Brooklyn's Tenth Month

This month Brooklyn has become very adventurous and is keeping us on our toes. She found her love of climbing and has starting climbing anything and everything! One day I was washing dishes in the sink and had the dishwasher open. I knew she was down on the floor playing with the bottom rack and a second later I looked over and found her standing on the dishwasher checking out the top rack.


She also loves to find an open door to the bathroom and takes full advantage of playing in the toilet that her brothers forgot to close and best of all, she loves the toilet paper! I'm constantly checking to make sure all the bathroom doors are shut.


Right after she turned 9 months she started self feeding for all of her solids. Bye Bye baby food.


She is the first child I have had to put in a permanent baby gate at the bottom of the stairs for. The temporary one that I slide through the balusters was not cutting it. She loved to stand on the first step and shake it. She also figured out how to move it and climb right up the stairs. After pulling her off the stairs multiple times in a row, we headed off that night to find a permanent solution!


Shopping has become a big challenge. Brooklyn will not stay in the cart seat. She insists on standing up in her seat and loves to try to crawl into the basket. The little buckle on the shopping cart doesn't stop her. Her brothers egging her on doesn't help either. Doesn't this trip to Target look like so much fun? Needless to say, I have limited my shopping trips with all 3 kids this summer.

Things have definitely gotten crazy keeping up with this wild girl. Brooklyn, you bring so much joy to our family. Happy 10 months!

4th of July Parade

Our neighborhood had its first ever 4th of July parade. I hadn't really given it much thought until Friday. I figured the boys would enjoy decorating their bikes and riding in it. So I ran to Party City on Friday to get some things. Unfortunately, we didn't decorate Friday evening and did it when we woke up on Saturday morning. The parade started at 9 and we didn't rush out of bed! Well we didn't have much time and we were only able to decorate Blake's bike. We threw some stuff on Ben's little bike, but he didn't care. He was still excited. It was threatening rain, but we only had a few sprinkles. The turn out was not that good, but everyone still had a great time. Hopefully it will be a yearly event and there will be more people next year. We ended in the cul-de-sac and there was a big water slide and popsicles that the kids enjoyed.

Excited to ride their decorated bikes



Brooke wondering what this is all about
Addy

Let the parade begin

The end of the parade

The boys with Kate and AJ
Brynna
Ben's first slide....looks a little nervous
Blake trying to spin

More excited
Pardon the head, but I thought Blake's expression was great!
Finishing up in the pool at the bottom
Sweet Brooke ready for her nap
Celebrating her first 4th of July. So patriotic!!

Ben's Indoor Soccer

Ben is playing his first organized sport this summer.......Indoor Soccer. He absolutely loves it and is doing really well. It's a 4 and 5 year old league so he is playing against some older kids. He had his first game today and he scored a goal! It wasn't my best picture taking as I was dealing with Brooke. Here are a few and I will try for some better ones in the future.

Go Jaguars!!


Coach Brent (aka Dad) and his team. He's excited about his team as there are some good players.

Brooke's Ninth Month

Brooke had another great month. She is definitely developing quite the personality. She's lots of fun and we enjoy trying to teach her new things. Her new favorite thing this month is to clap! She loves clapping and she has the best smile while she is doing it. Brooke added trying to say "clap" which is so cute. She's so proud of herself! She has also found the stairs and is obsessed with them. I have a gate up that we slide through but there isn't anything on the other side. We will see how long it lasts.

Her hair is growing in pretty quickly. She has much more at this point than her brothers did. She is starting to get some curls at the back and sides. Her eyes are still light blue. At first people would comment on her eyes and I didn't think much about it. Most babies have blue eyes and they will turn later. Then I started thinking that the boys had blue eyes but much darker before they turned. So I'm guessing Brooke's might stay blue. My dad's father (so Brooke's great-grandfather) had bright blue eyes and those were passed on to my brother and sister, but not me. So it will be interesting to see what color they end up being.

9 month stats

Weight - 19 lbs 6 oz - 50-75%
Height - 29 in - 95-97 %

She slimmed down between her 6 and 9 month check up. Probably due to being so active!


Clap Clap

When are these teeth going to come in
9 months old!!