Foul Duck…………Fun in the OmniPlex…………...

Ok so as most of you know the Sooners had a bad day in Oregon. There isn't a whole lot to say about the game, but there is an official investigateion being done by the PAC 10 about the officating of the reviewed calls. It was COMPLETELY obvious to all of the people that saw the on side kick call, that the ball WAS touched by the Oregon ducks before the ball had gone 10 yards, which means that the ball should have been Sooner ball. Not only that, but the Sooners were the ones that came out of the pile with the ball in OUR hands. Anyone who saw the play clearly saw that the Sooners were at least 3 feet away from the ball when the Oregon team touched the ball. To quote Jack Arute, "that was a bad call, a horrible call". There were other questionable calls made all of which were against the Sooners of course. It seemed as though it was a very one sided called game and the calls that were made at the end of the game, the crucial calls, were just WRONG. Much like father like daughter, it wasn't a pleasant evening in the Brinsfield home. After that Breanna got a bath and we all went to bed. Next up, Middle Tennessee State, at home. Jay and I are going to go to this game thanks to the generosity of my parents.

Sunday was a much better day. We took Breanna to the OmniPlex, OKC's science museum and I-MAX movie theater. They have a 4000 sq foot area that is just for little kids. Breanna had a plast. They had water toys, puppets, a slide, lots of little kid toys. We got there about 11 and didn’t leave till about 3:30. Breanna was WAY tired when we left. She hadn't gotten to take a nap all day, so she fell asleep in the truck on the way home and didn't wake up till about 5:00. Here are some pictures from that trip. Next weekend Breanna is going to go and visit Gamma and Grandad!! She can't wait!

JJ's second Ultrasound.............




1. JJ'S FACE















2. HE IS STILL A BOY (FOLLOW THE ARROW)

















3. SIDE VIEW, HEAD IS TO THE RIGHT SIDE, THE DARK SPOT IS HIS EYE, THEN HIS BODY IS GOING TOWARD THE LEFT. HE HAS ONE HAND ON HIS CHEST, THE OTHER ARM IS ON THE BOTTOM (THE LIGHT LINE)
















4. FEET


















5. FACE AGAIN, STARTS AT THE RIGHT SIDE AND GOES DOWN AND TO THE LEFT, HE HAS BOTH HANDS RIGHT BELOW HIS CHIN. IT ISN'T HIS WHOLE FACE, IT IS SQUISHED. HIS EYES ARE ON THE SIDE, THE NOSE IS IN THE MIDDLE AND THEN THE MOUTH IS THERE.

















I think he looks a lot like Breanna (as much as you can tell in Ultrasound pictures). The due date came up as Nov 20th, so we are expecting our new baby to be here to meet his Aunt Melissa when she comes to visit for Thanksgiving!! They said that he weighs about 3 1/2 lbs, and is about 16 inches long. And they expect him to be an average size baby when he is born. He is sitting head down, sitting sideways like he is looking to the left. His back is on the right side of my stomach.
Everything looks good.


We have already been preadmitted to Mercy so now all we have to do is wait. I have my next doctors appointment on Sept 25th.

This weekend Jay and I will be doing so major house cleaning. We have been slacking off for about a month, it is hard for us to get it all done with Breanna under foot. So we devised a plan for one of us to watch her and the other clean and then switch.

We are also planning on taking her to the Omniplex (our hands-on science museum) one afternoon. They have a special area that is 4000 sq feet that only kids under 2 can go into. We figure we'll let her run around in there and wear herself out.

Have a good rest of your week!!

Zoo Days…………….

Well we had a good weekend. The Sooners won, they didn't play the first half so well, but they played a better second half. =) That makes for a good weekend in the Brinsfield/McClain family.
We took Breanna to the Zoo on Sat. She LOVED getting to see the animals. We took her to the Children's Zoo section. She got to pet the donkey, sheep, and a pig. She talked to the donkey. We took her to the aquarium and she loved watching all the big colorful fish. She got to see a sea lion up close. They have windows at the bottom of the sea lion, seal pool. So when they dive under the water you can see them swimming around. Well one of the sea lions would dive down and when Breanna was standing in the windoe looking at them he swam up to the window, stopped and looked at her for about 45 seconds. Breanna loved it, she studied the sea lion as much as the sea lion was studding her.













































