We Need SPRING!!!!

I am soooo ready for spring! Brooklyn still has a bad cold/cough and I can't wait for the warmer temperatures that are coming this week. I took Brooklyn to the doctor last week because her cold wasn't getting any better. After ruling out ear infection and sinus infection, they had her get some chest x-rays done because it sounded like she had fluid in her lungs. The x-rays showed her lungs were clear but that her airway is smaller than average. The doctor thinks that it will grow with time but meanwhile, she can't get air as easily as she should be able to (which is why she gasps at times) and the mucous has a more difficult time draining since there isn't as much room (which is why she is so "rattly"). They said if she isn't better in 2 weeks to come back in and they might give her antibiotics...as if waiting 2 months wasn't long enough! Grrr...sometimes health care makes me angry! :)

Another reason why I can't wait for spring is garage sales. I don't know why, but I get so excited about garage sales. Last week at a garage sale here in Luverne I got a Bumbo seat and two garbage bags of adorable clothes for Brooklyn for $30!!! Yeah!!! I can't wait for the city-wide rummages :)

Here are just a few pictures of Brooklyn. Have a great week!

Brooklyn in her jumparoo

Having fun in the tub

Chilling out on the couch next to Dad

Happy Easter!

We hope you all had a happy Easter celebrating the resurrection of our Lord! We had a nice Easter. Our Youth Group was in charge of leading the 7:00 sunrise service and I had to play piano for it so we were up at 5:30 getting ready for church. Eric had to run sound so we had to pawn Brooklyn off on some friends of ours during the service since there wasn't nursery and both Eric and I couldn't have her. Then in the afternoon we had my niece Emma's birthday party. She turned 5 yesterday! Crazy! Then we came home and Brooklyn and I took a 2 hour nap on the couch :) Gotta love Sunday afternoon naps :)

We finally got around to taking Brooklyn's pictures this past weekend. They turned out cute. I was a little worried because she loves to eat her hands and pull on her hair so I was afraid her pictures wouldn't turn out because she can't keep her hands down, but she did well. We had to wake her up from a nap so she looks a little dopey on the first few!

Brooklyn still has an awful cold. I now know why people say they don't want winter babies! I have been giving her Mucinex at night time and it helps somewhat with her cough. She still has a lot of phlegm that she just can't get rid of. Eric calls her a percolating coffee pot and that is exactly what she sounds like when she breathes. She still sleeps only 4-5 hours a night. It is getting old!!! Eric and I cannot even function on that little of sleep so I don't know what she does it. She takes about two 1-hour naps a day. We have been learning to just let her cry during the night but boy, is that hard! She doesn't eat anymore during the night so we do a lot of putting her pacifier back in and letting her fuss. Some nights she will go back to sleep after 5-10 minutes of fussing, while other nights are over an hour. We are still eagerly waiting for the time when she sleeps through the night....we are beginning to wonder if it is ever going to happen though! :)

I'll leave you with a few pictures. Have a good week!

Brooklyn loves to give us cheesy smiles!

Before church on Easter morning (Brooklyn has her baptism

dress on...I am too cheap to buy her an Easter dress when this

one still fits her!)

She fell asleep while playing this morning...this is so unusual

I had to take a picture of it!