Brody update

Something must be wrong!!

Wednesday

May 27th, 2009

This is what my mom and I have been saying for seriously about a month now...something must be wrong with our little Brody!! He hasn't been himself for quiet a while now. He started teething probably a month ago (I feel like a bad Mom I didn't even write it down or anything), hes been pretty cranky with that. He got his two top ones in first, both at the same time. Then the two outside ones came in on the bottom. Now two more on the top and bottom have broken through , so as you can imagine hes been a bit grumpy with that. Hes been biting everything imaginable and drooling like crazy! He just hasn't been himself at all. He usually loves his baths but he hasn't been wanting to stay in them very long at all lately. He also loves to eat...and I mean LOVES it, up until today I couldn't get him to eat anything but his baby yogurt. He also had a really bad cough and a very runny noise. I had been putting off taking him to the doctor because it just seems like every time I take him there ends up being nothing wrong. Also I figured it must just be from him teething. So I finally just decided to take him in on Tuesday. When they weighed him he had dropped down to 20 pounds, he was almost at 22 before. The Doctor said everything was fine except for him noise. He ended up having a sinus infection. I was surprised it wasn't more then that because he has such a bad cough. So we got him on some antibiotics and hopefully he'll be good to go soon.

Also watch out for a post coming soon...Hes going to start crawling anytime now!

Just Some More Pictures

My Mom Evan Brody and I went to Camas the first weekend of April to visit the Burnett's. As you all know my moms absolutely loved taking pictures. When we were younger I hated going on her little photo shoots, I mean hated it...they lasted way too long and everyone ended up fighting in the end because none of us kids wanted to be there. But know I have learned to appreciate her pictures a lot more. I love the fact that she has taken so many pictures of my son, I'm sure we will all enjoy looking back on them as he grows and gets older. My Mom thought that downtown Camas was absolutely beautiful and wanted to take some pictures of Brody and I. All the little shops were so much fun, even Brody enjoyed window shopping!

Me and My Man

Brody And Mommy

Saturday

May 2nd, 2009

I don't have too many pictures of Brody and I, mostly just Brody. Grandma loves to take pictures of Brody and hes usually pretty good about it too. So here's some pictures of the two of us when we went to visit our good friends the Burnett's in Camas.

He almost looks like he has red hair in this picture! That's a little bit of Grandma J coming out in him.

I just think he looks so dang cute in this picture

I know...super super late post!!

Brody's First Easter

I know, this is way after the fact but I figure I might as well still do it while I get the chance. I have had these pictures ready to do a post for a while now but just haven't had the chance to actually getting around to doing it. Ill be lucky if I even get this one done before Brody wakes up. Brody is an amazingly good baby....as long as your holding him and doing what he and only he wants to do! The kid is so stinking spoiled!!! So that is why I have been so behind on posts. (I have no idea how Dedree does it!! Shes amazing!!) I have so many I still need to do, it might be a while before they get done though. But anyways Brody had a pretty good first Easter. Even though he has no idea what is going on I got him a little Easter basket with a few things in it anyways. Tawnya and I found this cute Easter bunny that sings and wiggles it tail and flaps its ears when you push its paw. He didn't quiet know what do it with it at first, but he liked just watching it. He actually seemed to enjoy the grass the most. I swear he would rather play with weird things I would never think of then the actual toys that I buy him! I also found these cute camo eggs for him. I cant wait till next year when we can have an Easter egg hunt with him.

6 Month Shots

Tuesday

April 21st, 2009

Brody got his shots a little late this time. He turned 6 months on the first but I didn't get his doctors appointments until the 21st. I had to work today and my Mom had achievement days so Anya, being the great aunt that she is took Brody to get his shots. I felt bad for not being there for him but I knew Anya would take great care of him. She said that he freaked out pretty bad when they gave him his shots, but calmed down after she picked him up. Doctor Lane said that he is doing great. Brody has 4 teeth coming in, two on top that have broken through quiet a bit now and two on bottom that are just coming in. He was pretty surprised by this, he said that 6 months is still pretty early for that. I thought it was normal but I guess its a little early. I made sure to have Anya write down all of his measurements. He now weighs 21 pounds (90%) is 28 inches long (80%) and his head is measuring at 44.5 cm, big boy!!

