Brooke's Birth

I just got these photos from a friend and wanted to share them. These were taken when Brooke was about 2 hours old!

Kids

Isn't she beautiful?! It's amazing how preious they are when they are this little. Then they grow up and start throwing fits! Yeah I am speaking of Kaden. He still is a great little boy and will always be. Yes he is starting to beome more independent and its sad, not my little baby boy anymore. Good thing I have Brooke!

This is one of the many photos I got of Brooke smiling. I love to see her huge toothless smiles! She loves to talk as well. She has this high pith squeal that is just too adorable! Kaden loves loving on her. He is always asking where she is and makes sure she is with us if we go somewhere. He always wants to give her a kiss and hug. But when he starts crying he says, "loud, noise."

These two were having a jolly good time! Kaden says "Hey Brooke" in his cute little voice. He is learning so much. He sings twinkle twinle, abcs, and itsy bitsy spider to name a few. He loves bingo and always wants me to sing it so he an run around in circles, jump or clap his hands. He loves doing push ups with daddy and counts to 10. His push ups consist of his hands being on the floor and his head bobbing up and down.

She is such a sweetheart, I am always kissing on her! We are learning how to handle her more and now she is such a happy baby. She loves to move and be held, so I have been using the swing a lot. She also loves to be swaddled, which Kaden hated.

Yeah I had to put this photo on here, I thought it was to funny. Wont be able to do it when she is older! She was working on something!

Here is my little monster! He just woke up, can you tell by the hair! He has so much of it! I need to get him a haircut! Kaden is doing awesome with sleeping. He actually tells me if he wants a nap and when he is tired! Gosh it seems like yesterday he was waking up 12 times in one hour and I was getting up throughout the hours of the night!! Brooke sleeps pretty well. She wakes up only 3-4 times and goes right back to bed! Thank you Jesus!

"What?" Yes he actually says this and it is the funniest thing. He is starting to form sentences and it is so fun to seem him learn new words. He knows colors and some shapes. This boy loves to learn. I have a feeling when he gets into school we are going to have to give him extra stuff to keep him busy and not bored.

Brooke in her swing. I am so glad she is getting use out of it cause Kaden hated it. I am starting to get the hang of having two kids and how to juggle them. I remember thinking "how am I going to do this?" when we first brought Brooke home. Jason has watched both kids so I could get out of the house a couple of times now.

We also had Thanksgiving and enjoyed our time with family. Christmas is right around the corner and I ma having more fun shopping for Kaden this year. Im sure each year will just get better!!

Jason has been busy with work and he opened up his own business called JR Corporation. He does side jobs through his work. He designed a several thousand dollar kitchen and has been installing cabinents as well. He is looking at getting a plow so he can start plowing as well.

Seattle

We all flew down to Seattle for our friends annual Murder Mystery. The kids and I went down early to spend some time with our friends. The muder mystery was set in the wild west, I was a telegraph operator and Jason was a undertaker. Jason made me a really ool telegraph prop. He enjoyed measuring everyone and asking what kind of wood they would like for their offin. Kaden and Kooper are sitting with the Sheriff who was shot. Kaden kept on referrin to him as "the man."

Kaden and his buddy Kooper wanting to get upstairs.

We took the kids to the park, for a hike and to the library. It was suh great weather down there! I loved being able to take Brooke out of her arseat and not worry about her freezing to death! Kaden was swimming in the roks.We also went to a pumpkin patkh and a korn maze. Kaden and Jason were eating some kettle korn. Kaden wanted to get down and go through the korn. We did pretty good going through.

Brooke was sleeping of kourse!

Kaden was huggning the pumpkins.

Kaden and Kooper were wathing Fraggle Rok with Jon.

Kaden and Kooper on a hike! The boys did pretty good until they ran into some blakberry bushes whih have thorns. We just wanted to get them tired out!

Brooke was under my jaket. We had to get some ppis with some fall weather.

Fall In AK

(The "see" is not working on the keyboard) So it has been awhile sine I have updated this, sorry! Brooke is growing but she is still little! When we took her in for her 6 week hek up she weighed 8 lbs 8 oz, about the size Kaden was when he was born! She had her BAER test and we found out that her left ear is fine but she has mild to moderate hearing loss in her right ear. We have to have another test in 4-6 months to make sure it is not getting worse.

One fall afternoon, we took the kids to a nearby lake. We walked around and enjoyed the risp air and fallen leaves. We had to enjoy it quikly beause the leaves were gone so fast. Brooke was hidden in my jaket, she was taking a nap.

For Halloween, we arved a pumpkin and handed out andy. Kaden was an elephant and the utest one at that! He had fun stamping bats and spiders on the pumpkin as well as sooping out the goop. Everyone time he put a peie of any in someones bag he would say thank you. He is still asking about "andy" so he an hand it out.

Home Sweet Home

So it has been a couple of weeks back home. I am finally starting to get in the swing of things. Brooke sleeps for 4 hours SOMETIMES at night and that feels great for me. Its those wakenings every 2-3 hours that kill me. She is doing well and growing. She did fail 5 hearing tests so we have to go take a BARE test. It is a 3-4 hour long test to pin point waht kind of hearing problems, if any, she has. We do know that she hears because she reacts when Kaden is loud orthe cabinent closes. I will keep everyone posted when we find out after the test.

My grandma came to visit Brooke. So this is Kaden and Brooke's great grandma. This is America Moore, who Brooke and I get our middle name from. She was so exited to see Brooke.

This is a hat I knitted for Brooke while in the hospital. I finally finished it at home. It will come in handy because it is starting to get cold. There is what we call "termination dust" on the mountains, which means there is first snow on the top of the mountains.

Kaden loves his sister. He is always giving her kisses and saying "hi Book" in his cute little voice. Its amazing how different these 2 are though. Brooke HATES her car seat and cries when she goes in. So we are not going very many places unless we need to. She also loves to be held and has to be held to go to sleep. I used to be able to sing to Kaden to get him to stop crying and I cant do taht with Brooke. They only way to get her to stop crying is to hold or feed her. She is already a princess! She also makes so much noise! She grunts and hums herself to sleep, its pretty funny to hear. She gets fiesty sometimes. But other then being held, she is pretty content.

At least someone is getting sleep around here!

Jason and I got to get out by ourselves for a couple of hours thanks to Jason's mo Lou. We went to Kincaid Park and hiked. This is one of our first dates when we were young and full of life!

Hiking down a hill. Jason basically ran up the hill. I slowed him down, he had to check to make sure I wasnt rolling down the hill.

Jason skipping rocks.

There are moose all over this park. There were 2 moose and I think this was the baby moose. Down a ways was a bull moose and I am glad we didnt run into him. They have been more agitated this season.

This was the view from the side of the hill we were climbing. Its fall time here so all the leaves are turning and you see the snow!

She's home!

This is the first day we brought Brooke home. Kaden was pretty exited to have his sister home as well!
I forogt what it was like having a newborn in the house! As you can tell, I didnt get very much sleep. My mom helped me out the week we were home which was really nice.
Our little peanut! She is so small compared to Kaden!
Kaden loves his sister. A little too much sometimes! He is learning what it means to be gentle. He loves to give her kisses, they are more like licks. Whenever he gets up in the morning he asks where she is. Every 15 mins he has to see her. One time I moved Brooke and he asked where she was and I said I dont know and he started crying. He is going to be a great big brother.
Our little pink lady. She looks good in it!

Isnt she a cutie!