Who Needs Sleep???

Brooke finally slept Wednesday night-the whole way through! Although she did not Thursday night...but small steps right? She did have her 4 month shots on Weds, so that might account for her sleepiness. Brooke is up almost every hour or two. Now I know what you are going to say - let her cry it out. I soooooooo want to, but then Cameron hears her and wakes up screaming and crying and we can't get her back to bed, she is hysterical/disoriented. So which scenario is best??? Mom is up all night or Cameron, Brooke, Mom and Dad are up all night. I am positive this will soon work its way out... Other than the sleeping issue and Cameron being a typical 2 year old (hint hint tantrums) everything is normal. Well, Tim looks constantly drugged b/c of his extreme allergies and he can't really see (glad he is driving to WI today for work) we are a boring family.




Can you tell who doesn't want to take this picture? I resort to selfies b/c I am always taking the pictures and I would occasionally like to be in one with my girls.


I LOVE this photo.



This one too! Brookers is such a smiler.

Tim gets up with the girls on the weekend ( I do night duty) so this is the usually Saturday morning scene. Cartoons with dad (I think he naps). Cameron loves Brooke. When she whines or cries Cameron runs to her and says "What's wrong Brookers?" "You're okay" is this sweet soothing voice. Or she says "Pipe down Brookers!"

Cameron entertaining Brooke in the exersaucer

Getting ready for tubbie time.

I feel like Brooke is constantly entertained by Cameron and I wonder what she is thinking. Basically Brooke just sits there and watches Cam dance around or throw a tantrum depending on the time. But all is well and we are happy and fairly healthy. Hope you are too!

Rogge Girls Throw a Party!

Cameron and Brooke decided it was time to have a big bash! We celebrated Cameron's 2nd birthday - a Mickey Mouse Theme, and Brooke was baptized.


This is Cameron when she woke up... Presents for me???? She was shocked and thrilled.


Brooke had a bath and then a little nap before her big performance at the church.


Brooke didn't even cry. Such a good girl.

Brooke has wonderful godparents, Terry and Dan.

Cousins Max and Maddie helped Cameron open some presents.

I was so proud of Cameron - she opened each present and loved them all.

She opened her new Wonder Pets toy from Grandma Tye. "I love Ming Ming..."

Happy to eat my Mickey Cake.

This is her new Princess costume from Max and Maddie. She loves to dress up.

We headed to the big EC this weekend to celebrate Great Grandma Helen's 95th birthday. Sadly, we did not take a picture of her. I don't know how we overlooked that. We'll take a few over Easter. This is Uncle Tom with Cameron playing outside.

Cameron playing at Uncle Tom and Aunt Diann's house in EC.



Here is Brookie's 3 month picture. She has been such a good girl lately. She mostly sits in her chair and watches us play. She smiles a lot and is starting to "talk." She even slept through the night last night! She dozed this morning and was ready for her long afternoon nap which lined up with Cameron's nap! They both have been sleeping for 2 hours so far...This COULD be a rockin' summer! I am on spring break this week and we have successfully removed the nookie from Cameron's mouth. I think it was fairly painless for her too.

This is so cute. Doesn't Brooke look scared!!! So funny. She totally melted down 2 seconds later. She often has the deer in headlights look when we make her do odd things, like make her dance on Cameron's bed or prop her up to take pictures. What a trooper.

That is all from Roggeville

Fun with the Girls

Brooke and mommy's last day together! What a sweet baby...

I know she is thinking, "Mommy - Let go! enough!" I did take about 15 selfies to get a mildy decent one. Problem is that now my zillion moles and wrinkles show up on selfies. Was not the case in college. Wasn't that just last year?

Valentine's Day! Cameron loved all her heart stickers and chocolate candies.



Yummy! These are good. More please.

Where's all the chocolate??????? I said MORE!

I took this pic last night because they both randomly ended up in cherry jammies.

Cameron then got the "Hypies" as we call it and was a wild one. She entertained Brookers for a while.

Our mistake of putting Brooke in bed with Cameron because then she got the giggles and was making us laugh. Tim was supposed to put her down but I kept hearing laughter from the bedroom. Apparently dad was laughing too much and had to leave her by herself to settle down for the night.

