The Cox Family

Trade Days and The Ice Cream Man ...

2010-05-29T10:13:00.006-05:00

This is a picture of Brady at Tannehill waiting on the Choo Choo Train ... Mom, Dad and myself took him to walk around trade Days and to ride the train. He also got an extra surprise and saw the horses, and had to ride them. He was such a big boy, he got right on the pony, held on and rode in a circle a couple of times. He loved it and did not want to get off!! We had to bribe him with the choo choo train to get him to leave the horses. You can see in the picture he is waiting on the train every so "patiently"!

The Ice Cream Truck!

I wasn't feeling well one afternoon and Nana came over to see Brady and of course he wanted to go home with her. She took him home so I could rest, I went and picked him up after supper and while I was there the Ice Cream Man came through there subdivision for the first time this summer. This was Brady's first experience with the Ice Cream Man. He got a blue batman Popsicle, and loved it. As you can see by his blue mouth and tongue! That has been almost 2 weeks ago, and we haven't seen the ice cream man come through again. Hopefully he will before long, so Brady can get another Popsicle!!

Update from the Cox's

2010-05-25T15:18:00.002-05:00

What have we been up to the past month? Honestly not much at all, or at least nothing picture worthy!

I took Brady to swim with his cousins yesterday. It took him about 30 minutes to warm up and get in the water, but once he did, he picked right off where he left last year and had a blast. He swam for over 2 hours and it took a while to get him to get out to go home, he kept saying "me no go home"!! We will definitely spend some more days by the pool this summer! Momma enjoyed it almost as much as he did! He was so tired when we got home, he almost fell asleep at the table eating dinner several times. If he wouldn't have needed a bath to get the sun screen off, he would have been asleep by 6 o'clock!

In other news, I am 10 weeks pregnant with baby #2! Me and Jason have known for 6 weeks, and we kept it a secret for 4 weeks, until I had my first ultrasound which happen to be the Thursday before Mothers Day, so it led us to be able to tell our mothers and families on mothers day! It could not have been more perfect. This pregnancy has been different than the first. I stay sick more than I stay well, and the tiredness, oh man, I nap everyday that I can with Brady, and if I don't catch a nap, I am in bed by 7:30, 8 at the latest!! Other than that, everything is going good. I go back next Tuesday for my monthly appointment.

Brady is going to be a big boy next week. He is starting a K2 Summer Program and will go to the camp 3 days a week this summer! We will see how he does and go from there for the fall! I think the biggest adjustment will be sleeping on a cot and nap mat! I assume when he sees the other kids doing it, he will be just fine! I will let you know how he does!

Easter Day fun!

2010-04-12T15:15:00.003-05:00

We had a full day of fun on Easter. After church, we went to Nana & Pop's to eat and hunt Easter eggs. Then we went to Mom and Dads to hang out and play. Brady got his t-ball set out and played baseball with Uncle Will. Here are a few pictures of the Easter Egg Hunt with Tayler, Tyler & Joe Roy.

The Easter Bunny Visit

2010-04-12T14:59:00.003-05:00

Although, Brady did not go visit the Easter Bunny this year, he did pay Brady a visit. We tried to go to a local church egg hunt and carnival the day before, but it rained all morning, so we ended up not going. As for Easter Morning, Brady decided to sleep in. We finally had to wake him up at 8:15 and be at church by 9! Brady did not want to get out of his bed, until Daddy finally brought his gifts into his bedroom, then he was ready to crawl out of bed! The Easter basket was filled with candy, car cars, Handy Manny Tools, Keys and then he had a gas pump that would not fit in his basket. He was so excited about his gas pump, that he had to go find his flint stone car and fill it up with gas before we could get ready for church. He looked like a handsome little man at church. Of course, I did not get a good picture of him or a family picture made.

TY'S 1ST BIRTHDAY & THE PETTING ZOO

2010-03-27T20:45:00.003-05:00

Today, we celebrated Ty's first birthday at Oak Mountain. He had a John Deere themed party in the barn, and it was precious! Ty loved the icing off his smash cake and was so patient as his momma opened all of his many gifts. After all the partying, all the kids went downstairs to the petting zoo. Brady had a blast, he chased around donkey's, sheep, and goats. He was able to feed all of them as well. We had a great time and will definitely be taking Brady back to the petting zoo! Happy 1st Birthday Ty, we love you!!

A new Niece!

2010-03-15T16:05:00.003-05:00

We have a new niece!

Miss Tinsley Michelle was born Friday at 11:52 p.m.

She weighed 7 pds & 12 ounces.

She is just precious and already loved by so many! Tayler is going to be the best big sister/mommy and Tyler is going to have his hands full protecting his 2 sisters! So far she has been the best baby, we went and saw them for a couple hours Saturday night and she never cried! Brady didn't really know what to think of her, he sat in my lap while I held her and he kept looking at her and trying to lift her blanket up to see what was under there, I don't think he could tell if she was real or not since she was so quite and still!! He did kiss her forehead when we left! Lord knows I love me some girl things, just ask Tayler, Aunt Jaime is always good at Christmas and birthday gifts, so now I have another niece to spoil!!!

Playing with his buddy Ty

2010-03-15T15:51:00.002-05:00

We went to The Beard's house a couple weeks ago to cook out and let the boys play. The guys grilled out, Me and Marianne cooked a fudge pie and the boys played. We tried to get a few pictures of them, but of course getting a 2 year old and almost 1 year old to cooperate at the same time is not very easy!! Ty will be 1 years old in 2 weeks and we are excited to be going to his celebration. We are also going to camp that weekend, so that should be fun! These two stinkers keep us busy, so camping with them should be pretty tiring, but fun at the same time!!

We are still here!

2010-03-01T15:38:00.003-06:00

I have been a bad blogger lately, but there just hasn't been much going on at our house to talk about!! It is cold, so we stay in all the time! We did venture out 2 weeks ago and get brady a haircut, and here is a picture of him when we left! Of course, two weeks later his bangs are already back down to his eyes!!!
This was last Friday afternoon/night ... me and Brady had a lazy Friday! This picture was taken about 5 o'clock and Brady was still in his pajamas and he had snuck a krispy kreme donut and was eating it! So needless to say, there wasn't much supper ate on his part! I can't say I blame him, I would take a Krispy Kreme over supper anyday!!

We are so ready for some warmer weather so we can go outside. We have a threat of more snow/rain tomorrow, which looks like it is going to be all rain, plus the weather is cold, just not cold enough to stick! We have a few things going on in the month of March, so hopefully I will have more to blog about!

A couple Funny things he has said/done lately:

- Brady is in the playroom playing and I hear him sneeze, followed by a "scoot coute". I think that is my version of Scat Cat that I say to him when he sneezes!!

- We are working on getting him off his passies. He sleeps with two and if he has one, he has to have another. We are working only having them when he is in his bed. So now he has started asking to go to bed, just to lay in there about 30 minutes to get his "pas" fix, then he is ready to get back up and play!

- His Nani gives him a hard time about his passies and throwing them away, and today, he came out of his bedroom holding 4 passies, and said "bye momma, Nani's" as in he was going to Nani's ... I said you cant' take them to Nani's, she will throw them away. The look on his face was like 'oh yea' and he turned right around and went and put them back in his bed!

First Valentines Party

2010-02-15T12:59:00.005-06:00

Brady was invited to his first valentines day party with boys and 'gurls'. It was at his favorite party place. He ran right in and started sliding and jumping. He spent the whole hour going non-stop and was very tired on the way home. After play time, they had cookies and juice. Of course my child who loves him some "cookshees" was the first one to sit down, the first to finish his cookie, and the first and only child to ask for more!!! What can I say, they boy loves his cookies!! Thank you Bella & Sophie for inviting us to your party, we had a great time!

Happy Valentines Day!

2010-02-15T12:52:00.005-06:00

We had a great Valentines weekend. Jason was actually sick all weekend, but it didn't stop my boys from surprising me on Saturday with a delivery of a dozen roses! Saturday night, me and Jason went and had a nice dinner, just wish he would have felt better, but he was a trooper still taking me out.

On Sunday, we woke up and gave Brady his valentines. He was excited about his chocolates, new toothbrush and toothpaste and fire truck. Since Jason was still sick, me and Brady got ready for church and went and saw his buddy Ty, get dedicated. Nani and Papa came by later and brought him a Valentines. Some "Monies" and M&M's to refill his bank with. He has already gone through a couple of dollars of his "monies"

Friday Snow Day!

