5/23/09-Brodie's first bridal shower

Saturday Brodie attended his first bridal shower. He was, again, such a good boy! :) All the women that attended, they all wanted to hold Brodie and they were saying how cute he was.

While we were there, he didn't cry at all. He fussed once when he was hungry, but that was it. When the ladies would hold him, he would just stare at them. He would concentrate so hard on their faces, it was so cute! At one point, my friend Meg was holding him and I was sitting next to her, and when I would talk Brodie would turn is head towards me and just stare at me. It was so sweet! :)

Here are a few pictures of some of the girls holding Brodie at the bridal shower:

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5/24/09

Brodie is ONE MONTH old today!!! :)

I can't believe how fast these last four weeks have just flown by! It feels like I just gave birth to Brodie yesterday! :) It's amazing how he changes everyday too!

We had our one month Dr. appointment today. He did pretty well. He didn't pee or poop on the nurse this time!! haha This time they measured his head circumference and his length, and of course weighed him. My baby weighs 10 lbs 12 oz!! He's almost 11 pounds!! WOW!! On our way to the Dr, Ben and I were guessing what he may weigh. Ben was WAY off! He guessed Brodie would weigh 9.8 lbs, and I guessed he would weigh 10 lbs even. I was closest! hehe :)

Dr. Loeb said that Brodie's doing great! She said he's in the 75 percentile. Not quite sure what that is, but she said it was good. :)

Brodie has developed type of a rash on his back from this past weekend. She looked at it and said it could be a mix of heat rash and being sensitive to detergents/soaps. So when we're out and about this afternoon, we have to get new baby body wash/shampoo, the Aveeno kind.

But Brodie's doing sooo amazingly well! He's a month old, but doing so much that surpasses some month old's! :) I'm so proud of him! He's our little Super Baby! haha

Last night (5/18/09) Brodie slept in his crib!!

Yesterday, I had tried to keep Brodie awake most of the day that way he'd sleep more during the night. Well, he only slept two or three times during the day and only about an hour each.

Around 8-9pm Brodie started getting sleepy. I held him in my arms until about midnight and I decided to go to bed. I put Brodie's sleep positioner in the crib and his blankets and laid him down. He slept in his crib from midnight to about 3am. When he woke up, I got up and changed his diaper and got a bottle for him. After he was cleaned up and fed, he dozed right back to sleep!

He woke up again around 6:30am. Ben and I both got up and fed him and changed him, but this time Ben asked if we could bring him into our bed. :) We did. hehe

And after bringing him to bed, he didn't get up again until almost 10am this morning!

I am so proud of Brodie that he slept in his own bed for the first time during the night!! :) We're going to try it again tonight and the rest of the week and see how it goes. Hopefully it goes smoothly like it did last night and soon he'll be sleeping throughout the whole night in his crib! :)

5/17/09-Brodie attended his first Grad Party!

On Sunday, one of our good friends, Amber Sanchez, graduated from KU. We didn't attend the ceremony but we did attend her graduation party afterwards.

Brodie was SOOOOO good the entire time we were there! We got there at about 6pm and didn't leave until about 8-9pm. Brodie slept the whole time! haha

Amber's family would come over to Brodie and "ooo" and "aahhh" over him. One of her family members was saying how they wanted to take him home!! ha! :) And it was so loud too with everyone talking. Brodie just slept on through everything, even when Amber was giving a speech and everyone clapped, he stayed sleeping.

Here are a few pictures of the graduate holding Brodie. Oh, and we decided to have Brodie dress up for the occasion and wear one of his KU outfits and his KU booties :)

Brodie's tummy time!! :)

5/15/09

Few pictures from 5/15/09 & 5/16/09

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5/16/09

Mommy & Brodie at Tuyen and Scott's house


Amber Sanchez


Tuyen Cortus and Beamer

Our first time leaving Brodie for a couple hours

5/16/09

So while Nana Rita and Great-Grandma K were in town, we asked if they could babysit Brodie while Ben and I went to see Star Trek. They said yes, of course :) On our way out the door to head to the theater, Nana goes "don't cry". haha We said we wouldn't, that the movie was only a couple hours long.

Well, I was good until right before the movie started, they showed that "be silent during the movie" thing. It just played the noises from people talking, cell phones ringing, and a baby crying. Well, when I heard that baby crying noise I immediately thought of Brodie and the tears I started to tear up! hahaha :) Then by the time I was ok from that, the beginning of Star Trek made me cry too! It was a very emotional beginning, and made me think of Brodie.

Once it was more into the movie, I was ok. The movie was really good, just that beginning made me miss and think of my baby!! :) It was our first time ever getting a babysitter for him since he's been born, well, my first time. Ben has gone back to work and I'm still at home with him. Great-Grandma K and Nana said that Brodie was really good, that he didn't really have any crying fits. He let them know when he was hungry. :)

When the movie was over, we waited around while the credits rolled, just to see if there would be anything playing at the end of the credits. I couldn't wait that long, I kept telling Ben "I don't think there's anything that's going to play... " and finally I was like "Let's go, I miss my baby!" haha Even before the movie ended, I sent a text to Nana to see how everything was going and she said "He's doing great, only asked for mommy & daddy 3 times" haha :)

When we got home, Ben and I both were so happy to see Brodie again! Ben was holding Brodie before I did after we got home and I had to take Brodie away from him! :) I missed that cute little guy, I'm glad I'm back home with him.

Brodie met Grandma Karen and Great-Grandma K :)

Friday Brodie was able to meet two of his grandma's this weekend! :) My mom and Ben's grandma K came down with Nana Rita and Grandpa Mark. The outfit Brodie's wearing was one of Ben's old outfits from when he was a baby. Before everyone got here I was talking to Grandpa Mark and told him that we had a surprise for him and Nana, and that I hope that they recognize it. When everyone got here, the first thing Nana said when she walked in the door, "that's one of Ben's old outfits!" :)

Here are some pictures from their visit (5/15/09)