First week back to work and I was sick by noon on Monday. Kids. It was a whirlwind and I would have accomplished a lot more if I had felt better.

We have a big day tomorrow. Cameron's second birthday party and Brooke's baptism. A Mickey Mouse double party. Should be fun!

I love my sister

I Love My Baby Sister!!!


Cameron is always so excited to see Brooke. It's the first thing she says in the morning when she wakes up - "Where's Brooke?"

This is a picture of the grandkids with their favorite blankies made with love by Aunt Diann. She makes the best blankies. Cameron would not be the same if she lost her beloved "Boti." If you notice Brooke- she's screaming. She didn't stop for 3 days. But the Monday-Weds she is usually pretty good. Not sure what her deal is.

Aunt Diann and Uncle Tom spent the night last Friday on the way to Arizona. Terry, Scott, Max, and Maddie came down for pizza too. The kids love to run around and play together. I can't wait for summer! It's so nice that they are all about the same age.

I go back to work on Monday. All my other teacher friends have Monday off and are doing a playdate.... Ironic. 2 months off and they had to work. My first day back is their day off....

Should be interesting going back to work. Hopefully I'll get to shower without a screaming baby each morning.

Cuteness

This one is Cameron at 6 weeks or so...

This one is Brooke. I think they look a lot alike, but you may not.

Cheese.

It took many HIIIIIs in a high pitch voice by me and Tim snapping pics to get one resembling a smile.

Miss Cameron got her hair done at daycare. She won't let me near her to do this to her. I barely get to comb her hair. Someone looks sleepy...

Bottle Time

After weeks of trying to get Brooke to at least let a bottle come in contact with her mouth, she has finally adapted to the bottle. She also started freaking out from 6-10pm. What is up with that? Seriously... one kids is always crying! I get Brooke calmed down and then Cameron throws a fit. Tim and I just look at each other like "Did aliens take over the kids???" Saturday was a scream fest, but Sunday was nice and calm. Party because we got Brookers to take a pacifier during her scream time hours. It seems to calm her down so she is not flailing about so much. She is sleeping longer too which is so nice. Up to 3 1/2 hours at a time. That may not seem to be too much to you folks who give birth to sleepers - it used to be every 1 1/2 to 2 hours she was up. Tim and I make colicky, non-sleeping babies. But they are cute! Last night Tim put Cameron down to bed at 8:30 and I had Brooke down at 8:45. It was peaceful and beautiful. We didn't get to enjoy it too much we were sleeping by 9:20! Kids.

We got ourselves and nice computer virus last week and was without a computer for 5 whole days! I felt out of the loop. Thank goodness it wasn't fantasy football season...

I have two more weeks with Little Brookie. Hopefully these will be nice and calm. The last few were the crabby weeks. I have faith. I just don't know how I will get my schoolwork done at 9pm at night - that is my sleeptime... Should be an interesting spring.

Did I Say Blissful?

That was pretty naive of me. Brooke morfed into Hold Me All the Time baby. I wrongly assumed I would be able to put her down for a nap and I could do stuff around the house. Like organize the office/junk room. But alas, it wasn't meant to be. I hold her A LOT while she naps. I am so tired as well so I nap too. We do have a lot of couch snuggling time.

I decided to put her in the car seat last night for bedtime because she seems to like being snuggled - hence the constant holding - and no the Snuggle Me's do not help and she is wise to the tight blanket wrapping to simulate being held, my child is no dummy. She slept from 8-12 last night! YEAH! I could really have used a 4 hour sleep time, but once again that was not meant to be. I got the stomach flu/food poisoning, not really sure which one. But I was so cold, I was shaking uncontrollably even with tons of blankets on me. I finally gave in and puked up my guts. I fell asleep around 10pm or so. So I did get 2 hours of sleep before she awoke. The next time I put her in there she only slept 2 more hours.... hmmm. What to try next.

Well that has been my 3 weeks with Miss Brookie. Cameron is still a fun little girl. Being a parent sort of sucks the fun out of everything. We can't laugh at her bad habits, like suddenly spitting food out at the dinner table. We are getting good at the looking away while we laugh and then giving her a disapproving look move. We have to have good behavior all the time because she mocks us and repeats things we say. No wonder kids think their parents are boring. We are.