2010-02-15T12:22:00.004-06:00

It snowed on Friday, about an inch. It actually started snowing about 10 a.m. and snowed all day long, but it wasn't until late afternoon that is was cold enough for it to stick. I didn't want to take Brady out until it stopped snowing. He has been sick with a runny nose and cough all week, so I didn't want to make it anyworse, but I wanted to let him go out in it for a little while. He never really touch the snow. He enjoyed just being outside and riding his wheeler.

WHAT? Who doesn't eat a "cookshee" while looking at the snow?!??!?!

waving to the neighbors passing by!

6 feet tall and skinny!

2010-02-11T15:43:00.002-06:00

Brady had his 2 year old check up on Monday. He is 3ft .5 inches tall and weighs 26.5 pounds. I did not realize how tall and skinny he was until I looked back at this picture that I took while he was waiting on the doctor. His is scrawny! I promise the boy does eat, he eats Chicken Nuggets, M &M's, Cookies, Snacks, etc ... yes it is mostly snacks as he is VERY picky right now, but he does eat!
He is in the 95 percentile for height. Weight and head is in the 25 percentile. He has always been in the tall, skinny big head category, but now he is tall, skinny and average head! He is predicted to be a little over 6 feet tall when he grows up. He is going to be like Jason was (until Jason reached his 20's) .... tall and skinny! Other than that, he looked good, got one shot, handled it very well and we are good to go until next year! The "terrible" twos have arrived. He is very head strong and loud, and me and Jason have "no idea" where he gets either of those thing from! He still is a very sweet boy though!

Ladies & Gentlement ... The Greatest Show on Earth!

2010-01-30T10:36:00.006-06:00

Me and Jason took Brady to the Ringling Brothers Circus last night! I bought the tickets Tuesday night, and everyday, he has to watch the "Circs" on the Internet. So he was already pretty excited about it!! I bought the middle price tickets, because there was no way I was paying the VIP prices! We got there, and as soon as we gave our tickets and walked into the concourse, his mouth dropped, started saying Ohhhhh and he got so excited about the lights and stuff going on. Of course I had to buy him his own light to have! He held that thing almost the entire night until he started getting sleepy at the end. We went to our section and had trouble finding out seats, so we had to ask for help, we never dreamed that our cheaper price tickets were front row, on the floor seats!!! We had some of the best seats in the house! Brady was able to stand along the fence the entire time. The only thing that would have been better to him, was if he was on the other side of the fence! The only difference between us and the VIP section, they got to go on the ring and watch some of the acts!!! We were thrilled with our seats, and Jason said that's where he wants to sit from now on!!

As you can see in the pictures, everything was just right there. He loved all the animals, especially the horses and elephants, the motorcycles, the car-car and train. He could have cared less about the trapeze stunts! It was cute, when the elephant in the picture above laid down, Brady thought he went night-night! He kept saying night-night and waving bye to him! Brady had a great time, I am so glad we were able to take him!

Brady's 2nd Birthday Party!

2010-01-20T16:46:00.005-06:00

This past Saturday, we had Brady's birthday party at Parties on the Move. He has gone there several times to play, so he ran right in and was ready to go! Everyone was either jumping, climbing, sliding, playing basketball or baseball. There was a wide variety and I think everyone had a great time! We appreciate all the friends and family that were there to help him celebrate his 2nd birthday!

Everyone Playing ....

2010-01-20T16:31:00.004-06:00

More Playing!

2010-01-20T16:15:00.003-06:00

Cake Time

2010-01-20T15:49:00.008-06:00

Here are a few pictures of the kids and Brady at the table waiting for cake and ice cream. Brady was such a big boy sitting there drinking his capri sun and just waiting. He was all "shy" smiles while everyone sang happy birthday. As soon as the candle was blown, he was quick to grab the firetruck off the cake, and start rolling it around! When his cake was served, he dug right in like a big boy!

presents from Momma & DaDa

2010-01-15T21:56:00.004-06:00

We gave Brady his presents from us tonight. He got a new car-car, a Rusteze 18 wheeler and trailer to haul his car-car around, a new Train Engine that he can operate, a police car, and a cell phone. If he takes as long to open the gifts tomorrow as he did ours, we will be there all day!! He wants everything to be opened up as soon as he gets it! For the rest of the night, he went around and played with each one of his new toys. At first the police car was the favorite, but once he realized he could turn the new train engine on and off himself, that entertained him the rest of the night.

**On another note, it is 10 o'clock and Jason is Finally done with the play area. I am sure the neighbors love us right now. He has Will's batting cage lights set up out there lighting up our whole yard, and the bobcat is beeping!!! Oh well, it isn't like we do this all the time, we have usually been in bed for 2 hours by now! ** Brady will have a very big day tomorrow!

Happy Birthday Brady!

2010-01-15T21:30:00.006-06:00

At 10:07 this morning, Brady turned 2 years old! He woke up this morning around 7:45 in a great mood and for some strange reason wanted to me sit, and then lay on the floor with him in his room, so of course I did. He laid there with his head on my arm and ran his pass around my face. I guess he assumed that I would like that, because he likes to do it to himself. I was talking to him and asked him if he slept good last night. He told me No, I asked why not, and he mumbled something, then told me 'back' and started rubbing his back, like it hurt. I got to telling him, well son, 2 years ago at this time, mommas back was probably hurting too!! then I got all sentimental, he thought I was crazy and got up!!! ha ha! crazy momma!!! This is a couple of pictures of him this morning when he first woke up on his birthday. As he says and jumps in the air "yea, I two!!!!!"

We didn't do to much today, Susan took him to have his two year portraits made, grabbed Chick Fil A on the way home, and he took almost a 4 hour nap! All this time, Daddy worked in the yard trying to get his play set and area ready before he woke up, but was unable to because he was 2 landscaping timbers short, so back to Lowe's I went. We were going to go out to eat, but Jason wanted to work on it some more, so I just picked up Full Moon and we ate at home. Now it is 9:40 and Jason is still outside working on this area. Bless his heart, he is determined to have it done today! What a good daddy! Hopefully I will have pictures of it tomorrow. We have his birthday party Tomorrow, so I should have lots to talk about and pictures to show!!

through the "years"

2010-01-15T21:02:00.008-06:00

Robert Bradon Cox

January 15, 2008, 10:07 a.m.

6 pounds, 9 ounces, 21 1/4 inches long

February 2008 - 1 month old

April 2008 - 3 months old

June 2008 - 5 months old

August 2008 - 7 months old

October 2008 - 9 months old

November 2008 - 10 months old

1st birthday, January 15, 2009

13 months old - February 2009

14 months old - march 2009

15 months old - April 2009

18 months old - July 2009

20 months old - September 2009

Water!

2010-01-07T15:45:00.004-06:00

This video was just to cute not to share! This is Brady's first experience with a water fountain! It only took him about 20 seconds to "figure" it out! I love when he would press the button, go for water and there would be nothing coming out!! Then at the end when he finally got it, got sprayed in the face and laughed about it!!! This is one funny boy!!

**disclaimer ** please excuse my extremely southern voice in the background :)

New Years & Playing

2010-01-07T15:40:00.004-06:00

It is hard to believe it is 2010 and that my baby will be 2 on the 15th ... When will time slow down? We had a good new years. Me and Jason went to dinner with Marianne and Brent. It was a nice adult meal, but you know we missed our babies, because as always, they were the topic of a lot of conversations. Before dinner, we made plans to go back to there house and bring in the new year, but we were so full, all we felt like doing was going home and putting on our PJ's and watching a little of the new years show, and be asleep before midnight!

Brady on the other hand, had a wild night! He went to a spend the night party at Marcie and Johnny's house with all the other cousins! He was by far the youngest there, but did great. He played and played with all the big kids, and stayed up until 11 o'clock, then slept on a pallet all night! What a big boy he is!!

I have been taking him to play at the play center that we are going to have his birthday party at a couple times. These are a couple pictures of him playing in the tot and arcade area. These were taken on my phone, so they aren't the best quality, but you get the point. He has a really good time at this place and likes the inflatables as well. I am going to try to post a video of him sliding down the inflatable (if I can get it to work).

Santa Came to Visit

2009-12-28T15:08:00.002-06:00

Santa must have thought Brady had been a really good boy this year. He received a train table and wooded train set, a battery powered four wheeler, a leapfrog "laptop" like mommies, a sit and spin, lots of car-cars, puzzles, a firetruck, etc.

