Tybee Vacation

Last week we loaded up the family (sans dogs) and headed down to Tybee for a little fun in the sun (or shade in our case). Thank you to the Wade's for letting us enjoy their house for a little R&R. It was brayden's first beach experience and he absolutely LOVED it. A lady at the grocery told us that everybody has to eat a bag of dirt in their life, we'll, I'd say bradyen is about half way there after this weekend. And who knew that Saturday when we went out for food, that actually meant breakfast AND lunch (with a bit of beach time thrown in between). We bought brayden a pair of sunglasses with an elastic strap to hold them on. The big guy didn't put up an sort of fight about wearing them, they are "too cute". The weekend consisted of lot of biking, beaching and general relaxation. The only problem with the entire weekend was there weren't enough days. I wonder is PwC has a Tybee Office?

Celebrating Week 42 in style...



Mommy and B hanging out on one of those big Tybee Trees...


Mommy and B taking a stroll on the Beach...


Together we're about as pale as a bucket...



Yeah, it's a big hat...


Brayden practicing for his debut in the Candler Park drum circle...


Relaxing in the shade at the playground...


Can you dig it..(you should have seen how hard he laughed at chopping the sand....until we tried to video it)...


Sleeping on the beach, can you beat this...


Big H and aunt nini...


Crawling in the sand...


Slow and steady wins the race...


Again, impossible to get 2 kids to look at the camera at the same time...


check out my wraparound shades...


It was a crazy low tide that went out a few hundred yards, here are H & M taking full advantages, we found several hermit crabs (no pics but great pets)...


Out...


Can you say Sassy...


Mmmmmmmmmmm Lemon...


Apparently his sour buds don't work yet...


And after a long day out, he's out...


30 minutes later, so are mommy and daddy (no pic of this one)...

And He's Off!!!!!!

We had quite a big weekend. Brayden decided he was getting a little bored just sitting around and that it was finally time to join the world of the movers. He started with some army style crawling at Nana's on saturday morning, and progressed to a full on crawl by sunday afternoon. Then we had a special surprise when he decided to wave to daddy!!!

Here is the first video of brayden.....




We had heard that the best way to coax a baby into mobility is to temp them with something they really, really want. I thought to myself, if I was a baby what would I want.......



And here a video of Brayden waving, its not as good as the first time he did it, which of course we didn't get on camera because we never thought that he'd actually do it. This one is up for interpretation, but the one not caught on camera was clearly a wave...



And contrary to the rumors swirling around, Steven Spielberg did not hire me on to be the videographer of his next film.

Up-to-date Tooth Count: 3 (2 bottom and 1 top)

Some Random Pics

Just wanted to post a few random pics of brayden that we've taken lately...


So sly.....

Mommy and B at swim class...


B's impression of the virgin mary...


So in 36 weeks, we've gone from this.......


To this.....

Perhaps we shouldn't have stopped using the spray tan on B.

Maybe the Next Little E....

Ok, so originally we thought he might be the next bill gates, then we had hopes of him being the next michael phelps, but now we're thinking maybe he'll be the next dale earnhardt Jr...




and yes, i'm aware of what i sound like while playing with B

Hoppy Easter!!!!!!!!

Easter ended up being a fun and full day in our household. My parents, granddad, and siblings & rece came down to our house for an amazing easter brunch cooked by my lovely wife, followed by an absolutely perfect day at the park. After the park we headed over to jackie and megan's for an awesome easter dinner (and dessert) and some QT with brooke and chris. Brayden wasn't quite ready to join the party right when we got there, so he and I took a little nap in the car in the driveway to prep ourselves for the festivities.

Not my best self portrait, but at least the camera didn't drop off the stroller and break...


While rece was busy enjoying all that the park had to offer.....


Brayden was busy catching up on some zzzzzzzz's, maybe next year he'll be tall enough to ride the rides....


here's a pic of rece hanging out at the park...



Brayden woke up just in time to take a few pics before we were off to jackie and megan's....


It really is virtually impossible to get a picture where two kids will sit long enough to both smile for the camera at the same time, this is the closest we got, out of 19 tries...


Unfortunately rece got distracted by a dog and he was off to the reces ("Excuse me sir, would you mind.....", inside joke but note the pointing finger)...


Here's a picture of brayden with our stand-ins for when we want to get a really nice family shot...


And a pic of B working on his banking skills....

Mommy and Brayden's Day at the Park

Two saturday's ago, stephanie decided it was now or never to get in that much awaited fashion shoot at the park in brayden's super-cute, matching hat and sweater (there are mittens to go along with the hat and sweater, but they were left at home. Also to be noted, the mittens are attached by yarn, also super-cute). Stephanie took exactly one picture for every dalmation, and I'll have to say she did a really good job, or I'm just having a really tough time today narrowing down the pics, but it looks like about 18 of the 101 are going to make the cut. my usual ratio would have resulted in absolutely no more than 3 or 4. but enough mindless rambling and on to the pics....

My absolute favorite pic.....


And the rest, which i love equally much...


















Its 18, I counted......twice.

Also, the laughing and swim class videos have been updated to include the entire videos

The Next Michael Phelps???

ok, so we're not winning seven gold medals at this years olympics in China, but I'd say we're off to quite a start. Everyone at class was impressed by our little shark. He wasn't at all scared of the water.