Our Lil' Stinker is 7 months!

Brady turned 7 months on Friday, sorry I'm a little behind. We obviously went ahead and took his Halloween pics for his 7 months pics and he's a Skunk! He wasn't really in he's normal smiling mood, I guess he was really trying to fit the stinker part and giving mischievous looks on some. I can't believe he is already 7 months, it's crazy! We are finally well again and back to doing our normal thing. He is a talker, he just loves to talk, talk, talk, and he knows actually what he is saying. He loves when we, especially his daddy says Dada to him over and over again! He loves sitting in his big boy high chair to eat @ home and restaurants now and to sit in the actual seatt in the grocery basket instead of his car seat! There isn't a food he doesn't like, last night (14th) we actually gave him his first cookie, I think there supposed to wait a little longer to have one but his so interested in everything we eat and he loves to help feed himself, I thought we would try it and he loved it! As soon as he sees his bottle or food, he takes out his paci and throws it, it's the funniest thing! He loves his mommy's hair too, he loves to pull and swirl when trying to go to sleep and/or eat it when were playing, which I try to stop of course! He loves his bath, sitting up now, he kicks his feet, splashes, and eats his yellow ducky! He still loves to be outside especially riding along with mommy in his jogging stroller. He will just be as calm as can be and just look around and take everything in around him! He's thinking about crawling but just thinking about it. He can do a complete circle when laying on his stomach to turn around and see the dogs or a toy. At times he buries his end in the blanket and tries to scoot backwards. He is sitting better each day! We've started to have to use a humidifier every night along with a air purifier to help with Brady's congestion and/or allegories whatever it is. That's it for now, be looking for Pumpkin Patch and School/Church Fall Festival pictures here in the next couple of weeks!

Don't know if you can see it, but his little bum says lil' stinker

His wearing one of his My First Halloween shirts.

First Cookie, he loved it, it was all over the place, we ended up having to throw it away because he dropped so many times there was dog hair all over it, gross I know!

Brady's a BIG BOY!

Brady can now sit for several minutes, hes getting to be such a big boy and he knows it too! He just looks @ you and smiles like he's sayin "look @ me!"

Brady LOVES Ebony and Lucky!

Brady just loves the dogs! Everytime there in the room, he stops whatever his noting to stop and look @ them and he watches them wherever they go. Last night he just sat there and petted Lucky forever, and Lucky let him. These pictures are actaully from yesterday.

Brady Got a Hold of A Cracker!

Brady got a hold a cracker yesterday and instead of sucking on it like most kids, he used his two teeth and took a bite of it, so Ryan and I learned quickly that letting him have a cracker isn't wise!

UPDATE...

Brady has had a rough week! He first throw up @ daycare on Wed. 26th morning, so I picked him up a little early, he seemed to be feeling fine and even hate his food for me @ dinner time even though he wasn't interested @ daycare, we'll not 30 minutes later he threw up all over the place, him, the wall, the changing table, luckily we we're changing him into his pjs so he was naked. He was coming out his nose and mouth and this is the first time it actaully smelled like grown up throw up. I immediately started crying and gagging, thankfully Ryan and my friend Hillary from work were there to help! So, Thursday I had Brady stay with my mom and all day he seemed fine other than several diarrea diapers and he wasn't eating his food. I called the nurse and they have me some tips to help but said it wasn't necessary to bring him in b/c he didn't have fever. He was fine all night and then as soon as we walked into the caycare Friday he threw up all over himself in the carseat and he couldn't breathe b/c of all his snot. I have never seen so much snot/flem in my life. Our poor little guy was seriously after that chocking and coughing up so much snot he could catch he breathe, so I made an appt. @ the doctor. And after a chest x-ray and an examine, the doctor said it was just a virus. Neither Ryan and I were really happy with that response but what could we do? It was proven to be a virus after several and I mean several diarrera diapers and after I came down with it on Sunday and am still having syptoms. Crazy thing is even after all of this there wer only a coupld of times you could even tell Brady was sick b/c he was just playing, talking, and smiling like his usual self!

