Cutey pie

Lovin some tummy time! Look at those chubby little cheeks!! We think he's gonna have Mommy's brown eyes. They are kind of hazel now...greyish some days, brownish others. He's definately not going to have Daddy's blue ones!

It doesn't get much better than this.

Old Navy poster boy!!! Have you ever seen anyone so cute in your life???? (I may be a little bias.)

Hush little Brady

When Brady falls asleep at night he's down for the count!

I like our bedtime routine...I rock Brady and sing to him for 15 minutes or so before I lay him down in his crib. Sometimes he falls asleep, other times he's close. It's nice to end my day on a good note with my little bubba. Plus it helps me unwind and get ready for sleep too!!!

Growing out

Brady's outgrowing his little baseball pjs. I went in to check on him the other night and his belly was hanging out of them! He was so cute though - holding his little hands. When I first went to check on him he was laying in the middle of the slobber puddle so I moved him down a few inches. The next morning when I woke up and checked on him his face was down in the wedge thing so we decided to take that out of his crib. No bumper, no wedge, no newborn pajamas! My little boy's growing up so fast!

Fun photos of Brady-boy

Eskimo kisses!

While we worked in the yard Brady took a nap. It was nice and cool Tuesday morning so we had a little hat and socks on Brady. He was so cute. He decided to leave the yardwork for mom and pop while he caught a few zzz's.

Brady fell asleep during the early innings of the Yankees game Wednesday night with his pal Al and Mr. Monkey.

Grandma Robin sent us this awesome tub accessory! It's like a giant sponge that's like two inches thick and fits right in the sink. It's really cool because Brady can pretty much sit up by himself in it without slip-sliding all around. Plus, we figured out if we put him in the sink like this, with his back to the other half of the sink you can turn on the water and run it over his head really quick to get the soap out! When Jeremiah took this picture it was funny 'cause Brady put his hand out like he was saying, "No pictures, please! This is my private time!"

Brady loves it when people stick their tongues out at him! He just cracks up!!! He was giggling like crazy at Jeremiah the other night when he kept making raspberries at him!!

Not so good ol' days are here again

Ok so you know it's bad when both you and your husband are not feeling well, but he offers to run to the store for medicine and food because, and I quote Jeremiah here: "You look a lot worse than I feel."
The past few days our noses have started draining, and mine started to drip. We thought maybe it was from working out in the yard yesterday. So last night we took some allergy medicine and hoped for the best. I woke up this morning with a sore, scratchy throat. Jeremiah came home from work with the same. Other than that I felt pretty good. Until about 8:30 a.m. Then it hit. My usual tummy troubles that I somehow managed to avoid during my pregnancy came back in full force. So I called into work feeling like I was going to die. It took about three hours before the Sprite and Imodium kicked in fully and I started to feel a little better stomach-wise at least. Our heads are both still stuffy and I look like I have two black eyes with the big dark circles under them. As the night wears on my voice has become more and more hoarse and I feel like my eyeballs might pop out of my head and fly across the room.
We were hoping Brady would somehow avoid all of this head coldness, but it seems like he may have caught it a little bit too. His little eyes have been watery all day and as the day has progressed he has become more and more fussy. I gave him gas drops which didn't really seem to help much. Then he got really fussy and was crying with real tears...most of the time he just fake cries when he wants something so I knew he wasn't feeling good. We gave him some Tylenol drops and then I rocked him to sleep for a while. He just woke up a few minutes ago and he seems like he's feeling a lot better now. Hopefully he won't get sick like us...and hopefully whatever it is we have goes away as quick as it came. I know something has been going around work the past couple weeks. That's one of the downfalls of working in such a people-rich environment...I'm exposed to a bunch of junk and dirty people who sneeze and cough all over everything. Yuck. I'll just have to keep my kleenexes and hand sanitizer handy...and Lysol all of the phones and register keyboards before the store opens!

Can you believe it?

