Brooklyn's World

Brooklyn 2 years old.... Ayden 6 months old

2008-10-18T15:20:00.002-06:00

Gotta love those little butt cheeks!!
Just look at those ears!! Poor little guy... hopefully his hair will start growing soon to cover them up a little bit!
A little sisterly love!! He is almost as big as she is.
Here is our little Brooklyn... she is as spunky as they come!!
This picture only took about an hour to take as Ayden still has a rolly polly butt and keep falling over!!

At this point in time Ayden is now 7 months old. He is working very hard on crawling and sitting up. His favorite things to do are eat 24/7, laugh, and try to steal his big sister's toys. He idolizes Brooklyn. She is often the only thing that can make him happy when he is sad.

Brooklyn is now almost 2 1/2 years old. She loves to clean everything!! I have no idea where she got the cleaning thing from as everyone knows that her mom hates to clean. She loves to care for her babies and sing!! She loves her baby brother and makes sure to tell us if he is sad. She often times will try to change his diaper while no one is around. There has been a few occasions where i have come into the room and Ayden is lying on the ground butt naked and laughing hysterically.

We may possibly be moving in to yet another house. Cliff's parents have found a house (for them) with a lot of property around it. They have always wanted to have more land because Sandy ( cliff's mom) grew up on a farm. If they end up moving we will move into their old house and rent ours out. It will be very nice if this happens because then Ayden can finally have his own room. He has been sleeping in his swing next to our bed since he came home from the hospital.

Happy 2nd Birthday Brooklyn

2008-07-01T15:36:00.005-06:00

Where does the time go? It just seems like yesterday that she came home from the hospital. Now I am dealing with a moody 2 year old!! Some days all she wants to do is snuggle and give hugs. Other days all she does is whine and throw tantrums!!

This year Brooklyn didn't have a huge party because we were on the airplane coming home from Mexico on her Birthday. We had a small party at Nana and Papa's house. She got an M&M machine (this will be used later as a potty training tool) and a pink tricycle. She is still a little small for the tricycle, but she had a blast pushing Ayden around in it. Ayden was cracking up the entire time!!

(Sorry this is a really cute picture but i can't get it to flip!)
I would also like to appologize for Brooklyn never having both a shirt and shorts on at the same time. She is the dirtiest little girl in the world!!

I love being outside!!!

2008-05-30T15:33:00.008-06:00

Why is it that when Brooklyn was younger i could get her to smile and look at the camera every single time and now she turns her head, makes a funny face or runs away? Now that i've been off work for a while we like to spend lots of time outside. Brooklyn really likes to play in pea gravel instead of swinging or going down the slide when we go to any park. We are thinking about making her a pea gravel box instead of a sand box in the back yard. I'm not sure if she knows she is a girl sometimes. She would rather be dirty and make messes. We do catch her playing with her "pretties" once in a while but not very often.

We bought her a turtle sand box the other day that she absolutely loves. We can't keep her away from it. She really likes to bring scoops of sand to us and tries to bring it inside when we are not looking. We now have sand everywhere. Everyone knows how much i like to clean and now i have to sweep 2-3 times a day!! If it keeps her entertained and not throwing tantrums than i guess i can just keep cleaning in circles around her.

This is her white trash swimming pool. Brooklyn will climb into any container of water no matter how big or small it is. She just loves to be dirty, wet and outside!!

Getting Bigger

2008-05-30T15:22:00.003-06:00

Ayden went in for his 2 month check May 21 on he is 10 pounds and 21 inches. I don't think that Brooklyn weighed that untill she was 3-4 months old!! He is very smiley and is starting to make lots of cute noises. Brooklyn still loves him and has to make sure he always has a blankie and a pacifier..... even if he really doesn't want it. He is looking more and more like Cliff everyday. Dang it!! I would really like at least one kid to look like me a little bit. Ayden does have bright blue eyes and stick out ears. I believe those features come from the Bean side!!

My first fishey!!!

2008-05-30T15:11:00.002-06:00

I have been asking for a kitty for a long time now but mommy keeps telling me no. She finally agreed to get me some fishies instead!! I have had them for about 3 weeks now. Daddy broke the fish bowl and now they are living in a glass vase of mommy's. Daddy went to Las Vegas for a couple of days with my uncle Brian and mommy killed off two of my fishies. Now I only have 2 goldfish and one sucker fish left. I hope my mommy doesn't kill anymore of them. I really like to sit on the counter and watch them eat food. Sometimes i even like to give them pringle snacks!! Maybe one day mommy will let me have a kitty that i can actually play with instead of just watching it!!

