A Brock-Star Update

Our little Brock-Star is growing fast!!!  It seems like each day is a new surprise!  Who knew kiddos could be so much fun?!?!

He loves his Radio Flyer horse "Sam." 



Look who we found standing in his crib late at night!  He loves to pull up on anything he can!

Mommy and Brock were sick over the weekend, but felt much better this morning!  I heard Brock talking in his crib this morning and had to get a photo of this when I saw him- basketball in one hand and stuffed animal in the other.

P.S. We are up to SIX teeth!  Four up top and two on the bottom!

Fun at the Park

Last week Brock and I met up with Lindsay and Caleb for a playdate.  Lindsay is one of my good friends going back to high school and her son Caleb was born just a few weeks before Brock.  Years ago we would joke that we needed to have babies around the same time so we could walk them around the mall and have playdates.  Neither of us would have ever guessed that would actually come true!  I will never forget the dinner Linz told me she was prego and it just so happened that I was calling her a few weeks later with news of my pregnancy.  We still laugh about that to this day.  Anyways, we took the boys to the park and it was a beautiful day!

This was Brock's first time in a toddler swing vs. the baby swing.  As you can see, he had a blast!!!

Four Teeth...Oh My!

He looked a lot scarier than this at 4am!

Remember last week when I reported we had one tooth?  Well, we now have four!  Our poor baby was waking up in the middle of the night in pain.  I suppose it is better that all of his teeth want to breakthrough at once.  Why prolong the pain?  One night I was in Brock's room trying to calm him down when I heard a rustling outside his window and then saw a pair of eyes staring at me.  I was trying to whisper-yell for Buck....yes "whisper-yell"....quite the oxymoron, but you know what I am talking about.  It was an opossum staring back at me.  I think we were equally scared of each other.  Good times.



Do you know what season it is?  No, not the Christmas Season YET, although the stores are trying to trick you into thinking otherwise.  It is deer hunting season.  Each year Buck enters a lotto to get drawn to bow hunt near Lake Texoma for a weekend.  Well, he was picked and his hunt was this past weekend.  He got up in the wee hours of the morning to go sit in a tree......all day long.  Except this year, it was worth it.  Congrats on the 9 point buck Hunny!  While Buck was sitting in a tree, Brock and I traveled southbound 35 to visit some relatives.  It was a nice visit and then a long trip back.  Traffic on 35 is bad enough on a Sunday without a dead battery!  A quick stop at the Waco Walmart.....some interesting folk in there....and we were back on the road.  I was asleep by 9:30 last night and those of you that know me, know that never happens!  I got my *extra* hour of sleep last night as my baby's internal clock unfortunately did not "fall back" with the time change.



Brock "won" a stick pony during the live auction at the church luncheon courtesy of Gigi! 



The Past Week in Fast Forward

Why does time seem to be in fast forward these days?!?  

Well, the Rangers couldn't pull it off, but that's okay!  The Giants played a lot better ball and deserved to win.  At least they beat the Yankees!!!!!!!!!!!

Last week we spotted Brock's first tooth!  Yippee!  It looks like a few other teeth are ready to emerge any day now as well.  

Last Wednesday was our three year anniversary.  We had a nice dinner at our favorite restaurant, Del Frisco's, to celebrate.  Happy Anniversary to my Hubby and Best Friend!  While at the restaurant, a couple of the hostesses and waiters asked us how long we had been married.  Each time Buck smiled and said, "Three years, but we have known each other for twelve years.  It is not often people marry their high school sweetheart."  Well, I am glad you married your high school sweetheart, Hunny!  Unfortunately, I do not have a recent photo of just the two of us.....I just realized we need to appear in more of these photos.

A cute baby I know is venturing out more and more.  Saturday morning he wandered out of his room and down the hallway.  He looked at me and grinned the entire way down the hall. 

