Silly Little Guy

Brayden is still potty training and it feels like it has been forever, I have had so many minutes that I feel like I should just put him back in diapers and be done with this, but then he gives me a glimpse that he can do!! This boils down to a control issue, and he still has the upper hand and is the only one that can control this!!! He knows that for sure!!! This is definitely one of the most tedious and timely thing we have had to master yet!! It is giving me a glimpse into the future for sure!! We spend lots of time in the house right now in shirts, underwear and socks for this reason!!

Brayden and the dog!! Well, Brayden has been tormenting the dog to death, he chases him, sits on him, locks him in a bedroom, and whatever else he can do to him!! I truly believe he does this so he has a playmate, but poor Moe!!

This is what my organized little guy does with all of him toys!! His toys must be in a category to him and they must stay with only other toys that are similar. He has monster trucks, first movie Cars, second movie Cars, Nascars, Hotwheels and who know what else, but they can't intermix!! Then he lines them up in straight lines that can all the way across the floor sometimes!!

 He got stuck in the chair, and we laughed so he kept trying to make this happen again!!

 This is my cuddly snugly little guy!! Every morning he wakes up and if he sees me it usually means I am home for the day and he says "I want to cuddle you"!!! How can you turn that down!! He woke up early one morning and I was suppose to be up getting ready for work, but once he said that I was stuck and didn't want to go to work!!



BOWLING FUN!!

I just love all of the new things that we can do with Brayden this winter. The list is endless. He listens so much better and his attention span is longer so we can do just about anything but a fancy dinner (which is fine by me)!!! Every few weeks we are trying something new with him so he doesn't g et bored and he amazes us every time!! I just love it, and one of my favorite parts is hearing his memory, he can tell me all about what we did or what we are going to do and he gets so excited!!

We went bowling with some friends last night and as you will see he enjoyed it!! We brought the Ipad for inbetween turns and he did really well!! I hope we can continue to come up with new things for him to try!!!

While Mom is Away, the BOYS will PLAY!!!

While I was at Aunt Carrie's baby sprinkle the boys went to the Caterpillar Museum in Peoria!! They were all so excited, I couldn't decided who wanted to go the most!!! As you will be able to tell in the pictures they all had fun climbing in the big tractors and being awed by the size of the machines!! Donny and my dad learned more than they ever wanted to know about each of the tractors and both of them are still talking about them today!!

On the way down to my parents I was trying to explain to Brayden that his PAPA was my daddy, and he told me "I not sharing my PAPA with you!!" I guess he is PAPA's boy!! The boys took a few pictures for me so here goes!!

It looks like they had a lot of fun!!! The three of them always find something fun to do while mommy is not with them!!! I have some catching up to do for sure!!!

Don't Leave him Alone for a Second

The other day I was finishing up laundry and walked out of the laundry room to put a few things away and came back to find Brayden had climbed in the dryer!! Really, he said that he "wanted to know what it looked like inside"!! What a funny kid. I am not sure how he climbed up there by himself, but he managed it somehow!!

 We are still working on potty training, and for some reason he does really well with me, and just pretty good for everyone else like daddy and school!! I am so use to him playing me and doing so much better with everyone else I can't figure it out, but overall he is doing really well. He is getting so big and communicating very well so I have high hopes for being DONE soon!!!

 I took Brayden to the doctor on Wednesday because he was coughing so bad and draining from his nose awful too!! He sat on the table like such a big boy while we were waiting!! I couldn't believe it, then when the doctor walked in he of course wanted me to hold him!! It works out better when I hold him anyway. She asked him how old he was and he gave her the whole story about going to "Mickey's house for his birthday on an airplane" They talked about it for a few minutes and from then on out he was all hers. He opened his mouth for her to look in, he let her listen to his lungs, and look in his ears!! He took her stethoscope and listened to her lungs?!? and played with her Pluto pin on her lab coat!! When he left there was a baby crying and he ran out of the room and asked them "Where that sad baby, I need help him"!! He is such a sweetie pie!!

 I gave Brayden his Valentine cupcake a day early because I work on Valentine's Day and he was so excited. It was huge so he didn't even put a dent in it but he loved it and was one big green mess afterwards!! He thought it was his birthday cake it was so big, and of course it is always about his birthday these days!! We made Valentine bags for his class today with stickers, snacks and Valentines!! He signed all of the Valentines but could of really cared less!! I guess I liked it more than he did!! Might as well get use to that because I am sure that will be the case for many more things in the future!



Last Tumbling Class

We had Brayden's last tumbling class today, and since we won't be doing it over the next few weeks due to my schdule being kind of different at work I thought I would post a few pictures!! He was the only boy in the class of 5 people and doesn't like the stretching part, but loves the obstacle course, or running around like a crazy kid!!! He can do a somersault all by himself, he tries cartwheels and actually does pretty good and ofcourse the kid can jump, jump off of anything over something or anything else they ask!! He had a lot of fun in the class!! He got a ribbon at the end of the class today and he was so excited about it!!! I tried to get a picture of it, but he was so fast that it didn't really turn out!!

Lately Brayden has been chasing the dog all around the house with a monster truck! He doesn't want the dog to sleep and is constantly yelling for me and searching the house for him!! Today I got a picture of Brayden laying on the dog like when he was a newborn!! It was so sweet!!

When he was new born, look at the size difference.