Dedication

This past Sunday we had the joy of dedicating Brie at our church.  This was an extra special day, because five other families in our community group also dedicated their children.  We held a special, small ceremony in the chapel on our church's campus.  It was so wonderful to share this moment with not only our families, but also our community of support at our church.  We are blessed to have a wonderful community group that we've been apart of for almost six years now.  We were so happy that all of my family was able to come, even though they live far away.  Mom was able to stay for a few extra days as well, since it is her spring break.  Then, by some weird twist of fate, TSD had major electrical problems so I ended up with this entire week off (and we have next week off for spring break), so we were able to make an unexpected trip to the outlet mall where Brie was a little trooper and shopped with us for almost seven hours (with a couple of naps here and there).  She is such a good baby!  We loved having grandma here and were sad to see her leave yesterday, but we look forward to spending a whole week with her in July!

In other news, we officially have a babbler and almost crawler.  Out of the blue on Sunday night Brie just started strings of "bababa" and then on Monday tried out "dadada".  It is so fun to hear her talk all day long, she's definitely a talker, I'm thinking she got that from her mommy :).  She's also trying SO HARD to crawl.  It's adorable!  We think within a few weeks she'll have it mastered, but we'll see!  She also still doesn't mind rolling to get to what she wants, so she might not have the motivation for crawling just yet.  Here's a few pictures from our special day.  And if you haven't seen the JC Penney photo shoot pictures yet, you can see them here.