We invited both sets of Grandparents to be there when Brady woke up and saw what Santa had brought him. They were to be there at 8, because Brady has been sleeping til 8 or 9 here lately, of all morning, I guess excitement, he tried to start getting up at 6:30!! Luckily, he just laid in bed and rested until 8:00 and never asked to get out. He was so cute. I think he liked everything he got, it was a little overwhelming. He started jumping up and down when he saw everything. He went to his train table first. Then slowly made his way to everything else. It took him a few minutes to figure out the wheeler, but once he did, he started making a path through our den and kitchen and back around and around and around.

I had made breakfast and we all ate together, then everyone left, and Brady continued to ride his wheeler. He think he is Something Else on that thing. He just has a cocky look on his face and just looks at you with his head tilted back when he passes by, like 'look at me now, I am not pushing thing'! It didn't take long, and he was back down for another 3 hour nap. Christmas definitely wore him out. We could not have had a better Christmas, and are thankful for everything, and everyone, and for Brady's 2nd Christmas!

Christmas Eve Night with families

2009-12-28T14:56:00.002-06:00

Here is a collage of pictures from Aunt Lindy's and Nana & Pops house.

We exchanged gifts at Aunt Lindy's, where Brady got more toys, some money and clothes. Me and Jason, got gift cards to get a pedicure (me) and Academy (Jason). We ate supper, and waited for Santa to come by. He comes by every year on the firetruck, and 4 of the last 5 years it has rained, so he can't slow down, and we haven't gone to the road to see him, but we can see him pass by very well from her porch. Brady LOVED it. He kept saying Santa and making firetruck noises. Then he waved bye to him and said Bye Bye Santa, with more firetruck noises. We played dirty santa, where we won Chick Fil and Logan's gift Cards! We left them to play the crazy games, and headed to Nana & Pop's house. They had finished eating and were waiting on us to read the Christmas story, Joe Roy to recite Luke 2, I should know this but I can't not remember what all verses he knew, I was blown away! Then we exchanged gifts, we received more gift cards to eat and pedicures! Everyone knows us all too well. Brady got a talking truck and clothes.

We had a wonderful Christmas eve, celebrating Jesus and fellowship, but it was time to go home and prepare for Santa to come. We got home and put on Brady's special Christmas pajamas and he was ready for a sip of milk, his passssss!, and bed. He went right to sleep, and Santa was able to come on and visit him ....

Christmas with Nanie & Papa

2009-12-28T14:45:00.001-06:00

We went over to Mom and Dad's and had Christmas with them next. Brady was so excited over his fire station and fire truck. He is really into firetrucks and sounds right now. So that thrilled him. Nana got him the radio flyer Tricycle. It is so cute, it had a radio and horn on it, so he pushed those buttons constantly. He enjoyed riding through there House on it! Now off to Aunt Lindy's for supper, presents and dirty Santa ...

christmas with mommy and daddy

2009-12-28T14:40:00.001-06:00

Before we left to go to my parents house to exchange gifts with them on Christmas eve, we exchanged gifts just mommy, daddy and Brady. Brady got some more car cars, A rolling choo choo train and a ball and hammer game. Daddy got a new electric drill set, a PS3 game and some Auburn clothes. Mommy got spoiled some more, she racked up with an iPhone!, a coach wallet and a galleria gift card. I must have been good this year! I love my boys and Thank you for always spoiling me! We didn't forget about our 4 legged children, they got new beds and some treat-treats. Brady LOVES to give the dogs treat treats, so this was just a good present for him too!

Christmas Eve Brunch

2009-12-28T14:23:00.001-06:00

Thursday Morning, we started Christmas eve off at Su Su and Big's house for brunch. We had a wonderful breakfast, and Tayler, Tyler and Brady loaded of up toys!! He got several car-cars, a tractor and trailer, a radio flyer riding toy, and a few other things. As always, the boys wanted what each other got and Tayler minds her own business with her girl toys. It won't be long, until there is another girl to fight over her toys! We had a great time, and all received our Christmas gifts. By the time we left there, Brady was ready for a nap, he knew he had a long afternoon/night ahead of him. So we got home and he slept for over 3 hours.

Merry Christmas!

2009-12-19T07:33:00.002-06:00

This is the picture we used for our Christmas card! This week, he has learned how to say

"Santa", "Christmas Tree", and "Ho Ho Ho" ... His vocabulary seems to extend everyday, he is getting very good at repeating things these days. He has also started calling Jennifer, Sissy, just like his daddy does! it is Cute!

2009-12-19T07:32:00.003-06:00

Poor Brady, I didn't even think about it, but when we left the Zoo, I just threw him in the car and went to Cosmo's ... I guess I should have taken his jacket off, because daddy said he looked like Ralphie's little brother, from the Christmas Story!!!

Zoo Light Safari

2009-12-19T07:28:00.004-06:00

Last night we went to Zoo Light Safari with the Gambles. It just so happen, the Jefferson County Alabama Club had Big Al there, so Tayler and Tyler got there pictures made with him. Being the "mean" parents that we are, we wouldnt' let Brady get his picture made with him. So he just sat in his stroller and waved at him. But we did find a blow up Aubie and had his picture made with him. Brady waved at EVERYTHING. From Big Al, to the blow up Aubie, the real Animals and the fake Animals!! He is so precious!!!

It was alot of fun. Brady liked the "lights" "lights" and hearing the Choo-Choo. We did not get a chance to ride it because we were late getting there. We left there and went to Cosmo's to see Lisa and get some pizza. We had a a very fun evening!

Visiting Santa

2009-12-19T07:22:00.002-06:00

Here is our attempt to a picture with Santa. We went to the Galleria on Sunday evening for Brady's picture. Boy was it crowded, we waited about 2 hours. Mom and Dad showed up and entertained Brady while we waited, which helped. But when he got up there, as you can see, he didn't want to be with Ho Ho by himself, he kept saying Da, Da, Da!! So me and Jason had to have the Santa picture with him.

Christmas Pictures

2009-12-10T11:30:00.010-06:00

Here is a sneak peak to Brady's Christmas pictures that we had made last week. I left off the Christmas card picture, as you will be seeing those soon enough :) I am working on getting those out in the mail! I think they turned out great, seeing that he is a 22 month old BOY that would not sit still and "cheese" like we practiced all morning!!! I went ahead and posted some of the bloopers that included him trying to pick up the props and throwing the ball!! Oh that boy!! I hope everyone is having a wonderful Christmas season. I still have tons of Christmas shopping to do, but that is okay, that is the fun of it, right? To wait until the last minute to get everything. Santa knows what Brady wants, so I think he has that covered. We have a busy Saturday night with 2 Christmas parties. Then we are going to try to go to Breakfast with Santa this weekend, if not, we will have the opportunity next weekend. We also want to try to make it to Zoo Light Safari and going to see Santa at the mall as well.

It's Beginning to Look ALOT like Christmas~!

2009-12-03T16:29:00.001-06:00

I just love Christmas time!! Everyone (well almost everyone!) is in merry moods and it is just a good feeling. Our tree is up, the stockings are hung by the chimney with care :) and the outside looks beautiful. I will have to take a picture one night and post it.
I am waiting on all of Brady's christmas outfits to get made, so he can be festive almost every day! We went and took his christmas pictures today. They turned out cute! I can't wait to get them back next week and get everyone some christmas pictures in the mail! Of course we practiced "cheesing" all morning ... he would not do that during the photo session, but when we got in the car he would do it, and was even willing to do it in front of the christmas tree when we got home!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving

2009-11-28T10:30:00.002-06:00

I hope everyone had a Happy Turkey Day ... This is the best picture, I have of the outfit I had made for Brady bug ... I was very happy with it, I found the lady from Madison, AL off of etsy.com and was very pleased with the quality and craftsmanship! I will definitely use her again. We have so much to be thankful for .... love, family, a precious and healthy 22 month old little boy, a roof over our head, jobs, and a happy marriage. There are so many more, but those are the first things that pop in my head.
Brady had a good 2nd thanksgiving ... we started off the day by watching a little of the Macy's thanksgiving day parade. When he would stop and pay attention, he loved watching it. We went to Tu's house for Jason's side of the families thanksgiving, we had good food and fellowship, then the men went outside for a little Turkey Bowl and threw the football around. Of course Brady had to go out there and ride his car car. It was cold, so we didn't stay out long. After that, we headed to my parents, just in time to play my Aunt's version of Turkey turnover ... wow! Family pictures, which my mom has on her camera, so I will have to get some copies of those to post.