Brody Meets The Easter Bunny

Brody Meets The Easter Bunny

Friday

April 17th, 2009

Today the hospital had the Easter bunny come and had a little Easter egg hunt. My best friend Tawnya works at the hospital, so she thought that It would be fun to have me bring Brody. I'm glad that she told us about it because Brody had a lot of fun.

First all the kids got to sit on the Easter Bunny's lap and get their pictures taken. I was a little worried because I thought Brody might be scared and end up crying, but he actually loved it! He was completely fascinated with him. I guess hes still a little too young to think that the bunny is scary.

Since Brody cant crawl yet I just sat him on the ground with a few eggs I found for him. They split the kids up into age groups, there was a 0-4 group. I think more than anything he just really liked being outside and looking around since we've been couped up inside because of the cold weather.

Brody also had some weird fascination with the grass...he keep wanting to eat it! What can you do, boys will be boys so I didn't really do much about it. I figured a little grass wont hurt.

Brody is finally getting to the point were he wants to interact with other kids. Before he didn't really know what to do with them or just didn't really care to play with someone else. But now he cant keep his hands off other babies. Mary Clifferd's little girl was there too so we sat them by each other. Brody really liked her binky holder, Iv never really put one on Brody so he thought it was pretty cool.

Bubble Bath!!

Brody's first bubble bath!!

Tuesday

April 7th, 2009

Since I have been working early lately I haven't been able to give Brody his bath. He is usually asleep when I leave around 5:40 am, so by the time I get home Grandma already has him bathed and ready. Today is my day off so I figured since I don't get to spend bath time with him very often we could do something fun, a bubble bath! As you can see he has been doing really good at sitting up lately. He really liked the bubbles and loved the new bath toys Natalie bought him!

Brody goes swimming!!

Brody goes swimming!!

Saturday

April 4th, 2009

While we were in Camas Visiting the Burnett's we decided it would be fun to go swimming. There is an indoors swimming pool in Van cover, which is pretty close to Camas so we went there. Brody had never been in a pool before so I was pretty excited to see how he would like it. I thought that we looked so stinkin cute in his little swim trunks, and I had done a fohawk on his hair that morning so he looked even cuter! At first he didn't quiet know what to do with the water. He keep clinging to me and wouldn't really play with the water or anything. I sat him by those little things that squirt water up and eventually we warmed up to it and ended up really liking it. He liked the play with the water fountain thing. He even liked going in the big pool with me, I didn't go out to far because I was a little nervous with him but he liked it.

Brody and Korbyn

Brody had A friend over, and this is what he had to say...
Tuesday

March 23, 2009

This is my friend Korbyn and we're just kickin it back.

Hey don't worry Korbyn, I got your back.

I think I'm ganna like this whole friend thing

Wait a minute...do I know you?

Hey you wanna arm wrestle

Man, I thought I had big feet!

Oh boy, our moms and their camera's!

It'll be so much better when we can walk and talk!

Rolling Over!

Rolling Over

Sunday

March 8th, 2009

Brody has finally started to roll over. He wasn't to sure about it the first few times he did it, but now hes getting a little more used to it. this picture was i think the second time he rolled over completely by himself and he wasn't too happy at all. At first he just kind of looked around like he had no idea what just happened, and then he started crying. Hes done it a few more times since then though and he doesn't get quiet as mad. I'm very excited for him to be rolling over but I'm also a little nervous...hopefully he wont be rolling off the couch or bed! My mom took Brody to the Doctor while I had to work and he asked if he was rolling over good from both sides yet. He was very surprised when my mom told him he just barely started rolling over. Hes a little behind I guess because of how stinkin spoiled he is! I swear between my parents, Evan, and I Brody never gets put down so he has hardly ever had the chance to learn how.

