Happy 1st Birthday Brooks

One year ago today our family was blessed with this sweet little boy. That day started out as any other day. I took the boys to the dollar store and then to Target to take something back. After I returned the item Gray had a dirty diaper. So I was carrying him to the bathroom to change it and slip on some water and did the whole slow motion fat pregnant lady splits. Instantly i didn't feel right. I changed Gray and came out to employees wanting me to fill out an accident report that would take 30 minutes. My boys were running around the store and I again wasn't feeling right. I passed and went home. I just felt like laying down. Getting nervous that I haven't felt him move lately I called my doctor's office and told them what had happened. They told me to go to the hospital and my doctor would meet me there. So called a sitter to watch to watch my boys, called Zach and off I went. They were doing the whole stress test on the baby and I was contracting a lot. A little later my wonderful doctor came in and was concerned with his heart rate and that we were going to have this baby tonight. We didn't have a name, no bag, no camera, a 12 year old at my house. Things were NOT going according to my plan. Later that night we were blessed with a sweet little boy. 5 lbs 12 ounces and 21 1/2 inches long. We decided on Brooks minutes before we went into the operating room. Brooks hadn't been a name we were considering. It felt right and later in the hospital decided on his middle name. Brooks Loyal Anderson. Loyal is after Zach's great grandpa. Brooks spent the first night in the NICU. He came in the next morning and since then he has been the PERFECT ending to our family. He has brought us so much joy. His older brother's can't get enough of him. He is so sweet and has such a great spirit about him. Thank you Heavenly Father for another amazing boy. We love you Brooks!!!

Brooks is crawling, pulling himself up, loves his brothers, bubble guppies, Mickey Mouse, mom and dad, sleeps great, food.