Thursday's 13!!!

1. Brookelyn-Grace is 11 months as of yesterday!!!! I can't believe that she will be one next month!!!

2. I am leaving for the beach tomorrow. It's just me and mom. This will officially be my first time away from Brookelyn-Grace. I am staying 3 nights & I know I am going to cry!!! Thanks MOM! Your the best!

3. My sister Brooke graduates tonight from Curry! I am so proud of her! Wow! Where has time gone? It was just yesterday that she would follow me around begging to come in my room. Ha ha

4. I hope that this beach trip helps clear my head and gives me a better look on life and everything that I want for it!

5. I am FINALLY closing on my house next week! Can you believe it? I cant!

6. I can't wait to decorate my house! :)

7. I can't wait to start planning Brookelyn-Grace's 1st birthday party! I am just so glad that we will be in the house for her party!

8. I am going to enjoy my beach trip, but be so miserable missing my loves!

9. I am so random today!

10. I've got to go pay my power bill, car payment and maybe run to the mall after work...ugh!

11. I have nothing to wear to Brooke's graduation tonight!

12. I'm so buying me some cute t-shirts at the beach! :)

13. I LOVE BROOKELYN-GRACE!!!!

Thursday's 13

1. Today was sister's (Brooke) last day of high school!

2. She graduates the 28th! I can't believe it! I'm going to cry my eyes out!

3. I have one more class at Athen's that starts next week and I will be done!!!!!!!

4. I start student teaching in the Fall.

5. Then I will graduate in December with a Bachelors degree in Secondary Education, a Bachelors degree in English Language Arts & a Master's degree in English!!! I'll graduate with 2 degrees and one Master's!

6. Yes I am bad!!! hahaha

7. I love Brookelyn-Grace so much!

8. She will be 11 months the 27th :)

9. I can't believe that she will be one year old June 27th!

10. I really love my job! I'm kinda sad that I want be working here in the Fall.

11. I have had so much on me here lately that is ridiculous!

12. Dad said another two weeks and I could move in my house...He keeps changing the deadline...I'm so ready to move in!

13. Learning new things is hard!!!!!

It's Been A While! UPDATES...

I have been so busy! I am finally done with my may mester classes so I can now blog! There is so much to say. Well here goes! Brookelyn-Grace is everywhere and into everything! She is almost eleven months now and weighs 23 lbs! She is such a big little girl! We went to the Dr Monday and Dr. Goldsmith told me that she ranges in the 90th percentile for her height and 95 percentile for her weight! Wow..That means that she would be bigger than 90 & 95 babies out of 100! ha ha. She most definitely does not get that from me! She's going to be way taller than me, but who isn't? ha ha She is trying to smell things! I can say mmm smell this, and she will stick it to her nose and make noises with her mouth...(trying to make the sniffing sound) ha ha..She also sticks the phone to her ear and acts like she's talking. It's so funny! Also I read her probally 5-6 books a day and while I am reading to her I will skim the words as I say them. So now after I read to her she will take the book and put her middle finger on each word and babble..It is so funny! She is so smart! Another thing..one day she was playing with a ball and it rolled under the dresser. She looked up and me and then bent down and looked under it. I guess she got this from always watching me haft to dig her toys out from under things haha. It amazed me that she did this. Then she tried to stick her hand under it and get it, but it was too far back..I thought WOW! She can also say Mama, Dada, dog, bird, duck, no, no, yeah, and yahh. She is also pulling up on everything! She took her first step yesterday, but then quite. I think it scared her a little! But she has to always be sitting on her knees or pulling up! You can also say, "Where's Brookelyn-Grace"? & she will put her hands over her eyes and wait like 10 seconds and then throw them up in the air and get so tickled! ha ha Then of course she claps for herself! ha ha

A little FYI...when we were at the Dr yesterday I asked Dr. Goldsmith when she should be saying more? She then started to ask me what all she is doing and saying. So I told her and then she asked me to get Brookelyn-Grace to show her how she skims her finger through the words, how she smells stuff, get her to say her words, and how she plays pick-a-boo. So Brookelyn-Grace does everything like I had told her and even says all the words. This only took a total of about 5 minutes. Then Dr. Goldsmith turns to me and says WOW! She is way more advanced then most children her age! I said REALLY? I was in shock! I mean of course I think she is the smartest baby in the world duh! But I was not expecting that! I thought that all babies at her age did that stuff. She told me that most babies don't say as many clear words as she does until they are 1 1/2, and that she uses her hands in very manipulating ways. I thought OMG WOW!!! So I am so proud! She is such an amazing baby!