We went and saw the bears. She called the bear Pooh bear the whole time. We didn’t go to the other side of the park where they have the bigger animals. We are going to take her back another time to see all of them. We walked 1/2 of the zoo. We walked around for about 4 hours. We left the Zoo about 2 so that we could go and watch the game at home, and Breanna was VERY ready for her nap, she actually fell asleep in the 15 minute ride home. She then woke up and watched the game. She ate dinner and went to sleep about 6pm.
Sunday we hung out at home. Jay decided last night when he was eating his ice cream that it would be a good idea to share it with Breanna. She got about 7 or 8 bites of ice cream, but that was all her little body needed. She was literally jumping up and down for the next hour. I couldn't get her to go to sleep for the life of me. She FINALLY went to sleep last night after an hour of sitting in her room by herself singing to herself at 11pm. Needless to say it wasn't a very pleasant morning. Breanna was tired and did not want to get up. She cried most of the morning while Jay tired to help me get her up and dressed.
We go for our second ultrasound tomorrow, so I'll get those pictures up on Wed morning. Have a good Monday!!

Ohhh the things that you hear from daycare……

Ok so Sara, Breanna's babysitter during the day, called me last night before I left work to let me know that Breanna had gotten a little over zealous at song time and had scratched her face. Apparently the Itsy Bitsy Spider song makes my baby so happy she just couldn't contain herself, she got soooo excited about singing the song and doing the movements that go with it that she scratched the side of her face. Hahaha she does LOVE to sing and do the corosponding movements. She does Patty Cake, Itsy Bitsy Spider, The wheels on the bus, If you are happy and you know it, and some song about ducks.
So Sara and I started talking, I found out also that on Wed when Breanna was taking her nap that she got up a little early and as she usually started to shake the crib rails. Sara was in another room and heard Breanna start crying, she said it wasn't Breanna's usual "come and get me" cry, so she went in there and Breanna had shaken the rails so hard that she had broken the crib. The piece of partical board that was holding up the matress was sitting half on the gound at an angle. Breanna was hanging onto the part of the matress that was still inside the crib and screaming. The matress isn't more than a foot off the ground at the highest point, so I am not sure why she didn't just crawl down and get out of the crib. Sara said that she wanted to tell me incase Breanna got scared when we put her down to go to sleep. That silly kid!!
Sara said Breanna also has all of the little babies trained to get up and throw their cups, pillows, and blankets out of the crib before they go to sleep. She doesn't do this at home, but apparently she doesn't want pillows and blankets when she is napping at daycare.
My silly baby.
She makes me laugh all the time. She is just the happiest little baby ever. Last night when I came home Breanna and Jay were sitting on the front porch waiting for me. Breanna and I have storytime before she goes to bed, it is about my favorite time of day. She gets her bath, we brush her teeth then we get readt she has her milk and she sits on my lap and we have storytime to wind down her day and get her ready for bed. =)
Have a great weekend. Sat afternoon root for the Sooners. We will be watching the game at home in HD on the big screen. =)

We got our new bassinet!!


Here are some pictures of the bassinet that I found on the internet. We love it. I went over to my friend Natasha's co-workers house last night on my way home. She had it all set up so that I would see how it looked set up and I knew where everything went. She was VERY nice. I am soo thankful that we were able to get that from her. It is beautiful and I know JJ will love it.

So here are the pictures. It is white and has little blue teddy bears on it. Just tooo cute.

Funny Face!!

Just hought these were cute/funny!!

Random Thoughts……………. Ok so this is what I have been thinking about today. Crocky Steve has died, very sad. Poor little kids that lost their father. The rest of the world has lost a great wildlife teacher. =( We loved watching his show, and were shocked that he died. I have been swimming with several (TONS) of stingrays. Some in Stingray City. There were HUGE stingrays, I never had any fear, and still don't have any fear of the gentle giants.


e are getting a basinet tonight for JJ, so that this time we don't have to put the pack-and-play in our bedroom. It took up WAY to much room and got in the way ALL the time. I e-mailed some friends and asked if they knew of anyone willing to sell me one for a reasonable price. It wasn't 2 minutes later that I got an e-mail from my friend Natasha saying that she had 2 people she knew trying to get rid of them. It pays to have friends of baby-making age!! =)

Watched Big Brother last night. Very glad that the girls came to their sences and got rid of Will. Hahaha did you see the look on Boogie's face after that happened. CLASSIC!! He sat there with his mouth open for the longest time hahahaha. I can't wait to see what else happens this Thurs.

