HAIR TODAY..GONE TOMORROW!
Yesterday Aug 15, I finally did it! I chopped 10 inches plus and yes it's still at my shoulders! I'd been talking about doing it for months and finally woke up and decided yesterday was the day! I feel like a new women, I can't even remember the last time I had a hair style. I cut it not just for a new look but to also donate my hair to locks of love which is pretty cool!I was pretty nervous at first but eased right in to it real quick, especially when she told me about their hair extensions, which is the pink you see, it just clips in, fun right? I thought it would be fun just to do it plus to see the reaction on Ryan's face would be priceless! The before pictures don't do my hair justice b/c she brushed it out to death but I have to admit, I was in love with my hair and loved curling it and wearing it down, but those days were far and few between with it being so hot, Brady wanting to pull it, and let's face it getting caught in my armpits too so it spent more time pulled up which is why I new it was time to let it go and let somebody else enjoy it! It will be missed but I have agood feeling that this new hair and I are going to have some lots of fun as well, I can see us now, hee hee! :) By the way Ryan and Brady like it too!

I'm 5months!
I'm a day early but tomorrow,
August 12th, Brady will be 5months! I can't believe it, it really seems like yesterday
we we're bringing him home! So much has changed in the last couple of weeks he has now tried7 foods, just yesterday he rolled over from our back to our tummy, he has discovered his feet and loves to play with them, he continues to play with his paci, taking it in and out and even purposely opens his mouth wide enough to get the bottom of it in his stuck in his mouth and just talks, it's really funny! He also continues to open his mouth real wide and attack our faces and then he'll cuddle nestled up right in your neck! I hate to say it but he loves TV, he's just fascinated by it, but I've promised Ryan that he won't be one of those fat couch potato kids who does nothing but stays in and watches TV! He is just the happiest baby, especially in the morning, he wakes us up talking and playing in his crib, we can't help but waking up giggling at him!I have a week left with him before school starts and we're going to make the best of it! I'm thinking within the next couple of weeks we will announcing his first tooth and I'm sure much more! I just can't help but thank God everyday! Oh...today is my sister's b-day, Happy Birthday Mandi!

BESIDES APPLESAUCE,
I LIKE TO EAT...CARROTS

BANANAS

SWEET POTATOES

PEAS AND PEARS(picture not included)

So far Brady is not turned anything I give him away! I think we have a good and big eater on our hands! Watch out boys!

Mari turns 2!

My middle sister Mandi's little girl turned two yesterday, we celebrated her birthday on Sunday! She is just a adorable doll and a ham, just like her mother; I can't believe she's two already! She had a great time opening presents, throwing them aside and asking for more presents! She is so loving and motherly to Brady that we decided to get her a little mommy daycare set that came with a carrier, bed, and play mat with mobile,hoping she will continue to me a good helper to me and her mommy someday when they decide to give Mari a little brother or sister! Which we're all ready for,hint hint!

Blowing Out Candles

Opening Presents

Playing with the one of the presents we got her

Brady with Aunt Tanya

Brady and Cousin Kendra

Check out my airplanes on my pj's Popi and Grandpa...Could I be a future pilot like you?

STOP, DROP, & ROLL

I finally caught him yesterday on his side before rolling completely over, so here is the step by step roll over!

Here I go...Look @ me

Here I go again from a different angle!

20 wk Update

Brady was 20 wks yesterday and so much is happening. Besides eating cereal and now adding applesauce to our menu and don't forget rolling over, he is just growing up so fast! This last week he has really started to notice our faces, he wants to touch it and or bite it if your Ryan's nose! On the 18th I decided that I really needed to start working on Brady putting himself to sleep for naps during the day in his bed and what do you know the first day he played for about 15 minutes in his crib and then fell asleep for about 2 hrs. This was also the day we started eating cereal two times a day too so it was a big day! Since then he continues to play in his crib and take naps really well and Friday 27th I found him playing in the crib after a nap on his side trying to roll over from his back. At night we still have been swaddling him and using the sleep positioner but after about a wk or so of finding him in the corner of the bed wiggling right out of the positioner and then Sunday night the 29th finding him in the corner on his side I started getting worried that he was going to roll over and get stuck in his swaddler so last night 30th was Brady first night to sleep without them both and he still slept like a champ! I just know any day he will be rolling over from his back so until the I just stand by with my camera!

July 31st...
Yummy Yummy Applesauce!

Brady's doctor told us that by 6 months we should already be on 2nd foods which meant we needed to start experimenting with other 1st foods besides cereal. We'll due to the fact that most people I talked to hadn't even started cereal until 6 months I was a little apprehensive, but Brady was doing so well on cereal I decided to bite the bullet and go for it, doctor's do usually know what their talking about! So today with lunch Brady had a little applesauce as well, first face was a funny one but nothing like the first cereal face! He seemed to really like it, so we'll give it a couple of days and try something else.
He's really starting to hold his bottle too, not for more than a couple of seconds thought and today he had some help from his feet!

July 19, 2007...
Brady Rolls Over

Brady was never a fan of being on his tummy so I hadn't put him on his tummy in days but worried that he would never build up the muscles to roll over and crawl I decided I needed to continue tummy time just for a little bit each day! The minute I put him down on this Thursday morning he rolled over immediately, I didn't think anything of it, I just assumed I propped him to do it, so I put him back on his tummy and he did it again, so I quickly grabbed the video camera (after of course I started screaming and made a huge fuse about it, almost scaring Brady) and not two seconds later he did it again. I called Ryan and family right away , I honestly don't know that anyone believed but I had video for proof and then he did it for Ryan when he got home that night.

These pictures were actually taken on Sat. the 21st @ the lake which was the next time for him to do it, this time though he went to the other way. I haven't actually caught him on his side yet (b/c his gotten so quick now) to get the full step by step still picture shot but were working on it! Ready

Set

Go

Okay, mommy, this isn't so bad...
I like cereal!

Today Brady actually liked his cereal, today was day 7 of the cereal attempts, and I was beginning to think I was doing something wrong, when low and behold he just switched gears and decided he liked it! Yeah Brady! He kept giggling almost as it excited him to be a big boy eating cereal!

Chip off the old Block
Brady sporting daddy's favorite number! He just looks like a lil man doesn't he, in his t-shirt, cargo shorts and his blue converse! Whoever said you couldn't have fun dressing up boys was silly, I have more fun finding lil man clothes or lil daddy clothes than I ever thought possible. Oh, I just can't stand him, he's just so darn cute!!!

El Paso Trip
July 13-15

We drove to El Paso with my mom and dad this last weekend to visit my Aunt Harriet (my mom's sister). She hadn't met Brady yet and her boyfriend Hargrave of 30 yrs or more wanted to meet Ryan and share his gun collection with him. It was about a 10 hr drive or so with stopping of course. Brady was a very good boy considering he was stuck in his car seat for the two days we drove there and back, he had a couple of moments but it was to be expected! We had a great time visiting with Harriet and stuffing our faces with guavas rancheros and her famous ribs and Ryan had a good time exchanging hunting stories with Hargrave and seeing all his guns! And Brady had a good time watching their dogs Miles and Robbie! We made a detour in Abilene to eat at one of Ryan's favorite restaurants and to finish our old stomping ground and while we were there I decided to call Kim, one of my best friends from college who wasn't a roommate but might has well been. She met us at Joe Allen's with her sons Jake and Jack (on the way)! This was the first time for her to see Brady and my first time to see Jake in months, we had a great dinner and visit! Hopefully she coming down soon to visit some more!