Blake&Court

Since I gave a few people a hard time about neglecting their blogs, I figured it time for me to update mine as well. January, so far, has been pretty normal in our house. Just getting over the holiday craziness, me back at work, and getting back into our routines. Here's the gist of what's been going on at our house:

*I thought going back to work would help me not have so many "DUH!" moments, but no such luck. On Friday at lunch I was talking to another teacher and walked over to a table, opened a diet coke that was just sitting there, and started drinking out of it. The other teacher gave me such a surprised look. I always buy a diet coke with my lunch and couldn't figure out what the big deal was. Then I realized I hadn't bought mine yet! I had opened and was drinking the other teacher's drink!
*At Smith's yesterday I paid for my grocery's and was organizing my cart when some change came out of the automatic coin counter. I scooped it up and the cashier said to me "Um ma'am, you paid with a debit card, that change is for this customer behind you!" I felt so dumb!!

*If you know me, you know that I hate change. I am a very structured person and when change is inevitable, I plan carefully for it. It has taken me months to get up the courage to cut my hair. Finally I did it and am so happy with the results. It's an A-line cut with lots of short, choppy layers.
*For our Relief Society Christmas Party, instead of white elephant gifts, we did a service exchange. The service I got was a free family portrait from a photographer in our ward. We took our pictures on Wednesday and I just ordered the prints so I'll post them soon. I am so happy to have an updated family picture. Usually it's just Brooke with one parent (usually me).
*I finally got my act together and put all of Brooke's videos of her first year on one DVD. I have also switched to digital scrapbooking so my goal is to do one page a month and then print it out in a book at the end of each year. Blogging definitely helps with this.
*Brooke will be 13 months on the 17th! I can no longer say to people, "oh she just turned one" when they ask how old she is. Brooke is heading full speed ahead towards toddlerhood.
*She still only has one tooth and still fits in 6-12 mo clothes. She is so long and thin that 12-18 mo clothes are too loose on her, but 6-12 pants are floods. Poor girl.
*Will walk if Blake or I holds her hands, but no sign of independent standing or walking yet
* Is signing!! I started doing signs with Brooke a few months ago, but was really bad at being consistent with them. So they kind of went away. Then someone mentioned to me that maybe Brooke would be less screamy if she could communicate. We've only been doing signs a week and already she's picked it up. In the video she starts out by signing "more", and then signs "milk"

*Brooke loves games. Before, games were one sided, but now she has been interacting with us playing "peek a boo" and chasing each other.

*She is always doing funny things to make Blake and I laugh. It's given us a new perspective on the world to see how Brooke discovers new things (like licking the windows)

*Brooke may not be walking, but she knows how to get to something she wants!I definitely wouldn't trade my blah, unexciting January for anything!