Gymnastics!

Brooke and I signed up for a mommy and me type gymnastics class. Yesterday was our first day and it was a hit! She loved it! We forgot our camera unfortunately but thanks to Melissa and Aubrey we got a few for our first day! I'll have to remember it next time!

Here is a picture of Aubrey and Brooke, the future gymnasts!.


Brooke and I in the pit of foam, or should I call it the pit of death? Brooke loved it but it took me like 5 minutes to get out of the pit!

Sesame Street Live!!!!

We took Brooke to see Sesame Street Live - Elmo's Green Thumb. She absolutely loved it!

Here she is in her Elmo outfit already to meet him!


We also were able to take several videos during the show. She danced and was so excited. We had great seats (front row on the right side) and she got to touch probably 5 or 6 of them too. We were able to capture some of those on video. The video is kind of long, but so totally worth it.

Hop Hop Hop

Great Grandma and Grandpa Sturtz had a hopping bunny for Easter. Brooke loved this bunny, but also hated it. She continually wanted people to wind it up to make it hop. She would actually point at it and say hop hop hop and pull people's hands toward it. She however refused to touch it herself. She would get really close but never touch it. She would point at parts of it, but not touch it. We all got quite a kick out of it!


Brooke's love and hate relationship with the hopping bunny from Julie Sturtz on Vimeo.

Piano Piano Piano

As I mentioned in the previous post, Brooke's favorite thing to do was play the piano with Great Grandma Sturtz. This was her favorite last time we visited too.

This first video is Brooke last year in Minnesota playing with the piano.


Brooke playing the piano from Julie Sturtz on Vimeo.

This is a video of Brooke this year. She probably spent at least 1/2 of her time at her grandparents sitting on that bench. She is able to get into it now and dance a little too.


Brooke and Great Grandma playing the piano from Julie Sturtz on Vimeo.

Minnesota!

This last weekend we went to Minnesota to visit Matt's Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, etc. Brooke traveled really well and we all had a good time seeing everyone.

Here is a picture of Brooke playing the piano with Great Grandma Sturtz. This was her favorite thing of the whole trip!


We also made it for a day at the Mall of America. Whew.. it was a little too much mall for me!

Here is a picture of Brooke on her first amusement park ride. There is an amusement park in the middle of the Mall of America.


We also had to visit Tyrone, since Backyardigans is one of Brooke's favorite shows.



The toy stores were great at the mall too. Brooke played at the Lego store with Daddy, and then loved the train table at another toy store.




Also had to check out the log water ride before moving onto the next adventure. Too bad Brooke was too little to go on that one!



The Mall of America also has an aquarium underneath it. It was fun and Brooke liked seeing all the Sharks and fish.

Dance Little Girl.. DANCE!

Here is a video of Brooke dancing. She loves to dance! She has a hard time moving her arms at the same time that she is moving her feet.. She also loves to twirl and makes herself dizzy that sometimes she falls while dancing. Here I was hoping she would have better moves then her mommy or daddy.


Brooke loves to Dance! from Julie Sturtz on Vimeo.