Chilaxin'

One foot hanging, the other foot propped up. Staring off into space. This is what my brother would call "chilaxin". It's pure contentment.  

Interesting Swine flu article

Paul sent me this link this morning. Read it over. It might help ease your fears a little bit. 

Take your kid to work Day

Last week Ashlyn got to go with her Daddy to the yearly "Take your kid to work day". She declared it, "The BEST day she has ever had". They got to see how 3D movies are made,  watch clips of new movies that even Paul hasn't gotten to see, color 3D pictures of BOB (from Monster's Vs. Aliens), have pizza with Daddy, and play lots of games. I told her I was jealous and she said, "what, do you wish you could go back and be a kid and go to work with your Daddy all day?" I said, no. I'm jealous that you got to spend the whole day with your Daddy. I wish I could spend the whole day with YOUR Daddy! She had SO much fun though and can't wait for next year.

One year stats

I realize that most of you don't care how big my boy is. I do this for the sake of my own memory keeping.

Brandon had his one year check up this morning. It took WAY too long. Wasn't so happy about that. Here are his stats. 

Weight-20 pounds 9 ounces (20th percentile)

Height-30 inches (50th percentile)

Head-47 1/2 cm (60th percentile)

Basically, tall skinny and top heavy. HA....just kidding. He's my perfect little boy and I love him!

Here are some things he's doing.

~He walks all over now. Hooray for no more crawling. 

~He says "yay". That's about it. A couple of times we thought he said "hi", but I'm not convinced. He mostly jibber jabbers all day in a foreign tongue. 

~He waves hi and bye and always seems quite pleased with himself for doing so.

~He LOVES to wrestle and rough house. Just ask his sisters....and Beth too (sorry little Audrey).

~ He FINALLY started sleeping through the night at 10 1/2 months (hooray).

~He loves balls and cars (it really is inborn with these little guys. It's quite funny.)

~He's into just about everything, and especially likes to try and get in the fireplace.

~He is snuggly and lovey and gives the greatest hugs.

~He's a VERY happy baby, but does know how to throw his head back and cry in despair when I take something away from him that he wanted.

~He has eight teeth and still almost no hair.

~And he's most definitely a little charmer. Melts my heart everyday. 

What do you think Bud?

We are going to have a family party for Brandon in a couple of weeks, but we just had to have a little party and let him have his first chocolate cupcake. This about sums up what he thought of it. 

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday little guy. I love you so much and can't believe it's already been a whole year! We're so glad you're part of our family.

Building the swing set

We have a hard working Daddy. And of course, yesterday was probably the hottest day of the year so far. But he didn't let that stop him from accomplishing his mission of getting that swing set put together (Okay so he also had two little heads in his face at 7 in the morning asking if it was FINALLY the day he was going to put the swing set together. They were a little excited.)

 The girls are in heaven. So is Brandon.