PICTURE TIME

2008-05-09T13:48:00.002-06:00

2008-04-13T16:06:00.002-06:00

Sisterly love!!!

I was worried sick about how my very spoiled daughter was going to react to having a baby brother, but she loves him. Maybe a little too much!! She is a very big help with throwing diapers away, making sure he has blankets over his head, shoving pacifiers/bottles in his mouth, putting stickers on his head, taking his socks off immediatly after getting them on, and giving him fishey crackers when mom is not looking. I hope we get into a routine here pretty quick because not only is Ayden not sleeping through the night but now Brooklyn has decieded that sleeping is no longer a good idea. She was doing awesome before Ayden arrived but now she likes to lay in her crib and play during naps and wakes up for about 2-3 hours in the middle of the night. We don't get moving the next day until about 9 or 10!! Well gotta go Brooklyn is being a little too quiet!!

Ayden Is Finally Here!!!

2008-03-18T02:19:00.002-06:00

Its a BOY!!!!! Ayden blessed our family with his arival at 11:10 on March 17, 2008. We are so excited. We saw the doc at 10 this morning and she sent us to thehospital saying it was time since the AFI levels were low and Krista was having contractions about every 2-3 min. When we got there everything went very good until Krista started having some symptoms of Preclampsia. So they stalled her labor for a bit until they got a handle on it. After that it was smooth sailing. Once Krista was ready she only had to push thru 4 contraction sets and out popped little Ayden. He was 6 lbs 13 oz. Krista is excited cause he looks more like her than Brooklyn did. Both he and Mom are doing good. I came home to get some rest, but as you can tell that is not working out so well. I will keep you all up to date. Thank you all for keeping us in your prayers and we love you all. God bless.

Sorry it has been way too long!!!

2008-02-21T20:46:00.002-07:00

Wow!!! So it has been way to long since we have blogged. Things around here have been wicked crazy. I'm now back in school wich is really sucky, Krista is really PREGO!!!!, and our sweet baby girl is running around like a mad women and starting some of the dreded terrible two stuff. School if really lame as usual. Krista is the best wife in the entire world. She is getting so big and uncomfortable, yet she is still so good to Brooklyn and I. We have officially decided that the babie's name will be Ayden James Deeds. Before we decided on the name I had never heard it before, but now I hear it all the time (who cares our Ayden will be the best). Brooklyn is busy being a crazy child. She is getting sooooo BIG!!!! She got her ankle braces so she is walikng and running like crazy. She has also started to tell us no and run away when we try to do something (not so fun). She has started a lot of other sassy things that are wicked annoying!!! We have been trying to get things done around our house before Ayden arrives. Which really scares the crap out of me since Krista went so early last time. I'm trying to finish the other bathroom, fix some of the electrical, and put up base boards in the next couple weeks (YIKES!!!! anyone want to help?). I hope all is well with you all. God bless and we love you.

2007-12-30T12:36:00.000-07:00

I hope that everyone had a Merry Christmas!!!

We ended up having a very white Christmas. There was about a foot of snow on the ground by the end of the day. Brooklyn had a really good Christmas this year. She was spoiled rotten and recieved soo many fun toys. One of her favorite toys is a dinosaur ball pit that you sit inside of. She was soo excited when we gave it to her that she dove inside and started swimming in the balls. Another favorite toy is her Winnie the Pooh car that she honks the horn repeatedly on annoying anyone within earshot.

We ended the day at the ER as Cliff ended up getting pneumonia. He didn't feel that he needed to go to the ER but he was forced by me(his wife) and his dad. We were there for about 4 hours. The doctor felt he needed to run every possible test because of an abnormal chest x-ray that was taken. There was a mass that showed up and the doctor was unclear of what it was. After waiting another 2 hours for a CT scan we found out that everything was normal and Cliff ended up leaving the ER with pain meds and an inhaler and that was it. Thank heaven nothing else was wrong!!

All and all it was a very good Christmas! We are very thankful for all the wonderful gifts we recieved and for all the time we could spend with both sides of the family this year!!

