Random Pictures

I found a bunch of random pictures on my phone. Some from a day with friends bowling, baking, Baby Eli's birthday, and everything in between!!

I took Brayden to meet my dad this weekend and go to their house for the night. You never know how it is going to go till it happens, but he did amazing this time. He is surely PAPA's boy!! Since he only has one grandpa he sure does get excited to go to his house and Grandm's (with lots of dogs) house!! He hasn't quite figured out Grandma's have names so they are classified by him with dogs or without!!  I asked him where he slept and their house and he told me "Right next to grandpa"!!

The sad part is that he is becoming less and less of a mommy's boy!!! He still misses me, but I am becoming easier and easier to forget for moments at a time!! Little stinker!!!!

Mr. INDEPENDENT!!

Brayden is getting closer and closer to 4 every day. Today is less than 2 months till we will be in California celebrating his birthday doing all kinds of fun things!!! We can't wait!! We are not convinced that the weather will stay nice every this year after the long awful winter we have had so we are looking forward to being warm!! It is 60 degrees today and Brayden asked me to take him to the pool!!! I guess this is warm to him!!!

 We went back to the gym this am to let Brayden run around and get some energy out!! He loves it!!! There is always something new to do and he enjoys looking for a new thing to entertain him!! I wish I had more Friday's off so we could go more!!

 

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I got in the shower one morning and when I got out Brayden was extra quiet!! This is why, he had a whole package of Oreos out snacking away!! He took a chair from the table and slide it over to the snack cabinet and helped himself!! Great breakfast that day till I found him at least!!



He is helping us brush his teeth now, and he is also found a  new way to make a mess and get a drink!!! I couldn't pass up this picture!!!

Friday's off!!!

I have had or will have quite a few Friday's off this month, and I can't lie, it has been great!!! It always seems like just a fun day, no housework, just fun things involved!!! Brayden loves going to the open gym on Friday mornings, so the day starts early, then it is followed by whatever other fun things I can find to  do for the day!!

He is such a big boy and so much fun to hang out with I just can't help it!! He loves his 1 on 1 time with either one of us!!

Brayden and Donny start swim lessons on Tuesdays next week!! Brayden is so excited to swim again so we will see how this goes!! If everything goes well I plan on putting him in private lessons next time so mom or dad don't have to get in!!! Brayden's goal is so to down the big slides at the pool this summer because he is finally tall enough!! Time will tell!!!

 

 

 This was his favorite new thing to do, he would hang from the bar and then kick his legs and swing into the foam pit!! Daddy said if he could hang for 15 seconds he could get a new Skylander, so of course he will do anything for a new toy and managed to get it done!! He is so funny on the balance beams, he walks sideways all by himself, but he keeps asking me to show him how to walk forward, but he doesn't try it!!!!



School Pictures

At the start of the school year, yes way back in August Brayden had pictures taken at school, this is the first time he has ever been there for picture day so I didn't know how it worked!! Well Donny brought them home yesterday!! They are not bad, maybe I just think he is so cute there is no bad picture!!! #proudmommy!!!

 

Brayden got his haircut and this time with bribery intact he was great, he was talking with the lady and making faces at her in the mirror!! Successful once again, I think we may have this one down, my only question is how long will I be buying toys for haircuts!! He obviously has this figured out!!!

Brayden has been into stuff animals lately, not sure why he just likes to carry his bears around and one even sleeps with him and his blankets!!

 Birthday treat!!! He is still a mommy's boy!!!

Stirrrrrr Crrrrrrazy!!

We are all going Stir Crazy around here with this awful winter we have had!!! We have had record  snow of colds and record breaking amounts leading to lots of time trying to entertain ourselves in the house. Brayden has not enjoyed taking time out of his day to learn anything like writing so we are constantly bargaining for a little learning writing times. This weekend I had a 4 day weekend and we were bound and determined to spend as much time away from the house as possible. We went to open gym at the gymnastics place with a friend, to the store for a new toy, to a mommy/Brayden lunch, and then to a friends house to play!! We shopped today and then are now getting yet another snow storm!!!!

 Brayden is really into Lego Movie right now, he knows all of the characters from the movie and loves to talk all about it!! He talked us into a Lego Movie shirt this week to wear to school and was so excited to hear people compliment him on his shirt all day!!!

Brayden told me this week while working on his letters that "Ok, I am not a good drawer, call someone who cares"!!! I sure hope teachers have better luck teaching him!! This is about the extent of what happens when we write, he draws robots!!!!! Good thing I didn't pick teaching as a career!!