Brie's first Camping Trip!

Danny and Brie came up to Delaware to visit me at the end of September. They didn't have any family lodging available and since I live in the building with Air Crew we couldn't have a noisy toddler hanging out. So, we decided to camp. The camp ground on base is on the opposite side of the flight line and we were in the flight path of every plane that took off and/or landed. Gabrielle was beyond excited every time. She yelled with delight, "Look mama! ANOTHER air plane!" It was so cute.

Easter in Hawaii

Brie and I are in Hawaii! We have seen Pearl Harbor and driven up to the North Shore. We had a little rainy weather at first, but now it's nice. We had our first trip to the ER the night before we were supposed to leave and ended up having to extend our trip so that Brie's eardrums wouldn't explode. Earlier that day we had a lovely coughing until puke incident while we were driving around the island. That was my first puke in the car incident as well. I don't know if we'll be able to visit Veronica again:) Hopefully when we leave on Thursday she'll be much better. Brie has had a ball with Koen and Jimmy and the neighbor girl Savannah.
The jumping on the bed pic is her and Koen. The one in the red sweatshirt is where Veronica was taking care of her while I was cleaning the puked on carseat in a camp shower. Not the most fun!

Missing the Cuteness

Well I don't have any more current pictures since I'm missing my little cutie, but I do have MANY that I didn't post from Christmas time. Plus, Mom has been keeping me abreast of new happenings. Apparently, Brie doesn't like to wake up early if she has stayed up too late. She will pull the covers over her head and say " Bed...Bed!" if mom tries to get her up. However, she can be bribed. All mom has to do is mention, "I've got coffee" and Brie sits up immediately alert..."coffee?". So she gets a splash of coffee in the milk in her sippy cup:) What am I going to do with her?!!?

Changing some more

Well, I'm now in the airport for an extended layover on my way to Germany. So, I finally have a chance to update. Christmas in Kentucky was a beautiful experience. She wrote her first letter on the white board at Papa's Christmas lunch at work. She wrote an A all by herself! On Christmas morning Brie went straight for her stocking and had to eat peaches before anything else could happen:) She had fun playing at Papa's house.

We moved after that into Mom's rental house. Things are just starting to settle and of course now I'm off to Germany for a few months. Brie will have a ton of fun with "Na" and Lucy, who will keep her when Na is working. She is so big. She hugged and kissed me and told me she loved me before I left. She has a ball bossing around the dogs and getting on their case for touching her bed or blanket or looking like they want her food. She'll wag her little finger and say, "No, no ..... eat." or "No, no bed". She has picked out new shoes and has a love for playing in her hats. The funniest thing that she has done lately... She can identify herself in pictures sometimes. Well we were putting out the pictures that we were unpacking and there is one of her with a headband on. She pointed at it and said it was a "bebe" and "Papa told her that it was her. She looked at it and then reached out to take the headband off of the baby in the picture and was saying "off, head". She hates headbands so much she didn't even want the Brie in the picture to be wearing one! It was too funny. I guess I won't have any baby news to update for the next couple of months. If I get enough info from Na to make a post I will. I'm going to miss the little booger.