Happy New Year

enjoying a good laugh with great grandma!

doing my excercises!

Happy New Year! Yes, I know that it is a little late but you'll have to forgive me as I had the flu :( Because I work at a daycare, I am able to hear the scoop on all of the sicknesses (sp?) that fly around. I had heard a lot about this nasty flu that people kept getting and how it stayed for about a week! YUK!! Of course, I was hoping that it would just keep it's distance from me...wrong! I came down with the bug on Sunday afternoon and stayed miserable until Wednesday night. Luckily, neither Jim nor Brielle caught it, so they took really good care of me. I have also decided to make all of Brielle's baby food because my mom gave me a Magic Bullet for Christmas. It was super easy and in the blink of an eye, I made 4 different kinds of food for her! And thanks to Shannon's good idea of avacado as a baby food, Brielle now has a new thing in her diet. So far so good, she seems to really like it! (Thanks Shan!) We will probably still buy the meats in a jar until I master that. I think it might take a while to get the hang of that one! But making her fruits and veggies saves a lot of money with only a minimal amount of work involved.

We are heading over to our friends Nate and Kari's house tonight for dinner and visiting. Their daughter Madison is 2 and loves playing with Brielle, and last time Brielle couldn't sit very well on her own and toys weren't super fun. So I think they will both have a good time tonight as Brielle is now a pro at both of those things :)