Movember (Updated)

For those that weren’t aware, Movember takes place during the month of November and is a moustache growing charity event that raises funds and awareness towards men’s health, specifically prostate cancer. The rules state that you start clean shaven on November 1 and then you don’t shave until December 1. Cornell is actually having a moustache contest at the end of the month. This year Derek has decided to take part in this event. I’m happy that he is doing it as it is for a good cause, but on the other hand I am anxiously waiting for the month to be over. Why, might you ask?

Ewww.

This is what he looked like when he came out of the bathroom this morning. Today was the first day that he actually shaved his growing beard into a moustache, if that’s what you want to call what he has on his face. I said, no way dude and told him to go back to the bathroom.

Second attempt.

Oh hell no.

Once again he was sent to the bathroom and returned looking pretty similar, except he shaved the horizontal lines that line his jaw bone. I can’t look at him with a straight face.

He better raise a butt load of money.

To donate to the cause (it is funneled to a couple of organizations like The LiveStrong Foundation) go to: http://us.movember.com/mospace/816988/

Pull ups

Braedon’s new thing that he loves to do is pull ups.  He will point to the pull up bar and make his little grunting sound that he makes when he wants something. 

 

He’s been putting those new muscles to use already.

Anybody need their furniture rearranged? 

Beer tasting

This is what happens when Derek is in the shower and I am at the gym.

Braedon decided he was going to have a solo beer tasting that consisted of pumpkin beer, pumpkin beer, pumpkin beer, and more pumpkin beer.

If we forget to lock the patio door, Braedon will open it and help himself into our recycling.  He must have brought one empty bottle in at a time and then decided to line them up on the coffee table.

18 month stats

Braedon turned 18 months on the 6th and yesterday was his 18th month check up. I think this is the first time I have posted his stats since he was born, and I wish I had done this every few months or so. If you haven’t already noticed, this blog has kind of turned into an electronic journal for Baeo. Anyway, here are his stats:

Weight: 25 pounds

Height: 33 1/3 inches

He has about 10 teeth now and they have all started coming in at once. This makes for a very cranky toddler at times and I feel so bad. Although sucking on ice seems to numb the pain. He will suck down ice cubes until they are gone.

He is only saying three words so far which consist of hot, daddy, and mommy. Other than that he still just makes the squeaky “yah” sound to everything. The doctor isn’t worried though because boys are usually a little behind when it comes to talking.

He has also started to hide behind and under things when he is going to the bathroom. The doctor said that is a good sign and I can even start putting him on the toilet. We’ll see!

Uh Braedon, what are you doing? He’s embarrassed…I don’t think he realizes we can smell him after he has done it though because once he comes out of hiding he goes right back to what he was doing. Sorry Braedon but you can’t sneak that one by us.

Museum of play

Yesterday we decided to drive two hours up to Rochester and visit the Imagine Children’s Museum of Play. That is an awesome place! It had all kinds of things to interact and play with. We spent a good three hours there and Braedon loved every second of it.

The minute we walked in the door the big aquariums caught his eye. (This is one of the smaller acquariums that also captured his attention.)

We could have probably walked off and he wouldn’t even have noticed. He was very into watching the fish. Maybe the YMCA daycare should get an aquarium…

Oh man…the thought of triplets…

Braedon went from racing little cars to racing the big ones.

He doesn’t mess around folks. That driving thing is serious stuff.

We walked around Sesame Street…

Braedon tried to sell us hotdogs and hamburgers. (And tried to eat one of the hotdogs that are made of rubber.)

Then he went shopping at Wegmans.

That’s my boy…he went right for the veggies. (At one point he had 5 bananas, 1 head of cabbage and 1 lettuce, 1 lime, 1 tomato, and 1 orange)

Mmmmm bread! (He also liked the bread as he picked up 5 loafs.)

Then he decided to take a walk through the newscast station while the weather girl was doing her thing.

After we were done shopping Braedon and dad went on a little train ride.

After flying a plane…

it was time for a much needed break.

Then it was time to do some more flying

and riding

and digging.

Man, I was exhausted. Braedon wasn’t too tired to show a little affection though.

The Bernstein Bears!!

I loved them when I was younger. I think Braedon had a liking to them as well. After he was done making out with Sister bear we moved on.

and did some sliding.

After the Bernstein Bears we had pretty much done it all (including sanitizing our hands every 5 minutes because his hands kept going into his mouth due to some new teeth coming in) and decided we were tired and ready to head home. Not before stopping at Chipotle though. Oh Chipotle, we have missed you!

Oh, I probably shared half of what he did there! So much stuff to do!!

This is how we roll

Trying to maneuver that thing through a crowded grocery store is not fun by the way.  Which is why I try to roll solo when doing the grocery shopping.

See ya

I think I mentioned this awhile back, but the daycare at our YMCA allows you to actually leave the building for a couple of hours if you choose.  Since I work out in the mornings before Braedon is usually up I thought it would be nice to take advantage of the daycare every once in awhile so that I could either run errands or just sit back with a coffee and catch up on some magazine reading.  Well, you see Braedon is turning into a very shy boy.  Actually he has always been on the shy side, but it is getting worse.  I have no idea where he gets that from either.  He usually starts the lip quiver before we even enter the daycare room and is in full on tears just seconds after entering.

The daycare rules state that if your child doesn’t calm down and stop crying after 15 minutes then they will either come find you or call you and tell you to come and get your kid.  This happens to me 99% of the time.  Yesterday when I dropped him off I got a phone call exactly 15 minutes later.  This time was a little different though.  You see Braedon wasn’t just crying, he was trying to get the heck out of there.  The daycare ladies said that after I left they tried to sit him down at the snack table with his snack cup and drink.  This usually buys me at least 10 extra minutes.  Not this time.  He wanted nothing to do with his snack cup.  Instead he hopped off his chair, walked across the room and hauled my big diaper bag over to where he was sitting, loaded up his snack cup and sippy cup, tried to put the bag over his shoulder and drug it back across the room to the door and tried to leave.  I guess he did this numerous times.  So when I got the phone call it wasn’t just that Braedon was “having a tough time,” which is what they usually say, it was, “Braedon keeps trying to leave.”

I have to admit, hearing this story made me laugh, but on the other hand it is quite frustrating and I was hoping he wouldn’t get this shy gene.  I struggled a great deal with this same thing growing up and going through school and I wished that none of my kids would go through the same thing.  I would love for them to be the outgoing ones who found it easy to meet new people and make new friends.  Even though he is still young and things can change, I see so much of myself in him.  

Switching subjects, we will be heading back home to Seattle for Christmas break on Monday December 13th!!!  We are very excited and looking forward to the break….and for us the break will start AFTER the 10 hour travel day with a 1 year old.