I hope Brooklyn's sleep buddy helps -- broken sleep is the worst!!!
I love your window decorations -- such a cute idea to do Christmas Mickey heads!
Especially for Jill right now - she needs her sleep.
I just wanted something simple for the window, since we were doing Thanksgiving and Christmas windows this time. We had Thanksgiving Mickey and Minnie up for the first part of the trip, and then on Friday morning Chip and Dale took over.
You're up early memom! Good Morning! I love Jill's idea about making a special sleep buddy! My Brooklyn has a special monster. It came with a book about Monsters in the Closet and how this monster is sweet and kind and will scare away any other monsters. It really helped her through the phase. And now she loves the Monster so much for helping her out. She takes it everywhere 
Its kinda ugly but works for me! 
It could be you that's up early. Check out some of my posts and you'll see that the times are often 3, 4, and 5 in the morning - you know, when normal people are sleeping! I had a late night one night last week, and I was asleep when Trent got up at 4:20. He woke me up worried about me because I was sleeping so late!
Jill said the weird thing about Brooklynn waking up all of the sudden is that she's not saying she's scared and not wanting to get in the bed with her or anything. She just wakes up crying, and when Jill puts her back in bed and loves on her a second, she falls right back to sleep. She isn't saying anything is hurting her either, so who knows what is causing it.
believe it or not, no broken bones! i only fell twice and neither time was bad. i'm not sore yet, but when i work out my soreness doesn't usually set in until 24 hours later, so we'll see how i feel tonight! oh, and i'm uploading pictures/video right now.
no baby news other than margot is starting to turn, which means she's just about done cooking! i will probably call erica when i'm on my way up when jordan goes into labor and tell her to post something on my TR about it. i'm going to try my best to make it there for the birth but we will have to wait and see what happens because obviously these things are not very predictable! there's no way she's going to make it to her due date of april 12th though.
oh, this sounds so good right now!
can't wait to see!
that sounds like a really good solution. i hope it works!
We'll be on the lookout for baby news in the next few weeks, then.
I'm glad you made it through the skating with no broken body parts and especially with no fat globule cuts like you had recently.
Hello! I've been MIA for a while knowint there was plans for a Disney trip in our near future. While I know there still isn't a plan in the works... I missed your family too much! I spent the last 24 hours catching up on your trip reports -- drooling over the treats you've eaten, admiring many little things you find along the way, wishing I had the opportunity to go shopping with your family!
I can't believe how close you are to Isabella's arrival and am loving watching Brooklynn continue to grow up. Can't wait to see her bungee jumping experience!
We have definitely missed your smiling little family picture around here! Glad to have you back! Maybe one day we'll be on a trip at the same time and can ooh and aah our way through a shop or two together.
I really like the tee you got Brooklynn.
And I thought Lexi had the most WDW tees.
We gave the ones that don't fit her to a neighbour and her Mom said "you sure like to buy ALOT of Disney tees".
I miss those cute little tees.
I'm looking forward to the endless meat at WLC too. Yummy!
Brooklynn is so brave to go on that jumping thing....can't wait to see pics or video.
She probably has the crazy hair going on.
I hope the Build a Bear helps her sleeping. I had lots of nightmares as a kid and can remember sleeping in my parents room on a lawn chair...
for Brooklynn.
Funny you mentioned a waterbed
Punkin . I was trying to explain the other day what my waterbed was like to Lexi. She just couldn't understand how I could sleep on water.
It was actually the best bed ever! My Dad made me get rid of it when I had Aaron, he was afraid he would roll betwen the bed and the wooden frame. Did your Dad's have the famous velvet trim around it? Mine was blue velvet. Classy, with blue satin sheets.
I worked all summer babysitting to help pay for it. (I think my parents did most of the paying) Fun times in the good old 80's.
for going through your parents divorce at such a young age.
Every once in a while someone gives Jill a bag of clothes for Brooklynn, and she's always happy to spot Disney clothes in the bunch. I don't know that she's actually had any real Disney
World clothes given to her, but Disney characters will do.
How did you guess about the crazy hair???
I never had a waterbed, but I had friends that did. I was always afraid of their babies rolling down into the edges, too.
He's very fun, and he's a great dad.
You remind me so much of my mom sometimes, it's crazy! I know that there are pictures of her on my PTR/TR, but she was just like you with having her picture taken. It wasn't until a couple of years ago that she started dealing with it, because whenever we'd go on vacation and she'd come back with pictures to show people from work, they never believed that she was there because she was never in any pictures.
And, like you, she'd do silly things but stop as soon as we took out the camera. Sometimes she will allow us to take pictures of her doing silly things.
I hope that Brooklynn's sleep buddy works!
I also love your window at Music -- the festive Mickey heads and Chip and Dale are so cute!
Yeah, I keep my craziness on the down-low.
Jill said she woke up once, but then she heard her play the music on the little puppy that she chose. After that, she went back to sleep.
Jill, you need to show a picture of Brooklynn and the puppy in pajamas.
Oh man, Brookie's waking up in the night?
I think the special sleeping buddy is a great idea...either you or Jill has to let us know how the first night with it went!
It may take a few nights, but last night, she only got up once, so we'll hope that's a good sign.
i'm actually glad my parents split up when they did. i know that sounds odd but i was too young to even remember them being together.
I see where that really could be a good thing. I was grown and Jill was a baby when my mother announced she was leaving my dad. A lot of the things she said in the following months just kind of killed/nullified etc. what little feelings I had about the family I thought I had. We weren't close anyway, but I at least didn't need to hear that she supposedly had never wanted to marry him, never loved him, etc. Things that she did even following that made it best for me just to remove myself from dealing with her at all.
What a brave girl!!! Love the crazy hair!
It looks like she's been rubbing a balloon over it.
that is so precious!!! i love how she just sort of hangs there and every now and then her little feet touch the trampoline. she got pretty high! what a brave little girl.
I was wondering if she was just going to hang there, and then up she went! She kind of got a scared look for a second when it went way high. I'll have to get her version of the experience when I talk to her on the phone.
Wow, she did wonderfully! I am impressed by how much bouncing she got in. I love her crazy hair and the fact that she really thought she needed to flip!
I hope the trip to Build-A-Bear helped!
She's always saying she 'needs' to do something!
She ended up with a puppy, and Jill said she got jammies, since it was a sleeping pal. I think she said they were Hello Kitty pajamas. I told her to get a picture and share with us.
