Brayden and Brynn: November 2007

Isn't that the best smile in the world!?!

Playing hide-n-seek in the closet...

Thanksgiving meal with our best friend Eva...

The kids had grilled cheese!

Look at those silly kids...

"I'm going to put a spell on you!"

I wish our little wizard could put a spell on mommy and make Brynn come out. We are a week away from the due date and mommy is ready. We'll put pictures up as soon as she arrives.

Gramma Sheri and Noni are here waiting with excitement, too.

There are three new videos, but I am having trouble getting them directly on so go to the old videos a few blogs ago, click on one and it will take you to the directory so you can see the new ones. They are very dark, sorry. The password is Brayden if you need it.

"I don't want to smile!" We get that a lot these days. "I don't want to...."

Brayden loves to play hide-n-go-seek. He is getting better and better at understanding the game and how to pick tricky hiding spots. His favorite spots are behind the curtain, in the pantry and behind the recliner.

Brayden makes a funny “What” noise when he is being talked with seriously or when he is looking for something. He sometimes puts his finger on his lips or cheek, looks upward with a scrunched face and says, “Hmmmmm!”

Brayden loves our new red van (the mommy-car). He cannot get enough of it with all the cool buttons and knobs to play with. He knows how to work each button better than I do.

He has a new habit of putting all his finger tips in his mouth and chewing on them. He does it when watching a show, reading a book and sometimes when he is nervous.

Brayden loves his Daddy and is always so excited when he gets home and on day he does not have to go into work.

His favorite color has been green for two weeks now. He will say he likes something and I ask him why, he says, “because it is green.”

He does not like people to talk on the phone, especially Mommy. If I have to be on the phone Brayden is yelling in the background to “Stop talking,” “No talk to Deb!”

If he does not like what you are saying to him he yells out, “Stop saying those words!”

Bray loves to cup his hands on Mommy or Daddy’s face and move them to make our head “wobbly” and give us “Googly eyes.”

He is having hit and miss moments where he does not want to share his toys and will sometimes yell, “Noooo!” at a friend. I am happy we can at least talk about it and he does give in. He tells Daddy all about it and how he yelled, “No” to his friends that day, but then shared. It is too funny. He will also tell Daddy all about if a friend did not want to share with him also.

Brayden wants to play at the park, but only if there are no other kids.

We were on our way to a doctors appointment last week and Brayden kept telling me he was going to “Yell and scream” at my doctors. We bantered back and forth with each other for 15 minutes about how that would not be nice and how he was going to be nice. Oh course he replied with a “No, I won’t be nice!” We went back and forth and finally I said, “Okay Brayden!” Of course he was just being silly and experimenting with his talk. We got to the doctor and he was a sweetheart, talking and saying Hi to everyone.

Brayden took 10 minutes to caress and hug my belly the other morning. He kissed Brynn and talked about how much he was going to like her, take care of her and love her. It was so sweet!

Brayden loved Halloween and still continues to pretend he is a witch, skeleton, ghost, and mummy. He is sad that the “spooky wookies” are all gone at the store. He loved to go look at all the scary items and push the buttons.

Noni it here to help out this week and Brayden wakes up every morning and after naps saying, “It a special day!” I ask why and he says, “because Noni is here to play with me!” I’ve never seen him so happy like he is this week.

Well, Brynn should be here is 3 weeks or so. We are anxious and ready. We’ll get her up on the blog as soon as we can.

I weigh 170 already and got the stretch marks this time. You can see how low she pulls my belly down. They think she is already in the 6 lbs. range.

"I have a bugger nose!"

Our friend Rachel always tells us, "Pick us a winner!"

This is what we get when we say SMILE!

Auntie Jen came to visit right before Halloween and we did our annual pumpkin carving with her. Bray did not want to touch the pumpkin guts this year. It was "Yucky!" I told him we were going to put a face on the pumpkin and he said, "He will be a Jack-O-Lanturn!" WOW!