A Two Short, Too Different Spring Break Trip (Time to Say Goodbye)

[TCKK]

She is so beautiful!! I love the photo of all 4 of you. Congratulations to you. I hope you have a great first Easter as a family of four.

 

[shannon47142]

beautiful pictures of everyone!! Enjoy the Easter holiday

 

[VandyFan10]

Those are sweet....SWEET pictures!!!!

I can't wait to meet her sometime when you are up here

 

[Charleston Princess]

What wonderful pictures, Jill!!! Isabella is just perfect and beautiful -- just like Brooklyn!!!

I love that Isabella brought Brooklyn a present -- how thoughtful of her!

 

[Happy Elf]

What sweet pictures, thank you for sharing them with us! Bella is beautiful!

 

[punkin413]

this is so cute! brooklynn looks SO proud!!!

awwwww........so precious!!!!! she looks like she's winking at you.

thank you so much for sharing these. i really enjoyed them. it really is making me excited about the arrival of my niece any day now. i'm so happy everyone is home and is happy and healthy.

 

[dancin_princess]

Jill thanks for sharing the pictures they are so precious i kept interupting my boyfriend (he's playing video games) and saying aww lookit... Have fun getting the family of four up and ready tommorrow morning!

 

[xoktenox]

Oh my goodness Isabella is PRECIOUS! Brooklynn is such a good big sister already and Bella is too cute, smiling already!

Thank you so much for sharing those pictures with us, Jill. Your family of four look so happy.

 

[CanadianWDWfan]

Awww, Isabella is so adorable, she is so beautiful....a little angel.

You have a perfect family of four.

There is nothing sweeter than a sleeping baby.....

Glad you only had to take Motrin today.

Brooklynn is a great big sister. I'm sure she enjoys helping whenever she can.

I agree, you have the best Memom in the world!

 

[hlrababy]

Oh Jill she is adorable!!!!!!!! Thank you so much for sharing pictures!!!

 

[carissanboys]

Isabella is so beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing your precious moments with us.

 

[brookelizabeth]

She's beautiful! What a precious gift.
I love the first picture of your family of 4.

Thank you for sharing with us!

 

[tinkgurl]

she looks like she's winking at you.

Or maybe she's winking at us! Haha. Maybe mommy said "Smile for all our friends on the DIS" and that's the face she gave.

 

[Nicole786]

Thank you so much for sharing those pictures, she is just too cute!! I think "Bubby' needs a new gators cap lol

 

[MeMom]

.... does Isabella look like Brooklynn did as a baby?
Continued good luck and prayers... especially to get everyone out the door tomorrow, it will get easier I promise. Glad that you got so much sleep last night too- having a good sleeper is so wonderful!

Jill thought she did a little on the first day, but not as much on the second day. She looks an awful lot like Jill's baby pictures. I have one of Jill that looks almost exactly like the one of Bella in the white gown with pink flowers. Actually, except for the mouth and cheeks, Brooklynn looks a lot like Jill when she was little, too, but the blonde hair and blue eyes make her look different than Jill at a glance. I'll see if I can get some baby pictures of Jill up and see what you think. Of course, all grandmas think the babies look like thier side, so John's mom probably thinks they both look just like him, too.

in the one pic of isabella it almost looks like she is smiling already! She must be excited about her first disney trip!

We have already been discussing it!

What wonderful pictures, Jill!!! Isabella is just perfect and beautiful -- just like Brooklyn!!!

I love that Isabella brought Brooklyn a present -- how thoughtful of her!

Brooklynn loved her Cinderella dress and jewelry, and we all thought it was just smashing with her lime green crocs!

What sweet pictures, thank you for sharing them with us! Bella is beautiful!

Part of the reason I will probably be calling her Bella most of the time, because she's just a little bitty pretty girl, and the name just fits that sweet little face.

And because that's what Brooklynn named her.

I call her Isabella some, but mostly Bella.

this is so cute! brooklynn looks SO proud!!!

awwwww........so precious!!!!! she looks like she's winking at you.

thank you so much for sharing these. i really enjoyed them. it really is making me excited about the arrival of my niece any day now. i'm so happy everyone is home and is happy and healthy.

Brooklynn is very proud her baby Bella is finally home.

I love that picture. It looks to me like she's saying, "I've got it made now!" behind their backs.

Jill thanks for sharing the pictures they are so precious i kept interupting my boyfriend (he's playing video games) and saying aww lookit... Have fun getting the family of four up and ready tommorrow morning!

And your boyfriend is saying, "Mmmm hmmm," and going right on with his video game, right? You know men don't tend to ooh and aah over babies unless they belong to them!

Besides, how can he get all mushy over a baby and take care of whatever he's killing/defeating/conquering on the video game all at the same time?!?!?

Oh my goodness Isabella is PRECIOUS! Brooklynn is such a good big sister already and Bella is too cute, smiling already!
Thank you so much for sharing those pictures with us, Jill. Your family of four look so happy.

Gas.
Definitely gas.

It does make for a cute 'smile', though!

