Ahoy!

Here are some cute pictures of Brayden reading his favorite Pirate book Gramma Overly game him. He loves to pretend he is a pirate and talk is a funny pirate voice.

















He takes reading very seriously. He is reading me his book as I fold laundry, in his pirate voice of course.


The other day at the library Brayden sat down at the reading table and found his favorite book to look at. I told him to read it to me as I pick out new books for the week. He sat right down like a big boy, opened the book, and began reading from memory. The librarian walked by as she was returning books to the shelf, looked at him, and said, "Really!?!" to me. I said, "Yes, he reads all his favorite books to me. He has an awesome memory." She was amazed as he was reading words like "hairy sloth", and "kinkajou."






There is that pirate face as he says , "Ahoy maity!"


















"ARGGGG!"


















What a beautiful face!

















Brayden's other favorite book right now, he has tons of favorites like him mommy, is about a volcano. We had to read it 6 times today. He acts out the whole explosion of the volcano and talks wildly about the fire and how it is hot.

At night Brayden has a new ritual of putting teddy in the corner of the crib to watch over him and then he stuffs the other 4 bedtime buddies (teddy, rabbit, doggy, and baby) under his belly and rolls on top of them with his butt high in the air. Then he requests his blankie be laid just right over his back. Then and only then will he settle in to singing and talking himself to sleep. Sometime he will repeat the situating process 3 times before going to sleep, but we are no longer nursing. He is growing up to fast!

He seems to be okay with it. He has not asked much and is fine with a snack if he does. I do think he misses the closeness, mommy does too. He has been really whiny and yells about a lot of things. His patience is thin right now.

Brayden loves to be on Daddy's shoulders are being held upside down.

He loves to build sand castles or block towers and smash them to the ground, "Crash!"

He enjoys racing cars, building tunnels and ramps for them, and slide them down the slide. He is all full of sound effects.

He is learning to recognize some of his ABC's. He definitely knows B and O.

I'm sure by now you all saw the video that says we are pregnant again. The baby will arrive some time in Dec. I would guess mid Dec. but your guess is as good as mine. It was a surprise to us all.

The day we found out I told Brayden to tell Daddy what was in Mommy's tummy and he proceeded to tell him, "Baby in Mommy tummy, Daddy!" The comical part was when he continued with a big, boastful, "Good job, Daddy!" It was too funny.