Silly Little Guy

Today we were spoiled with 70 degree weather, and I could easily get use to it. We started our day with meeting grandma and grandpa at Starved Rock for brunch!! It was gorgeous there and Brayden did really well and then loved running up the trails and stairs afterwards!! He remembered that he could talk grandpa into anything and took him right to the candy machine for M&M's. Grandpa asked him if he had money and he said you have "Big money Grandpa"! He can really work the Grandparents !!

Brayden has a new smile, and everything I try to take a picture of him I get this cheesy smile, it cracks me up, then after I take the picture he wants to see it and he laughs too!! I am sure that you will see this look 100 times in the upcoming posts because he is really good at it now!! I will be holding off taking his 3 year pictures till this face is less frequent!! 

I learned this weekend that with boys it is a good weekend if you are able to put a hole in your jeans!! Not only is he hard on shoes, but he is hard on jeans too!! We have only had 4 nice days to play outside and he has already put a hole in one pair of jeans, but all shoes are still in one piece!! (we have been putting old shoes on him to ride his bike, yes he still is not using the pedals!!)

Here are a few pictures from the past week:

Here he is posing with his new Robots, He is obsessed with transformers, it kills me how fast he can go from one thing to the next, back to the previous, and you never know where he will go next!!

Trying to be like Jake the pirate and put his sword on his pants!! I was laughing so hard!!

Loving the Weather...

We played outside yesterday most of the day!! It was so much fun, and he took a good nap so even better!!! We went on walks, rode his bike, rode on his power wheels, and explored. Brayden loves to be outside. Yesterday we tried and tried to get him to pedal his bike with no luck! I kept having him watch how fast kids can go when they pedal and he told me his Lightening McQueen powerwheels go fast if he needs to! He would rather ruin his shoes every week than pedal!! We put him in his old shoes that already have a hole everytime we play outside!!

Brayden loves to walk around outside, he leads the way and goes to the way and goes by the ponds, into the empty lots, and this year knows to not go into the streets unless mommy is with him and he looks both ways!! So glad he remembers that!! He looks for bugs, picks up rocks, looks for sticks, and whatever else he can  do.

I can't wait for warm weather every day!! Here are a few pictures from yesterday!!

This is Brayden's version of a snow angel, although he was a little upset when he couldn't see it when he got up!!!

Fun Times...

The weather is turning warmer, and we are so excited!! We are getting claustrophobic in the house!! Brayden has been talking about swimming and vacation non-stop lately!! He wants it to be warm too, we looked up when the pool opened this week and found we have quite a while to wait!! I learned one thing from telling Brayden about vacation so early, and I won't be telling him about anything that far ahead again. I think vacations should be told to him the morning of!! Lesson learned for sure! We went to get Brayden some sandals yesterday so we could start the process of transitioning him over before California and he was not happy they were on his feet and he wanted his shoes back on! I am not sure why it is such a hard transition for him but he is NOT a fan!! I hope that this becomes easier as time goes by. I am looking at sandals that look more like tennis shoes for Disney so they will be comfortable for him but we will see. He might wear tennis shoes too!! You never know with him!!

He is really into Rescue Bots right now and loves police officers, cars, firefighters and firetrucks and his toy firehouse!! He adds a few of his other toys to it like a helicopter and says "mommy look they all help people!!" We saw someone pulled over by a cop the other day, and Brayden says "mommy it is so nice that police officer helping people". It is amazing to me how everything is positive, I wish I could bottle this up and keep him this way forever!! I love it!!

Happy Easter!

We had a very laid back Easter this year!! We colored eggs, got an Easter basket and presents, had an Easter egg hunt, went to the park and played outside, and had dinner with Donny's family!! It was a good day!! Brayden ofcourse thought it was his birthday because he got presents, but then realized he wasn't getting a cake and got over that quickly! Here are a few pictures