We went to see The Blind Side at 6 ... It is hands down the best movie I have ever seen, so touching and funny all in the same movie, couldn't' have asked for more.

I woke up at 4:30 to go to Target, it was crazy, but no one was going after what I wanted, so I got everything I needed, plus a few good deal extras and I was out there and back home by 6 ... Then Jason and I headed to Auburn for the Iron Bowl. I have to admit I never thought it would even be a game, and I was happily surprised! Our guys played so hard and fought all 4 quarters, but couldn't hold them off the last 2 minutes of the game, so I will take 26-21 .. a lot better than the shut-outs that were predicted all week ... War Eagle, today, tomorrow and forever! :)

22 months

2009-11-17T13:52:00.003-06:00

Where has the time gone, my "baby" is now 22 months old. It is hard to believe. He is acting more and more like a big boy everyday. We were talking the other day, how Brady skipped the baby days. It seems like since he could sit up, he just grew up. He has never really cared for baby toys, he is all about big boy toys, especially his car cars. He has been playing with monster trucks for over a year now. Those are his favorites. He will line books, magazines, papers, etc up on the coffee table and make himself a track and will roll his car-cars on there for what seems like forever!

He is still a picky eater. When all else fells, he will always, always eat chicken nuggets. He also likes french fries, spaghetti, chips, cookies, steak, bread and rice. Those are always safe bets.

His vocabulary is starting to extend. He has started trying to repeat ALOT of what we say, things we don't want him to repeat. Like Daddy watching football Saturday night and saying "oh my god" .. and Brady says "oh my god" not as clearly as his daddy, but you could tell that was what he was going for.

He can say Momma (all the time!), da-da, nanie, papa, nana, TuTu (which is suppose to be SuSu), Tyler, light, horsies, Baylee Girl, which sounds more like Bully Gurrrr, bus, car, truck, cookies, tea, and make truck sounds. I am sure there are a few more that I am leaving out.

He is just a precious boy, and I hate to see him grow, but I know it is part of it.

Gatlinburg

2009-11-17T13:26:00.002-06:00

We have just returned from Gatlinburg for the Cox Family Vacation. We had a great time. We drove up on Tuesday. It rained the entire drive up ... we followed Tropical Storm Ida all the way up there. Brady did wonderful. You never know traveling with a 21 month old how it will go, but 90% of the time, you wouldn't have even known he was in the vehicle. He was a trooper the whole vacation. He is definitely off schedule as far as bed time, naps, etc. Some days his only nap was 30/45 minutes in the car. Wednesday was still a nasty drizzly day, so me, Jason & Brady went on our own and went on a ride through some of the state park (while Brady napped) and went to the aquarium. I have to say the shark tank was amazing and my favorite.
We had reservations at Dixie Stampede for 8:30. We were nervous about that, since at home he would be going to bed at that time. But he did fantastic, he loved watching the "horsies". That was a fun time. Tayler was chosen to chase the chickens for the South and Bryan played horse shoes for the South, they both did great and got a Win for their teams. You couldn't use flash photography, so the pictures I got where not to good. We also went to Cades Cove for a picnic and to see the wildlife. We saw lots of deer and turkey this time. We had a great time and can't wait for next years trip. Bryan & Jennifer, will have another little with us then!

Brady loved this "car-car" ... Every time we would pass it on the strip, he would have to ride it. His daddy showed him how to stall it out and he thought that was funny to shift it from low to high real quick, which would make it and the music stop for a second. It was only .25 cents per ride ... he definitely got a dollars worth and enjoyed every minute of it.

Happy Halloween

2009-11-03T12:10:00.005-06:00

My precious Tiger ....
Brady loves his cousin Tyler, as you can see the grin on his face as he went up and hugged him when he first saw him!

As always, there is plenty of good food to eat ... Brady loves Cheese, so he decided to dip his shredded cheese into the cheese dip, to make it cheesier!

He loves wearing his "monkey on his back" ... even around the house ...

Every year for as long as Jason can remember his family has held there annual trick or treat festivities ... We go to Nana & Pop's where they have everything set up and the bonfire roaring! Everyone gathers, brings chips, dips, snacks, desserts, etc .. We roast hot dogs on the open fire. Fellowship, then all the kiddo's load up on the trailers and go trick or treating. I have been doing this for 5 years and we used to only have only 1 trailer full, but the families have gotten bigger and friends added to the mix, so now we fill up two trailers. The headcount on our trailer was 27! So I am sure we had around 50 people on there, with about 25 trick or treaters! Can you image the neighbors faces when they saw the kids piling off the trailer running towards there door!!! That would explain why only about 10 houses had there lights on and one turned there lighs off when they saw us pull up!!!! HA! Brady was a blast. I have to say, I was very worried about him, he is at the age where he is constantly going and you have to constantly keep an eye on him. That is why I bought the "monkey on his back" .. but he did great. He liked to go trick or treating with his Uncle Johnny (thank you Johnny!!). He was exhausted when we made it back to Nana's. We changed his clothes, but on his pj's and went home and he hit the pillow and never said a word until 7:00 the next morning, and that is gaining an extra hours' sleep as well!! Happy Halloween!

Fall pictures!

2009-10-26T19:24:00.003-05:00

I have wanted to get Brady's pictures made for some time now, but I have either have put it off, haven't had time, the weather wasn't good, etc. (excuses!) So yesterday the weather was pretty so I decided to dress him up in a fall outfit and take him to Aldridge Gardens and take his pictures. Mom met us there on lunch and helped me with him. Which I am thankful for, because I never could have kept up with him by myself and took his pictures! When I put his stroller in the back of my car he had to put something in there too, so he choose his wooden truck. The truck is special, because one of Jason's uncles made it for him when he was a little boy, now Brady plays with it. I am scared he will tear it up one day, because he loves to push it around so much. It also has a trailer that attaches to it, but we left it at home! So as you can see, the truck are in most of the pictures. All in all the pictures were a success and I have a few frame able ones!

Pumpkin Patch

2009-10-25T19:50:00.006-05:00

We went to the Pumpkin Patch with The Beard's yesterday. It was perfect weather and a good time for our boys. Brady was a great age for it this year. He really enjoyed the Hayride, the Maze, the Train ride, and just running around, all in all just being outside! We had a great time, and look forward to many years of doing stuff like this with our boys!! After the fun, since the weather was perfect, we decided to get lunch and have a picnic at the pavilion. I think we spent more $ at the concession stand and bake sale than we did at the pumpkin patch, but it was good!! :)

Brady was very good on every ride, just sat there and rode. The hay ride took you to the top of the hill to a Maze, I wasn't going to let him do it at first, as I told Marianne, "he wouldn't know the difference" ... but after everyone else got off the trailer, he watched what they were doing and decided he could do that himself, so he went through the maze and was such a big boy and proud of himself when he got out! the big boy walked back to the trailer, climbed on and was like, "okay, lets go!" ... He really enjoyed watching the tractor go by, you can see in one of the pictures, he sat in the grass and watched it go by. He is such a sweet boy, and is getting so big. I think he is going to enjoy the Bunn Halloween party this year. We will be doing that on Saturday. I think I will need to get a leash to keep up with him!

Our Families:

The Hayride:

Train Ride and picking out pumpkins:

Big Boy Hair Cut

2009-10-23T12:52:00.006-05:00

The After .. front and back!

excuse the chick-fil-a on his mouth, of course he had to be rewarded for his good behavior with chicken!

Brady has desperately needed a haircut for several weeks now, but his daddy has not wanted to get it cut. I will admit, I was having a tough time parting from the little "frat boy" out of control long hair, but this morning I woke up to this ... and decided this boy needs a hair cut! Jason is out of town today, so I took him to see Mrs. Crystal, who has cut Will's hair since he was a little boy, and she gave him first official big boy haircut at 21 months old!! He had his first hair cut at 17 months but we just trimmed the front and sides, this time, he had an all over haircut!!

