleep while we stayed to watch Grown Ups. Lindsey did see the beginning of Toy Story 3 but didn't make it long.

Overall the drive in was a great experience with the girls and we will probably do it again with other movies. Here we are all bundled up outside waiting for the movie to start.

I managed to run my battery down and couldn't get my car to start at 2am. I had the key turned to the right position but apparently I should have started my car between movies. Must have missed that part. Thank goodness for those guys on the golf cart going around giving jumps to anyone that made the same mistake I did.

All Lindsey

Since I haven't been the best blogger now that the weather is so nice I thought I should give a little update on busy Miss Lindsey. The week we were leaving for our trip out to Vegas she spiked a fever over 103 and broke out in a rash that we figured was most likely roseola. No big deal, once the fever was done the rash came on and she never really fussed. The rash did get pretty bad on her face and chest but she did just fine with it.

Once we were back from Vegas she started with the fevers and this time a cough. She was fussy and just generally not feeling well. I took her to the Dr and found out she had an upper respiratory infection plus and ear infection. Um, tubes? Nope she couldn't see one in the left ear. We have an appointment with the ENT to check that out. Lindsey has now finished up the antibiotics along with the ear drops and is feeling much better.

Now to the fun stuff. This girl is on to go. I could hardly snap a picture of her as she came at me when she saw the camera. She does get around quite a bit more now up on all fours instead of all army crawling. She is all over the place getting in things and knocking down towers her sister has built. I am not so sure Brooke is happy about Lindsey being so mobile.

Lindsey pulls up to her knees well and has just started to pull to stand up to us only. I wish her Leap Frog table was just a little taller so she would have to pull to stand to that. Instead she is happy sitting beside it banging the buttons. Oh well, I can figure out other ways to make her stand.

Ah, feeding, my least favorite thing. Lindsey is getting better about some foods but still spits most of the food back at me. She is willing to keep more food in her mouth for Tim. I don't get it, but at least I know she can. He had her eating his pizza last night. Ah, the teeth. She has just the 2 lonely bottom teeth still. That is until the other day when she was laughing in her highchair I noticed something white way back in her mouth. Double checking to make sure it wasn't food and I found a molar that is over half way through. What a trooper, never put up a fuss other than already being sick. Now if I could just get the thumb to stay out of her mouth between bites. Lindsey is a thumb sucker for sure!

Probably the happiest of all, I have managed to ditch the bottle this week. I finally just had enough with it. I knew she could do it, I have seen it. I had 2 people ask me if she was thirsty did I think she would take milk from the cup if that was the only way to get it. I tried, and what do you know, she not only drank it but will hold it. All this coming from a girl that still wouldn't hold her bottle. I decided I would keep the night time bottle just until I know she is getting enough in for now but will be throwing a pack the bottles away party when I know she is good.