Middle Name Game

Here are the Rules: Post the rules on your blog, and then give your answers. List one fact about yourself for each letter in your middle name. Each fact must begin with a letter from your middle name. If you do not have a middle name, use your maiden name(or create a middle name).Once you are tagged, update your blog with your middle name and your answers. At the end of your post, tag one person for each letter of your middle name.

Okay...Teresa tagged me for this like 2 months ago, and I'm just now checking into it. Computer time has been scarce!

A-authoritative: Can be good, but usually isn't so much....just ask my husband:)

N-nice: I'm generally a nice person...I know that sounds boring, but when I'm not being authoritative I'm being nice.

N-new: If you've known me for very long you are well aware that my "look" changes regularly. I like not being boring and so I think new is a good description for me.

E-enabler: By giving my husband Benadryll he has named me the enabler:)

Okay, I now tag:
Amy, Amber, Wendy and Kristen
You may post in the comments so all can read your fun:)

Brie's Vocabulary

Since I am basically using this as a reference for when I can sit down and document in her baby book...I suppose that it would be a good idea to document that she's learning to communicate effectively. She knows what she wants and will shake her head no if we don't give her the right thing. She says Mi for milk, otherwise we work off trial and error for food. She says Momma and Daddy, baby, uh-oh, puppy for skoshi and she actually says Lacey.
She is getting to be quite good at crawl tag around the island in Grammy's kitchen and she will play peekaboo forever with us, with herself in the mirror, with her baby or a stuffed animal. She even tries to say it...mostly it ends up as just boo. It's so much fun to have her interacting so well and it's just incredibly amazing to see how much changes from day to day. We expect her to walk any day now, but we're definitely not pushing it:)

Easter Adventures

Well, Gabrielle has had her first Easter and she made it a memorable one. She's been sick since I got home from being TDY in Utah. We had fever and then extreme ear and tooth pain. We headed up to the Urgent Care last night after about 5 hours of not being able to help her even with medicine for her teeth and ears. Finally she fell asleep in the car on the way there and Danny went in and talked to the Doc to find out what we could do.

She loved her Easter basket when she got up this morning. She snuggled her super soft little Bunny and played peekaboo with her hippo and a cup in the car on the way to church. She was having so much fun. She ate a few of her Alphabet cookies that Grammy put in her Easter Basket in church this morning and behaved all the way through until the last song! That's really good for her:)

We got her home and she finally ate...but then proceeded to gag herself and puke everywhere...with company over for dinner and everything. So she got a bath in the sink while her Daddy went outside to hose off the high chair. All of this seemed to not affect her in the least. She was just having a good old time through it all! What a little mess! She finally let us get her dressed back up for pictures and then crashed out for a nap.

We are just so glad that the screaming is over. I know her poor little ears had to have been killing her because she just kept yanking at them and crying...even when we put her numbing ear drops in. The joys of SC during pollen season....

Our hilarious growing girl

Our sweet Brie now has 5 teeth and is working on number 6 on the other side on top. She is doing well with weaning and is just about done. She drinks yogurt, soy and rice milk and can make it through the night without nursing or taking a cup. She loves all kinds of juice and I'm quite happy about giving her stuff with carrots and sweet potatoes in it:) I feel like my sneaky mom, but that is how I have to get vegetables down Danny, so I might as well let Brie drink the juice too! She likes to eat all sorts of stuff...like Potato Chips. She is so hard to resist. She'll yank on the arm until she gets to bite whatever you're eating.

Or she'll come stand and look up at you with those big eyes and that silly toothy grin until you let her try a bite:)
Brie absolutely loves playing with Babies and Stuffed Animals. She is always grabbing and hugging one and she even pats them on the back now. It is too adorable. She takes after her Grammy in that way.

Brie has been spending time with Micah lately too. She is pretty funny with him. He just talks to her like she's one of his buddies and she seems to go along with it. He tries to fool her if she has something he wants, but it won't work. So when she screams he quickly gives it back to her and watches quite impatiently for her to be done with it. As soon as she puts it down he snatches it right up! It's a good thing they get along reasonably well since they'll have to play together for a whole day next week! I'm going on an Air Force trip for a few days and she's going to be staying with the Castleman's for one of those days. Hopefully she doesn't kill Micah! Who knew?!?!