Brookley at 7 months

Brookely is an angel baby! So sweet, so easy, so content, so cute! She is adorable and so fun to snuggle. I love it when she just sits on my lap and hangs out with me--content as long as I am holding her. She has the cutest chubby thighs where you can count to rolls. She lights up when she sees her brother and sister. They are so good to her! Bruce can make her giggle and loves to play with her. He made up a patty cake game with her feet that goes like this:

Patty cake, patty cake with your feet. How many cupcakes can you eat? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Ten cupcakes! That's a lot of cake! Your going to have a tummy ache!"

Brookley hasn't ventured to roll over yet but can sit up for long periods of time and loves to eat solid food. Not so much loving the baby food but prefers solid food cut up really small. She seems to like texture in food. Now if only we could convince her to sleep through the night. Though to her credit she did give me a birthday present by sleeping through the night for two nights in a row on my birthday!

Also just for the record here are her stats at her 6 month checkup. In paranthesis is the how she relates to the average baby.

Weight 14.77 lbs (25%)
Length 24.5 (18%)
Head 43 cm (88%)

A favorite game...count the rolls. Cute, chubby thighs!

First food (sweet potatoes) and rice cereal. She wasn't convinced the first few times we tried baby food. She lets us know when she is done eating by spitting her food all over the place.

Our Little Piece of Heaven--Brookley

Just look at this little piece of heaven named Brookley. What a sweetie! I am just smitten by her smiles, giggles and snuggles. She makes me so happy! I love her with me. She doesn't take a bottle but I don't mind. I want her with me and love that she is dependant on me. We get lots of bonding time and are together almost all of the time but somehow it still never seems like there is enough snuggling time.

Thank you Brookley for being a sweet baby that brings so much joy into our family. I feel so blessed to be your mom. Your Dad, brother and sister would agree that you are our little piece of heaven and we love you so much! You have recently found your voice and your fist (you stick the whole thing in your mouth). You love your binky (or as we call it your "binkers") and your brother and sister. You smile so big when ever anyone smiles at you which has won over many people's hearts. Your smile makes my day. It's fun showing you off. You are very even tempered and genuinely happy--only crying when hungry or really tired. When I think about you I can't think of anyother word that fits my feelings better than "joy". You are our joy and happiness.

Aren't they fun?!

Just look how lucky I am to have these three "monkeys". They are so much fun and make my life so full of joy. I love them!

Brookley's Blessing Day

We love our Brookley Ann. She is a sweetheart--very good natured and super cute. She was given a name and a blessing at Church on May 2nd. It was a fun day filled with family and friends. I don't know the exact count but we had about 35 people over to our house after church for lunch. We were cozy and squeezed together but it was fun and I wanted to have a celebration for Brookley. She was so beautiful in her blessing dress that Grandma Thorup made. It was the same dress that Autumn wore on her blessing day. I loved using it again. Her braclet was special because her daddy made it for her. I insisted that we stop by a bead store to get Brookley a braclet to go with her dress. They didn't have any I wanted but suggested that we could make one ourselves. So since Bruce was dragged into the bead store he made the most of it and took over picking out the beads and stringing them together for Brookley. Her cute shoes were from our friend Debbie, her headband was from Aunt Christina. All of us (Daddy, Mommy, Jonny and Autumn) are just smitten by Brookley. She is very, very adored and the center of attention. We pray for a long, healthy life for our little angel baby and hope that she always knows how much we love her (from her parents to her grandparents and everyone inbetween). And on a day like today it is a humbling and awesome reminder that she is very much loved and cherished by her Father is Heaven too.

Super Brother

Jonny is a super brother. His sisters are so lucky to have him as their big brother. He has a very tender, protective side. I have told him that the thing that makes me the happiest is when I see him being good to his sisters. He is a great big brother! Just today we went to a play land and I was so happy watching Jonny and Autumn play together. Autumn is too small to climb up the big stairs in the play land by herself. So Jonny would get in the tube/stairs first and climb up one stair and then turn around and literally pull Autumn up with both her arms to the next stair, then wait for her on the next stair and do it again. He did this over and over for her so she could get to the top and slide down. He was so patient and protective of her. Truly that made me so happy. Also today Autumn came upstairs crying because Carter, Natalie and Jonny were going to watch a movie downstairs and she felt left out. So I called for Jonny to come upstairs and get her. He came up and took her by the hand and walked her downstairs, all the while telling her in a sweet voice that she could watch the movie with them. What a great big brother! I love it.

He is just completely amazing with Brookley. He couldn't adore her more than he does. I can't believe how much is dotes on her and how long he will hold her. He will do anything to make Brookley happy and never wants her to be left in a room by herself because he is worried she will feel left out. He talks so cute to her and is smitten by every new thing she does (which so far isn't much in her 2 1/2 months of life). But to him every sound she makes he asks if that was her first word. And he puts his ear by Brookley so she can tell him some "secrets" and then he interrupts for me what she says which is usually that she is hungry. The other day I said that I love him the most and he said something along the lines of loving me too but loving Brookely the "mostest".

The Brookley Photo Shoot (1 week old)

My awesome friend Susan came yesterday and took some pictures for me. Thanks Susan!!! She was so patient. I forgot how long it takes to have a photo shoot. Jonny and Autumn were good sports for a few minutes and a handful of marshmallows. Brookley was hungry the whole time and needed three feeding breaks. So after around a hundred pictures and a couple of hours of patience we got a few cute pictures. Brookley is one week old.

And just for fun here is an example of our photo adventure. Autumn was so funny. She took everything literally. In the first picture you will see her head is too high so we said "Autumn put your chin down." The next picture is my favorite of her chin down (just like we asked right?)

Welcome Brookley Ann LeBaron

Our little angel, Brookley Ann LeBaron

February 25, 2010

12:24pm

6 lbs. 12 oz.

19.5 inches

Perfect! Perfect! Perfect!

I have so much to write about our little Brookley. But here are a few pictures until I can get around to writing more. She is doing wonderful! We all are. Jonathan and Autumn are so cute with her. They just adore her and are really good helpers. As you can see from the pictures Jonathan was the proudest big brother I have ever seen. He couldn't stop smiling when he saw Brookley at the hospital. Autumn was a little unsure at first but warmed up quickly to her new sister. Bruce and I couldn't be more happy. We just can't believe we are a family of 5! It is so much fun!! We love you Brookley!