Happy 6 months!!

Happy 1/2 birthday my precious little girl. I LOVE you so much...more and more everyday!! It is truly amazing how your love for a child can grow stronger everyday...so amazing. I feel like Brinlie is such a special gift to us... our entire family. I wanted a baby so bad and I feel so blessed to have her in my life and I never take one day for granted. I know all you moms know the feeling, we are lucky...huh! It is just amazing, that is all I can say...

Brinlie is getting so much fun. I think this is my favorite age so far, she is sitting up all by herself now so she can play with toys better. I think she can sit up so good because she has a chubby belly, check her out!

Reaching Arms

What means so much to me about arms reaching out to me? Brinlie that is...when I walked through the door tonight from work...she was so excited to see me...reached her arms for me. Oh my, how good this made me feel. (I had been gone for 2 evenings, so I really was missing her). My mom was with her today and she was sitting on the floor playing with her. My mom had not seen her get this excited either...it melted both our hearts. What a special moment that was for the 3 of us to share. I hope that this is a new thing I get when I walk through my door each day, it will only make each day more special.

Swimming Lessons!!

What a fun thing!! We started swimming lessons...believe me I do not expect my almost 6 month old to swim, however it is so Great to have her in the water and just being comfortable with it. We go to swim lessons for 4 Saturdays, for 30 mins each session. There are 2 instructors and 14 children (6-36 months). Brinlie of course is styling in her zebra with hot pink bathing suit, she is so cute...she is also the youngest.
She actually did really good the first time. They instructed us to "blow bubbles" in the water to try and get the babies to put their faces in the water. At first Brinlie was paying no atteniton to me, but then she started getting it, she put her face in the water several times, she even drank some of the water. The tell you to teach them to "spit" when they drink the water. That is hard, she has no idea what spit is!! But you would be surprised what a 6 month old can do naturally. She was kicking her legs...next we will work on her arms. Anyways, we had a good time! I just hope by the end of the 4 weeks, Brinlie & I feel comfortable abou her being in the water, espcially for the boating season on the lake!! I will update picture soon!!

Weekend mornings....Favorite

If someone where to ask me what is my favorite time of my life to this moment, I would respond Weekend mornings with my precious daughter and wonderful husband. I LOVE being able to wake up and not be rushed with all the morning activities...shower, feed Brinlie, Pump while I get my make up on and dry my hair (multi tasker), pack my gym bag, pack my pump bag, get dressed, make sure all bottles are made, dress baby, and on...on...on...- BUT I would not change it. All I am saying is that I LOVE not having all that going on for 2 mornings each week.
Our typical weekend morning is letting her sleep until she wakes us up (6:30/7). Then one of us goes to get her smiling face (she is so happy) and bring her to bed with us- which we play and laugh with her. Then I feed her and she falls back asleep, which means we can too!! On a good day she will sleep with me for 90 mins and we get to cuddle and not worry about TIME.

I LOVE THESE MOMENTS!!!!

First B-day Party...First Cold

Ok, Ok...Lesson Learned. Note to self, when attending a large function with multiple children, keep your away from the ones with colds. We went to our friends son, who turned 1, b-day party...which was fun and a blast watching him eat his cake! However, when we returned Brinlie starting sneezing, then the night was BAD...she got up 6 or 7 times. She could not breathe through her nose and suck on her pacifier at the same time. During the day she is in a great mood, but at night...WOW! She has not been running a fever so we were not too concerned. We After 4 nights we took her to the Dr and she is congested and now has a slight ear infection in one ear. So she started on her first antibiotic and is slowly getting better. My mom was so sweet to take her one night, so Matt and I could rest for the entire night, which was so Great. She is getting better though! I guess we have been lucky that she is almost 6 months old and has not been sick yet!! Praise the lord for that!!