Bradley's Newborn Pictures

I got Bradley's pictures taken when he was a week old. I love them so I wanted to share them. He's changing so quickly.

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Breelyn

I lost my journal and it makes me so sad. It was a newer one I had just started but it had all of Bradley's pregnancy in it. Brandon took it to the hospital when Bradley was born since he knew i'd like to write in it and I must have left it but it was never found so I don't know where it's at. I've been using my blog to kindof keep track sometimes I don't always post them (actually I don't post them at all because i'm not sure people would want to read them or that I really want to share) but atleast I know they are down somewhere that is probably why I love blogging because I love keeping a journal. It's usually a draft for me and a post for you who read it. :)

Anyways, Breelyn is into the 2 year old trouble stage right now. Usually when she does something she's not supposed to Brandon and I look at each other, sigh, and say 'she's TWO.'

For example, Breelyn LOVES to help cook. If we are at someones house and they have a play kitchen that's where she will be (unless there is a bunk bed to climb). In nursery when I go in to take roll she usually has two little puppets as 'hot pads' and is carrying around 'soup' to share. The library has a kitchen area and we sit there for hours while she brings me pretend food. For my B-day my MIL made us matching aprons. I have seen them online and my MIL made a few aprons and I LOVED them so she made me some. Breelyn and I both LOVE them I should say. If I don't have my apron she brings it to me to wear and asks where her's is. I love it. Thanks Janette. 





Matching aprons!

 

My little Snow White cooking an apple. I didn't notice that at the time. :)

  

On to the trouble though. One night I was cookingand had some potato flakes out. I left the kitchen for a little bit and came back to find her running away with seasoning salt. When she saw me out of the corner of her eye she stopped and gave me a big 'i'm up to no good' smile and kept walking around the counter. I followed her to find she had dumped all the flakes onto the carpet and was now seasoning it with seasoning salt. Brandon got down to her level and asked her "What are you doing?" She picked some up and threw it in the air jumping up and down 'It's snowing! It's snowing!" His face broke into a smile and he looked down. I couldn't hold it in and started laughing so hard. We told her it was wrong but didn't exactly get mad at her. It's so innocent right?



The next day. I should mention our bottom cupboard with the lazy susan is missing it's door so she can get stuff out easily, so it's my fault for putting stuff in their when I know she can get it. Anyways, the next day I took a nap with Bradley and came out to find she had gotten the lid off the big container of oatmeal and was throwing it in the air while standing on the stool "Aaaah!What are you doing?!" She smiles and keeps doing it "Aaah! I am feeding the birds!" This time she got in trouble and vaccumed the mess.



A few nights later (you'd think i'd learn my lesson by now) I don't know what Brandon and I were doing but we walk into the kitchen and find Breelyn covered head to toe in powdered sugar. It had snowed.... again. "Taste it!" she says and lick her hand. "It's yummy!" This was the biggest mess ever because even though she was up to the counter she had first dumped it on the table then wandered over and dumped some on the couch and then back to the counter. She vaccumed again.



And then (yep, she wasn't done yet) She got some little containers of sesame seeds that came with the chinese food and spread it around the kitchen floor. I asked "What are you doing." Why do I even ask. But this time it wasn't snow. She started jumping up and down on them "I'm planting seeds!" They do look like seeds, she must of heard us call them sesame 'seeds' and thought she might like to plant them. She's dang funny. Where does she come up with this stuff? It sure is creative.



 During the superbowl half-time she loved the music and dancing and was trying to do the little arm movements the dancers in lights were doing. I took a video too. So funny. She had to climb on Brandon's head to dance. He wasn't into it. She has the makings of a cheerleader. She likes to cheer for Daddy or Tristan or anyone for doing random things. She likes to cheer for me while I exercise "Go mommy, Go!" with a little arm pumping. It's real motivating.


Super Bowl half-time.