Sunday was Halloween.  No, we did not dress Brock up for Halloween.  I had a hard time justifying dressing him up....maybe I am silly, but what the heck are you supposed to do with a seven month old on Halloween?  We definitely weren't going to take him trick or treating, he is too young to have fun at a pumpkin patch or trunk-or-treat at the church, he outgrew his pumpkin costume he wore during his six month photos and the Rangers were playing Sunday night.  Early in the week I asked Buck if I was a bad Mom for not making a big deal about this Halloween and he said No, so I was done thinking about it!  Instead, I dressed him in orange and we went to lunch and on a nice long walk/wagon ride with Gigi and Grandpa.  

And last but not least, guess who pulled himself up to a standing position all by himself last night?  We had dinner at Ma's and while we were chit chatting Brock decided to make us all excited for him.  He is going to be walking in no time!!!!

I can stand all by myself!

I am gonna get you Mommy!



Every evening Brock has to make sure this piece of plastic is still there.  One day Daddy will put down the transition piece between the wood floor and tile floor and Brock will be confused!

  





GO RANGERS!

Thank goodness for Texas Rangers baseball considering the Longhorns and Cowgirls aren't worth watching.  Nah really, I have been a Rangers fan ever since I was a young girl.  My father is an avid fan and his father was an avid fan.  It is safe to say I come from a long line of Rangers fans.  Well, ever since they were the Texas Rangers that is.  I remember watching many (many is a conservative term) games in the old ballpark, section BB in the outfield with our cooler of ice, liter bottles of soda and snacks brought from home.  It is in that old ballpark that my father taught us about baseball and we had the pleasure of watching good ole Nolan Ryan put Ventura in a headlock and get a few good swings in.  I will never forget that game and the uproar in the stands......everyone threw trash on the field....oh the memories.  Memories of ice cream in a souvenir helmet, yummy ballpark hotdogs, autograph Wednesdays, Zonk (the longtime "drummer" at the ballpark), dot races (when you actually "won" something from Whataburger), Bobby Valentine getting thrown out of several games, Steve Boo-shell (Buechele), Julio Franco's crazy batting stance, even the songs they played, etc. To this day I hear songs that remind me of the ballpark.  If we weren't at the game, it was either on the tv or the radio.  Dad even took us out of school for opening day in the new ballpark...I thought I was so cool.  Anyways, baseball means Summertime and it never meant end of October....until now!  I am so excited that the Rangers are in the World Series and appreciate 110% that A. Rod was the last out to get us here.  A few photos from my childhood (thanks Dad!):       

How cool are we in Section BB?!?  I am pretty sure this is for one of the brother's birthdays.  And from the looks of it, it must have been free hat day!!!

Nolan Ryan's last home game- September 12, 1993

Autograph Wednesday with Dean Palmer- Check out my "State of Texas" earrings and the neon green fanny pack.

Bobby V. getting thrown out - notice the umpire is being restrained.

Brock will be sporting his Texas Rangers gear courtesy of Gigi and Grandpa for the World Series games.  Grandpa has already made him a fan.  While we lived with them, Grandpa and Brock would watch the games together every game night.  Anyways, enough jibber jabber.....PLAY BALL!  GO RANGERS!

Yay for the Red Wagon!

Well, Gigi spotted the Radio Flyer red wagon on sale in the Target ad, so we had to breakdown and get it for Brock while the weather is still nice. 

First, this is what dinner for our little guy looks like.  He is up to three meals a day....oatmeal in the morning, usually a veggie for lunch and a fruit for dinner.  Dinner is almost always during Wheel of Fortune.  Mommy and Daddy are competitive on the puzzle solving!

Brock and Uncle Stephen couldn't wait for the wagon to be put together...

Mommy, please tell Daddy to hurry up...

Yay!  So excited...

Another Day, Another Dollar

Who said accountants are all numbers?  Check out the pink hard hat! 



No, that is not our house in the background.  HA!  We took a tour of a new office building that my client is constructing.