• Abbey and Brooks
• Brooks on Corey's Shoulder
• Peek a boo!
• The newest little guy
• Our bundle of joy
• Brooks Thomas
• Corey and the kids
• Corey and the kids 2
• The whole gang
• Daddy with the latest addition
• Emily and her little brother
• Emily holds the little guy
• A happy big sister
• Mommy and Daddy
• Whew - I need some rest!

• Abbey holding her brother
• Abbey and her little bro
• Who's the man?
• I'm hungry!
• The Burnett kids
• Emily and her new most favorite guy
• The proud mommy
• Jenn and the gang
• The ankle biters
• Uh oh - now we're out numbered!

Welcome to my home page. My name is Brooks Thomas Burnett and I was born on May 21st, 2002 at 3:46 am. Let me tell you the story of how I arrived.

According to the doctors I was supposed to be born on May 12th - but what do they know, huh? By Wednesday, May 15th, Mom had had it. She was ready to be done with this pregnancy stuff. She talked to her midwives and they said that if I wasn't born over the weekend that she could come in to the hospital on Monday, May 20th and be induced. Well needless to say I didn't want to leave my nice warm home so I hung around in Mommy's tummy all weekend.

Monday came and Mom woke up with some heavier contractions at about 4:00 am. So when Dad woke up we all headed to the hospital. We all arrived at 8:00 am and after checking in and all, moved upstairs and started getting ready to have a baby. Things progressed slowly but steadily through the day. Eventually Mommy got hooked up to an epidural to help her with the pain and I also felt some petocin kick in and the contractions got heavier and heavier. By early afternoon we all thought that it wasn't going to be much longer. However, things moved very, very slowly.

Around 4:30 or so the nurse really thought that it wouldn't be much longer. But alas, I just wasn't ready to leave. Then when we got close to shift change at 7:00 we thought that I was ready to be born. However Mommy was still only about 5 centimeters! I was going to need a lot more room than that.

The evening moved along slowly and the contractions continued, but I wouldn't budge. At about midnight the nurses and the midwife really thought things were moving! Mom was all the way to 8 centimeters and the contractions were really flying. But for the next hour or so nothing really changed. Mom stayed at 8 centimeters and never got more effaced. So we waited until about 3:00 am! Then the doctor came in and examined Mommy and suggested that maybe I was going to be a big baby and that we all might want to consider a Cesarean section. By now Mom had had it and was ready to have me out so she could give me a nice talking to about all the trouble I was causing! So Mom and Dad talked it over, prayed, and decided to go with the C-Section.

The doctor's prepped mom, dad got dressed up in a funny blue suit and we went to work. At 3:46 am after almost 24 hours of contractions I was born! The nurses cleaned me up, gave me a good check up and I was in my Daddy's arms. I weighed in at 10 lbs - 5 1/2 oz!! And I was 23 inches long. Apparently Mom fed me well over the last 10 months.

If you would like to see some pictures of me just click on the links at the left!

Thanks for visiting my page and I will update this section as more stuff happens!