Hmmm Breanna's getting bigger and smarter everyday. She is walking more and more everyday. My stomach is getting bigger and bigger everyday. JJ is making me more and more uncomfortable. He is getting a lot more active and has decided that night time is his favorite time to play around. Which means that I am not getting a lot of sleep. I wake up typically about every two hours for some reason or another. It makes for LONG days at work. We get to see our little boy one more time before meeting him. We have our second ultrasound on Tues the 12th. I'll get those pictures up as soon as I can get them scanned and on the computer. =) Not to much else going on. Working…still working 10 hour days so that I can have 3 days a week with Breanna. Saving all the vacation time that I can for when I am off work with JJ.

Boomer Sooner


So this weekend was the first Sooner game of the year, and our first opportunity to see our replacement quarterback Paul Thompson at the wheel. Personally I think he did a great job. Having geared the last two years of his life toward being a WR and then having to switch gears so suddenly to being our quaterback. Admittidly he did have a few issues,but for the first game of the year I thought he looked good. I think Joe John Finley will have a great year, and will bring back a little of the Trent Smith action. A.D. looked great. The second half of the game seemed to be the AD show, but why not use him if you have got him. =)

Breanna in the Sooner tradition wore a Sooner outfit on Friday to support her team. She actually spent the morning with my dad, so he got a kick out of seeing her. Then Sunday during the game she got to wear her Sooner cheerleader outfit. She had a good time watching the game. Mostly playing, but she sat on the couch and watched a little too. =) My parents have enrolled her in the Sooner Legacy program, so she has all kinds of Sooner books, ect. I am trying to get her to say Boomer Sooner, so far she can't get it all out, but she says something like Sooner. My mom and dad went to the game. My mom called to tell me that they were in their seats (and getting wet)
before the game started. She said that they didn't get home till about midnight after the game.

















On a side note, to those of you who are Longhorn fans, congrats on the win, and good luck against OSU!! =) See I am not that bad of a Sooner fan!! =) To those Colorado fans…..what in the heck happened to you all?? Didn't see that game so I don't know!

Lets see we start another week. It is a 4 day week, but all of my weeks are 4 day weeks. We go for our second ultrasound next Tues, so stay tuned for those pictures. We'll see what the doctor has to say then too. We are in the final countdown. We start our every two weeks docotrs visits next week. It seems like time is flying by. We are getting ready for this little one. We have found a basinet to put in our room for JJ. That pack-and-play was just a little big and was going to drive us nuts!! I e-mailed some of my friends and asked them if they knew anyone that wanted to sell us one. Amazingly enough it took about 2 minutes and we had 3 offers. I guess it helps to have friends that are baby making age!! =)

On a side note Breanna is venturing out on her own now, she'll walk about 5' by herself. She is getting better and better everyday!! =)

Have a good week!!

Play Days…..

Well this weekend was a little different than last weekend. This weekend, even though it was over 100 outside, we had a bug to get out of the house and go out somewhere.

We took Breanna to the park. She didn't like the slide too much. I think she got a little scared. She did love the swing though. Jay pushed her for a few minutes. It was really just to hot outside to be out there for very long. So we packed our stuff up and went home.











































It did rain Sat night and almost all day Sunday. It actually cooled things off. It was 66 when I walked out the door this morning (it was 6:20am), but the high is suppose to only be about 82. Jay is the happier that it is finally cooling off. He got pretty tired of the 100+ temperatures. It makes his days REALLY long and makes him REALLY tired.

Well I went to the doctor yesterday. Everything is fine. Had to take that yucky glucose test. So it was a legnthy doctors visit. We are scheduled for our 2nd and final ultrasound on Sept 12th. So we get to "see" JJ one more time before we get to meet him. I am pretty excited. Our babysitter if any of you don't know is also pregnant, and due 3 days after me. So we get to talk about all of our doctors visits each morning when I go and drop off Breanna. Our doctors are in the same practice. She is having a girl, she already has a son Braden, and now they will have baby girl Hayden. She is having her ultrasound done tomorrow, so I am a little jealous that I have to wait 2 more weeks. We have also traded a lot of baby clothes. She has sent baby boy bedding and things and I have given her some baby girl clothes. There are a lot of things that I just couldn't give up. It may take me a little longer to be able to let go of some of those cute little baby girl clothes that Breanna was wearing a year ago.