Baby Boy

2007-12-04T12:22:00.001-07:00

We are so excited to announce that we are going to have a little baby boy!!! We just found out last Monday and we are super excited. It is going to be sooo much fun having both a boy and a girl. I can't wait to coach football (he has no choice he is playing). Krista is doing good, other than always being tired and getting ginormous! :) Brooklyn is also very excited. She is enfatuated with moms belly and inside out button. She has started kissing her belly and saying baby (it is wicked cute!!!). We can't wait to see all of you who are venturing out to Carson next week. Hope all is well.

2007-11-10T15:56:00.000-07:00

Don't worry everyone is ok!!

Just to let everyone know Cliff got in a car accident with Brooklyn and the dogs in the car. The only one hurt is Cliff. No broken bones or anything. Just soreness and a few cuts. It happened on Wednesday November 7th, 2007. Cliff was going to take the dogs for a walk at this lake by our house when a cop car pulled behind him, lights and sirens blaring, so he pulled to the left to get out of the way of the cop car when "wham!!" he was struck by a truck who didn't see what was going on. Brooklyn was very brave and the only thing that happened to her is that she threw up. Brooke didn't have a single cut or bruise. By the time i got home from work a few hours later she was pushing a box around the kitchen laughing!! I often think there is an angel looking out for Brooklyn. Sometimes I will catch her staring at the wall or looking off into space laughing hysterically. Cliff probably had some sort of mild concussion but he was too worried about the dogs and Brooklyn to take care of himself. Just thought everyone would like to know this happened and that everyone is ok!!

2007-11-03T16:31:00.000-06:00

2 little piggies and a sprout

Brooklyn has finally let us start doing her hair. She fights mama while she does it, but she is really good for dada. She will fight anything that mama does.... changing diapers.... putting clothes on... anything!! She is a perfect angel for dada and a little devil for me. It's not fair!! The only thing she doesn't fight me on it snuggling before bed and putting her to sleep.

2007-11-03T16:25:00.000-06:00

16 weeks along

We just thought you guys would enjoy seeing a picture of how big my belly is getting soo far. We will be finding out what we are having on November 26th. With our luck it will be a boy because everything we own is pink or purple!! I can't believe how fast pregnancy goes the second time around. There is no time to be tired or feel sick. We just received the results from the quad-screening and they are negative... so far so good!! Baby seems to be healthy!!

2007-10-21T15:47:00.000-06:00

We were planning on going to a real pumpkin patch this year but ended up at this church by my work. I really don't think Brooklyn will ever know the difference!! Brooke thought that sitting in the hay and throwing it at us was the best part of the whole thing. She was also very excited to see all of the "ball-balls"(Pumpkins). The entire time we were there she was saying "ooooohhh... ball ball.....ooooohhhh.... ball ball." Brooklyn is obsessed with balls of any shape or size. We can't walk through an old navy without buying her a ball!! We have been trying to buy her girly toys and stuffed animals but she wants nothing to do with them and goes straight to the balls. Anyway we had the most perfect pumpkin picked out for Brooklyn, but when we went to go pay for it we realized that once again we were un-prepared and didn't bring any cash!! So we will be going back later this week to purchase the pumpkin of Brooklyn's dreams!

2007-10-16T21:21:00.000-06:00

So we have some news for all of you. We have kept it secret for long enough. Krista is pregnant!!!!!!!!!!! We are so excited! She is like 14 weeks (I'm sure that is wrong, but it is close either way). A couple weeks ago we got to see the little creature on an ultra sound. He was crazy!!! We don't know that it is he yet, but I hope if I say "he" enough it will be a boy. We don't really care what it is as long as it is healthy. Mom is feeling pretty good. She is tired, but I don't know if that is from being pregnant or because of our difficult little girl that does not like to sleep. If she only knew how awesome sleep is and how much of it she will want when she is our age. Krista is due April 14. I can't wait. I miss Brooklyn when she was that age. She was so quiet and sweet. She never yelled at me, never threw stuff at me, and I could get so much done. I know those days are gone forever, but that is ok I know how blessed we are to have her and the new little one, and good lord willing more to come. I can't wait to see everyone in December. We look forward to seeing all of you, eating SUSHI (you guys have converted me), and in & out burgers. I hope all is well.