Can you believe that Brady is 103 days old????? That's crazy to me. Time is flying by. Like my friend Renda who has a 16-year-old son says, "Before you know it he'll be driving." Yikes. I measured Brady with the yardstick today. He's almost 25 inches tall. I could tell he was getting taller because his legs started to look less chubby. Aubrey and I were laughing about it the other day when she was over - we said babies grow out then up, then out then up, then out then up. He's grown out of his fun baseball pajamas already. He's wearing them tonight actually, but tonight will be the last time. I just went in to check on him and his belly was hanging out.

Well, it's late. I was going to put some new pictures on tonight, but I really need to be getting to bed since I have to work tomorrow. Oh boy. I'm not excited about it in the least. I need to remember to stop and buy a powerball ticket on the way there.

I'll get pictures on when I get a free minute this week...but who knows when that will be. My next day off is supposed to be Sunday. We'll see.

Loads of fun

Ok. So each time I log onto this site to put in updates it tells me how many posts I have created. This post will be number 204 since December 31, 2005 when we started the page! I keep saying that I need to print the pages out sometime for a keepsake for Brady when he gets older. It's kind of like a family diary which is pretty fun. I started to print the pages but then I realized it was going to print them in order of most recent to the furthest away so I stopped that. Then I was going to print each update on a seperate page, but that would mean 200+ pages. So then I got the brainy idea to copy and paste them into a Word document. I just got done doing that and with all of the updates and all of the pictures, the document is 153 pages long!!!! I think I'm going to have to wait to print that until I get a new box of paper and some new ink for our little printer. Really I think I'll look into copy places like the UPS store and Office Max and see how much they charge to print stuff from a file. I bet it's not cheap. On the other hand, neither is ink. Our junky little $30 Walmart printer takes two cartriges - one color, one black - together it's like $35 for them. That's more than the whole printer cost! Since the printer came with one of each cartrige I'm sayin' we might as well buy a whole new stinking printer, save five bucks and sell the unneeded printer on Ebay!!! Now that's a good idea!

flash floods

This lake formed in a matter of 10 minutes yesterday between our yard and the neighbors' during a turrential downpour! Jeremiah, Brady, Brian and I sat outside and watched the cars fly through the water. It looked like the ride Tidal Wave at Six Flags...the water shot up like 30 feet in the air!!
Speaking of waves. Our street turned into a river!Jeremiah and Brian wanted to get out the water skis!

My friend and me!

Hooray! Mr. Monkey is clean again! We came home the other day and found him covered in dog slobber - thank goodness he still had all his limbs. So he got a bath in the washing machine and fluffed in the dryer! Brady and I got to hang out all day today since I finally got some time off work. I was supposed to be off this past Saturday and Sunday since I worked the whole previous weekend, but we had a big sale and I had to work all day Saturday and then I had to work Sunday morning too. So my boss gave me Monday and Tuesday off which was nice. We've been doing laundry all day and cleaning. We're pretty tired now so I think we'll spend the rest of the day relaxing!

Stacey's little Hittle

Stacey had her first sonogram today. She went in for her normal OB appointment and they couldn't hear the heart beat good enough so they sent her for a sono! Hooray. Seeing the baby is way better than just hearing it. I think it kind of looks like a girl but we really won't know for a couple more months. The sono tech told Stacey it's around this time that the girl/boy parts start developing, but they're way too small to see at this point. Either way, Brady will be excited to have a little friend. He has two older cousins, now he'll have one younger too! We can't wait for little Hittle.

Attack of the towel head!

I put Brady's bath towel on my head to get a few laughs from him tonight!

We played Mama's crazy. He cracked up. So did Jeremiah.

Do the hokey pokey...

You can click on the picture to enlarge it...but this is a collage of all the pictures Jeremiah took one night of Brady doing the hokey pokey and turning himself around. He started out on his back, rolled to his side, then on to his belly...from there he turned 180 degrees to face the complete opposite direction. Before we know it he's going to be crawling all over the place. Can you believe he's only 3 months old??? I didn't think they started moving around so much this early. I think the exercise I've been missing is about to catch up to me in the form of chasing little man around the house!!

