Brooke, The Little Bundle of Joy

Brooke made an unexpected visit today, along with her little sister Lila, in the 2 seat baby carriage. There is only one way to describe Brookes progess.... Amazing. She is so happy and has so much energy. When she wanted to go outside, she grabbed my hand and said "come on". She was running around outside, then she came over for a big hugger. While I was holding her, my roofing partner Roger was going to leave. I told Brooke to tell Roger good-bye. She started waving to him and kept saying "Bye...Bye....Bye". Her Mom wanted to go home, so I put Brooke back in the stroller. Bad idea without advanced notice. She was crying and fighting. Grandma said it looks like you can push Brooke home. Pushing a double stroller 8 blocks really sucks. I got a good workout and Brooke was a content little girl. When we got back to her house, she pulled me into her fenced in yard. She picked up a ball and threw it to me. I put the ball on the ground and told Brooke to kick it. She kicked it and said "kick". Her Mommy had bought her a bottle of bubbles. I would blow some bubbles, and then hold the wand in front of Brooke and told her to blow. She would blow, just not hard enough to make bubbles. So I would blow bubbles, and Brooke would chase them. Back she'd come and try to blow again. This went on for 15 minutes. Brooke then went over and got a Gatorade bottle. She peeled a receipt off the bottle that was taped on, then put out her arms and said " ta daaa" and clapped. She then walked into her house. In her room she put her hand over her mouth, and then pretended to sneeze by saying "ah ah ah ah choooo". Then I would do it, then she would do it again. She was very content tonight, so I was able to leave with no problem at all.

I am so happy at the progress Brooke is making. I must say though, that I am also very proud of her Mom, Cora. Without her efforts, the supplements wouldn't have a chance to work. As we have added more supplements, Brookes juice isn't very tasty. Every morning Cora takes on the daily battle of getting the supplements down Brooke. Some way, some how, she gets in done. We will make some changes next week to switch to better tasting supplements for Brooke.

I will be on a roof all day tomorrow in Courtland. But on Easter Sunday, I am going to share a story told to Linda and I last night by Brookes day care worker.