its been a while

i finally have a chance to post. mainly because i have another day off. actually i have a week. its been awesome! i love being at home with miss and getting done all of the cleaning and errands i haven't had a chance to get to. brooklyn is getting so big! she is a great army crawler and is pretty fast. she can even climb up steps. she loves her jumper and will jump for hours. she loves food and doesn't really like bottles any more. she is still the cutest baby ever. seriously the cutest baby ever.

hopefully i will post before my next day off which isn't until veteran's day. we'll see.

no school!

no school tomorrow! woo hoo! ever since i started working again i have been counting down the days until the first no school day and it is here. i plan to do nothing but have mommy brooklyn time and if kason wants to join that's cool too. thank you labor day!

so....

pre brooklyn i would spend my evenings checking blogs and occasionally posting. i frequently had two thoughts. number one: i have nothing to blog about. once i have kids i will blog all the time. number two: why don't these people ever post? they have cute kids so they should be blogging all the time. well i am eating my words. i have officially become the worst blogger ever. i have a cute kid now but post brooklyn brings a new thought, when do i have time to blog? answer: never. however, since i started work this week and my body is now use to getting up at 5:00 am i have found a couple of spare moments. {actually i should probably be cleaning but who wants to that at 6:00 in the morning?} so... here is a quick update.


brooklyn is now 5 months old and is still the cutest baby in the world. she is still measuring in the 50% for weight, height, and head. at four months she was 15lbs and i am guessing she weighs a little more now. i am pretty sure more than half of her weight is in her thighs. she loves to play and reaches and grabs for everything she comes across. she is rolling everywhere and loves to try and roll away when i change her diaper. she thinks mirrors are the greatest and will laugh at herself whenever she sees her reflection. she is a social butterfly and is such a party girl. it is so fun to start seeing her personality. she is a pacifier addict and loves food. she wants to eat food so bad and always tries to still whatever you are eating. i have given her rice cereal a couple times and she loved it but we have to wait because she was having a hard time switching to formula. {i had to go back to work} hopefully we can start introducing food in the next month or so. i don't think i can hold her off much longer. she is still sleeping for through the night. she goes to between and 8:00 and 9:00 and wakes up between 8:00 and 9:00 in the morning. that's right at 5 months she is sleeping 12 hours at night. unfortunately she isn't a very good napper. she is the queen of the power nap and will only take about three 30 min naps. unless you hold her. she will sleep for an hour or more if you hold her. spoiled? yep. she is such a happy baby and loves to laugh, smile, and play. we are so blessed to have her in our family!

kason took the mcat and applied to medical school this summer. brooklyn and i basically never saw him until the test was over because he was constantly studying. we won't know his scores for another week or so. wish us luck. hopefully he gets into a school that will allow us to stay here, but who knows. this semester is going to be a crazy one for him, but only two semesters left and then graduation! woo hoo!

i had a great summer taking care of brooklyn and enjoying my time being a mom. i did work a little bit teaching dance classes. this week was my first week back to work teaching at westwood. leaving brooklyn was the hardest thing i have ever had to do. luckily kason doesn't start work and school for another week so at least she was at home with her dad. over the summer we were able to spend some family time together at the cabin in bluewater, nm and in california and it was great. life is crazy busy but good.

and happy 25th birthday kason on aug 15!

and the whole private thing isn't going to happen for a bit. there needs to be more hours in the day.

Private!

ok so my main excuse for not posting pictures is that we wanted to make this blog thing private before we posted pictures of our baby brooklyn. so... if you want to read this thing and see those cute pics leave me your email address.

fans

brooklyn loves looking up and watching the fan. add some lights and she is seriously entertained. she is so funny and cute. she is starting to smile and talk to us. precious!






as for the pictures, they are coming. i have a list of excuses. sorry.

happy easter

brooklyn is loving her first easter. she went on some egg hunts {ok she was asleep and we just gave her an egg} and got some new pacifiers. she loves them! do i need to tell you she was adorable in her easter dress at church? nope. she is nothing but cuteness.

living in the moby

brooklyn loves the moby wrap. good thing too. moby = 2 free hands = getting some stuff done. its slow going but hey at least things get clean. does it matter that it takes 5 times as long? nope.

life is good

1 month

miss brooklyn is 1 month old today! she had a dr. appointment and weighs 10 lbs. she is getting so big and chunky. more for me to love!

miss b

brooklyn is getting so big! she is starting to lift her head and is getting really chunky. she has some sweet double/triple chins and even her wrists are getting some rolls. she is such a good baby. she slept through the night the last two nights. she went to bed around 10:00-10:30 and didn't wake up until 7:30-8:00! even when she does wake up she usually only wakes up once. the girl takes after her mom and loves to sleep. hopefully that will continue. i love being her mom and we love having her in our little fam. we love out little miss b!

