Happy Memorial Day!

Not much went on this weekend other than a couple cookouts and dodging rain storms. Brady enjoyed playing with friends, kissing puppies and swimming over the holiday weekend. It's amazing how fast he is growing.

He is starting to talk a lot more. I was worried about him a month or two ago, but once we cracked down and made sure he was using words or signs to request things he started babbling away. He now says "thank you" when you give him things, everything is "hot" even if its cold, he says school, car, help, and many other things! He also love to tell people night night before he goes to bed and then blows a big kiss!!! Here are a few pics from this weekend. We went to our friends Stacey and Chris' for a cookout on Sunday and then had our friends Mandy and Tommy over to our house on Monday for a small cookout and swimming in the backyard with Kaylee.

On the first day of school, I got my first school pictures taken!!!!

These are Brady's school pictures from Pelham Road. I didn't know he was having them taken since it was his first day of school, but they turned out ok and it was comforting to know that he wasn't so upset on the first day of school!

Yard work/play

We just got sod in our backyard! It looks great, but we now need to clean up the flower beds and put down new mulch. While Thomas and I worked in the yard, Brady had a blast playing with the hose!

Brady's first hair cut

I hated to do it, but I needed to! Brady little curls were finally too long! I could put them in a ponytail!!!! NOT GOOD! So this weekend my mom and I took him to get his hair cut. I was worried that he would freak out, but he did very well. My best friend from high school, Nicole, cut his hair and highlight mine all in the same appointment. She did an awesome job! Brady didn't shed a tear, she even used the clippers around his ear. We did give him a lollipop to keep him occupied.

Spring Break beach trip

Thomas and I were both off of work the first week in April. We went to Garden City. At the beginning of the week we were there with my mom and at the end of the week my dad, step mother and grandparents joined us. We had a great time, eventhough it was a little windy and chilly some days.


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Family pic at the aquarium

SICK!

On Friday when I picked Brady up from school he felt really hot. I took him home and he had a fever of 102.5!!! So we got back in the car and went straight to the doctor. He assured me after blood work and a full exam that it was just a cold so we went home and waited it out. After 4 days of a fairly high fever and a sad little baby I decided to take him back to the doctor and he ended up having and ear infection in both ears. GO FIGURE! Needless to say its been fun getting readjusted to daycare this week after missing two days!

First day of school

Last week Brady started a new daycare. I felt it was time for him to get more interaction with kids his age and I also thought it would be good for him to have more structure throughout the day. It has been a hard couple of days. I didn't get many pictures because he cried. Being a teacher myself, I know, the best thing to do is just drop them off and leave, even if they are crying. So, that is what I have done! Sorry to all the parents that I have ever told just go... It's a lot harder to do than I thought!!



On the way to school!



The front of his school!



Walking out after his first day!

slacker mom update!

So we have been busy and sick lately and I have been horrible at posting... So lets go back to the snow day.... I know that was so long ago! Here are a few pics of the snow at our house.









As you can see, we were not prepared to dress Brady for the snow... He enjoyed walking around for a few minutes, but had much more fun riding in the wagon. He feet got wet pretty quickly so we didn't stay out for long. We got about 3-4 inches of snow at our house!!!

Getting so big

Brady is growing so fast! He is starting to act so much like a little boy! He loves to be outside, plays games with us, responds to things we say to him, and does so many things for himself. He runs around with the big kids at daycare, and loves it! Here are a few videos and some pics of him at daycare yesterday! Thanks Sherry for all of the memories!

A trip to the doctor

So, today we were home again. Day 2 of school being cancelled!!! Brady has been a little fussy the past few days, but he has been fighting a cold. I wasn't sure if it was just the cold or something else, so today I made an appointment to go see the doctor. We first went and ate lunch with "daddy" at Cracker Barrell! (yummy breakfast for lunch) Then, we headed off too the doctor, which by the way, half of Greenville was there with what looked to be much worse than what Brady had. I kept him in my lap the entire 5 minutes we were in the waiting room. (It felt like an eternity). A child came in as we were sitting and waiting to hear "Brady come on back". She had a bad rash, looked like hives and god only know what else. I wanted to go ask if we could sit on the well side of the office she looked so bad. But, we were called back soon after that and Brady and I ran as fast as we could to the room! Again, I wouldn't let him touch anything, not even the book that he wanted me to read to him. I really didn't want him to get anything worse. The doctor quickly came in and said he had puss behind his eardrum in his left ear. Sounds gross, I know. (and worse than just an ear infection) He confirmed that indeed that puss was an ear infection and we caught it early, so Brady will have to take antibiotics twice a day for 10 days. He faxed the prescription and we were on our way to Publix to get our free antibiotics! We were in at 1:30 and out at 1:42! I guess we had an extra snow day today for a reason!

Snow day!

Brady's other new trick

Brady has also decided that it is his mission to climb up and down the stairs. We had a gate and it broke, so we are headed out to get a new one. Here is a video of him climbing the stairs. He goes pretty fast. Sorry for the camera angle, that's a bad habit of mine.

More pictures from this morning

Brady has a cold and hates for his nose to be wiped. I wipe it and 3 seconds later its running again. Here he is with his snotty nose and funny face!

Having fun in the tunnell!!

The tunnell, not so scary after all

Brady has finally decided that he is not afraid of his tunnell. He really enjoyed crawling through it this morning. Here is a video we took! We have been trying to entertain him since we have been stuck inside this weekend. He keeps going to the door and pointing outside because he wants to go out and play, but it is too cold and rainy to go out.

Just a little pink sand!!!!

Eventhough the sand is pink, Brady had tons of fun playing at daycare today!!!!