Hands Too!!

First Mud puddle

And did he enjoy it!! He was wet all the way down!!

Halloween

Today is Halloween and we have a little towel ghost running around our house. We decided not to dress him up for trick or treating because he can't talk yet, and really doesn't need the candy!! Today I am doing laundry and the towel just became so much fun! This last weekend we made the trip to Grandpa and Granny's house. It was a whole new adventure for him but his favorite was the dryer. I wish I could send a video to everyone, he just waved goodbye and climbed right in, closed the door completely behind him, then opened it back up and stuck his head out and waved again. Good thing the camera was ready or it would all be a memory now. We have alittle video of it, its really quite good. He played with the dryer lots, the rest of the time the three wheeler Grandpa bought him was most fun. Today we are still on daylight savings time, he gets up at 6:30 or so and wants lunch at 11:30 and nap immediately following, then bedtime is 8 or so. He is a bit behind, wonder if he will catch up or if we will just be on this schedule for a while. Will just have to wait and see, for now, Mom needs a nap too.

Time gets away!!

To everyone watching this page...we took the weekend off and simply didn't get our blogging done. I will try to post some pics today, if they work out. If not, it will be in the next day or so. We took our first trip to Grandpa and Granny Eisele's house. Brayden made the car trip fine and spent two nights in a portable crib just fine too. He really had a wonderful time exploring all the new territory. A whole new world up here. He has been really busy this weekend running all over outside and helping daddy and Grandpa with the new porch. He has held the back end of the drill to help push the screws in. Its really been fun to watch for us too. We played some domino games last night too, he had to learn to sit on mommy's lap without taking the dominoes off the table. Was a bit hard on him too!! Meal time has been a bit hard as he has just been toooo tired to eat, sooo much to do and not enough time to eat and sleep and do it all too. Lunch today he ate just a little bit of potatoes and some veggies a bite or two of meat and then laid his head down and sang to himself for a bit. Finally Granny took pity on him and took him to the rocking chair. It wasn't long and he was fast asleep. Its hard for him to sleep for his full two hours though since there is so much to do and he really doesn't want to miss a moment. We will head home after supper and then its back to normal ground again. Its been beautiful weather up here, hope it is at home too.

Look at these sunglasses

New vacuum cleaner, it makes noise like a real one. Now maybe he will vacuum with his instead of with mommy's!

Learning the party favors

The birthday party went off with all the trimmings thanks to all the family!! Brayden had a wonderful time opening all his gifts and is now even more spoiled than before! He loves to tear the paper off, sometimes just in little pieces but as long as it all comes off he is happy. The toys now days are very well packaged and don't come out of the boxes very well, so there were times when he wasn't a very patient little boy, but all in all he was pretty good. He even ate his supper pretty good and had a couple bites of cake but wasn't real impressed with it. I made an icecream cake using mint icecream, maybe that is what threw him off. And maybe he was just full too, but he really didn't want to eat much of it. We opened packages first and then after dinner he had time to play with the gifts he was given. It was really fun to watch him go through each one and enjoy them all in turn. Tomorrow we go back to the doctor for the two year checkup. He was supposed to weigh in at 24 lbs by tomorrow, don't know that we made it though. Will have to see if the drs scale weighs him different than ours. On our scale it looks like we missed it by 6 oz or so, he kind of went on a picky diet for a while there. Up until the picky part he was putting on weight pretty well. It will also be interesting to see where he is on the growth chart too now that he has been home for two months. I decided to take a parenting class offered by one of the BEST headstarts here in Riverton. This lady really has a nack with kids and really handles things very well with them. It has been most interesting to pick up her tips. We have found that they work just pretty well when we are patient enough to remember them!! Our little boy has a very stubborn side and we needed some help in dealing with that effectively. I have one more class this tuesday night to go to and then we are back on our own trying to remember all we were supposed to learn. The good thing is that she has allowed me to tape it each time since we really don't want to leave Brayden with anyone else just yet and Roger really needs the info too. There is only so much one can relate through notes and retelling, so its been so nice for him to watch it off the camera. She is offering one more class on stimulating the young mind, that should be helpful too. For now we are just so very pleased with his efforts to talk and all his busy side. He gets harder to keep up with all the time. We had our first snow that actually accumulated outside last night. This morning after church Uncle Bobby tried to get him to touch it and feel it. He wasn't really interested. Perhaps later when there is more of it we can go build a snowman and really enjoy it. This time he handled new people a lot better. He really took to Uncle Bobby right away, that was really fun to see, he also met Aunt Jeanine and while it took him just a little longer to adjust to her, he went to her twice yesterday on his own. His horizons continue to expand and he just gets more and more used to the changes and different people all the time. He doesn't seem to have the tendency to hide his face much with new people now. All the strides are so nice to see and this is a nice forum for me to sit down and remember them as they happen. And its great to know there are people out there that are interested and come along with us every week.

