Back to work....

Well today is my first time back to work in two weeks....I could cry! I have had Brookelyn-Grace at home with me everday and I had to take her back to her sitters today. I miss her so bad! She is all I can think about! I can't wait for 4:30 today so I can go pick her up! I might leave a little early today just in case she's missing me :( She started this new thing over the Christmas holiday where whenever I walk out of a room or give her to someone else she starts to cry. I love it but it just breaks my heart! She didn't cry this morning though when I dropped her off, but still I could have! I miss my little princess butt! Oh yeah and an update on her sickness cold thingy. We took her to the doctor on the 27th to Urgent Care and we finally got some medicine! I loved the doctor that treated her! He gave her antibiotics and a antihistamine for her stuffiness. They took her blood and did chest x-rays. The doctor told us that her lungs were "junky" just full of mess! Her blood work showed that she had type A namonya and he couldn't believe that her regular doctor had not taken blood work or done chest x-rays! We even took her to Children's one time! The doctor was in shock! He told us that he thinks that we might need to find a new doctor or put them in their place during her next appointment! Well we have an apt. Friday and you can believe that I am going to go PSYCHO on her doctors!!!! Oh and she also had an ear infection that he said has been there for a good while and we took her to Children's the week before Christmas! I am PISSED! Excuse my language but that's my child and if you cant do your job right then get another one!

Christmas 2008

This year was by far the best Christmas I have ever had! Brookelyn-Grace has brought so much to mine and Keith's life! She is our everything! I loved watching her open all her presents from our families (she got sooo much. She had almost double of everything! Ugh we have a lot to take back!) Christmas morning was the best! :) She loved opening presents, but I think it was just because she loved eating the paper ha ha. Everytime she would open a present and there was no more paper she would be reaching for another! It was so adorably sweet! We taped every minute of it! When we first got up Keith went straight to the living room and got ready to tape her and as soon as me and her came around the corner she lite up! She started getting so excited and burying her head in me like she was embarrassed! It was so funny! Another thing that made this Christmas truly special is that she is "DADA" for the first time! Then the next day she said "Moma" It was great! She so discovered her voice Christmas morning because ever since then she has been saying "babababa moma bababab Dada" Its just beautiful! Well I got my I-PHONE! Yah, I was sooo excited! I usually never buy in to the phones but I just really, really wanted one for some reason. I love it! You can do just about anything on it! I also got some tennis shoes, a sewing machine, some tops and three beautiful pictures from Kirkland's to put in the house :) Everything was PERFECT!

MILESTONES!

Brookelyn-Grace is really reaching some BIG milestones! When she lays on her belly she can hold her head up so good by placing her hands on the floor and pushing up! Her entire tummy is off the floor. She can also put her legs in the crawling position but she can't do both at the same time. She is also doing the sweetest thing! I will put her in front of me and make kissing noises with my lips and she will lean all the way in with her mouth open and kiss my lips! It is amazing! I love it! It seriously has to be the sweetest thing I have ever seen! She is also sucking on her lips and I think she's trying to make the kissing sound when she does it. It sounds like it, but not quite there ha ha. She is just so smart! You can really start to see her personality blooming! She is so funny! If we have company or she meets anybody new she will smile so hard at them or laugh at her self and then dig her face into me and then look up again at them to see if there watching her. It really gets her tickled! She is a funny baby! I swear you can't get her to quite smiling! She smiles and dies out laughing about everything! I love it! I seriously believe that in no more than two weeks she will be all over this house! She is so so ready to crawl! I am super excited, scared and sad about it though. I am excited that we are getting to see her reach this new milestone, scared that she is going to get hurt doing it and, sad that she is growing up so fast! It is amazing how fast they really grow! I feel like I blinked and there she was at 6 months!

Well on another note we went to Miss Kenlie's birthday party today! She looked beautiful as always! She is a doll! She turned 2!!! We had a good time! I can't wait for Brookelyn-Grace's birthday party! I kept staring at Kenlie thinking OMG Brookelyn-Grace will be there before you know it! I mean to think in 6 more months she will be 1! I can't believe how big she is getting! She is such a princess! I can really tell a lot about her personality too! She is going to be loud but shy,and sweet but mean if you tick her off!I love everyday learning something new about her personality!

Day's & Night's MIX-UP!

Brookelyn-Grace has got her day's and night's mixed up bad! Well it happened the night we took her to Childrens. She of course had been a sleep since 10 p.m but when we got their at 11 p.m they were poking her and everything else so it woke her up. She stayed up the enitre time at the hospitol and on the way home the poor baby was so tired & sick all she could do is cry :( She cried from Sumiton to the house! So since then she has been taking a four hour nap from 2p.m-6pm in the afternoon. Then she takes another about 9-9:30 and then she doesnt go back to bed until 1 a.m. It is about to kill me, especially since Keith is taking that mining class. When he gets home at 10:30 I do not even ask him to help me becasuse he goes to work at 4:30 a.m and then goes to that class at 6:00 p.m. Keith and I have decided that one day this weekend we are going to keep her up all day long so maybe it will fix her day's and night's mix-up!