Awww, Isabella is so adorable, she is so beautiful....a little angel.

You have a perfect family of four.

There is nothing sweeter than a sleeping baby.....

Glad you only had to take Motrin today.

Brooklynn is a great big sister. I'm sure she enjoys helping whenever she can.

Just what I said about Jill when she was born. Not the first day, though. The first day she spit up on me.
She wasn't an angel until a little later.

Oh Jill she is adorable!!!!!!!! Thank you so much for sharing pictures!!!

I hear you and Jill have been Facebooking some. I'm sure you'll see plenty of pictures on there.

Isabella is so beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing your precious moments with us.

She is beautiful, and they were precious moments. When Brooklynn was listening to her heartbeat, it was so sweet.

She's beautiful! What a precious gift.
I love the first picture of your family of 4.

Thank you for sharing with us!

Children are the best gifts here on earth, as far as I can tell!

Those are sweet....SWEET pictures!!!!

I can't wait to meet her sometime when you are up here

Maybe the first weekend in May. We'll let you know for sure.

beautiful pictures of everyone!! Enjoy the Easter holiday

That's one reason Jill was being induced, originally, so she could be home to greet the Easter Bunny.

She is so beautiful!! I love the photo of all 4 of you. Congratulations to you. I hope you have a great first Easter as a family of four.

We will probably be seeing more pictures this weekend of Isabella's first holiday.

Isabella is just adorable. Thank you so much for sharing pictures.
Brooklynn looks so adorable sleeping in your hospital bed!

She was one worn out little girl!

Bella is just precious! Thanks for sharing the pictures.

Yeah, Jill, thanks for getting those up today, even though you didn't feel all that great.

The pictures were wonderful.

May God be with you, because you have been truely blessed with two beautiful princesses.

Bella and Brooklynn are proof positive that He is.

Congratulations on your newest little princess!! What a doll she is - you have an absolutely beautiful family

She's about the size of a little play doll, too! Her head is about the size of a ViewMaster reel. I know that, because I was looking for something to put in a picture to make a comparison, and Brooklynn had the ViewMaster out. I laid a reel beside Isabella's head, and they're about the same size!

Wow I love the pics, especially your first family of 4 portrait.

I'm also amazed at how much Brooklynn has grown since we started reading your reports. Hopefully one day we will get to meet in person.

We hope so, too. Hopefully, before Declan is a teenager and these girls are the age he is now!

Oh Jill! Those pictures gave me goosebumps! That first family picture of the 4 of you is adorable. I know that will be a precious picture forever and always. Bella is adorable and Brookie is such a cute big sister. Looks like Bella wore her out too, haha, from that picture of her sleeping.

She wore us all out!

Jill, Glad that you and Bella are home....I hope that she keeps sleeping well for you!

That will be a huge help to everyone's sanity!

Jill,

I am glad you are home with your girls and I hope you feel 100% soon.

Memom,

It is so great that you got to be with Jill, Brooklynn and Isabella during this time, I know it means so much to them. Already on the Dis? She is starting early.

I hope you all get rested and enjoy your two beautiful girls.

I was thrilled to be able to stay with them and help get them off to a good start. I will not be happy going back to school tomorrow, but it must be done.

Haha, Brookie cracks me up. See, she's learning from the best! She's already in planning mode!

We were talking about taking Bella to Disney World, and when I said Brooklynn would have to show her where Dumbo was, she added, "And not fall off. Hold on real tight!" Her real was reeeeeal, with a demonstration squeeze like she was holding on tight, and her tight was a country, totally long i tiiiight.

Glad to hear all are well. Enjoy your Easter.

I know it will be a special day for Jill and John as they look at those two little girls and realized how very blessed they are.

Aw the response from Brook was so cute! I wish I was eating watermelon, lol!

She's a great fruit eater. She loves watermelon and grapes and oranges and apples, especially. She was questioning me about the little white seeds in the watermelon, and I explained that the tiny white ones were just fine to eat.

When she's older, I'll probably have to tell her that if she eats the big black ones she will definitely grow a watermelon in her tummy! It's what you do to kids, right, just to see their expressions???

I love your gushing! It's wonderful to hear updates on everyone. I will be praying Bella does not have reflux like Brooklyn, and that Jill heals quickly, and, of course, that everyone gets some GOOD rest.


I haven't fully announced this on my TR, since I was saving it for my PTR, BUT I WILL BE THERE! Our trip got moved from mid-December to being over New Year's! When I read your comment above I looked and Henry and said "YOU GET TO MEET BROOKLYN, BELLA, JILL AND MEMOM!" He's pretty excited.

Is the Poly beach the best place to watch the New Year's fireworks? Sure seemed like a great place last year over the webcam!


As of today you have 108 days to go. Almost in the double-digits already.

Yes, please no reflux, because it was not fun, and I really hope Jill is moving a little better each day.

Tell Henry we are excited to meet him, too! I watched one of the videos you put up of him real quickly today. SO cute!

We will probably watch at Poly. I loved Dave and Cathy's webcam this past year. I hope to meet them this summer and maybe even reserve us a place in their 'yard', if they're at Hawaii again. That was a prime spot.