He did VERY well, however he would not sit in the chair himself, so I had to sit down with him in my lap, so therefor there is no pictures of his first big boy haircut! He played with his truck and was rewarded with a tootsie-pop ... I think it turned out really cute, and can't wait for Jason to get home this afternoon and see him. I know he will love it when he sees it and I will not be in trouble for not telling him I did it!!! :)

Cutest little Tiger in Town

2009-10-16T13:19:00.001-05:00

I had Brady try on his Halloween costume last night. I was a little worried he would hate having it on, but he actually really liked it, he wore it around for about an hour! He looked so darn cute, even showed off his little baby face and didn't make him look like a big boy!!

Walking in Daddy's shoes ...

2009-10-16T13:10:00.003-05:00

Jason has a tendency, to always leave his work shoes right where he walks in the door and leaves them ... so now that Brady has really taken a notice to wearing shoes, he likes to walk in his daddy's work shoes! He was so funny, walking in these things and getting so mad when he would walk out of them and when he would trip and fall.

Jason had his knee surgery last Friday (Pct. 9). He did really well. He ended up with 3 tears in his Meniscus and inflammation, Dr. Carr was able to take care of it in a matter of 15 minutes! Of course we were there for 4 hours though! He has done really well recovering, we went out and walked around the block last night.

We are hoping to take Brady to the pumpkin patch this weekend. One by the lake since it has a petting zoo, then getting home to cook some Chili and grilled cheese, and watch the Auburn Game! Next weekend we plan on going to the local patch with Ty! We want to get some cute pictures of our lil' men together!

Brady's new word/phrase of the week: Wow! Wow! Wubsy! which is a show on what use to be the Noggin channel, now Nick Jr. ... although he says something more like "wa wa wubsiiii" but you can clearly tell that is what he is saying!

Doing tricks

2009-10-10T17:23:00.003-05:00

Brady loves to ride his "wheeler" and do tricks. Here are a few pictures of him riding and showing off some of his tricks, which include riding with no hands and riding with his feet on the steering wheel. I hope this is not a sign of what is to come with him and how he rides a 4-wheeler, if so momma will be a nervous wreck!

Game Day

2009-09-26T09:58:00.001-05:00

**sidenote** please excuse Brady's morning hair ... he slept-in until 9 o'clock this morning, and I put his outfit on him when he got up, so his hair is looking a weee bit wild!!

As I am playing on the computer, updating facebook and my blog, brady comes to me and says Moma, I ignore him, a little louder, Moma, still ignoring him (I know what kind of mother am I!!) he says it LOUDER, so I look at him and say what Baby? He puckers up and wants to give me a kiss, how sweet is that!!!!! Then I smell him, he was coming to tell me I just "pooped my pants", now how sweet is that!!!

Cookies and Milk

2009-09-26T09:52:00.001-05:00

cookies and milk are our nightly routine before bed ...

Meeting Hannah!

2009-09-26T09:45:00.004-05:00

Katie, Mike and Hannah were in town last weekend and we had a great visit with them Sunday morning before they headed back to Ft. Rucker. Hannah was almost 2 months old! Hard to believe, it just flies by! Mike is about to graduate from Flight School at Rucker and they will be moving to Fort Campbell Ky in a few short weeks, but the good news about that ... Nashville is only about 30 minutes from there ... I pray in those hopefully 4 years they are there, we get to take a couple trips to Nashville. Here are some pictures from that day. let me go ahead and apologize for my son! I asked him to give Hannah a kiss and he decided to crawl on top of her and give her a big smooch! We had to ask him to please get off of Hannah :) Hannah is so cute and precious! She definetly looks like a Davis, I think she has Mr. Buddy's cheeks :) I am so glad we got to see them!!! We Love ya'll!

Celebrating Auburn's win!

2009-09-13T17:06:00.003-05:00

Brady got to celebrate the Auburn victory with an Auburn cupcake on Sunday. Of course I was smart and knew the blue icing would stain, so I stripped him to his diaper and he took a bath immediately following!!

War eagle ... again!

2009-09-13T17:00:00.005-05:00

Here are a couple of pictures of Brady watching the Auburn game at Nani and Papa's ... apparently he was listening to the bama game and got disgusted so he had to take the headphones off!!! ha ha! We didn't make it to the game this week. Jason was not happy about this, but he got over it, but we do have big plans of going down there this weekend, motor home, campers and all!!

War Eagle, Hey!

2009-09-11T11:08:00.003-05:00

Last Saturday kicked off the football season. Brady got to wear his jersey for the first time ... It was a little big on him, but I thought he looked cute :) We are working on him saying War Eagle and Towndown Auburn. He use to be able to put his hands in the air when we said touchdown auburn, but we haven't done it in some time now, so he has forgotten it.

Me, Jason, & Will went to the first game. It was a little different down there now, and is different without the Davis' being there ... we missed them. We also missed having the motor home there. This is the first game since mom and dad got the motor home that we went without it, so we were a little lost. Hopefully we will get it down there soon and have a normal tailgating game!

Things around here are good. Brady's new thing is getting himself in and out of his bed. He started that Labor Day and now he has it mastered. Nap time and bed time have became more of a challenge. He gets out of bed 2 or 3 times before he finally lays down.

Monday night, he got out of bed about 4 times, and on the fifth time he got out, go on his four wheeler, and rode into our room, you couldn't help but to laugh at him! We are going to change his bed to a daybed this weekend, so I Will post pictures of his new "big boy" bed when we get that done. Have a great weekend and warrrrrrr eagle!!!

He's Sliding!!

2009-09-11T10:43:00.008-05:00

I took Brady to a local neighborhood park last Friday ... I figured he would enjoy it, but I never imagined he would LOVE the slide. There is alot of pictures of him sliding ... the reason being, Brady has never wanted to slide before. In the past he has done it once or twice and then wanted to climb UP it or sit at the top and change his mind. But this day he decided he was a big boy and went straight to the big slide, did it once, but it must have been to much for him, because he never went to it again, he stuck to the smaller slide. and he slide and slide and slide. Again, I know I have said this time and time again, but once again he proved he takes after me. After about 30 minutes he was red face and needing some water. He was hot and tired and gave me no problems about leaving! We just don't like the heat!!!!

weekend at the lake = Tired boy :)

2009-09-11T10:35:00.004-05:00

I do not have any lake pictures from our last trip down there a couple weeks ago. But I think the picture on the way home pretty much sums it up ... Brady was tired and we had a great time down there. Will took 2 friends down there, so Brady thought he was as big as them and wanted to go everywhere they went. He learned how to give "knuckles" from one of them, and that is all he wants to do now. We swam, took boat rides, and rode the wave runner. The guys tubed and knee boarded. We are sad that summer is over, and there will be no more lake time, especially since it was August before we got down there ...

Happy Belated Anniversary to us!

2009-08-21T16:25:00.003-05:00

Wednesday was our 3 year anniversary ... We are going to celebrate tonight, by going to Flemming's, yummy!!! It is hard to believe we have been married 3 years. I thank the lord for a wonderful 3 years and look forward to what the future holds for us and our family. Happy Anniversary Jason, I love you :)

Brady is doing good. We took him to the Galleria today to eat lunch and walk around. Of course, he had his chickfila. We sat by the carousel, he liked watching it and would question why it stopped. So I decided to let him ride it again ... the last experience wasn't a good one. I wouldn't say he loved it, but he did like it! He would hold on to the pole when he felt brave and about the time the horse would start going back up in the air, he would hold on to me. Needless to say when the ride stopped, he was fine to get off there. At least he didn't' cry this time ... Seeing that I was the one that rode with him, there is no pictures!

We are still around ....

2009-08-12T12:12:00.000-05:00

I know I have been the worst blogger, but I have gotten so behind that it has gotten overwhelming to sit down and catch up, but I decided, that today, my off day, I am going to get updated and try not to get this far behind again. In catching up, we have been to the beach again with my family. We had a very nice time and Brady enjoyed the pool again. We didnt' even try to take him back to the sand again, because it is almost a football field length to walk out there, and that is just to far for this out of shape momma to walk and stay out there and walk back in 10 minutes carrying a 23 pd child :)

We finally made it to the lake this past weekend, the basement issues, have been resolved enough for us to go down there and enjoy the rest of the summer. Brady had a blast. He loved the water. I wasn't sure if he would like it or not since it was "dark water", so I bought an inflatable pool to put on the pier just incase, yea, it never made it out of the box. he loved the river, which I am so glad, that is where I grew up during the summers and I hope Brady is able to do the same! He even rode around with his daddy on the jet-ski, but I didn't have my camera down there then so I didn’t get a picture of it … he loved the boat rides, he would just point wave and enjoy the wind blowing through his hair!

