Christmas Day 2008

Tucker opening his present...he had a great time!

Me opening the first build a bear!

Brooke and Mommy on Christmas Morning!

Brooke and her puppy she got from Uncle Troy. She had a great time with this!

Brooke and her chair from Mammy. She loves it!!!!

My pressies from Santa and Brooke and Jeremy. The build a bears are for me to dress in my favorite Brooke outfits.

Necklace and earrings that were from Brooke. Very nice job at picking them out!

Brooke's Presents....spoiled much??? Brooke's ornament from Melissa. Personalized and very lovely!

Beautiful Ornament from Melissa that has a gorgeous little poem on it.

Snowman ornament from Melissa.

My other presents, not including gift cards.

Tucker Sharing

I'm not sure how we did it, but we have taught tucker to share! lol

Sleeping in the Highchair!

Here's Brooke sleeping away in her highchair! Sooo cute!

How Brooke gets around

Brooke has all the sudden taken to crawling! She still pulls herself on her belly when she finds something she wants quick, but she has started to crawl a little bit. Sorry the video is so dark, it's before I decided to turn on all the lights and you have to catch her quick, because she moves so fast!

And of course her walking with her wagon. She likes to walk with it...however she does get stuck sometimes.

Helping Daddy

I had gone out to the store and I came back to see Brooke helping Daddy clean the bathroom. She's such a good helper!

Early Christmas Present

Jeremy is like a kid when it comes to Christmas presents. He always wants to open them right away. I always say no, but when it came to the present for Brooke that was from his Mom, I didn't feel I had the right to say no. It wasn't wrapped and we could see from the outside of the box exactly what it was, so I let Jer open it and put it together. She now has a wagon and she really likes it..she mostly likes to sit in it and have you push her around in it, but she likes it none the less...LOL

And the shirt is new, I found it on sale at Old Navy and had to have it. LOL Jeremy rolls his eyes at me when I buy her clothes, cuz we really have a lot of clothes, but I like to buy her things too! lol Jer thinks she looks like a boy in that shirt...but I think she just looks cute!

She's so proud of herself when she pulls herself up on things, which she does constantly now, she always scootches around the furniture...won't be long now and she'll be walking without holding on to anything! What a smart girl!

Brooke and Santa

I don't have a picture scanned to add to this so you'll have to take my word for it. LOL

A couple of weeks ago, I met up with an old friend who I grew up with in NB and she is now living on Vancouver Island, BC. Her baby, Chelsie is 6 weeks younger then Brooke. She had come to Edmonton and we decided to surprise our parents with a picture of the two babies with Santa Claus.

Now, Brooke doesn't normally play strange, but there are some people she likes and some people she doesn't....Santa is one that she doesn't. She was crying the whole time she was on his knee, and Chelsie, was smiling and laughing...quite the opposite reactions. The picture we chose tho, Chelsie doesn't look so sure about Santa either. lol

We took two sets of pictures before we found one that wasn't too bad.

Then the next week at Jeremy's Christmas party, (it was a family event) they had a Santa Claus there as well, so Jeremy took Brooke to see Santa...and again she cried when she was sat on his knee. Jer has the picture on his phone, but we haven't taken it off yet (I'm not sure he knows how...lol)

Wish I had a picture to go with this post, but maybe I can update or add it later.

A Dancing Brooke

Here is a cute video of Brooke doing a little bit of dancing! lol

Getting Ready for Christmas

Here is a video of Brooke with one of my musical Tiggers!

Playing in the snow!

I just had to take Brooke out to the snow! lol So I dressed her up and away we went to make a snowman...Ok I did all the making...Jeremy didn't even help...party pooper! lol

Preview/Teeth and randomness

This is Brooke's Christmas dress....I tried it on to make sure it was a bit too big so it will still fit at Christmas time. Isn't it a cute dress?? I knjow you can't see it all...but that's the point to a preview! LOL And if you look really close...you can see her two bottom front teeth. Mom was wanting to see them...but it's hard to catch her with the perfect pose for the teeth! lol

This is what happens when you give Brooke a bowl of food expecting her to eat it! LOL Altho, I have to say that she did eat most of her breakfast that day.

