9 months old and a baby maniac!!

Let the wrestling match begin!

Brooks....Are you serious?!?!

Taking him down...

Just another day with the boys

Look at me!!! I am walking !!!

9.5 months!!

Stats for Brooks at 9 months:

Weight: 21lbs (50 to 75th)

Height: 28.8 (75 to 80th)

Brooks is such a funny little baby. Rowdy and I are constantly laughing at him because he's just such a tough little baby and he has such a fun personality. He squeals and kicks with excitement whenever we walk upstairs to the play room, outside, or take him out of his car seat. He talks and babbles the sweetest sounds all day long! He loves to wrestle his Daddy and Braydon and never watches without joining the chaos. He LOVES Braydon so much and thankfully Braydon loves him just as much. Although, Braydon has started telling Brooks, "No No Brooks....No sir!" It's pretty funny. Brooks started walking a few days before Christmas and is taking anywhere between 8 to 10 steps pretty frequently now. Every day he gets a little bit more brave. He started formula this month and tolerated the change very well. He still prefers to eat the Ella's Baby Food products vs. any table food. He sleeps...better, but still wants a 5am bottle :( and he gets it :) every. single. night. We might work on this soon...we will see.

Christmas PJ's

Merry Christmas!!!

Potty Training!

Mr Big Stuff!!

I am so proud of this little guy. We are off to a pretty good start! Wednesday: B woke up and we put on big boy undies and we were 2 for 2 and had 2 accidents after that. Brooks wasn't feeling well so we went to the doctor and B would NOT leave the house in undies, so I didn't fight him and we wore diapers the 2nd half of the day. Oh well. Thursday: B had his last day of school so I decided it was a waste to push the potty training. Friday: Playdate Christmas party chaos...no go on potty training. Saturday: We dove into FULL on potty training. We have had his little potty in every room in the house today and he has done SOOOO good! He only had three small accidents and basically went on the potty every 20 to 30 minutes. He ran errands with Rowdy and he stayed dry in between stops and pottied in the back of the car when needed. He napped in undies and stayed dry!!! He even played at his best buddy Hudson's house and kept up the momentum with his potty training (Hudson was so proud of B that he decided to wear big boy undies too-so cute) Later today we went to main street to see Santa fly in on a parachute and Braydon had no accidents for over 3 hours of no potty. I am so proud of him and I am so happy to see him so proud of himself. I hope day 2 goes as well! For now, I will just call today a success.

It's Time for a BIG BOY haircut!!!

Looking like a big boy-almost 3 yrs old

I will admit that I am taking baby steps toward Braydon's big boy haircut, but I think I have heard enough about "chilli bowls" and we are well on our way to a true big boy cut. I can't believe how big my sweet baby Braydon looks in these pics. I love how his new cut didn't change his look too much. I don't know if I could handle that :)

All this talk of big boy stuff makes me realize we need to start the potty training. Soo...tomorrow I am whipping out all the buzz light year and spiderman undies and we are going to take another stab at this potty training business. After all, you can't be too much of a big boy with your diaper hanging out of your jeans....no??? Wish me luck!!!

Christmas Play!

Not the best picture, but totally a formality. I love that Campbell, Braydon, and Hudson are all standing next to each other. Sweet buddies!

Santa Baby! Round 2

No tears!

The big guys at the big tree

the tree started to sing

Did I mention Braydon has been VERY 2 yrs old lately?

Sweet boys! Brooks at 9 months

Last Friday I picked up Hudson so Stacie could get ready for Brody's party and met Courtney and her boys at the train park. It was such a gorgeous day and the boys had so much fun running around the train park. We even were able to get a second picture with Santa which was nice because our first picture with the mall Santa was a little bit creepy. Braydon told Santa he wanted a buzz bike for Christmas.

It's so cute, if we are out at the store and B sees some toy he wants I tell him he needs to ask Santa for it and he replies with, "no, I want to ask Daddy!" I love it!

My Baby Boy

Brooks 8 months

Brooks and Cody playing cars!

I can never remember simple milestones so here's to jotting a few dow..You learned to wave Hi and Bye Bye this month and you can say "Bye" and "Dada" Yeah, your pretty smart Brooksie boy- your brother is teaching you lots!!

Just Because Post

Just because I still can't believe Braydon let someone paint his face!!! After all, he still is terrible at letting me brush his teeth and getting haircuts...weird?

And I just love our two boys playing in a cardboard box. Simple pleasures making this mama smile!

First Sleep Over

After last weeks family Sunday dinner, Reese asked if she could spend the night with her cousin Braydon. This was Braydon's first time to have a cousin or anyone spend the night with him. He was so excited and Reese was an angel. They snuggled up on the couch together and watched Toy Story 3 and slept on a pallet in B's room and played the next morning until 11am.

8 months!

I don't remember time flying by so quickly until we had kids and now I feel like I blink and another month has passed. Brooks is 8 months and just the happiest boy! He started crawling at 7.5 months and is now pulling up on anything and everything and starting to cruise a little bit. He's rarely calm enough to be nursed so we are quickly hitting up the stored goods in the deep freeze. He loves Ella's Organic baby food-Thank you Stacie! Who knew broccoli, peas and pears would be so good!!! He can feed himself puffs and he loves sippy cups (preferable Braydon's w juice :) He did great sleeping for about a month and is now waking up in the middle of the night wanting to eat. We moved him to a big boy car seat and I kinda hate that he doesn't transfer from car seat to bed...He can go a whole day with two 20 minute naps...He just doesn't require too much sleep. I am excited to have a baby crawling around the house for the holidays...he's at that fun perfect baby age! We just love you to pieces Brooksie Bear!!!