2007-10-14T18:25:00.000-06:00

It has been a wicked crazy week. We have been trying to break Brooklyn's horrible sleep habits. She had been getting up several times a night and screaming until we brought her into our bed (Yeah not a good idea, it just reinforces bad habits). At the time it was worth it so we could get some sleep, but then she started to think our bed meant it was play time. I'm not so playful at 4 am, so I did not think it was cute (Several times I thought about putting her in the dog crate). Thanks to some wonderful advice from Candace and her mom we are slowly gaining our sanity back. She has only been getting up once and we ignore her so she soon gets the hint and goes back to sleep ( we owe you guys huge, thanks a million). Do to the good sleep she has been in a great mood and has been a very funny girl lately. I have no idea where she comes up with some of the stuff she does. Just see the pics.

2007-10-02T21:55:00.000-06:00

Ok so we promised that we would tell some stories about events this summer. I want to start with Brooklyn's first birthday. I cannot believe my baby girl is 1!!! We had an awesome party. We had it at a park by our house. Other than it being like hot as heck it was perfect. I have never seen so many people turn out for a birthday party. There was at least 75 people there. we has yummy food from Rib City and cake from Das Myer's (the same place that we got our wedding cake). we had a really good time. It was so nice to spend this day with our close family and friends. We wish we could have had all of our family there, but we know that you all would have been there if you could have been, Don't worry Brooklyn ate cake for all of you. We want to thank everyone for all the presents (We can hardly walk in her room). Speaking of that, who ever gave her the talking/singing dog I'm going to get your kid a drum set :). It was a great day, I wish all of you could have been there. That's it for now, but I will make sure we blog again soon. Love you guys!!!

ps. Candace, Krista wanted to edit this post and thank you for the present.

2007-10-02T21:25:00.000-06:00

Sorry Candace that we have not blogged soon enough for you :)
I know we have been slacking, but I have been crazy busy studing for a microbiology test. I took the test last night and I swear my teacher speaks a foreign language. It was really hard. but I studied a ton so I'm sure I did good (is that a good enough excuse for you Candace? I see that you have been slacking too, what is your excuse?). This week has been very long. Brooklyn is not sleeping very good. She has been getting up between 2 and 4 thinking it is time to play. When Krista and I tell her she should be sleeping she usually throws something at us and laughs (not so funny). We think she is popping some new teeth, if not and this keeps up does anyone want a baby girl :)? We love her to death but it wicked difficult not getting any sleep. This weekend we celebrated Danny's 16th B-Day. My parents had a really nice party for him on Saturday, It is so scary that he is now driving. At least he is not a dumby like his older brother and is a really good driver. Also speaking of Danny we are so proud of him!!! He is only a sophomore, but he will be starting as the varsity full back this week (you are the man D!!!). Last week He helped his team when a really close game against the #1 team in the league (not anymore) with a 7 yard reception and a huge block that allowed the QB to throw the winning touchdown. Krista and I are doing good. We are just working super hard and trying to keep up with our little girl.

2007-09-26T12:48:00.000-06:00

Hi Everyone,
So we are finally getting this started. We figured if didn't Candace would come all the way out to Colorado to kick are butts. We are new at this whole blogging thing, but we think it is great idea so we all can keep in touch and up to date on current event in everyone's lives (since we know how good we all are at picking up the phone :). Where to start. Well i guess I will start with the most important subject our little princess Brooklyn. Brooklyn is doing very good. She is now 15 months, popping teeth, crawling everywhere and trying to figure out the whole walking thing. She has started to take a couple small steps. We are starting to think at this point she thinks the whole walking thing is overrated, especially with all the people she has wrapped around her finger that will carry her. Oh and she thinks she is a puppy. She does not give kisses, she gives licks, she also pants and eats her food off the tray or ground using only her mouth (we are so proud). I guess thats what happens when your nana has an entire heard of dogs and you have 2 of your own. The photo off to the right was taken a couple months ago at Kiddie Kandids. It won an award with the for picture of the month. This means her picture is displayed in all 187 stores nationwide and on their flyer's. We were very excited. Thank God she got her beauty from her mom. As for Krista and I we are super busy. Krista still works at the same doctor office and in her spare time she is the best mother and wife in the world. As for me I'm still working for the Arvada police department (yuck!!!), still going to school (I figure I might finish before Brooklyn if I'm Lucky), I still love to do Jiu-Jitsu (although I do not get to go as much as I would like), and most important I do my best to be a good father and husband. So I think I rambled for long enough this time, but I promise we will post some more pics and stories from our summer. We love you guys and miss you all. God bless.