Messy Messy Baby

Messy Messy Baby

Sunday

March 8th, 2009

I was never able to get Brody to eat rice cereal, oatmeal or even the oatmeal with fruit in it. He just wouldn't have anything to do with it. He would make gaging noises every time I would try to feed it to him. So we didn't waist too much time on that before we tried baby food. He absolutely loved it! So far he has had pears, applesauce, and prunes. At first he didn't like the applesauce too much, but hes kind of getting over that now. I really don't think he has a favorite, he just loves food! I can never seem to feed him fast enough either, he wants one spoonful right after another. He will cry if i don't get more to him fast enough! He always eats at least one whole jar or package full, sometimes even a half of another one. He just cant seem to get enough.

He usually doesn't get this messy. Today he had prunes though and it kind of got all over the place! He didn't really seem to mind that much though. I'm quickly find out that baby food equals even MORE laundry for Mommy to do, if that is even possible.

8 Tag

8 Tag

Saturday

March 7th, 2009

8 Tag
Becci tagged me!!

'8' Favorite TV shows...
This one is going to be kind of hard since I don't watch TV that much.
1. King of Queens
2. CSI
3. What Not To Wear
4. Extreme home makeover
5. The Hills
6.Seinfeld
7. My wife and Kids
8. And my moms going to be mad at me for this but Family Guy, haha its hilarious!

'8' Things I did Yesterday...
1. Got up pretty early to feed Brody
2. Got ready and work 11-8 front end manager.
3. Got to see Brody on my lunch, my parents were nice enough to bring him so I could nurse him. Even though he would have nothing to do with eating. So I just showed him off to everyone.
4. Feed Brody when I got home at 8, he feel asleep on my lap.
5. Was able to actually put Brody in his bed without him waking up and having to nurse him back to sleep.
6. Was able to actually pre get ready for the next day since Brody was asleep without me.
7. Texted Stuart for a while.
8.And then just went to bed...I know very uneventful! But when I work 11-8 and have to take care of Brody I am pretty warn out and don't feel like doing a whole lot. Plus I just want to spend time with him, I miss him like crazy while I'm at work.

'8' Things I am looking forward to...
1. I have to agree with Becci on this one. Summer, I'm dying to be able to bring Brody outside!
2. For Brody to be able to sit up on his own
3. Anya coming home..Brody is too.
4. Tawnya's baby girl coming in June!!!
5. Breanne Wilson's wedding in July!
6. for everyone in the house to be over all our sicknesses.
7. Brody being able to sleep in his bed all night again, him being sick kinda threw him off a little.
8. My Birthday next week! And getting to stay the weekend at Tawnya and Shad's house!

'8' Favorite Restaurants...
1. Olive Garden
2. Panda Express
3. Red Robin
4. Chico's Taco's
5. El Caporal
6. Apple Bee's
7. Taco Bell
8. Wendy's

'8' Things on My Wish List....
1. A Vacation to the beach, preferable a warm beach.
2. Shopping Spree
3. A new job...that pays better
4. A bigger car
5. Brody to have his own room!! I can only dream.
6. Brody to start sleeping all through the night again.
7. To get a Degree.
8. To get married...but no one freak out, not anytime too soon.

'8' people I tag.. If you want to
1.Mom 2. Natalie 3. Jamie 4. Annie 5. Lynn 6. Claire 7.Kim 8.Kendal

Where Did Mommy's Little Boy Go???

Where Did Mommy's Little Boy Go???

Friday

March 6th, 2009

Brody just turned 5 months on the 1st. So he is growing up but i had no idea it would go this fast. He is getting so big sooo fast! I look at pictures of him when he was a newborn and I cant even remember him being that little. He used to fit on the couch pretty good actually, well now as you can see his legs are completely hanging off the edge. I need to measure him and see how long he is now because they didn't do it at our last doctors appointment. And he has to be longer then he was last time, which was 27 1/2 inches. I just cant get over how big he is getting. They really do grow up way too fast. I'm trying to cherish every moment we have. I love that he isn't totally growing up too fast though, for instance he isn't sitting up completely on his own yet so hes still my little baby...Thank goodness he doesn't have teeth yet or else that could get painful when it comes time to nurse, hopefully he'll hold off on that for a while. Brody is the kind of baby that always has to be held, and ill admit that it does get annoying sometimes but I secretly love it. I'm dreading the day that he doesn't think he need his Mommy anymore. I used to always hear moms say their kids grew up way too fast, well now I definitely believe them!