16 months Old

At 16 months old he will finally sit down at home to have a snack without being locked down, and he really enjoys it. I started giving him a bowl full of few different snacks and he will sit and eat every last one. It takes alot of thought, but he finishes the bowl.

Donny and I are trying to wean Brayden from his second nap finally. He has not been a very good sleeper lately and we are thinking that maybe it is because he is sleeping too much during the day. It is taking alot of extra attention but we have been pretty successful since we really declared that we were going to do it. It is challenging because he loves to sleep in the morning.

Brayden has also adjusted well to wearing long sleeves and jackets, he will come to us now to put his jacket on. I think it might be because he likes to go places and play outside more than anything in the world.

The last week of daycare has went really well. Brayden walks in by himself, smiling at all the rooms before his and then goes into his room and leaves Daddy behind and starts playing. No more crying, finally we made it!! He is also becoming quite the colorer. They give him paper and crayons all the time and then he brings the pictures home for Mommy!! I can't believe my little guy can color pictures already!!

New Toys.... New Clothes....

A few new toys...

I guess that Brayden gets bored with his toys as quickly as he grows out of clothes. I took Brayden to Target today and bought his some new toys that I guess he desperately needed!! Silly Mommy didn't get the memo that everytime I buy him clothes I need to buy him just as many toys!! Lesson learned, and I won't forget it again!!! Hope you enjoyed the pictures!!

GO BEARS!!!!!!!!!

This weekend has been all about football! I got home from work on Friday night and we took Brayden to his first high school football game, it was Dekalb vs. Sycamore game at NIU stadium. He just looked around and didn't know what to think about all of the people!! He did pretty good except when I would try to take a picture he would freak out and cry (which you will see below)!!

On Sunday we put Brayden's Bears jersey on and watched football with him, he likes it even more than last year!!Thanks to Uncle Daniel for the Bears jersey, it fits him prefect this year!!  He has learned to stomp his feet when he gets excited and just kept doing that!! He claps and stomps his feet again and again!! SOOO Cute!! We can't wait to take him to his first BEARS game!! Not sure what age will be a good but we will figure it out!! BEARS TOUCHDOWN AGAIN!!!

We finished Brayden's antibiotics and ear drops today, and he is acting like his ear feels much better, hopefully we don't keep doing this every month, poor little guy!!

Brayden is becoming quite the little climber these days, he will climb on anything we tell him not to, sometimes it is so cute I can't help but take a picture before I take him down.

Well, another week over and another week of growing complete. My little guy is not going to be my little guy for long!! He looks better to me every time I put new pictures up!!



We Have To Do This More

 We went to a friends house today and had a GREAT time!! There were 3 adults and 3 little ones!! The little ones definately ruled the show today!! They were so much fun though! Brayden had so much fun playing with Alexis that he let me hold the new baby!! That never happens without a fight, but today it was easy!! I love to watch them interact with eachother, they are so different, yet so the same. I also think I learned why Brayden gets bitten at daycare!! He just takes what he wants, thankfully Alexis is a sweet little girl that likes to hug and kiss not fight, or Brayden would of been in big trouble!! It was also great because they both slept really well afterwards!! Play dates are going to have to start happening more often especially with winter coming!! SO much FUN!!! Thanks To Tami and Albert for letting us come over today!!!!

Here are a few pictures of the two of them:





 

First time he actually ate the food from a bowl before the dog got it!!

Could work with his Daddy all day!

They are 3.5 months apart and Brayden is bigger!

Alexis let him ride in her car!!

The remote control car was a hit!

She didn't think he would fit, we are both suprised when he did!!

She is so sweet, and Brayden is such a Terror!!

Another EAR INFECTION....

Went to the doctor today and found out that Brayden has his second ear infection of his life and it is only a month from the first one. We are going to try antibiotics this time because he has been so miserable and not sleeping!! Everything else looks good so we will try this again. I told Donny what was found and he brought up tubes already?? I hadn't even thought that so I am going to keep avoiding that subject for now!! Brayden woke up not feeling great this am, and I took a picture of him in his carseat and he didn't look like he felt well either!! Poor little baby, I am sorry that he is sick again. I am sure that it is because of daycare and everything that he has been exposed to already, but hopefully when he starts school he will immune to all of it!! Donny and I are praying that he will get some sleep after he gets some medicine is his system and start to feel better!!

It's gonna be a long winter.....

Well, our little guy is a much bigger fan of summer than the fall so far!! He doesn't like to wear clothes in general and to put long sleeves on him is a big problem!! He had to wear a jacket part of this weekend and it didn't go well!! WINTER will be interesting, he will either like the cold and still want to be outside all of the time or he will not like it at all and we will fight him to get him to go out at all!! Time will Tell!! Our little guy knows what he wants and when he wants and he doesn't like it if it is not his way, or at least that is how this long holiday weekend went. Thank goodness Donny was off this long weekend too beacause our little guy was kind of a handful and didn't sleep at all hardly!! He was waking up almost hourly through the night and going back to sleep but would be loud enough to make sure we were awake too!!! We would start to get up to see what was going on and he would sleeping again!! It made me worry a little, so I planned on taking him to the doctor Tuesday!! Well, I wanted to share a few pictures of the happy times we had this weekend, we didn't take him far because his mood changed very quickly and we didn't want to get stuck anywhere.

Brayden went Truck Shopping....

Donny and I took Brayden to buy Donny a new truck last night. Ofcourse it was a 40 minute drive and then as usual nothing went a smooth as we had hoped it would, but we came home with a new truck!! Donny and Brayden are in heaven. Brayden loved sitting in the trucks and pretending to drive!! We got to the dealer and they test drove our car and after opening and closing the huge sunroof a few times it quit closing. It is a $1100 part to fix and at this point it is still our car so that stunk!! Oh well. Brayden is quite the car shopper, it will be interesting when he is old enough to drive if he picks bright blue cars then too!! The truck that he liked the most was hideous!!

After truck shopping one of Donny's friends came over with his 21 month old little boy and Brayden and him had a great time. It was so much fun to see them run after each other and play together!! I thought that 15 months old was a great age and I am excited to see what every month adds to my little peanut!! When they were leaving they gave each other 5, blew eachother a kiss, waved, and they tried to do knuckles but Brayden wasn't sure about that! I had so much fun running after them!!