I guess those are our 2 major events, other than that, we have hung around the house in the air conditioner, it has been way to hot to be outside! We have started landscaping our yard, in phases, we have gotten side 1 and front side 1 done, we are doing it week by week, so next week will be the other side of the front, then the other side, then the back, etc. Then it will be on to Brady a play area in the back, I told Jason that could wait until fall when it cools off, because I am Santa or his birthday will bring an outside play set, so we have a little time for that.

Brady did have his 18 month appointment on July 31st. He weighed 23 pounds, and 11 ounces. He is in the 80% for his height and 25% for weight … so he is tall and skinny for his age. His height has leveled off though, because he has been in the 90th percentile for height. He only had to get 1 shot, and he did VERY good. We don't’ go back until he is 2 years old.

Below are pictures from the beach, lake, around here, etc.

Lake pictures

2009-08-12T11:58:00.015-05:00

blogger is acting crazy and not letting me upload all the pictures I want to ... but here are some from the Brady's first lake weekend as a "big boy"!

beach pics

2009-08-12T11:35:00.003-05:00

"To climb out of the bed or not?"

2009-08-12T11:13:00.007-05:00

Brady decided he wanted to climb out of his bed the other morning. While i was aggravating him and would not get him out of his bed, he thought he would take matters into his own hands. Well as you can see he got half way over, sat on top of his bed, looked down and changed his mind ... he went back to his bedside ... which was a relief to me, he is scared of it this week, next week may be a different story, but for now we can keep the rails on!

Mr. Smarty Pants

2009-08-12T11:04:00.007-05:00

Brady can now point to 9 of his body parts ... I snagged a couple pictures of some below ... but he can point to his ears, eyes (sometimes he chooses to blink them really fast instead of pointing), nose (ans of course the finger ventures up there!), mouth, teeth, hair, feet and hands.

In the pictures he is pointing to his ears, nose and eyes.

Goldfish anyone???

2009-07-27T11:43:00.003-05:00

This morning as I am cleaning out my closet ... don't ask what made me get that urge, because i have no idea, but I do know, that I don't feel like finishing it! Brady was veryl quite, so I go into the den to find him eating his goldfish ... i think the picture tells the story very well!

We got back from the beach yesterday , and i have tons more pictures to upload, I just have to find the time to sit down, edit and upload them. We had a great time, were a little more lazy this trip, plus we didn't have the best weather, it was overcast A LOT of the time ... but we still had a great time. Hopefully I will get around to uploading the pics soon, until then, back to the closet!!!!!!!

Best Friends

2009-07-12T14:59:00.004-05:00

Me and Marianne have been trying to take these boys pictures together since Ty has been born, but it just hasn't worked out. We have had these matching outfits for several months, and decided we better get the pictures before they both out grow them. The funny thing is we both ordered these outfits and didn't know about it!

This was my favorite one, because it really shows how Brady treats Ty, we kept trying to get him to put his arm around him, well Brady insists on putting his hand on his head so he can "pat" him ... we are really having to work on being gentle!

Brady insist on hugging and kissing Ty all the time, so half of my pictures are of the back of Brady's head! I think they turned out sweet!!

I thought this picture was funny, just because of Ty's face ... "oh no, not another kiss" could ya'll make this boy STOP!!! :)

Horsin' Around!

2009-07-12T14:56:00.001-05:00

Last night we went to the Beards house for dinner and to hang out ... Brady found Ty's Na-Na and instantly started playing with it, so I thought it could be a cute photo opp ... I was right, I got some cute pics of him :)

Happy Birthday McWane Center

2009-07-12T14:51:00.004-05:00

We were having a lazy Saturday morning, when we heard on the news that yesterday was the McWane Center's 11th birthday celebration, so Jason and I took Brady there for the fun! There were so many people there, I guess 1/2 price tickets bribes everyone (it did us)! But we had a great time, the 3rd floor has a "tiny tots" area and that is where we let Brady out of his stroller to run wild, and he had a great time! Jason really wanted to see the new shark and sting ray touch exhibit, but the line was way to long to wait for it, so we have an excuse to go back when it is not so crowded! We didn't mike it to the mice size area either this time for him to play because of the crowds. Brady was so tired when we left there, he fell asleep before we even hit the interstate!

Last of the beach

2009-07-08T11:21:00.002-05:00

Of course, I had to get my family beach pictures, and Jason was such a trooper, for someone that usually isn't up for pictures!! We went down there and took pictures of each other, and I asked a stranger to take our family pictures, which I think turned out great ... It is crazy to look at our family picture from last year to this year ... Brady has changed so much ... I am hearing he is looking more like me and a "beavers", saying he resembles Will ... What do you think???

All three kids had a great time and got along good. Here are a few pictures of them playing in the condo. Brady took his tricylce down there, and Tayler and Tyler would like to ride on it, so Brady would hop on to the back and let them drive him around. You can also see Tyler taught Brady about jumping on the bed ... I guess thats what Big Cousins are suppose to do???

More Beach Fun

2009-07-08T11:13:00.005-05:00

Brady continued to love the pool. Mr. independent was in and out of the baby pool, and would have to go put himself int eh big pool every once in a while! I love the picture of him pulling Tyler's bathing suit down, I am sure that was an accident, and not messing with his cousin!

He was wishy-washy about the ocean and sand ... he would love it one minute, then the next he was whining and pointing towards the pool.

One moment he wouldn't mind the sand on his feet, then the next he would hate it on his feet, that would be why he has some type of shoes on in some pictures. One time he actually sat down in the sand and played with toys, which was shocking, since he did not like the sand on his hands!!! He did like his beach chair ... that is the only time this boy would sit still for 5 minutes and just watch everyone!

Orange Beach Fun

2009-07-08T11:08:00.003-05:00

I am finally getting around to posting, I know it has been awhile. We were gone all last week to the beach. We went to Orange Beach with Jason's family and had a great time. This was Brady's 3rd beach trip, but his first one to actually enjoy! He LOVED the pool. Which of course we figured he would since he loves mom and dad's so much. Before we left I ordered him a "puddle jumper" float device and it was wonderful. He is able to "swim" by himself with it on. These pictures are of our first afternoon down there. We left our house about 9 that morning. Brady did wonderful going down there, only had about a 30 minute nap, and was great to be in and out of his car seat for 5 hours!! Tayler and Tyler could not wait to get on the beach, so we went on down there as soon as we got the cars unloaded. Brady was pretty fine with the ocean & sand on this day!

First Haircut!

2009-06-24T17:49:00.001-05:00

It only took 17 1/2 months for Brady to finally be ready for his first haircut! I started to get it done last month, but chickened out, plus I was catching grief from the grandparents as well. This time I scheduled the appointment and went with it. I let her trim up his bangs and around his ears, we left the back, because I do think the little long hairs and potential for some curls is cute! :)

Brady did great, we let him watch us get our hair cuts first, and when it was his turn, he sat in the chair like a big boy for the beginning, then being the up/down climber he is, he was ready to get down after one side, so Jason had to hold him, but he did great! The first two pictures are the before, I haven't taken a good "after" shot, but you can tell in the pictures the difference in the front :)

Swimming! :)

2009-06-16T14:25:00.002-05:00

We went last night for a late afternoon swim at Mom and Dad's. Brady tried out his new bodysuit! I am not keen on the looks of those things, but I guess safety comes before looks when you have a lil' one! He loves the water, he is warming up to it more, floating on his back, letting us throw him, etc.

outside play

2009-06-15T16:33:00.010-05:00

We finally got outside for a little fun, but there is no denying Brady takes after his momma~ after exactly 10 minutes out there, we were both red face and pouring sweat ... It was actually Brady's idea to go on the porch where it was much cooler, I definetly didn't sway his idea! Brady had fun and momma had a mini-photo session, I think I got some really good ones of him!

17 months today!

2009-06-15T09:10:00.002-05:00

Brady turned 17 months old today ... It is hard to believe. It is going by way to fast. He is such a little ham and is more fun everyday. I think I catch myself saying this is my favorite time of his life every month. He learns new tricks every day. We now know where his and everyones nose is and he likes to cover his eyes and we "loose" Brady! He thinks that is quite funny!
We haven't had much swim or outside time lately because it has either been so stinking hot or raining. The past 3 days we have tried to go to mom and dad's to swim and it has rained. We are going to try for some outside time today. I will probably blow up his pool and let him play. I also found a deal yesterday, I have been trying to find him an outdoor activity set, and of course the one I want is $300, well I logged onto craigslist yesterday morning, and a lady in McCalla was selling one for $40!! So I jumped on it and bought it, we went and picked it up, of course it is a little sun faded and dirty with dirt and grass, but Brady already tried it out and liked it, so I figured for $40, we will take it!! Hopefully I will have some pictures to post from today!

spaghetti and a bath!

