All I want for Christmas is ...

My lower middle front left tooth!!!



(pic is not of actual tooth, just a random)

Halloween Madness

It turns out our street is amazing when it comes to Halloween shenanigans. Brayden and our neighbor Patterson had THE best time ever running from house to house, squealing and giving each other high 5's...



We put B on a strict diet and workout regimen in the weeks leading up to halloween, but I think all the hard work really paid off...



Check out this dynamic duo...



oh yeah, daddy had a blast on halloween too...



we're not really sure what riley thought of the whole thing...




And here are a few other pics...

Bah, Humbug!!!

Its been a while since my computer decided to crash on me, so I've lost the original files for basically every picture since Riley was born. Luckily I had loaded everything onto snapfish, and for the low low price of $40 per 500 pictures I can get all of my pictures back. Anyway, between the backlog of pics that I actually DO have, and busy season starting at work, its going to take a while to get caught up. But here is something to kick off the holiday season, I hope all is Merry and Bright...

Night Night...

Stephanie and B were looking out the window tonight before bed to try and see the moon. Unfortunately it was nowhere to be found. Brayden told mommy "moon night night with lovey."

HA HA HA HA!!!!

He made us work hard for it but finally...

Check me Out!!!

Do you see this...



this isn't as easy as it appears...



I am totally sitting up on my own...



now I just need to learn to get here by myself. But I have started eating rice cereal!!!

Talking is Hilarious

So Brayden is really starting to talk a lot these days and I wanted to make notes of a few of the funny things that he has said/done recently so I don't forget them (I'm sure I've already lost forever a thousand classic moments/quotes)...

We've all seen this trick before, but I think I may have found its origins (in children)...The other day brayden was playing in mommy's car and found a sherlock holmes style magnifying glass that I had never seen. So I said to brayden "hey, brayden, whats that in your hand?" he takes the magnifying glass and puts it in his other hand and shows me his now empty hand. So I say "no, whats in your other hand?", so he again transfers the magnifying glass to the original hand and looks at his hand and sees nothing and then shows me nothing is in his hand (not trying to deceive me, he just didn't have a clue what I was talking about). We did this about 4 or 5 times before I rephrased the question "hey dude, thats a sweet magnifying glass, where did you get it?"

If I wasn't laughing hard enough about that one, about 5 minutes later, brayden wanted to go across the street to patterson's house. (to preface this story, we went to a halloween supply store the week before and brayden was entranced with this spider that was hanging on the wall that would drop down and crawl back up upon command). So Brayden and I walk down the driveway and across the street to patterson's house which is all decked out in spooky gear, including tombstones, pumpkins and a 6 foot stuffed spider. When we got to the sidewalk in front of their house brayden started clapping. He clapped a few more times and then said "spiders broken, needs new batteries" (everything these days needs new batteries, whether it a) needs new batteries b) is turned off c) is something that doesn't take batteries at all but brayden thinks should have more functionality.). I tried to convince brayden that the 6 foot stuffed spider wasn't the same as the one we saw at the store for a few minutes, then gave in and agreed that the spider did in fact need new batteries.

stephanie was driving brayden around with the boys in my car the other day. brayden loves daddy's car because in it he has the ability to control the window all by himself. Stephanie said she was driving down monroe and got stopped at a red light. Brayden took the liberty of rolling down his window, and wave and say "hi" to a guy walking down the street with his son and dog. The guy was nice enough to wave back.

those are the stories that I can come up with at the moment, although I'm sure I think of more soon (and a thousand more will happen in the meantime). The only other thing I can think of is that B has started saying "hey dadda" and "hey momma", like he's going to make a big announcement, instead of just "dadda" and "momma".

good times.

Busy Times

I've been really busy at work recently, so here are 2 fairly recent pics, one B and one R, at some point i'll try to fill in the gaps since the last blog...



and R...

having a good time

was there anything better than sitting in your parents bed as a kid...



apparently there is, and riley found it...



or maybe he's just confused...

All about Riley PII

so here are some more pics all about riley. big smile...



wow, too close...



so sleepy...



riley's silliest face...



cute as a button? no, no, cuter..



playing coy with the camera...



just one happy baby...

All about Riley

riley is such a big boy, he's already filling out the bucket car seat...



showing you how he can puff out his cheeks...



a pretend smile...



a pretend frowny face...



and a real screaming face...



some light talking...



and the face of a baby with gas...

the last of b's birthday.....2.5 months later...

check out this cake, TRAINS......



B seems to be in amazement, or he's just getting ready to blow, one of the two...



and cousin rece seems to give it his seal of approval...



this picture was like capturing big foot on film, you'd heard the rumors but didn't know if it was true or not, here are the piet, jazzy, and ...

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and oma having some toes for breakfast...



we left the cousins unsupervised for about 10 minutes and found them...



are they possibly the next hanso...jonas brothers....



how many kids does it take to turn on a piano...



a one and a two and a three...



mock, yeah, ing, yeah, bird, yeah...



rece doing some trick playing...



riley being his usual cuddly self...



and shockingly not amused by the bonnet...



much better...

Pretend that its July 19th...

just pretend that its July 19th, because that's how far behind these pics are, and the next couple posts will be trying to play some catch up too.

have we mentioned how much of a better sleeper riley is than b...



brotherly love...



can almost fly...

Tribute to REM

I've used there songs before in my montage videos, all I can say is that they just fit us...

Nightswimming...



and SuperB...



not to be outdone, riley shows his skills...

Super Happy Kid

Riley just loves to give it up for even the slightest bit of attention. What a super happy kid...