It's Christmas Time

We took Braydon to go see Santa today. Last year he flat out refused to sit on Santa's lap. I held him and he continued to scream. This year he promised me that he was going to sit on Santa's lap and tell him what he wanted for Christmas. Both Chris and I didn't think it was going to happen, but we took him anyways. We went to lunch first and then went to wait in line for Santa. There was only one other girl in front of him waiting for Santa. He kinda started to look like he did last year and we thought okay we will go home. Then he finally proved us both wrong and walked up to him, sat on his lap and everything! I'm so proud of my little boy he is growing up!

3 1/2 years old

I'm almost a month late in getting this post up, but I wanted to have this in writing for when Braydon gets older. Braydon is 3 and 1/2 years old. Wow how time flies by! He changes are grows every day and keeps us laughing.

• 42" tall and about 40 lbs.
• Loves trains, planes and boats.
• Loves to watch Special Agent Oso, Chuggington, the Imagination Movers, and Handy Manny.
• Also loves the tween shows on Disney channel. 
• Asked who his best friend is and he said it was Hayden his cousin :)
• Talked in third person for a long time until Mommy and Daddy broke the habit.
• Was Spiderman for Halloween.
• Got his doggie Kolbe.
• Loves to watch videos on youtube with his Daddy.
• Loves to Skype with all his family.

Christmas Season

I really can't believe it is December already. It feels like the year has just flown by. Today we decided to take a Christmas photo. I didn't have enough time to fully plan out how I wanted to do them, so I just kind of through us all in front of the tree.

Originally I wanted to include Kolbe in the picture, but he wouldn't sit still. Maybe next year I'll plan it out well before hand and get the real picture I want.

Lead up to Halloween

This Halloween we have Spider-Man in the house! Those who know us know that we usually go as a theme family. Well this year Braydon didn't want to be the pirate that I had picked out. He wanted Spider-Man! Guess the time of me picking out costumes has already gone away!

This past Wednesday Braydon and I went to a Spooky Tots event held near our home. The event had a magician, face painting, trick-or-treating, and pumpkin decorating. I eventually had to take Braydon away from the table because we would have ended up with all the stickers on his pumpkin!

The house is all decorated for Halloween. This is just a sample of what we have done. These are the crafts that Braydon made! More Halloween pictures to come.

Meet Kolbe

Here is the newest addition to our family. Kolbe is 2 1/2 and a collie mix. We rescued him about a month ago and he is settling nicely into our household. He was rescued from a high kill shelter located in Eastern Kentucky. We picked him up in Maryland at a home he was being fostered at. So far it is like having another child in the house. He and Braydon get along great but they like to wrestle and bug one another!

Swim Lessons

Today was the first day of Braydon's swim lessons. He was all excited and talked about these lessons for weeks leading up to today. We signed up for lessons at a local gym by our house. They have an indoor pool and offer 8 thirty minute lessons at a decent price. We arrived a little early and watched the other swim lessons going on. When it was time for our lessons Braydon walked right into the pool with me. Then when the teacher started he wouldn't do any of the things she asked. He usually loves water, but today he just was clinging to me. Then when we started to move to the deeper part of the pool he clung harder and started to cry and scream. He kept saying that I was going to drop him. Hopefully tomorrow's lesson will go a little better, because if this is what he is going to do all the time then it was a waste of money.

4th of July

Happy 4th of July! This was our first 4th of July being back in the USA and we spent it sweating to death! Well actually I took Braydon to see Madagascar 3 while Chris mowed the lawn in 99 degree weather. After Braydon and I got home we headed to the Potomac Nationals game. In theory that sounded like a good idea, however this was a very bad idea!

The game started at 6:30pm and it was still 96 degrees outside!!! The ball park didn't have any shade so we were just baking in the sun. After two innings we just couldn't take it anymore, and Braydon couldn't handle sitting in bleachers and staying still. We decided to head home and see if we could catch any fireworks at home. We say some and also watched some on TV.

After we put Braydon to bed we heard several neighbors lighting off their fireworks and also saw a major thunderstorm coming in. It was a good 4th but way too hot!!!!!