2009-06-13T11:25:00.001-05:00

I think it would be okay to say that Brady enjoyed himself some spaghetti the other night. I made the right decisionto take his shirt off and let him eat it and go straight to the bath tub! I love the face/smile he is making, it's so funny!

Really Daddy?

2009-06-13T11:23:00.000-05:00

This is what happens when Daddy lets you go outside to play ... pajamas on and socks with sandles! poor kid looks like an old man :)

First Swim of the Summer!

2009-06-08T12:55:00.000-05:00

We took Brady to Nani & Papa's house on Sunday for his first swim this year. He was a little sceptical at first, as it was very cold to start with, but within a few minutes he warmed up and wanted to step on and off the float, then he started jumping in and then he would crawl of the side and hang on to the side, within the hour he got braver and braver and turned into a little fish! I was proud of his first real pool experience. He will definitely be back over there for more and more swimming this summer!

He loves his cook-cooks

2009-06-08T12:46:00.002-05:00

If there is one thing that Brady will always grab from the pantry, it is the chip ahoy cookies! The boy loves his cook-cooks, and he gets that honestly from his dad (okay and me too!) ... Jason can ask him to go get the cookies from the kitchen, and he will bring back the red box and expect you to give him 2! He got a little confused the other day and brought back the red saran wrap box, and got to the den and looked at it and looked at Jason all funny, and said huh, like he knew he brought the wrong thing!

ouch, my eye!

2009-06-08T12:27:00.000-05:00

yes, I won the "bad momma of the year award" ... I did this to his eye! Don't call DHR ... it was an accident :) Marianne and Ty were over at the house and Brady decided he wanted to try some of Ty's milk, when I went to grab the bottle out of his hand that was in his mouth mid air to drink, i scratched his poor little eye ... It hurt him, but I am sure not as bad as it hurt me ...

Weekend Summer Fun!

2009-06-01T08:20:00.008-05:00

It was a beautiful weekend, and we tried to take advantage of it! Friday, Marianne and Ty came over, we put Ty in the shade and let him enjoy some sunshine and blew up Brady's new water stuff and let him play. He loved it, even though the water was a little cold, he played his little heart out for over 3 hours. We had a good time and will be doing this alot more this summer. As I said we tried to take advantage of the pretty weather all weekend, and I had all intentions of letting him do it Saturday and/or Sunday, but Saturday I was laid up in the house with a migraine all day and Sunday Brady slept all day long catching up from the exhausting weekend.

Saturday night, we cooked out at Marianne & Brent's house, and had a good time over there despite all our "chaos"!! But with 2 kids who expects cookouts to be normal!! I am so glad it is summer time, I just hope my part-time rein can make it through it!!! :)

lovin' chick-fil-a

2009-05-22T13:41:00.004-05:00

Thank You Aunt Lindy for the chicken nuggets for today! They were left over from last night, we had my cousin, T.J.'s high school gradutation party last night. It is hard to believe he is 18 ... I was in the 3rd grade when he was born! ahhh, that makes me feel old!!

We all know Brady LOVES his chick-fil-A. Everyone that knows him, knows when all else fails, you can always get chick-fil-a. Well today, I think he found a new love for chick-fil-a! Dipping his chicken in the special sauce! It went from dipping the chicken, to smothering the chiken in there and digging it out, to just licking the container!!

I had to post the picture from a year ago, it was from May, so right at a year, his first experience with carrots, everyone blamed me for being a messy feeder, I think Brady was and is a messy eater! :)

ahhhh, the milk!

2009-05-22T11:08:00.006-05:00

Look at this angelic face ...

who would think just 5 minutes earlier, he would have been doing this .... While I was cooking him breakfast this morning (scrambled eggs & bacon) he decided to turn his milk cup upside side and spill milk on to his tray for some "fun" ... I kept hearing him giggle, and didn't think to much of it, because he was watching the Noggin Channel, but when I got to a break in cooking, I turned around and found the mess ... milk all over him, the tray, the floor, the fridge, etc! If you click on the picture to see it bigger, you can get an idea of the mess!

Some cute pics

2009-05-15T23:04:00.005-05:00

Happy Belated Mothers Day!

2009-05-15T22:56:00.003-05:00

Happy belated mothers day! I hope every mother and grandmother had a wonderful day. I know I did! For Mothers Day, my wonderful son (& husband) gave me a new camera, a Nikon D60, and excited would be an understatement. I have been trying to take pictures of some new things Brady has been doing for weeks now, and could never grab it, now I got it.

"I don't know" is Brady's new response to everything!! Brady where is your pa? Brady where is Baylee? Where is your truck?, etc ... his reply is always with this hand up like this and shrugging his shoulders to say i don't know! so cute :)

The other picture, all I can say is poor Baylee ... you can see Brady running for her and all I caught of her was her high end getting out of dodge!!

These boots are made for walking ...

2009-05-15T22:53:00.001-05:00

and this is what his daddy did ...

"b"

2009-05-15T22:45:00.004-05:00

Sorry I have not posted in over 2 weeks. It has been crazy busy around here. I finally finished working full time, what was suppose to be 6 weeks, ended at 10 weeks!!! Then when I finally get to be at home and catch up on anything and everything, the computer got a virus! But we are all good now, and I will try to be better. Here are a couple cute picks of my lil' man in his "b" shirt that I had made for him. This was the Saturday before Mothers' Day and we tried to go shopping for my present and to dinner, just the three of us, well the night turned out to be a wreck because "someone" had only slept about an hour that day. For a child that usually naps about 4 hours a day, we really should not have expected much more!!! So I blame that on us!

playing outside

2009-05-02T09:02:00.002-05:00

Brady definitely loves the outside and he isn't afraid to let you know it. He is either saying "side", looking out the door and pointing, or just plain crying to go outside when a door opens or the word outside is mentioned. You can see in the pics they cries I get to go outside and then to have to come back inside.
Last weekend, we did yard work and I took him outside, he wasn't out there 30 minutes, and already red face and hot, which made him ill, so I took him inside, which made him madder, I gave him a bath to cool him down and get the sun screen off, and that made him that much more mad. I put him in his bed in his diaper only and let him take a cool nap, and he passed out!
I sure hope he doesn't take after me, and can't handle the heat! As much as this boy loves the outside, he is going to have to have a tolerance for the outdoors like his daddy!

15 month check up

2009-04-18T11:31:00.002-05:00

I took Brady on Wednesday for his 15 month check up. It is so hard to believe he is already 15 months old! Dr. Stone said he looked great. He weighs 22 pounds & 14 ounces and is 32 3/4 inches tall ... According to the charts, he is in the 90th percentile for his height and in the 25th percentile for his weight and head, basically tall, skinny & small head :) Although I don't think he is any of that!
He got two shots, and was a very big boy, just cried at the initial hurt, since I was off the rest of the day, we went to visit Nani at work and played on the playground.

Mmmm Cows???!!!!

2009-04-18T11:27:00.004-05:00

We took Brady down to Uncle Bryan's farm Wednesday night to help feed the cows! Here are a few pictures of Brady driving the RTV. He thought he was big stuff. Then when we got to the cows, I was trying to teach him to say Moo Cows ... well it was always Mmmmm Mmmmm, so me and Jason couldn't decide if that was his way of saying "moo" or if he was saying "mmmm" because they were eating! ha! Brady got to see cows, a baby calf, miniature horses, donkey's, chickens, a llama and mini donkeys that were the size of Baylee, so he liked petting those! We will definetly be going back to Uncle Bryan's farm soon!

A fun-filled Easter

2009-04-13T21:32:00.002-05:00

Brady had a great 2nd Easter ... We had lunch at Jason's grandparents house. Here are a few pictures of him finding Eggs at Nana & Pop's. Then he had to go over to Marcy's and slide over and over again ... The static electricity was so bad, take a look at his hair standing on ends!! After lunch we went to my mom and dad's were we snacked the rest of the day and Brady got his car-car that the Easter bunny left him over there ... he continued to ride & push that thing in the house. I think he must have liked it!