Almost 2!!

I will just put this note on for now and then update on Sunday. Brayden will be 2 tomorrow, so we are having a family party. I am sure he will have a grand time opening gifts and there will be plenty judging by those that have already arrived in the mail! We will have lots of opportunity for pics and good fun so will tell all about it come Sunday.

Look at that smile!

This is what happens when Mom comes to the shop, thats why there aren't any pics of him playing in sawdust! Daddy got some stuff this morning, but he mostly likes to get in the cabinets and dig around, mess with cords and big stuff!
some of these pics are a bit blurry as they are taken out of video clips. He moves so fast and so much that still pics are near impossible.

Such a pill - Check out that DUST!!

Just me and the airgun

He likes this as long as it doesn't blast him with air!!

Pics as promised

This is a "look" that we see quite often. Wonder if this is something WE have taught him...anyway its cute!

A Quick Note!

Tonight I don't have any pics to share!! I spent most of this week out of town, so no pics were even taken!! I left Monday night and got home thursday afternoon. Just one of the perks of a job, I had to go to a school for pics and it is three hours from home, so we go and stay three days and get the whole thing done. Anyway, it wasn't much fun, mostly work and not much sleep either. Roger and Brayden stayed home together and seemed to do just fine. In fact when I did get home on thursday afternoon I went out to the shop to find our little boy, he just looked up at me and then went right on with what he was doing. What a let down!! I had hoped he would run right up to me and want to be held, but not so at all. He was a daddy's boy until well into the evening. I didn't even register on his radar until I ran his bath! After that I was on the radar but not quite back to normal. I may NEVER leave again!! On Tuesday night I called home and Roger was giving him a bath, so he called me back using the business line with the speaker phone. I talked to Brayden that way for a bit, he kept talking to me and Roger said he looked at the phone really funny like why can I hear mom and not see her! Anyway, that was fun for a night. Today all is mostly back to normal, he wants to be held and cuddled by mom again, so I am feeling good about that. I will take pics this weekend and post them first of next week. Should be interesting, I need to make salsa tomorrow, will see how much help he is for that!

Check out these Slippers

Yes, its late but I am still going to get this posting done tonight!! Roger is putting Brayden down for the night and I am taking a moment to think back over the week and appreciate all the little steps our little boy makes. He really comes a long way every week. Today I got the laundry out again, he loves to switch all my piles around, I have to sort every load again before putting it in the machine. If ever I lose track of him and there is laundry being done, its almost a sure thing I will find him there. If he isn't moving my piles he is climbing in and out of the baskets. Its a good thing he doesn't cry everytime he falls, he would be crying an awful lot!
Again this week I had to work two days, so he went to the shop again both days for about 1/2 the day. I went out to get him on Thurs after I got home to put him down for his nap. He was under the table saw table playing in the dust with his loader wearing his ear muffs to keep the noise out. He is just very happy to be out there with Daddy, but when mommy comes along its another story all together. After his naps he usually stays in the house with me for the rest of the day. Today I noticed he really is babbling a lot now, making lots of noises and if I sit down and point things out in a book, he will try to say them too. He gets close on some things and not very close at all on others, but he is trying. He has learned the levers on the recliners and everytime we walk through the living room its a bet the foot rests are out. The telephone is his biggest toy!! Its rather difficult to get him to leave it alone actually, and the cell phone is the worst. I really don't want him answering the phones, it would just be my luck he would answer my business line...and then where would I be. :-)
We are so glad that so many check this all the time, we just want you to know that we check it too, and we are looking for words from you all, don't leave us hanging!! Have a good week, see you next friday!

See I really do FIT!!

Laundry Fascination