Muscles and Monkey

Halloween 2010!

Sweet Dreamin'

Tonight sweet Brooks was sound asleep and I started to hear the sweetest baby giggles from his monitor. I went into to see what was so funny and found our little prince cozy in the crib. I just love this picture of him and I love these little moments of being a Mommy!

Huddy my Buddy

Love these best buds!!!

What's cuter than a buzz light year with an orange lady bug on his face and Spiderman picking his nose??? And how did we go from monkey's to giraffes to spiderman??? This is all happening too quick!!! Happy early Halloween!!!

Brooks Dedication

Baby Boy on his Dedication Sunday...

It's the only time I go "strasburg" on my boys :)

Love

Family Pics make me laugh...

Ceremony

Love this pic of Nana and Brooks!

September 26th we had Brooks Dedication ceremony at our church. It was a beautiful day with our family and such a special day to make the official commitment to raise sweet Brooks in the church home. We love our church and church family and we feel so blessed to have so many people loving and praying for the upbringing and the well being of our children.

Playing cowboy with the boys

Riding all by himself!!

Brooks LOVES riding "Dallas" with Dad!

Winter Boys

Mama and Brooksie

Braydon: 2 yrs 8 months

Strike a pose!

Sweet B! You are SO loved!

Some things I want to remember about B at this fun phase...

Loves to wear his yellow "football" shirt and he asks to wear it every morning!

Will eat almost anything if we trade a bite for an M&M

Hits the baseball when he throws it up in the air...I am still impressed by this!

Says silly things like, "no no ants don't get me" (at least once a day...Braydon loves to find an angry ant pile) "that doesn't fit, it's too big" (when I put him in anything but his yellow football shirt) "Hud not at school today, he's sick and crying" (Because his Hudson was sick this week and missed MDO)..."Mama I need my BIG boy paci" (because I tell him daily big boys don't need paci's...paci's are for babies) He keeps me laughing at all the new funny things he says!

Pooped on the potty for the first time b/c he was scared of going in the bathtub...Thank goodness. (This has not been repeated) Oh well ;)

Has pretty much decided he doesn't need naps these days :( Maybe 1 every 12 days...only if I time a car ride right) I miss naps!

I sneak up on him giving his brother kisses as much as I sneak up on him "wrestling" with him. When he thinks he is in trouble he will say with a "question-like" tone MAMA or DADA?? Braydon has lost his baby looks and is more and more a big boy everyday! It's just a blessing to watch him grow into such a sweet little boy. I am already so proud of him!

6 month stats

Better late than never...

18.3 lbs (70 to 90th)

27 inches (75 to 90th)

This has been a tough month for sweet Brooks. He caught his first "real" cold a week after Braydon started MDO and it turned into a double ear infection. He's on antibiotics that have cleared up his ears (yay) but resulted in thrush (boo). Thankfully, he hasn't passed on the Thrush to me yet...He has had random fevers for the last few days and I feel like Dr G. thinks I have a crush on him because we are at the peds office at least once a week. Have I mentioned Dr G is kinda cute?? (that was for you Rowdy). The timing of the cold came one night after we were able to get Brooks to sleep through the night for the 1st time. Obviously we took ten steps backward and he's back in between Mom and Dad at some hour of the night. We are going to work on this again soon! After nearly 7 months of no sleep, I am just now getting tired.

Milestones: going to the crawl position and back to sit. LOVES his sippy cup, the born free blue teether, and wrestling with Braydon. Braydon is pretty rough , but Brooks just giggles and laughs it off. He is still nursing but his curiosity is making nursing more of a challenge unless I starve him for 4.5 to 5 hours....He finally decided it was ok to take a bottle from me this month and he has decided that he only likes to eat my vanilla yogurt and banana flavored baby oatmeal. He's super picky about eating any other baby foods. He still has no teeth, but I think any day now one might pop through. We are so enjoying watching the boys have a brotherly bond. I can't imagine life 6 months ago pre-Brooks! He fits so perfectly into our little family!

PARK!

6.5 months and 1st time in the swing!

I guess by the time your 2 it's not as fun...Poor H

But these guys are all SMILES!!

WEE!!

Mama's baby!

Safety Town

Braydon was so excited to share his matching glasses with Hudson

Playing in the fire truck

So big!

How cute is he!!!

J walking :)

Today Stacie and I took the boys to Frisco's Fire Safety Town. We had a one on one tour with a firefighter named Ben. He showed us around and let the boys run and play in the fire truck and all over the safety town. Safety Town is such a neat program that teaches about fire safety and the facility is amazing! The boys may have been a little young for it, but they LOVED getting to play in the fire truck! What a fun day with our boys!!! I love making memories with my bestie the babes!

6 months!

Precious Boy

Braydon thought he needed a hat!! I think Brooks likes it!

First time in the blow up tub

Braydon had to jump in with his brother

Just a few pics of our sweet little Brooks for his 6 month Birthday! I will update more after his Dr.'s appointment this week. I can't wrap my mind around how quickly the last 6 months have gone by...Here's to wishing the next 6 months are as great, but go by a little slower!!