Happenings at home

We have had a busy past few days in our house. I was in training all last week for my volunteer position at Chris' command. I am the Ombudsman, which is a fancy word for liaison between the command and the service members family. During my training my friend Karen watched Braydon for me. The last time that she watched him was for three hours and he cried the whole time. Needless to say I was very nervous about the three days that she would be watching him. I did a little praying and she and her husband did too, and it must have worked because he was wonderful for her.
Over the weekend our weather was so nice that we decided to go to the park with Braydon. It was his first time at the park and his first time on a swing and a slide. He loved the swing, but started crying once he went down the slide. I can't wait for the pool to open so we can go and spend time in the water and see how he does.

This week things are getting back to normal, however, we did have a commissioning ceremony to go to yesterday and Braydon was a handful. I mean that in the nicest way because come on he is only 9 months old. Our friend Deborah went from being a Chief to an Ensign and it was a wonderful ceremony. Her son is two days older then Braydon so she insisted I bring Braydon with me. I wonder if she regrets that now because Braydon wanted to talk during the whole ceremony. We are very lucky that it is a small island and very family friendly and everyone loves Braydon. The cutest part had to be when she was holding her right hand up and taking her oath, Braydon was holding his right hand up to, so does this mean we have a new sailor in our family?

Braydon is talking a lot now but not really making any sense or knowing what he is saying. I posted a little tracker on the side to show the new words. His first word was "Dada" he says it to everything. After that came "Ba" and "Bob" we can't understand why he is saying "Bob" since we don't know any Bob's. I am still trying to get him to say "Mama" but when I say it he just laughs.

We have also been giving Braydon more and more table food and recently gave him his first PB&J and Grilled Cheese. He loved both, but I didn't love the mess the PB&J left for me to clean up.

Here are some photos to see what Braydon has been up to lately: