Something Isn't Right

So I have a baby who just isn't acting like himself today. He is crying and whining alot and just isn't happy. I know some of you are probably saying "well he is only 10 months he isn't going to always be happy?" If you knew Braydon though you would understand that this child is almost always happy. I can usually understand why he is crying and easily solve the problem. His usual reasons are; tired, hungry, hurt, or wanting to be held. This time though nothing would solve the problem. He eventually went down for a nap and after the nap I went to change his diaper and found the problem. He had a serious diaper rash! Braydon is 10 months old and has never had diaper rash. I know we are lucky that he hasn't! I put Desitin on his bottom and he screamed during the whole thing. I feel so bad that he is going through this, I just hope it passes by really fast!

Ouch!

Braydon had his first accident today. He was playing with his toys and got a little off balance and slipped and hit his toy face first. I try not to jump at the first cry but when I looked at him I saw blood and I freaked. I immediately raced to him picked him up and tried to check him out while his was crying. Then I noticed that the blood was in his mouth so I looked at his mouth and checked to make sure all teeth and that he didn't bit through his lip. After cleaning him up and looking at him I noticed everything was fine and he started to laugh and be his talkative self. I think I was more hurt by the accident then he was. I know this won't be the first accident but I can't guarantee this won't be be the last time I freak out when he does hurt himself.

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:

Look What I Can Do!

Braydon is now pulling himself up on things. It started a few weeks ago he would pull himself up to his knees and he even did this in his crib so we had to lower the crib. Now he is pulling himself up to standing and loves to do it all the time. The other day we went into his bedroom and found him standing in the corner of his crib, time to lower it again. Now he pulls himself up on the coffee table and on his toys. I guess this means it is now time to start childproofing a little higher up now.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentines Day! I am a sucker for this holiday I love everything about it. I love the hearts and everything pink. I'm not that big into getting presents because all I really want is some flowers and a card. This year Chris got me a wonderful card, some roses, a chocolate rose and a bottle of D & G perfume. All I got him was a card. You have to admit that this holiday is more for the girls than the guys, but he will probably go online and buy himself something anyways. Braydon even got his own little valentine a Kinder chocolate. His outfit is thanks to his Grandma and Grandpa French. They didn't have anything here for boys so we were so happy that we got this outfit in time. If you can't read it the shirt says "Mommy's little heartbreaker". No fancy dinner for us, we are having some friends over and having burritos and playing Uno.

9th Month Check Up

Today was Braydon's 9th month check up. He is doing great and the doctor said he seems to be excelling past other 9 month olds. He now weighs 23.4 lbs. and is 30" tall. He continues to be in the higher end for his height but has gone down on the weight. Braydon is beginning to thin out but continues to grow taller. He most recent stunts are trying to pull himself up on everything. The other day he pulled himself up on the coffee table to get to my laptop. You can't take your eyes off of this child for one second because he is trying something new. His next Doctors appointment is for his 1 year check up. I can't believe he is almost a year old, really where does time go. He is eating more and more adult food and so this weekend we are going to take him to McDonalds and get him a happy meal. I'll have to make sure to bring my camera because this will be too cute.

Wish I Had A Camera

Braydon does so many funny things everyday I would have to have a camera attached to me at all times to capture them. His most recent was climbing on top of his toy basket and getting stuck. Last night we all were on the floor playing and he kept crawling to his toy basket and pulling himself up on it. Every time he did this we stopped him because we knew he would get stuck on it and not be happy. I know I should have grabbed my camera because he kept doing this and eventually would get stuck, but I was being lazy and just enjoying the time with my family. Low and behold he climbed up and we didn't stop him and he got stuck and started crying. It's so funny when he tries to do something and doesn't get the result he wants, he gets this frustrated look and starts to cry.