More Pics of Brooklynn

Catching Up with the Barley's

Davis' Birthday Cake!!! Happy 10th Birthday Davis

Waiting to blow out candles!

Davis cracking up at his birthday card. It played music!

Roll Tide!!!

We have been a busy family the past two months. Brooklynn had her 2nd surgery to repair her cleft palate on Feb. 6th. What a trooper she was. She even managed to smile when she saw us come into recovery. Let me tell you it was a long 6 weeks of recovery for Brooklynn. She was on a soft diet, but was lucky enough to get off that before Easter. Anyway, she is all healed and looks like we are done with surgeries until she is about 7 years old. That is a break we will definetly enjoy.

Davis celebrated his 10th birthday on Feb. 21st. This bundle of energy was 3 1/2 weeks early and came to no surprise by me. What an active little fellow he was and still is. Davis had a spend the night party with a couple of his friends. He enjoyed the attention being on him for a little bit. It has been a hard transition for him going from the baby to the middle child, but I think he is starting to get the hang of it.

Then we moved into the month of March. We started off with baseball tryouts for Davis and welcoming home Baby Noah. Believe it or not we even had what we Alabamians call a "snow storm". Brooklynn decided she did not care for the snow at all. It just messed up her gloves and boots, well her whole outfit. I celebrated another birthday on the 13th of March. We also got to go to an Easter Egg Hunt that our AFCC group. This was Brooklynn's first time to hunt for eggs. I watched her pick up the eggs, open them up to see if they had anything in, and throw them down if they were empty. Boy they catch on quick!!! We celebrated Easter with our families, which was nice because I got to see my baby brother and my grandparents who came from IL and St.Louis. This was my grandparents first time to see Brooklynn and they were so happy to get to see her. I think that brings us up to date. The month of April I am sure will bring more activities and parties and of course Baseball!!

Some pictures I forgot to Post

Brooklynn the Super Star

The boys and Brooklynn playing Rock Band!!
What do you do with these things?

What are you doing Davis?

I really can help you with your homework.

What's been going on in January

Happy 13th Birthday Braxton!!

Is the cake on fire, cause that's alot of candles.

Opening presents is so much fun.

It is hard to believe that we have a 13 year old. Braxton turned 13 on January 7th. Geesh, where has all the time gone. I can remember bringing my little baby home from the hospital (really not so little, he looked like a middle linebacker at 22 1/2 inches long and 8 lbs 7 oz). We were stationed in Chicago at the time and the night I went into labor it was snowing a blizzard. The snow was coming down so fast that the snow plows quit plowing the streets until it stopped. For those of you who don't know Clint was in the Navy for 6 years. Braxton was the first grandchild for both sides of our family and he really was treated with lots of love and gifts. I look at him now and search for that little boy face, but it has disappeared and his voice is no longer sweet sounding, but very deep and manly as he would say. I do however see that little boy when I look into his eyes. He will forever be my baby, but don't let his friends know.

As for the rest of the family, we are recovering from Christmas and entering the new year. I am still writing 2007 on my checks. Davis told me to write 2008 a 100 times and maybe I would remember. Davis is lively and active as ever! We are getting ready to enter the baseball season with Davis, so my life will become consumed with the ball park. I really rather enjoy it and look forward to it this year. I hope we don't freeze like last year. One of Davis' team mates last year was crying because it was so cold outside that night. The next game we had a heater in the dug out to keep the boys warm. This will be Brooklynn's first baseball season with us. She loves football and will say Touchdown when they score. It is really cute to see. She might even give you a ROLL TIDE or two.

Brooklynn is getting ready to have her second surgery on the 6th of February. This will put her in the hospital for about 2 days and a recover period of about a month or two. We are just ready to get this over with as it is our last hurdle for a while. She went to her second playdate this last Monday and had alot of fun. All she has been talking about since then is Lily Mei. We are trying to make this a regular thing for these little ones. They really enjoy playing with each other. Brooklynn right now is stuck on watching the Little Mermaid. She loves that movie! We are planning a trip to Disney this Fall and I am almost scared that we will have to watch the live show of the Little Mermaid a bunch of times. I have been introducing her to other shows, but for now we are the Little Mermaid.

Clint and I have been swaping sickness with each other. I told him not to share anymore!! We recently went out of town to Nashville for the weekend. It was nice to be with each other without the mix of kids. We went to the Grand Ole Opry and where able to see Charlie Daniels. This is the first year I actually liked it and was not Blue Grass to death. A little Blue Grass goes a long way for me. Brooklynn did very well while away. She just had a couple of episodes, but the little mermaid saved the day. Well that is all for now! I will try to post more often, so you dont have to read a novel next time.