I've been having her help me clean more. Teaching her to take her plate to the sink and sweep the floor with her little brush. So if you leave a cup around that your drinking it will disappear to the sink if you don't watch it. Breelyn took my water glass to the sink (i didn't notice) but these glasses were too heavy so when she tried to put it in the sink it fell backward and shattered on the tile. She apologized "Mommy i'm sorry i broke the glass. I just tried to put it away."



She was supposed to be going potty and I found her in Bradley's crib with him. I love her cheesy chipmunk face. :) Bradley looks less than thrilled to share with her.

Anything she says lately is "I just..." "I just want to read one more last story" "I just want to watch one more last show" so she gets three stories before bed and then "one more story"  and then "one more last story." She sure knows how to work it.

And then this story just because I love it.

We park in the WalMart parking lot and Bree is sleeping so we have to wake her up. She opens her eyes and sees the WalMart sign "Look it's The WalMart! W-A-L-M-A-R-T! We get to go inside The WalMart!" (THEE WalMart) We get inside and she hops on the front of the shopping card "I just gonna ride up here, mommy." As we start rolling she holds out one arm in a grand sweep "Look Mommy! Isn't it beautiful!" I laughed out loud, it was coloful the vegetable/fruit/deli section. She doesn't get out much. :)  



I can finally do something with her limited amount of hair. A ponytail doesn't last long since it all falls out. So I curl it with gel.



Oh, I have finally gotten her into my picture taking habbit. She always asks me to take pictures of her doing this or that. Yesterday while watching Mickey Mouse clubhouse she put her face next to the tv and said "Hurry mom, take my picture with Mickey Mouse!" "Cheese!" The camera battery was dead so I pretended to do it. I need to get that girl to Disneyland. :)



she wanted me to take her picture :)



And not to forget Bradley lately. Almost 3 months! Really!? Where did the time go? He is smiling like crazy and will play with his monkey mat for about 10 minutes before wanting to get picked up. While he is not laughing like you'd think a laugh is. He has this small giggle/laugh we love. He is also very into talking now! He loves to stare/talk/smile at his dad. Even when dad is busy watching tv bradley just likes to look at Brandon and talk. They have staring contests. Bradley Wins :).

Staring contest.



I stick him in the bathroom while I take a shower and he usually falls asleep to the rhythm of the water falling.

Bradley's Birth Announcement

Here is Bradley's birth announcement. I know I am horrible at sending out cards and things but other things come up and I was finally able to this week. It is a 5x5 trifold so it looks funny like this but I promise it turned out really nice. It went from having a christmas greeting to new year's and then I should  have ended up with Valentine's like last year it took so long... :) Some of you got a birthday invite from Bree's 2nd birthday. I loved her announcement and thought it was really cute but Iwas a little embaressed I did them myself so I never had the guts to send them out and then when I saw them I thought well aunts/uncles might like to have one to keep. My sister wanted one so she could keep up with scrapbooking her nieces and nephews each year for their birthday (don't know if that made sense) So anyways I though others might too. So if you got one you don't have to keep it.

So we made Bradley's birth announcement into our Family "Holiday" card to take care of both at once. I made this one myself too. But they are not my pictures. I'll do a slide show soon of all his newborn pics.

Oh, we are actually not trying to do all B names  for our children we just seem to like B names. If we have another boy he will have a B name and then the rest won't have B's. It's funny Brandon, Breelyn and Bradley all start with Br's.

Looking back over this last year and further I've discovered  each year we've had some big event.

• 2007 - Got Engaged/ Got Married/ Got Pregnant                                                                               (quickly but appropriately and all within a month's time - crazy!!!) :)
• 2008 - Had our 1st baby - Breelyn
• 2009 - Brandon's Graduation/ Bought our 1st house
• 2010 - Got pregnant/ Had another baby - Bradley

So I guess it's really only 4 years but i'm anxious to see if something big will happen this year. So far looks pretty calm.