Happy Thanksgiving! This is Brooke's 1st Thanksgiving and she had a great day. She woke up early, but decided to drink her bottle and sleep an extra 30 minutes for mom and and dad. She ate breakfast and watched some of the Macy's Day Parade (she recognized Dora The Explorer)...is it bad that I am now singing the Dora song in my head?!
























She watched football upstairs in the "man cave" with daddy (I'm not sure, but I think she had beer breath when she came down to help mom cook).















Brooke helped with Thanksgiving dinner: she made potatoes, stuffing, sweet potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce and green bean casserole. I burnt the rolls as usual. It must have been good since Jeff had two helpings. Brooklynn ate vegetable medley and banana yogurt for dessert.

We watched Blue's Clues and Moose A. Moose, played and read a few books. We talked to PaPa and Karrothead, Nikki, Tasha, Donna, Kim and David (left msgs for Cindy and Chris) and skyped with Pa and Mimi to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. Then we took the grocery cart for a stroll. She is crawling more and more every day. We are hopefully going to lose the scoot, although it does keep the floors clean.

We are so thankful for our families and of course for our wonderful daughter Brooklynn. It doesn't seem like that long ago that she was a mere 6 1/2 lbs. Now she is 30 inches long and weighs 18lbs. She has the most beautiful smile and keeps us laughing. We are so lucky to have her in our lives - she surprises us with something new everyday (like when she started signing today that she wanted "more" food, then she had a few other signs that neither Jeff nor I knew - so I guess we need to catch up...she was probably calling us a few choice names!).


Let's see...anything else new this week...oh ya, Brooke tried to kiss a boy at school. I guess her teacher heard one of the little boys laughing, turned around and Brooklynn had him pinned to the ground, smacking her lips trying to kiss him (her new thing is to smack her lips until you give her a kiss...it is really cute). Great, my daughter already has a reputation and she isn't even out of the INFANT ROOM. I better say a few extra prayers on Sunday.


Brooke went to bed a little early to get ready for "Black Friday". She and dad wanted to get out early so they get back in time for the Nebraska game (BTW...ever since she started wearing her Nebraska jersey in TN, the Huskers are on a winning streak....I'm just sayin'). We had better head to bed as well since her schedule is now our schedule. Our wake-up call will be around 5:15am (days of sleeping in are so long gone). I regret now bragging to my sisters when they would call around 9 or 10 am and I would say how great it was to just lie around and relax on the weekends...karma...it's a b!tch.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Christy, Jeff and Brooke