Coolest Thing

I have the baby book that I used with Makena. I wrote some things in it. One of the things that I noticed the other day was that I had written in that Makena was saying "hi" at 8 months. I thought maybe I wrote that wrong. No way...at 8 months? So I decided to start saying "hi" to Brinlee more with a wave.So this morning I was feeding Brinlee her morning cereal. And I said hi and waved. Well she waved back and said "ha...ha". I don't think she was laughing at me...at least I hope not. Holy Crap she was trying to say hi. How amazing. Amazing how quickly children learn things.

St. Louis & St. Louis Zoo

Here are all of the pictures of the zoo. We had a great time. Makena and Brinlee really enjoyed everything. All of the animals were really up close. We could reach out and touch the penguins (though we didn't). And Makenas favorite animal would have to be the elephants. Right when we were walking out of the zoo we passed the elephant one more time and they were in the pool swimming and splashing around. A great end to the zoo day. Now Mitch and I are ready for a vacation with just the two of us.

THE OLD HOUSE

When we decided to take this trip and I realized that my hotel was like 5 minutes from one of my childhood houses...I decided to drop by. I was nervous and had butterflies. Then when we pulled up to the house. Everything changed. I started to cry in remembering things that I didn't want to remember. Or forgot. Though I do remember good memories aswell. Playing on our swing set, riding up and down the street with my brothers and sister on our bikes playing "taxi" with the banana seat. lol. A true bitter sweet memory.

SICKNESS

So I'm beginning to think that moving has become more of a curse than a blessing. Since I have been her I have had 2 UTI's, a sinus infection, head cold, allergies, breast infection, and my lymph nods in my neck got infected (don't know how that is possible). People, all of this humidity and fungus here SUCKS!! I hate being sick all the time. When I'm tired Makena always asks me if I'm sick. Poor thing, I don't want her to have to worry about that. All I hope for is moving some where when mitch gets into school that is DRY! I hope all of these "sicknesses" stop. I'm so sick of it.

Everyday joys

Lazy days at home. We have been staying inside away from the heat. All that darn humidity. We play dress up, Cinderella (consists of makena or me being cinderella and the other the fairy god mother), blocks, books....etc. A day in the life of a mom.