where to begin

life has been crazy

we are slowly but surely moving in. the office still needs to be unpacked and sometime i need to get going on brooklyn's room. it seems like we live at lowe's/home depot. i think kason made 5 trips in one day culminating in a 9:30 pm run to get blinds with our 10 day newborn. i am pretty sure the people at lowe's were calling us bad parents. i painted the cabinets black and they look so much better. seriously if you saw them before you would be amazed at how much better they look. things are slowly looking better but every time we finish something we find another problem. don't ask kason about the cold showers he has had to take. cold showers are not good times. though its crazy things are good. we are loving being in a house and have had tons of help from great family. and brooklyn is pretty much the best baby in the world. she is a great sleeper and is gaining weight like its no one's business. last friday she had a checkup and she weighed 8 lbs 8 oz. i am pretty sure she is closer to 9 now. i can't believe how fast she is growing! hopefully this week we will be able to spend a little more time with her. with the move and all of the craziness i have had to tote her around, leave her with grandmas and aunts, and just set her in her swing. i feel so bad so this week there will be lots of mom and brooklyn time and hopefully some dad and brooklyn time too. she is the greatest blessing and we love her! and congrats to the now mrs. becky judkins. it was great spending time with friends celebrating her wedding. it has been years since all of my friends were in town at the same time and it was great!

anyway, life is crazy, but really good.

we got our house!

finally! it has been crazy and we were homeless for about hour but we are homeowners!

take a look at brooklyn

on the online nursery on chandler regional's website

go to: www.chandlerregional.org, click on patients and vistors, click on online nursery, click on k, click on brooklyn amanda

she is a cutie!

brooklyn amanda ashe

born march 8 2011

7 lbs 9 ounces

20.5 inches long

and perfect

seriously perfect

pictures to come soon

help! i need some interior design advise

so we are suppose to close on our house on monday! i am excited! we want to fix the cabinets before we move in but i have no idea what to do. right now they are painted a horrible used motor oil color. they are hideous. we need to repaint them but i have no idea what color. The appliances are white and the counter tops are a light tan. please help!

3 weeks to go

she is almost here! last week i was dilated to 2.5 cm and 60% effaced. this week 3 cm. i have all of her stuff washed and i am ready just in case she decides to come before we move. {we are suppose to close on our house march 1!} can't wait to see you brooklyn!

35 weeks

35 weeks down. only 5 more to go. what only 5 more weeks?! crazy! part of me {most of me} is super excited to finally meet brooklyn and get hold her and love her and take care of her. and though it was good, i am kind of over this whole being pregnant thing. i mean i love brooklyn and its not her fault there isn't a lot of room in there but it will be nice when my ribs aren't bruised because someone loves to have her feet in my rib cage. the other part of me is saying "what five weeks! i need more time!" i am so not ready and this buying a house a week before i am due is really putting a damper on my getting ready for brooklyn plans. i am going to have to put my love of order and planning and ocd tendencies behind and go for a more "go with the flow" mentality. this should be fun!


dear brooklyn,
only 5 more weeks until we meet and i get to kiss you and hug you and love you. i am so excited!
love, mom

baby shower

my mom and my sisters gave me an awesome baby shower last saturday. thank you to everyone who helped and came. i am so thankful for the amazing support and generosity from family and friends. brooklyn says thank you too. she is excited to wear all of the cute clothes, bows, and shoes, play with the fun toys, snuggle in the soft blankets, and ride in the sweet car seat and stroller. thank you!

we put an offer on a house

and after a counter offer and another offer they accepted! we are going to buy a house! crazy and crazy exciting.

kason has a new love

sports clips.

he had a coupon for a free mvp haircut. best haircut he ever had plus a head message, hot towel, and neck message. i don't know if i can compete with that.

then again, i am in love with pedicures so he can have his mvp haircuts.

we are

looking for a house and we have seen some pretty crazy things. so far the craziest is the tile crazy house. these people were seriously obsessed with tile. it was EVERYWHERE. no thank you.

30 weeks

i am now 30 weeks. brooklyn will be here in 10 weeks! crazy i know. not going to lie i am freaking out a little. mainly because we have nothing ready for her and the whole "our lease expires 5 days after my due date and we need to move" thing is stressing me out. plus the "i am a first year teacher and i need to plan an entire quarter that i have never taught for a sub and the great sub i thought i was going to have just got a job and i need to find a new sub" thing. and then there's the "i am bringing a child into the world and then not working and not getting paid for 5 months" thing. and the "oh yeah i am going to be a mom and i don't really know what the heck i am doing" thing. plus a lot of other "things".

luckily, i have an awesome husband that can keep me calm and get me to stop worrying too much. he is funny too so that helps. and we have an amazing and generous family. seriously both sides are awesome. and my friends are awesome too. and my happiness and excitement completely out weigh all the things i have to worry about.

so brooklyn, see you in 10 weeks! i can't wait!

i have a feeling 2011 is going to be a great year.