Brenna's First Christmas!

12.29.08

Brenna is 4 months old today and oh my, how she's grown! She weighs 14 lb 11 oz and is 24 inches long and is now in the 75th percentile for weight and height. Nearly everyone who meets her for the first time always says "look at those cheeks!"

We had a wonderful Christmas and are very excited for the New Year! We spent a week in Coral Springs with family and friends and had a wonderful time with both the Blooms and the Epsteins. Brenna received many gifts and is very excited for her new ExcerSaucer but most of all, I think she just enjoyed spending time with family.

Some highlights of the week were:

1) Brenna giggling like crazy in her crib before we left for Coral Springs (video soon to come). We staged a mini photo shoot in her crib and she was sooo stinkin' cute as you can see below.





2) Christmas Eve at the my mom and dad's. Mom did a wonderful job and I enjoyed helping her cook and get ready for the night.

3) Christmas Morning with the Epsteins. We opened Brenna's gifts that morning and had breakfast with Grandma Joann, Grandpa Ed, and Aunt Cookie before they headed off to Atlanta to spend time with the Mussons.

4) Playing Wii (Grandpa Les's Xmas gift)

5) Brett and I sneaking off to a movie while Grammy Linda watched Brenna.

Here are some of my fav pics from the last week or so.

Brenna at 3 1/2 Months

12.18.08

Wow, its been a long time since I've updated the blog. Sorry about that - I guess I've been busy getting ready for the holidays. Let me start by giving an update on Brenna. She is 3.5 months old and weighs about 14.5 pounds right now. She had about 2 weeks where she would sleep in her co sleeper (flat on her back) rather than in her car seat but unfortuantely the last two nights, she's slept in her car seat again because she can't seem to get comfortable on her back at night. As far as sleep goes though, she has been WONDERFUL the last month. She tends to sleep from about 11pm-6am so life is soooo much better now that I get 6 hours of sleep in a row :-). Not only does she sleep 7 hours straight, but she'll usually go back to sleep after a bottle at 6:30am for another hour or two, so I think we're really lucky she is picking up on my need for sleep vs Brett's because he's never required nearly as much sleep as I do. She's not much of a napper during the day. She'll take maybe 3 catnaps during the day (10-30 mins each) but that's about it.

Brenna's favorite thing to do is lay and watch her mobile and she is content on her wiggle worm activity mat for quite some time staring and batting at all her hanging toys. She can now grab on to them and hold them for several seconds.


She eats 5-6 times a day between 30-36 oz total.

She gives us smiles all day long and has started to make little giggle noises too. :-)

As we're getting close to Christmas, I feel so blessed and lucky to have this little girl in our lives. She adds so much joy to our lives and the lives of our whole family.

Here are some pictures of Brenna and her pal Molly.