BORN TO BE A WILDCAT

For those of you who don't know Ryan and I both graduated from ACU (Abilene Christian University). Ryan was privileged enough to get a full ride to play football, Brady is posing with his helmet! Anyway, three times a year ACU mails out an edition of the ACU Today, their own magizine updating alumni of upcoming events and so forth. They have a section in the back called Experiences that has news of marriages and births and Ryan and I were in this last issue under births. They will send you a Born to be a Wildcat onesie after having a baby and there's a section across from the News that posts the pictures, so we took our pictures yesterday hoping to get Brady's picture in ACU Today. So for those who are ACU alumni be looking in your next edition of ACU Today!

Brady Backs Notre Dame This is the jersey we brought home for Brady from South Bend. What a cutie right? It's funny to our lil man sportin' his daddy's old number, oooh, I can't wait to cheer for this lil guy!

While Mom and Dad are Away, Brady will Play...

Brady spent Friday day and night with my parents aka Mimi and Popi and then Sat. through Sunday with Ryan's parents aka Nana and Grandpa. He didn't seem to miss us at all, he just played, played, played. Nana and Grandpa took him to the ballon festival (i think there's pics, just waiting on them) they said he had a great time! After not seeing him for two days he just seemed so big! You'll see in this first picture he has a pizza teething toy, we'll my mom called me last night and told me Brady had his first piece of pizza and I thought I was going to die, of course she was talking about this new toy she bought him. The last of pictures of him biting Mimi, she didn't believe until these were taking that he likes to bite, she told me he didn't know what he was doing but now she knows! Brady eating his first piece of pizza and making a goofy face
Playin' in his saucer
Playing some more
Biting Mimi
Biting Mimi again
His Cousin Kendra helped him with his sitting

Weekend Getaway..

Chicago:Cubs @ Wrigley Field/South Bend:Notre Dame

As most of you know Ryan is a HUGE Notre Dame Fan so for his birthday (back in June) I bought him tickets to a game. As you can imagine, he was thrilled. Unknown to me all living human things have to have a ticket, which meant that we would have had to buy one for Brady which meant another 300+ so I made a executive decision to just buy two tickets, and after many failed attempts to figure out how to get him there anyway we left him behind. As much as we missed him and worried about him we were able to have a great time just the two of us! We made a weekend of it, Ryan decided to stay in Chicago b/c it was cheaper. He bought us tickets to the Cubs game as well. So Friday morning after arriving we made our way down to Wrigley, we probably got their 2 1/2 hrs early and it was packed! It was amazing, the stadium was amazing and packed with Real Fans! After winning 13 to 8 the entire stadium sang the Go Cubs Go song, I've never experienced so much exciting tradition! Come Saturday morning we woke up real early and went back to the airport to rent a car and headed to South Bend, we ended up getting a convertible and crusin' with the top down! The Notre Dame trip was amazing, to walking the campus, to visiting the biggest campus bookstore I've ever seen, to watching the game! The tradition in the school was awesome, the fans were pumped the entire game despite the loosing season. You can see in the pictures the stadium was huge and packed! I haven't been that excited about watching a football game since Ryan played, it still gives me chills to think about it, I'm really speechless! And even though they didn't win we did get to see their first and second offensive touchdowns of the year. It was a terrific weekend, one we will never forget! It was a huge deal to leave Brady behind but we knew he was in goods hands and we really headed up having a weekend full of excitement! I have tons more pictures but these are a few I thought everyone would enjoy!

Outside Wrigley Field
Cubs Score Board
Us @ Wrigley taken by a guy who later was eating his buggers
The Players...and check out the Ivey and Fans
The Fans

Old Chicago Sign

Chicago @ Night


A beautiful building in downtown Chicago

Ryan and I in the convertible


Notre Dame

Touchdown Jesus

Outside the stadium


Pics from the inside, the band spelling out Irish

There's Touchdown Jesus from the inside

Check out the fans waving white towels

Check out all the people

First Offensive Touchdown for the year

Second Offensive Touchdown for the year

Sunday 16th...

Brady First Trip to Copeland's and First Highchair Experience @ Restaurant

Copeland's is the Katterich Family's favorite Restaurant to go for special occasions, they have the best Crawfish and dipping sauce! We used to drive to Addison to go eat @ this place but a couple of years ago it upped and disappeared and the only one we knew of was in Louisiana and we we're not about to drive there. My brother-in-law however discovered a newly built Copeland's in Grapevine so after many years of being deprived we got our Copeland's again. This obviously was Brady's first trip there and as you can see our big guy sat in his first high chair @ a restaurant, I almost started crying b/c he looked so big. You can see he was a little small so I put my purse behind him to keep him up.