Poor Santa!

I really do feel bad for Santa for having to deal with screaming children all day! :)

16 months!!

Our little baby isn't a baby anymore!! He is such an independent, curious and fun little man! It is so much fun to watch him figure things out, but all of the things that he does figure out are not always good things! :) He recently figured out how to open all of the doors in the house, so needless to say, some more babyproofing has occurred this month! He loves to climb, run, walk around backwards, dance and this month he figured out that jumping is so much fun! Although his toes really don't leave the ground, he has a blast trying!

He is now 27 pounds and he has officially grown out of 18 month shirts. The 18 month pants are still working for him though. Who would have guessed that our child would end up with short legs!? :) He is also wearing size 6 shoes.

Brayden's favorite foods now are peas, green beans, pasta, fish, kiwi, Goldfish, animal crackers and bananas, but he basically eats whatever we eat for dinner. He still gets 3 cups of whole milk a day and takes one nap in the afternoon around 1pm. He typically sleeps from 7pm-7am.

"Go!" is his new favorite word. We say "ready, set..." and he says "go" and starts running! Brayden also says "dog", "juice", "bye", "up", "hot", "more", "nana" for banana, "milk", "fish", "no", his own version of "Lucy", "cookie" and "down". In addition to the signs that he already uses, this month he has picked up the signs for "hat", "thank you", "baby", "eat", "daddy", and "dog". Thomas the Train and Curious George are his favorite characters right now and he even moves his arm up and down and says "choo choo" and makes a great monkey sound. Brayden has also started to say "beep beep" and "vroom" for a car also. He also shakes his head "yes" and "no".

He loves going to playgroups and even though it's December, we've been able to go to the park a couple of times. His favorite toys right now are books, his play laptop, blocks, and ball. During bath time he plays with his foam letters/numbers and books. He even picks out the "B" and the "8" every time he is in there. I guess all of the times that we showed him the "B" for Brayden has paid off! The "8" just looks like a "B" too I guess. :) When he is on his little laptop computer he looks so serious and hard at work. Lucy is still his best friend and Brayden loves to wrestle with Daddy!

Brayden is now starting to really be aware of other people's feelings and looks so concerned when he hears other kids crying. Recently he broke something of mine and I got down on the ground and acted like I was upset and sad about it. He curled up in my lap and gave me a hug and kiss. Doesn't get much better than that!

We are looking forward to a trip to Ohio next week for Christmas! Hopefully Brayden will get to build a snowman!!

Keenan Thanksgiving 2010!

We were lucky enough to get the family to make the trip here so that we could host Thanksgiving. It was such a great time and this place got a lot crazier with 10 people and 4 dogs under one roof! The weather was great and allowed us to hang out outside and play some cornhole! We had a great Thanksgiving meal with turkey, stuffing, sweet potato casserole, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, rolls and, of course, cranberry relish!

Mallory and I decided to join the crazy people on Black Friday and headed out to go shopping at about 4am. We got some pretty good deals even though there was really nothing in particular that we were looking for. We had the whole family together to watch the OSU/Michigan game on Saturday which was fun as well! Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!