The Easter Bunny Came!

2009-04-13T21:29:00.002-05:00

The Easter Bunny paid Brady a visit. He was so cute seeing what all he got, he walked right up to the basket just a grinning'! He got some snacks, powered donuts, yogurt raisins, tractor, a monster truck, and a couple other toys! He got ready & went to church, and he looked so cute! We got home and he slept for over 2 hours ... He knew he needed his rest, he had a big day ahead!

Chick-fil-A Play Date

2009-04-13T21:27:00.002-05:00

Since it was so cold Saturday and we had to call it quits at the Easter Egg hunt early, I took Brady to his favorite place to eat, chick-fil-a ... I wonder where he got that from? I let him go in the play area for the first time, and he really enjoyed it! We had a fun mommy/Brady day!
Then I dropped him off with Nani, Papa & Nana, and I headed to the salon and got a manicure & pedicure ... it was much deserved!

Loveless Park Easter Egg Hunt

2009-04-13T21:23:00.002-05:00

Me and Brady started Saturday off by going to Loveless Park's Easter Egg Hunt at Shadow Lake. It was at 11 o'clock and it was cold!! Brady really enjoyed himself. It took his a few minutes to realize what he was suppose to do, but when you realized what to do, all the other kids all ready had all the eggs, so Lil' man only got 3 eggs! But he was smart enough that when kids would drop eggs out of there baskets, he would pick them up! He liked the Easter Bunny, although I couldn't get him to look or smile in the picture. i had a hard time getting him to leave where the bunny was, he kept walking into other kids pictures to wave to the bunny!

Driving Mrs .... Nana!

2009-04-04T16:42:00.005-05:00

Another one of Brady's favorite things are cars. Playing with cars, making car sounds and DRIVING cars ... his daddy started this. When we would get home, he would get Brady out of his seat and sit him in his lap and let him "drive" ... now he thinks he is suppose to do this all the time and has meltdowns when we have to stop and go inside! I know it is hard to believe this "precious baby" has meltdowns, but he does!

Here are a couple of cute pictures of Brady "driving" Nana Thursday night, in the wind and rain. He must be something special, because Nana doesn't get her hair windblown or wet for just anyone, specially the day she had her hair done! My favorite has to be the first one, with him smashing his face up against the window at me!

Dancin' Machine

2009-04-04T16:33:00.003-05:00

One of Brady's favorite things to do is DANCE! We can be at home, in the car, at a restaurant, (you get the point) and he will stop what he is doing to dance! It is the cutest thing, I wish a camera would catch it better, but of course they don't!

My 1st sucker!

2009-03-29T15:00:00.008-05:00

I gave Brady his first sucker this afternoon, a bubble gum flavored dumb-dumb ... He acted like he had done this before?
Has someone given him one and not told me or is my child just this smart ... hehe!
He loved it, as you can tell in the pictures, he was all smiles for it!

Shhh ... Don't tell Jason!

2009-03-29T14:56:00.005-05:00

I have figured out a way to get the house clean with Brady's help! Little man went all over the house this morning with the swiffer. If his momma was smart, she would have put one of the pads on bottom and really let him clean the floors!

Prayers for Ty ...

2009-03-28T09:41:00.007-05:00

Welcome Mathew Tyler "Ty" Beard!

Marianne ended up having an emergency c-section around 3:30 yesterday ... Ty's heart rate kept dropping with her contractions, so around 3:57, little Ty came in to the world! He weighed 6 pounds, 11 ounces and was 20 inches long.
I went to see him last night, when I got there the nurse was taking his temperature and it was low, so he had to go under the heater, and he stayed there the 2 hours i was there, and was still there when I left, but his temperature was coming up. So I never got to hold him and it was killing me!! Marianne was doing great!

Talked to Marianne and Brent this morning ... Ty went to the NICU around 3 this morning, his temperature would never get to where it needed to be. They have done test on him, and everything is coming back great, he is eating well, using the bathroom, etc, but his white blood count is high, which signals infection as well. The doctors say he will be fine, they are giving him antibiotics to fight the infection, and he will have to stay in the NICU until Monday if all goes according to plan. Keep Marianne, Brent & Ty in your prayers as they fight this infection.

Come on Baby Ty!

2009-03-27T10:13:00.003-05:00

Ty is on his way!! Marianne went to the doctor this morning after having contractions at 7 minutes apart last night, and she is 3 cm dilated and 75% enfaced, so she is on her way to labor and delivery now, and Dr. Stone said he would break her water today!!! She went through all this yesterday for 7 hours, to be sent home :( But today he will be here! We can't wait to meet Brady's best friend! I will post pictures whenever he makes his arrival!!
Keep Marianne, Brent & Ty in your prayers today!

Easter Pictures

2009-03-23T09:52:00.006-05:00

Brady's easter picture proofs are available. You can tell in the first couple of pictures, he was a little teary eyed from the scare of the bunny! You can view them by going to: http://www.onlinepictureproof.com/dontblink

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Easter pics!

2009-03-21T16:10:00.007-05:00

I took Brady to have his Easter pictures made today with Rhonda and "Mr. Binky" the rabbit. He did good at first, didn't like the bunny and then I charmed him with some "nacks" (snacks) and he let the bunny sit in the chair with him as he pulled his hair ... Poor bunny! But I can't wait to get the proofs, when they are ready, I will post the link. But I had to post some pictures of my Lil' man in his Easter outfit ... I thought he looked precious!!!

My new trick!

2009-03-21T16:05:00.005-05:00

Please notice what Brady is doing in this picture! He has learned to open & shut our doors. So far he has:

1. Locked himself in our bedroom all by himself. I called Jason in panic mode, he calmed me down, had me get a nail off his tool bench, and I was in there in less than 5 seconds, only to find Brady sitting in the floor SMILING at me!!! :)

2. Opened the door to the garage, let the dogs in and just walked on outside. We now have to keep the dead bolt locked to keep the little man inside!

Look at all those teeth!

2009-03-21T16:01:00.002-05:00

Brady was so excited to hear that our good friends Katie and Mike are having a GIRL! Can you see the excitement on his face????!!!!We are so excited for Katie and Mike, now we just have to wait until the beginning of August to meet "her"! We need a name Katie :)

Brady is also so excited to find out that his friend "Ty" is not to far away. Marianne is 37 weeks pregnant, and almost there! Her blood pressure was up a little this week, so if it continues to stay up they will talk about inducing! Come on blood pressure, but stay down enough for the saefty of baby Ty! We are so ready to meet Brady's best friend!

Outside Fun!

2009-03-17T19:01:00.003-05:00

Brady really loves the outdoors. He will stand at the door and cry to go outside. Our cousin Cami stayed with him yesterday, so he got to go outside a couple times, and he had a good time. She took a couple of pictures of him to send to me while I was at work, slaving away, so I had to share them!

He is getting so big! He has the best little personality and just smiles and laughs about everything. Cami said he was the best babies she had kept. She ought to say that, he took 3 naps for her, and one being a 3 hour nap. So she really did have much work to do at all!!

Splish Splash, Brady was taken a bath!

2009-03-17T18:59:00.002-05:00

Here is a couple of cute pics of my little monkey playing in the bathtub ... You can see he is a very "modest boy" he covered himself up!!!! He loves his bath time! His new thing, is to lay down in the water and either try to drink it or blow bubbles!

Sick & Fun

2009-03-14T12:11:00.006-05:00

We have been a sick family this past week. It started off with me, then I gave it to Jason. We finally got better around Tuesday. Then Thursday morning Brady woke up feeling horrible, winy, oh so winy, wouldn't eat, drink, nothing, just wanted to sleep or fuss. Jason stayed home from work to keep him, so I could go to work. Then I took him to the doctor that afternoon ... double ear infections ... You wouldn't know it today though, 2 days of antibiotics, and Brady is back full force.

Speaking of work .. Whitney had her baby 3 weeks early, so I am officially full time for 5 more weeks. the first week absolutely exhausted me!! I will probably get use to it, about the time Whitney comes back and I go back to 2/3 days a week.

Last weekend was Michelle's wedding. She was a beautiful bride! I am glad we got to go to the wedding. I wasn't feeling well, but wanted to go, and Jason was at home sick. Here a couple pictures from the wedding. I had to steal them from Ashlee because I forgot my camera.