Britt's Visit

This past weekend we had a wonderful roommate from my old roommate Brittani Bleazard.  She was there to go on a date Saturday and we were so happy to be able to have her stay with us.  I loved staying up late to chat Friday and Saturday night.

Thomas holding the sweet stuff (cotton candy and baby)

Our lil fam

Love these girls!

Saturday she brought her date with her to a church activity called the green jello festival.  Our other roomie Tess and her family met us there and we found a nice shady spot and spent a couple hours chatting.
Sunday Britt came to part of church with us and then went to meet up with her cousin and head back to Utah.

Bed head :)

Love ya Britt! Thanks for the cute pics! Come see us again soon!

3 Months

We have seen a big change in Brooklyn in the last couple weeks.  Maybe it's just that we know how to interpret her needs better but there seems to be less crying and bouncing and more playing and smiles lately.

At three months:
- Brooklyn can bat at her toys on her play mat and mobile and grab them purposefully.

- Still wakes up about every three hours at night to eat.
- Eats every two hours during the day.
- Can be in her car seat without crying!!!
- She likes to stand up.

- Likes to sit up facing outward so she can see things.

- Faces forward in her Snugli.

- Likes her baths and will suck on the hand towel I put over her.
- During the day she is awake for about an hour and then will take a half hour nap (and usually one two hour nap a day).

- Still likes to be swaddled for naps and bedtime.
- When her binky comes out of her mouth she tries to put it back in.
- We have her bedtime routine down.  We start getting ready at around 8pm and give her a bath, pajamas, swaddle, binky, a few minutes of bouncing on the exercise ball, and in the crib to sleep by about 8:30pm.
- She doesn't fit in 3 month clothes yet, the bottoms are huge on her still.
- At her three month well baby visit she was 10lbs 1.2 oz (3rd percentile), 22.75 inches (17th percentile), and her head circumference was 15 inches (11th percentile).
- When I am done getting her dressed in the morning I will put her in front of her mirror that is next to the mobile I made to hang over her bed.  She will smile at herself in the mirror and then immediately stare at the mobile.
- She almost always has her hand in her mouth.  Lately it's been a whole fist.

We sure love this little girl!

Hot Air Balloon Classic

  Every year for a week during the summer they have a bunch of hot air balloons (this year there were 40) take off from a park downtown in the mornings.  Saturday morning I went running with one of the teacher's at the school I student taught at and she mapped out a route that would give us an awesome view of the balloons.

 The top outer portion of my right foot has been bugging me this past week so we had to take some walking breaks and ended up doing 9 miles instead of 12 but the conversation and view was awesome so I'll call it a great run.
Last night we went on a little family date to The Spirit of Boise Hot Air Balloon Classic Nite Lite.  Brooklyn really seems to like being in new places and people watching. People also love little Brooklyn.  If you don't want any attention don't bring this little girl with you because everywhere we bring her people comment on how cute she is (this may just be something people do with all babies haha). We got to the park at about 6pm and got a funnel cake to share and some fresh squeezed lemonade and walked around a bit.

 When it started to get dark they had 12 balloons all in a row that they lit up.

We snapped some pics and oohed and ahhed and then snuck out of there to beat the crowd and put Miss Sleeping Beauty to bed.