Manny's a star!!

Manny became the #1 Mississippi State University star and Gulf Coast celebrity Monday night!! We went to a dinner, the Road Dawgs Tour, to meet the new MSU football coach this past Monday night. Manny was a hit! Coach Mullen played with him and signed his baby cowbell. Our little man was an instant hit! He made the 10 p.m WLOX news and the front page center of the Sports section of Tuesday morning's Sun Herald news paper! If you would like to see the news clip, go to http://www.wlox.com/ and click on Monday night, May 11th, sports. I am attaching the newspaper pics! Who knows? Maybe he's an up and coming MSU quarter back!! Coach Mullen thought he had a pretty good arm when Manny threw his pacifier at his head!!

16 months old!

Well, since our last post, Manny has turned 1, begun walking, running, climbing, talking, has 11 teeth and counting, and moved into a big boy bed! I would say that I was sorry for not updating in several months, but as you can imagine, all these wonderful first have made a very busy Mommy and Daddy!!

Manny Brooks is turning into our little boy not our little baby! Its amazing how much he has grown up in the past few weeks. He has the best personality. Smiles and talks to anyone; he doesn't always speak in English, but he talks...a lot! His favorite words are uh-oh, he uses that a lot!, and bup-pup, that's his pup-pup. He has Ma Ma and Daddy mastered. Mostly uses his sweet Ma Ma voice when he needs something or is sleepy and calls for his Daddy when he wants to play and get in trouble!! He definitely has us figured out! He climbs on EVERYTHING and opens anything that can be opened. There is not enough child-proofing to Manny proof our house! Last night he came to Mommy's youth group with his Daddy and managed to color his face, legs, and arms with a green marker!

In December he started at a new daycare, and we all love it. We had no idea they could teach a one year old so much, but he learns something new everyday!

We love you all and wish you could share in each new thing with us. We really will do a better job of updating this page so you can keep our sweet Manny!