We are ready for the Sooners to play this weekend. We play UAB on Sat night at 6pm. So everyone turn on TBS and watch our Sooners. My parents have enrolled Breanna and JJ in the Sooner Legacy program so Breanna and JJ will be sent little things from OU for the next few years. Breanna in the true Sooner tradition will be wearing her OU gear on Friday. We are going to train her little Sooner mind from the beginning. Last year she wore her little OU onsie each game day. It is just a coinsidence, but my dad will be watching Breanna that morning too, so he will get to see her all geared up.

So last words for this week are BOOMER SOONER!! I'll get pictures of Breanna this weekend in her Sooner outfits. She has several. She has little Sooner cheerleader outfits for game day!! =)

Have a great week!!

Lazy Days………

Didn't have a whole lot going on this weekend. We spent a lot of time at home. Sat night we did go up to Mindy and David's house to celebrate David's birthday. We went to Lake Arcadia again but only for about 45 minutes before we had to go and get ready for David's party.
Sunday we spent the day at home. Just hanging out. Breanna and Mommy took a nap together. Breanna is walking a few steps on her own. She seems to like standing up more and more. Soon enough we will be in trouble when she is running around the house. =)

Small acomplishments……

Breanna brushed her own teeth last night. She spent about 15 minutes doing it, and cried when I took the toothbrush away from her. She did a good job. Wow how fast do they grow up!!

Breanna!!



JJ!!

Lake Babies…..

Well this weekend went by pretty quickly. We took Breanna to Lake Arcadia Beach on Saturday afternoon. We went with Jay sister Mindy her husband David and their 3 kids Shayla, Alyssa, and Dylon. Breanna LOVED crawling out on the beach into the water. She had a blast. I got a few pictures of Breanna and Alyssa playing in the water. Breanna decided at one point to taste the sand to see if it was any good. We cooked out hamburgers and hot dogs out on a grill that David and Mindy brought. A good time was had by all.
Breanna LOVES playing in the water "splashy, splashy" as we call it. The beach there has a barrier about 30 feet out and it the water only comes up to Breanna's chest there so she had a TON of room to run around any play.

Nothing new really going on with us. I go back to the doctor in the 28th to take the lovely gestational diabetes test. Nothing to worry about they make everyone take the test. Only one more payment and we will have our portion of the physician's delivery charges paid off YEAH!! =) Have a good week!!
















Alyssa (left) and Breanna (right) at the beach















Alyssa and Breanna eating chips sitting on a stump while the daddies cook dinner















Breanna playing "spalshy, splashy"
















Alyssa and Breanna playing with a stick















A tired girl after a long day at the lake

Our week…….

Well lets see last week as you know Breanna wasn't feeling well. It made it's way though our house in it's own way. Jay called me Friday morning and said that he wasn't feeling well and that he thought that he needed to eat something. So I met him at the the hospital that I work at to get him something to eat. He kept that down, but said he didn't feel well. He pretty much slept all day Sat. Breanna and I went over to my parents house for awhile to let the house be kind of quiet so he could rest. We came home about 2 hours later. Jay was still sleeping.
Sunday we woke up and we both felt good. So we decided to go and get some lunch. We were going to Mindy and Davids to go take the kids to the lake. Jay and David went to Walmart to get some ice and I started to feel really bad.
I called Jay and told him we needed to go home. Soon after I was sick as a dog. After about 3 1/2 hours of being sick every 15 minutes I told Jay we needed to go to the Mercy afterhours place so I could see a doctor. I didn't want to get dehydrated and end up in the hospital. We got there about 7:00 and didn't leave till about 9:30. The doctor had to call my doctor to see what they could give me to help me that wasn't harmful to little JJ.
After that shot I wasn't sick again. I did sleep almost all day Monday. I went for my doctors appointment at 11:30. Everything was fine. JJ heart rate was 144 which is normal. I am going back on Aug 28th to do my glucose test.

Let see Breanna is doing great. Talking more and more. She has started to call almost every dog she see's "Dexter". She sings a lot and talks almost all the time. Some of the words we can understand and some we can't. We working on more and more everyday. =)

Breanna's birthday pictures