About Braedon

I was on Pinterest a couple of weeks ago and I saw this fun idea to do with your kids.  It was like a survey for your toddler where you ask them a bunch of questions and see how they answer them and then a year or so down the road ask them the same questions again and see how they have changed.

While Braedon was eating his lunch today I decided to ask him a few questions just off the top of my head to see if he would he give me legit answers and to my surprise he did!  So, here we go!

Braedon:  Age 2 and 1/2

Favorites:

Food:  Chicken nuggets (which he hasn’t had in forever so I thought it was kind of funny)

Color:  Green

Toy:  Lightening McQueen (no surprise there!)

Drink:  Water

Place to go: the park

Show:  Wonder Pets

Book:  Cars

Thing to do: watch a movie

Thing I cook for him: Cookies and pretzels

What do you dream about?  Take a nap

What do you do at church?  Play with cars

Where did Adi come from:  Your tummy

What makes you happy?  Popcorn

What makes you sad?  Scared of my night time light. (Not quite sure what this means but I think he may be becoming afraid of the dark)

What are you looking forward to?  Turning around (starting to lose his attention…)

What do I like to do?  Listen to me.  (oh really…)

Lots of candy with a side of gingerbread

At Costco a couple of weeks ago we picked up a prebuilt gingerbread house that I thought would be so much fun to decorate with Braedon.  Especially since the hard part of putting it together was already done for you.  So, tonight after dinner we decided to get our decorating on!

Not surprisingly Braedon was all about the candy.

One of the gingerbread men didn’t survive the decorating party either.

Here is the finished product!

Braedon had lots of fun eating the candy, and I think he enjoyed decorating the house too.  He’s either upstairs in bed right now asleep or in a sugar coma.  It’s kind of hard to tell.

Santa Success!!

Yesterday we took Braedon to go see Santa.  He was very excited to sit on his lap and tell him what he wanted for Christmas.  I honestly didn’t know how it would go considering what happened last year.

Well this year my big, brave boy went right up to Santa, sat on his lap with no problems, and told him that he needed a new bike because his is broken, hot wheel cars and a race track.

Adi was making sure this was the real Santa by testing out how tough his beard was.  She had quite the grip and luckily she didn’t ruin Christmas for her brother or all the other little kids.

I sat on Derek’s lap and asked for a massage….just a massage this year!  Last year I asked for one too except 9 months later I also got an Adi.

After we sat on Santa’s lap Derek and Braedon got to ride the Christmas train…

while Adi waited patiently.

Her hair band in this picture cracks me up.  She must have messed it up while she was finding her thumb.

Now for some extra cuteness…

Love!  Daddy’s little girl.

And the Baeo taking over Adi’s toys with all his cars.  Braedon seems to think what's his is his and what’s Adi’s is also his.

Week of fun

Guess who we got to hang out with this week?

Grandma Wilson!!  She flew in to town last Saturday and we spent the whole week playing, crafting, making Christmas cookies, drinking coffee, and just hanging out.

Christmas cookie making in progress.

Making sugar cookies has always been a tradition in my family and my mom has the best sugar cookie recipe!  I think Braedon’s favorite part was eating them!

We also went to Christmas in the Park in downtown one day to walk around and look at all the decorated Christmas trees and exhibits that were set up.

Braedon is getting some cooking stuff and pretend food for Christmas but he doesn’t have a kitchen or anything so my mom and I got creative one day and made him this with stuff we had laying around the house.

A kitchen…that cost us NOTHING…and Braedon LOVES it.

He loves to make me scrambled eggs and fish.  Yesterday morning the first thing he said when he woke up was, “I’ll cook you breakfast, mommy.”  I have it right next to the kitchen so he can cook along side me.  He sure is getting quite the imagination too.  Yesterday as he was cooking he came into the dining room to where I was and said, “Oh no mommy, it spilled over!”  I have no idea where he has ever heard something like that before (said in sarcastic voice).  After I helped him clean out his oven from the mess everything was okay again and he just remade whatever he was cooking.

Thanks for coming and visiting us Mom!  We had a blast and miss you already!!

Thumb sucker

So, I have a 2 1/2 year old very attached to his binkie and now it looks like I will have a thumb sucker on my hands.  Adi found her thumb this last week or so.  I do have to admit it is pretty cute, especially watching her find it.  She will start out by putting her hand up over her head and then she will slide it down her face until she finds her thumb.

Isn’t she a doll?

3 months!

and no longer a newborn.

Okay, time is officially going by way too fast.  I can’t believe my baby was 3 months old yesterday!  Want to know what Miss Adilyn is up to lately?  Read on…

She loves staring at the Christmas tree.  I will usually put her in front of it while I’m cooking dinner and is entertained the whole time.

She usually has pretty good company too.  Meet our new babysitter.  She is really cheap.

Adi is also smiling constantly and she has just started giggling and making a ton of noise. 

She continues to be a very good eater and baby, and has started sleeping through the night this past week.

Now onto some other things…we put up our Christmas tree last weekend and Braedon had an absolute blast.

We turned up the Christmas music and got down to business.

Derek handed out ornaments…

Adi supervised…

and Braedon decorated.

He picked out one branch and went to town.

The kids admiring the finished product.

It’s crazy that the holiday season is already here!

Happy Birthday Grandpa!!!

We love you Grandpa!  Hope you have a good day!!