May Wrap-Up (Brenna at 9 months)

May has come and gone and many exciting things have taken place since my last blog post.

Brenna is 9 months old now and she has been sleeping through the night (7pm-7am) for the past month!!! It's been wonderful!!! What a long tiring road to get here. It's sooo fabulous getting a full night sleep again.

She has been scooting backwards all across the room for several weeks. This week, she has started to get on her knees more so I think it won't be long before we see some forward motion.

For Mother's Day weekend this year, we took a trip to Atlanta to visit the Mussons. We were especially looking forward to seeing our new nephew Alex Parker. What a cutie! We had a lovely weekend. We had a picnic in Piedmont Park while Mandy played tennis and Brenna loved playing with Nick, who always kept her entertained.


Brenna's First Plane Ride


Cousins!


Nick and Brenna in the tub


Pretty Girl!








The Best Kisses in the World!


Brenna is having a hair moment!


Mandy and Alex


While in Atlanta, we got to see Mark and Jill's new home in Alpharetta. They were kind enought to let us stay over with them one night and they took a road trip with us the following day to Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, TN so that Brett could visit with his zipline client. It was a long somewhat stressful drive through the mountains trying to entertain both Brenna and Molly. Subsequently, Jill and I ended up coming down with something and didn't feel too well the next few days after that. We did have a good time in Dollywood though and I'm glad the Lubers went with us.


Brenna and Molly on our way!


Welcome to Dollywood!

Sleeping Beauty

Let the record show that at 8 months, Brenna is finally sleeping through the night! It's not a fluke either! We've had 4 nights in a row of 12-13 hours of uninterupted sleep at night! What an angel baby!!!



Lately, her daily schedule kinda goes like this (FYI, sorry to bore any of you with the details but since I'm totally slacking on a physical baby book, I'm making this blog my digital baby book that I will eventually print out and I want to be able to remember the milestones).

7:30am Wake Up / Bottle (8 oz)
10am Breakfast (1/2 jar of stage 2)
11am: Nap (30 mins - hour)
1pm Lunch (full jar of stage 2 fruit)
3:30pm Bottle (8 oz)
5:45pm Dinner (1 jar - 1 1/2 jars of stage 2 veggies and fruits)
6:00pm Bath
6:45pm Bottle (8oz)
7pm Bedtime

Sweet Dreams!

Anything you can do, I can do better!

Check out Brenna and Daddy being silly!

Brett's Zip Line Project

As many of you know, Brett has been very busy the last few months at work (Parametric Solutions http://www.psnet.com/), primarily because he has been designing a "patent-pending breaking pulley" for a client that is opening a zip-line attraction in Dollywood this month.

We were surprised to see that they were covering this new attraction on our local news yesterday. After doing some digging, we found this great article and video from a Knoxville news channel featuring the new zip line ride and really showcasing the pulley which Brett designed.

Take a look at the video and article below to see just exactly what Brett has been up to these days. I'm really proud of all the hard work he's put into this. He really took this all the way from concept to manufacturing. We are hoping to drive up to Dollywood next week so he can see this in action.

Article:
http://www.wbir.com/life/programming/local/liveatfive/story.aspx?storyid=86065&catid=8

Video: http://www.wbir.com/video/default.aspx?maven_playerId=immersiveplayer&maven_referralObject=1106150670

Brenna is 8 Months!

Brenna is 8 months old today. It's so hard to imagine what life was ever like without her. I guess our biggest update over the last week or so is that she is FINALLY sleeping better. She had been getting up 2 or 3 times at night and we needed to nip that in the bud. We decided that we needed to let her "cry it out" and while it was TERRIBLE to hear her cry and not go right in and get her, it really worked WONDERS!!! The first night she woke up around 2am and cried for 35 minutes and then finally fell asleep. Then she woke again around 4:30am and cried for 15 minutes, then right to sleep until 7am. The next night, she woke up once and cried for 15 minutes, then right back to sleep for the rest of the night. The third night was our miracle night where she didn't wake up at all (or if she did, she put herself right back to sleep) and she slept for almost 12 hours! It was wonderful!!! We're still working on it...she hasn't had another one of those 12 hour nights but we're still working on it.

At 8 months, Brenna weighs about 20 pounds. She has between 3-4 bottles a day and eats baby food 3 times a day as well.

Last weekend was Turtlefest at Loggerhead Park in Juno Beach. We met up with the playdate pals and got some cute pics out of the day.


Amanda and Audrey, Kendall and Ella Kate, Brooke and Maren, Jenn and Brenna, Keri and Marina, and Angela and Cristian

Here's Brenna checking out the turtles with her pal, Ella Kate.




Brenna gets a lift from Daddy!