Sorry I missed the post last week. We had a really crazy day trying to get back home, and when we finally got home we were exhausted, but I'll explain more later. But look at this super cute picture of Brooke! This is on her first flight ever! They even gave her wings! Delta for the win!! (Katie or David, if you're reading this it's not too late to send us some Southwest wings)
So nigh on 2 weeks ago was my birthday. Of course I can't really take a birthday picture without Brooke or else no one would care! Monica decorated the house while I was gone at work, it was a great surprise! It was also the perfect amount of decoration, not a ton, but enough to make the house look festive.
And of course I got the goods! I got some root beer flavored licorice, a 50 foot USB cable, a board game, and an Optishot Golf Simulator!!
So of course we were golfing in the living room! I can swing all my clubs except my Driver in there. And if we moved the coffee table I would be able to swing my driver too! We use foam balls instead of real ones because we're not brave enough, and we'd have several holes in the walls and a broken TV if we used real balls, so I think it was a good call. It's a lot of fun, but we haven't had a lot of time for it because Brooke's been staying up pretty late the last 2 weeks.
And of course I got some delicious peanut butter chocolate cake! We took it with us to Tyson and Tina's house the Saturday before, so that's why so much is missing! I promise we didn't eat all that before candles!
Brooke has started sucking on her thumb. This often results in her hugging her face all night as she sleeps. The nice thing about sucking her thumb is that she soothes herself when she wakes up in the middle of the night now. She still doesn't have the fine motor skills to put a pacifier back into her mouth. The end result of finger sucking is that she's slept through the night for the past week, so that's pretty great!
Also, she wore this adorable jacket one day!
And here's another curled up sleep picture.
Monica's parents (or at least Mom) have been trying to get us to fly out for quite some time. We picked a weekend that we could come, and it just so happened to be mothers day weekend. It turns out that was a terrible weekend to fly, because there were big storms here in Denver. On our flight out we got on the plane, taxied out onto the runway, and then sat there for over 90 minutes waiting for a thunderstorm to pass over. So our 60 minute flight took 3 hours. All in all from the time we left our house to getting to Monica's parents took 7 hours, so it was just faster than driving.
While out in Utah the family came over to visit. This tended to lead to late nights (meaning we stayed up later than 9:30). As we headed to bed one night Monica saw a Papa Murphy's commercial (link) where a child attempts to eat a taco and ends up dumping most of the contents out. If you clicked that link you found out that it's not very funny, and Monica will admit to this, but on the way to bed she couldn't stop laughing and eventually collapsed on the stairs, giving me time to take a picture.
What a good night!
We tried to schedule our flights early in the day so it would be easier for Brooke. This means that we weren't in Utah much on Mother's day. We got to the airport just fine and through security, but the flight was a disaster. As we approached Denver there was a severe thunder storm and a tornado south of the airport (I think it was quite distant as there weren't signs of rain when we got to our car). Anyway, we circled for over and hour waiting for clearance to land and in the end had to fly over to Grand Junction to refuel. Then we had to wait at Grand Junction for permission to take off. There are a couple things of importance to note in this whole story. First is that Monica gets motion sickness, and the turbulence from the storms makes it really bad. So does taking off and landing. So she was miserable basically the whole flight trying not to throw up. Second, we had a baby with us. Brooke was a real trooper, and if any of our flights had made it there normal time she probably would have just slept the whole way. Being couped up in our small section of the plane for around 5 hours was just too much for Brooke, and she cried several times. Monica also had to feed her multiple times, which made her really hot having to hold Brooke which makes her motion sickness worse. Basically it was probably the worst plane flight I've ever been on. By the time we finally got home it was 9 pm. It took us 9 hours to take a 1 hour flight from SLC to Denver... so it probably would have been faster to drive. It was a very long day, and made for a long tired slow start to the week. Hence, I didn't blog last week.
When we finally got home it was time for dinner in bed! PB and J and goldfish.
This last week we started Brooke on solids. She's had oatmeal and bananas so far. Today we combined the bananas and oatmeal and she seemed to really like them together. Today she also seemed to eat a lot more than before. She usually drooled most of her food out, but she ate quite a bit today, so she's getting much better!
Also, she tries to suck her thumb whether or not her pacifier is in. If she tries hard enough her thumb gets stuck in her pacifier when she pulls it out of her mouth. Unfortunately I didn't get a good picture of her thumb stuck in there when it was out of her mouth.
Saturday was a crazy day for me. I woke up and ran 12 miles, and then spent most of the rest of the day out in the yard. I mowed the lawn for the first time this year, reseeded parts of the lawn, continued leveling out parts of the lawn, and ripped out our bushes in the front of the house! Just look at that monster!
And boom! It's gone! I think it looks so nice without the bush, and it's still just a dirt pile right now! Just think about how much better it'll be once there's grass growing in there!
So I must confess, I did use a secret method to get those bushes out in the end. I was down to the roots of the first bush and struggling digging out the roots when a tree removal company drove around the corner. They were doing a job at the neighbors house and were done for the day and decided to drive through the neighborhood and see if there was anyone else they could help. They pulled up and just offered to chip up my branches for me, but I asked how much to take out the bushes too. It was a great call. I spent 4 or 5 hours hacking away at the bush to get down to the roots of one, but still a long way from getting it out. They took about 45 minutes to pull them both completely out. I am SO glad they drove by! It was an answer to the prayer I didn't realize I said.
Well, I believe we're all caught up now. Again, sorry for not posting last week, I never had a chance on Sunday, and then I just forgot through the week. Hope everyone out there is doing well! Have a great week!
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