Happy 1st Birthday, Brooke!!

Wow. How does a year go by SO fast??

Unfortunately, Brooke is sick AGAIN. She'd just gotten over this last bout and now she's coughing again and has even been throwing up here and there from all the mucous : (. This started Tuesday night. No fever this time. I'm hoping she'll be good to go for her party on Saturday!

Brooke reached some new milestones this month. She can now pick up small pieces of food (she loves fruit puffs!) and get them IN to her mouth, lol. She's been able to pick them up for awhile, but didn't figure out the "getting them in to her mouth" part until about 2 weeks ago. She has also had her first two teeth break through her gums within the last couple weeks! She loves "blowing kisses" back and forth (which is really just her smacking her lips...so cute). She'll do it and then wait for you to do it back and then do it again. She's starting to clap, but not correctly yet, which is SO cute. She either ends up patting the top of her other hand instead of her palm, or her arm. LOL. She has this really fun Fisher Price toy that has a big mirror on it and she figured out right after she got it a couple months ago that what she's looking at in the mirror is actually behind her and she loves to look at people in the mirror and then turn around and smile and "talk" to them. She thinks it's the coolest thing! That's one of her favorite things to do lately. She is very good at smiling at you while doing something she's not supposed to be doing (and she knows it)! Even if you're telling her "no", she still just smiles away. Little stinker. She is such a fun baby now that her little personality is really coming out (although she's already making think she's going to be a much bigger handful than Ryan has been!). As I was just typing this, she climbed in to her bouncy seat and STOOD UP in it at the gate it was sitting beside! Ryan was never this adventurous, lol.

It's hard to believe how tiny she was when she was born (although she seemed big to us after having 2 one pounders). She's come so far this year! I knew she wouldn't be as behind as Ryan was, but I never would have dreamed that she would be doing everything almost right on time! I am so blessed to be able to say that we have not one, but TWO little miracles now! How did I get so lucky :*).

Here are pictures of her birth to now! You should be able to click on the links under the pictures to see them bigger. These aren't really that great as far as size comparison because they're taken from different distances and stuff (I wasn't very consistent, lol), but you can definitely see how much she's changed!


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