Take time to enjoy your beautiful new granddaughter - we'll all be here when you have time to catch up.

I checked in on your travel pictures today.
Couldn't you have picked a nicer day to be out???

i hope that bella is a good sleeper. Caleb is still up several times a night but at least now he can for the most part go back to sleep on his own. He is not a napper though...my mil said he did not take one nap while she had him yesterday!

Too cute about brooklyn going to show Bella around Disney World.

Jill was not a good sleeper.
Trent and Drew both did fine. I was grateful for that, so they're my favorites.

Thank you for the update Memom. Can't wait to see pictures. I hope Jill gets to feeling better today. Becareful on your drive back home today.

I was. I listened to the Magic Kingdom Party CD that Jill and Brooklynn borrowed (read swiped) from me about a year ago. I got it back today, but they'll probably have it back before long. Brooklynn loves to listen to Castle Party. It was fun for me to listen to Castle Party as I was going down the interstate today.

I'll make sure that things are in place for your arrival!

Happy Wednesday, MeMom! I know the feeling -- I have enjoyed being a stay-at-home mom this week while on spring break!

Have a safe drive back today and hopefully the boys have kept the house relatively neat and tidy.

That's right, you're off!
What are you doing fun this week?

Besides laundry.

Brooklynnsmommy feeling better today?

Great meal choices, we have most of the same ones planned.

How do you know the president? Of what country?

Brooklynn sounds so sweet discussing her and Bella at MK.

I'm sure your boys didn't make that much of a mess.....

Your students will be so excitted to see you back and hear all about the new baby.

Lexi's birthday went well yesterday. She is now 9yrs....

She had a "Littlest Petshop" theme. My DMom did a fantastic job of the decorating while I was at work. Very cute.
She was happy with her many gifts. She got lots of LPS pets, LPS backpack, LPS books, LPS Monopoly, LPS activity books + stickers, LPS bubble bath.

She also got the rare Build a Bear....white tiger straight from Las Vegas (bought by a kind co worker who went during March break).
And the BAB Disney Belle & Jasmine outfits. Those were hard to get off Ebay, but I luckily found them.

We went to the cinema to see Monsters vs. Aliens in Imax! Funny movie! We ate there and had New York Fries poutine, yummy!

No cake, but we did stop for McDonalds ice cream after the movie.

Tonight we will eat cake #2 this week

Good news, I should get my new dryer today..............It's finally off of backorder!......

It's rained and snowed here for days so we couldn't put clothes on the line.

The country of Teppan Edo, of course, headed by King Charles of Georgia. Do you read CP's report? If not, check in over there. It's a fun report, and she deserves to be read by all, because I believe she reads every single report on this board every day! Her family is going to WDW in about two months (not sure of the exact number of days), and they're staying at Animal Kingdom Lodge. Animal Kingdom Lodge is where she can have a zebra dome every time she goes to the food court, if she wishes. Isn't she a lucky girl - to be married to the King and have zebra domes whenever she wants???

The house wasn't bad, except for a sink full of dishes. They did pretty good. Of course, between jobs and school and friends, they aren't here a lot, so that makes it fairly easy.

My students will like seeing the pictures, but they will probably like my Animal Kingdom pictures that I finally got developed even more. I have a picture of a crocodile skull, a snake skeleton, a tiger having a check up, some mandrills and cheetahs. Especially the boys. They'll ooh and aah over the snake skeleton a lot more than they will over the baby!

I'm glad Lexi had a nice birthday!

 

[scottny]

I love the heading home pic. Too cute.

 

[DisneyJoo2008]

She's so cute!!! Congrats to you all!

I want mine to come out now!!!!!!!!!
xxx

 

[MeMom]

I love the heading home pic. Too cute.

It looks like she is already cooking up some mischief, doesn't it?

She's so cute!!! Congrats to you all!

I want mine to come out now!!!!!!!!!
xxx

I know you do. Two weeks now. Hang in there, because it does have a happy ending. Did you finalize your names? Are your bags packed in case it all happens early, as ours did? We look forward to seeing baby pictures frm you very soon, so that we can continue all this oohing and aahing

 

[k_reile]

memom...i can't multi qoute bc I don't remember how...but:

Yes...each family thinks it looks like one side or the other. With Caleb my family thinks he loooks like trents family. His family thinks he looks my side of the family (namely my 2 yr old newphew).

And Yes I too pray that Bella does not have reflux. While Caleb is not fussy anymore...he still spits up quite a bit. THe doctor changed his food, so that he gets more food than formula and said that should help. If not one of my friends from HS is a chirocpracter and said that babies can be lightly adjusted and aligned and supposedly that helps with reflux too. So maybe if he does not improve soon I will look into that route...but so far more food less formula seems to be working.

Have a good day at school!

 

[hollyluvsdisney]

Aww, Isabella is absolutely precious. And Brooklynn is too cute, she's going to be such a great big sister! I loved seeing all of your photos. Thanks for sharing!