Staying sick!

Well I have always loved the cold weather and the holidays but I am such a Scrooge this year, but I have good reasons. Brookelyn-Grace is staying so sick, and it's this weather that's causing it! Keith and I took her Sunday night to Children's! She was running a 103 temp and she could barley breath! The Doctor said it was viral so they couldn't do anything but give her Tylenol or Motrin...(MAKES ME MAD!) She has been sick since two weeks before Thanksgiving! The Doctor said the best thing that we can do is keep her at home...basically corontined! So we let her sitters know she wouldn't be coming and I am taking off of work today at lunch and tomorrow at lunch. Then my aunt is taking off Thursday and Friday to watch her :) Then next week I am off work until after the New Year so I am going to keep her at home with me ;) I feel so bad for her! She stayed up until 1:00a.m last night! I am so exhausted but its hard for her to sleep because she cant breath! I hate this weather, but I think keeping her inside will help her a lot!!! I still have so much to get done this week! I feel so rushed! This is Keith's last week to take his mining class and then It want be so bad because I am all by myself and doing everything! I could seriously scream!

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM OUR FAMILY TO YOURS!!! :)

THE TOLBERTS!

It's beginning to look a lot like CHRISTMAS!

I love Christmas and it's going by way to fast!!! Keith & I have already finished Brookelyn-Grace's Christmas. We got her baby rings (of course), a Play and Learn Table, Laugh and Learn Puppy, Learning Kitchen & Living Room, Sing Along Stage, Winnie the Pooh Crawling doll, Cabbage Patch doll, a lot of books, and two huge plush Minnie and Mickey Mouse dolls. Well that's all we have got her! We didn't want to get her too much because we have so much family that will be buying for her! I swear we're going to haft to put some of her toys up for later! She is going to have way to much! I hope we can hurry and get the house or were going to be crowded! Thank goodness for having her a play room in the new house! If not we would haft to sell our furniture just to have some room for those huge, bulky toys! lol On another note...Brookelyn-Grace is staying sick! I don't know what to do! We have gone to the doctor so many time I'm beginning to feel like we live in Birmingham. They say that all we can do is use a humidifier, elevate her mattress, use saline drops and give her Tylenol every 4-6 hours. It's not helping though! Now she has a bad cough and it make her gag! I hate it for her! I wish I could just take it away! I wish I could just stay at home with her everyday until it's gone, because I know getting her out in the cold weather everyday isn't helping. Another thing this week is going to be stressful! Keith starts his mining class tonight. It is for two weeks 6p.m-10p.m so I am going to have Brookelyn-Grace by myself. On top of that I haft to go to Farmstead J.R High tomorrow and Wednesday to finish up some observations. Then Friday night I haft to go to Athens for a final at 6 p.m and then Friday I have a final in Hanceville! I could so cry :( Thank God Brookelyn-Grace is a good baby because if not I would be in some trouble! I guess I'm going to haft to wait until she goes to sleep to study this week and then get a sitter for the days I have finals! I could not imagine being a single mother! So to all the single mothers out there...YOU ARE AWESOME, because I could not do it!!!

Things change after you have a baby....

I was just thinking today......My life has changed so much since I've had Brookelyn-Grace :) . I thought it was funny this morning, Jill called and I was so excited to tell her that Brookelyn-Grace's two bottom teeth had broke through!!! After I got super excited about it I got to thinking how everything that comes out of my mouth is in regards to her! It is crazy to think a year ago I was so caught up in myself. I love that baby so much! Now I find myself wishing that I could be a stay at home mom! Me, can you believe it?!? I use to always say, "I could never stay at home with a kid all day" but I could really see myself staying home with her all the time. Even abandoning my dream at becoming a teacher!!! No, I'm not going to quite school. I only have three classes left! Are you crazy! I'm just saying after I graduate I could see myself staying at home!!! I swear when I drop her off in the morning to the sitters I am almost in tears before I get to work! I miss her so bad and I look forward all day long to hurrying and going to pick her up!!! I have also learned that people that you once considered your friends no longer become your friends! I have some really great friends that ask me about Brookelyn-Grace all the time, comment on how beautiful she is and actually have something to do with her! I know people are busy and I should know, but you can tell the ones that really care because they are the ones that ask about her even if they have no time to come see her. It has bothered me for some time now, but I have come to the realisation that I do not need those kind of people in my life and neither does Brookelyn-Grace. I mean their are some of my friends (good friends) that have still never seen her!!! No I am not mad at them. I just really do not care anymore. But with all that said I am not bitter or mad...I am truly happy and hope the best for everyone :) I have a great life! A beautiful daughter, fantastic husband and very supportive family & friends! What else could I ever ask for??? (my house to be finished!) hahaha