This is what our van looks like with out a back window! LOL The kids around town were nice enough to break it for us on Halloween. How sweet of them! We do have a replacement, but it's not on yet.

Jen, You had asked me forever ago to keep my eyes open for Glass Door Knobs...I found these at Home Depot. Are they what you are looking for?

I don't even remember what's on this video...LOL But I hope you enjoy it!

I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!

This is what I woke up to this morning!!!!

As you can see Tucker has been out making tracks in the snow! lol It's still snowing...it's one of those snows that is awesome because it means Christmas is coming! It's the kinda snow that makes you feel like it should be Christmas morning!

Halloween 2008

Here is Brooke in her Halloween Costume! Doesn't she make the cutest alligator/dinosaur you ever did see?!?! lol

Brooke and Daddy all ready to go!

Had to get a shot of her cute little tail!

Poor Wink!

This is what looked up from a movie and saw! Poor wink being harassed by Tucker and Brooke. It was kinda cute tho...but I had to get them both away from Wink so she could make her escape! lol

Tucker noticing that I have a camera! LOL

Windstorm anyone?

I went to a baby shower yesterday and when I got home this is the shape I found my back yard in. No Tucker was not out there! LOL

I swear this tree was standing straight before I left! LOL That is how strong the wind was! Part of the fence was also knocked down. So I recruited my neighbour, Gerald, to give me a hand at getting it back up. We added some boards and I'm pretty sure it's sturdier now then it was when I left yesterday! Which is good, hopefully I won't have to fix it again!

A Little Bit of Doaktown

I got this outfit when I was to New Brunswick. This is the first chance I have gotten to wear it on her...as I forgot about it...that's what happens when you have too many clothes! LOL

The Front!

The Back!

Bathy Time

I gave her a bath yesterday before the baby shower, and she was a little bit excited about the tub time! lol It was so cute I had to get it on video. I hope you all enjoy it!

A Couple of new Videos for your Viewing Pleasure!

Brooke practicing her acrobatics. on her hands and knees, then on her toes and hands...lol Then of course moving along to the bouncy seat which she doesn't really sit in anymore.

Here she is taking a few steps! Not unsupported of course!

Moving Along!

I just had to share how Brooke moves along the floor. She can sometimes get some good speed going! lol Enjoy the video!

My New Kitchen

So as some of you know, Jeremy and I got at the kitchen after our trip to Winnipeg. We've been busy getting things put back together, and I'm happy to say that for the most part, the kitchen was done before Jeremy went back to work! Yippeee for us! haha.

Here is a picture of the wood chips we found in our walls (the reason for us to redo the kitchen!).

This silly slats that made the job of redrywalling a pain in the butt!

See I helped! LOL Jeremy's hoodie makes me look a little like I'm pregnant! but I'm not!

Pink insulation to help us actually stay warm this summer! lol

Drywall up!

These last pictures are what my Kitchen currently looks like. Now let me explain the boxes of cereal, the coffee mate, and the dog food....lol The Extra Foods Grocery store out here is changing to a No Frills grocery store, so they had huge sales to get rid of all the stuff they weren't going to sell anymore. That doesn't mean they won't be selling HoneyCombs...lol Just not that size box. I can't remember what we got the boxes of cereal for, but I think it was close to 3 bucks for the jumbo sized box. I went back this last Tuesday and they had more stuff marked down even further...Most everything was 94 cents!!! Nestle Baby Cereal...94 Cents...I bought like 10 boxes. Jars of Baby food...24 Cents. Yeah I went a little nuts and walked away spending 122 dollars on 94 cent items! LOL But I shouldn't have to buy a lot of stuff for a long time!

The cupboards actually have a Faux Finish on them called Sandwash. They have it at Home Depot, so the cupboards are actually kinda rough to the touch. But I think they turned out wonderfully!

We found the yellow to be a bit BRIGHT! lol Even with the cupboards painted the dark color. So we decided to make the stairs wall the same color, however, you can't buy the exact color just for paint, only in the faux finish. So Jeremy picked this color out all by himself. It's a tad darker then the cupboards, but you really can't notice.