Brady was in awe of the fishies swimming around in the fish tank. He couldn't take his eyes off of them!!

Tummy time again - gotta strengthen those arms!

I love standing!

Rock-a-bye Brady.

This is how Brady winds up at then end of most car trips!!

When brady started the night his head was all the way to the left and his little body was in between the white wedge. Somehow he turned all the way around. We took the bumper out of the crib because the Dr. said to when he started moving around in there. Looks like we removed it just in time!

Just say no to crack!

We woke up to find Brady's butt hanging out of his diaper and his feet through the slats in the crib resting on the wall!!!

Daddy's lap

Holding daddy's hand.

hanging out with pop!
I'm outta here!!

Exploring

Brady and Poppy Don.

Brady got to spend today with Nana Joyce and Poppy Don because our day care lady had a family emergency. I took Brady to work with me and had mom and dad pick Brady up there. They went to the new Sears Grand by their house, got a stroller and went for an adventure at Powell Gardens. There was a butterfly exhibit and lots of fun flowers and plants to look at. It looks like everybody had a great time!!!

Looking for butterflies.

He's moving so quick the camera can't even pick it up!!! We're in trouble when he starts to crawl and walk!!!


What a cutie!!!

Bath time at Nana and Poppy's

Getting ready for a bath at Nana's house. This was before we switched the size 2 diapers this week. He inherited mama's belly!!! We spent the night at grandma and grandpa's house on Friday night because I had to be at work at 7 a.m. Saturday morning and didn't want to get up at 4 a.m. to get ready and drop him off on my way.

Havin' fun in the tub.

Smiles to light up the world!

happy....

Happier....


HAPPIEST!!!
This is one of Brady's new classic moments - mid laughter. He has the cutest little chuckle. It's hillarious. He just giggles and chuckles (I had a teacher in high school who always said, "It's a chuckle and a snort!"). It's so funny. Unfortunately the video camera is out of commission for right now so we haven't gotten it taped yet, but it's great to hear him giggle.

"Back away from the aligator and nobody gets hurt!"

Brady and his buddy Al.

"Oh no, which one do I want to chew on now? The pacifier or Al? Hard decision!"

left is best

Brady's new favorite position is laying on his left side. He can roll up onto it from his back. He's been doing that in his crib a lot lately...I'll go in to check on him and there he is, sound asleep on his side. He just started doing it about a week ago when he was 12 weeks old. One time I was changing him and there he went, rolled on over. He can now roll from his back to his front and from his front to his back. That kid's got talent!

All that rolling around tired him out!

Oh so sleepy.

Yum. That hand tastes delicious!

*Notice the funny socks...they have rattles in them. Brady's not really interested in them yet, but give him a few weeks and he'll probably love them!

sittin' and squirmin'

Brady is checking out his reflection in his mirror during tummy time.

He's advanced.

That's all there is to it. All the books say babies start to sit on their own without any support around 5 to 6 months. He's 13 weeks today and here he is sitting on his own - granted it is at an uncomfortable looking 45 degree angle and it's only for about 4 seconds at a time, but hey...we'll take it!!

Napping in style

After work one day I put Brady in bed with Jeremiah while I cooked dinner. Little buddy fell right asleep in daddy's arms!


Brady fell asleep holding monkey's hand the other day. It was so cute!

Piggies, puppies and monkeys

Brady has discovered how to hug his Monkey friend!

His little puppy slipper are soooooo cute! Too bad they'll be too small this winter...he's going to need some new slippers then to cover up his piggies. Right now it's pretty hot so he doesn't really need to wear anything on them! Today it was in the 90's. Tomorrow it's supposed to be 104. Yuck. I wish I could stay inside all day - too bad I have to work.