Our Beautiful Baby

Brinley's first time in the snow

Brinley and her Dad Rocking around the Christmas Tree

Merry Christmas!

Lora and Brinley
Tavie Sporting the apron I made for her.
Brinley Behl
Lil, Rox
Dad helping Brinley with a gift from Santa.

Brinley and Steve

I'm On Santa's Nice List

What Life is Like at Our House

I should probably be embarrassed to post these pictures, but I'm not. After all, I already posted the single worst picture I have taken in my entire life (at 3:00 in the morning and right after giving birth) anyway, life at our house gets pretty crazy sometimes. I have some really funny ones of Dustin, but he wouldn't let me post them.

The Circle of Life

A couple of weeks ago Dustin and I were listening to a song about a guy and how he later realized that being in high school was "no where near the best years of his life." It started a conversation between us about the best years of our lives. I asked him what the best year of his life was and before I could even get the question out he replied "right now, this is the best time of my life." I am so sad to say goodbye to the year 2007 because it truly has been the best year of my life. We have learned and grown so much! We stared the year out by watching this incredible miracle growing inside of me. And half way through the year I gave birth to the most beautiful baby girl. We have spent the past 6 months watching this whole new circle of life begin. Saturday we will end the year by paying tribute to my 94 year old Grandpa at his funeral. We love him and will miss him, but I think his circle was a circle well lived.

All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth

Yep, Brinley is cutting teeth (her two lower central incisors). I am so excited! I think babies look so cute when they start to get teeth. However, I can't believe she is old enough for that yet. We LOVE, LOVE, LOVE being parents and are looking forward to our first Christmas as parents. I think we are finally starting to understand what life is all about.

Brinley had her 6 month appointment yesterday. It was not her best day. She had to get three immunizations and a flu shot. We also found out she has eczema which isn't a big deal, but no more smelling like a baby for her. She is now 25 3/4 inches long and weighs 12 pounds 9 ounces. We would have liked to see a couple more pounds on the scale, she is only in the 2%. Hopefully she will chunk up soon. I did put away most of her newborn clothes and that made me sad, but it's fun that she actually fits into some of her clothes now. She continues to amaze us with her development. It seems like every time the doctor asks us if she is beginning to do something, we look at him like Yea, she's been doing that for weeks.

Baby Bling

Yesterday was Brinley Behl's 6 month Birthday so we took her to get her ears pierced. After she got the first one done I pretty much felt like the worst mom in the whole world. Having the entire mall as an audience and the little girl yelling "No" didn't help, but Brinley was a tough little cookie and only cried for a minute. Plus, she looks way cute. I think she has forgiven me. Good thing she won't remember it.

Wishing she could crawl

Brinley is starting to get up on her knees. I can just tell that she wants to be mobile. I try not to encourage her very much.

Merry Christmas!

We tried to take some pictures of Brinley to put on our Christmas card.
She was more interested in the Christmas presents.
It looks like she found one with her name on it.
And this is what I got when I told her she has to wait until Christmas.

So sleepy

HA HA

This picture made me laugh so hard.

Brinley's new favorite thing

Brinley LOVES to talk to her dad on the phone. She recognizes his voice and will talk to him and giggle. She smiles the entire time she is on the phone with him.

Our Christmas Tree

Our Bugga Behly

Brinley makes our house so much more fun!

Real Food

This was the first time we fed Brinley "real food" well, I didn't think there was anything "real" about it, but she dug right in and thought she was big enough to feed herself. Don't worry, we did buy here some spoons that weren't so big. Since these pictures were taken she has learned that rice cereal is NOTHING to get excited about. Give her peas and bananas and she's a happy girl.

Our family

Dustin took some pictures of us (Brinley is super sleepy).
So, we took some of him too.
He's a funny guy!

These ones are for Jess

It's not easy painting teeny tiny toenails