Brenna at 10 months

Finally, FINALLY doing the official 10 month post. 

We didn't get a great picture with Pooh, but hey, we did manage to get the picture taken and that's good enough for me!  Don't mind the Christmas-looking outfit, as Brenna had some lovely bowel reaction to the antibiotic for her latest round of ear infections, so Christmas clothes it was.

 Check out that sweet hair standing straight up!

Brenna is fun, fun, fun at 10 months old.  Okay, not all fun, but mostly fun.  She still wants to be held almost all the time and honestly, I think she would be totally content being held 80% of the time. 

She is a crawling machine.  She can go everywhere, even up stairs! She has one tooth and is starting to eat more table food like bread and cheese and bananas.  She adores Brady, especially when she wakes in the morning and he goes straight into her room to entertain her while mom & dad still sleep.

She goes to bed about 8:00 and still gets up around 7:00, though this past week she has been up before 7 every morning.  And mom does not like that.  Not one bit.

She babbles and laughs and is very, very ticklish.  She is a petite, little thing.  I think she weighs a tad over 16 pounds. 

And she can pull herself to a standing position, but doesn't really cruise around very much. 

I can't believe I'm having to think about her birthday party already.  Ugh. How did that happen so quickly?

All About Brenna

Miss Brenna is 10 months old today.  10!! YIKES. 

Okay, there's my momentary freak out about having a baby that is almost one year old already. 

I did not get her picture taken with Pooh this morning, so we'll do the official 10-month post next week.  In the meantime, here's a brief synopsis of some recent play time.

Oooh, a book.  I like this.

 Mom, look, I'm reading my book!  Red dog.  Cow with purple hooves.

 Check out this pink ball.  This is fun!

 I really like this ball.

 Oh, but wait.  Here's a car.  One of Brady's cars.  I like Brady's cars. 

 And I really like to put Brady's cars in my mouth.  Toys taste so good.

 What about a drumstick?  Oh yes, the drumstick tastes quite nice as well.

 Let's whack the floor with this drumstick and see what happens.

 Hmmm, this end of the drumstick tastes pretty good, too. 

Counting Time

Brady has been learning to count and is getting so very good at it.   

He can count to thirteen pretty well.  And past thirteen, well, that's a work in progress.  Once he gets past thirteen he just goes straight back to four.  As you can see in this next video.

Happy Valentine's Day

Only a week late with this post.  That is some serious improvement!

I managed to take a few pictures the morning of Valentine's Day before we sent the kids off to day care.  This mom made peanut butter cookies with heart-shaped chocolates in the middle.  I gave each kid 3, so hopefully the parents weren't too disappointed with the sugar load or were smart enough to eat the cookies themselves.

Anyway, so I took 4 pictures.  I managed to get both kids dressed in red, which is pretty impressive.  However, these 4 shots illustrate the difficulty in getting a good picture of both kids together. 

Here is the play-by-play, by me, of our picture-taking adventure.

 Picture #1.  Great.  Both kids sitting next to each other, nobody trying to walk or crawl away.  Brady has that whole "deer in the headlights" look.  Darn.  Okay, try again.

 Picture #2.  Brenna is starting to crawl away, but hey, she looked at the camera.  Great!  She's not smiling, but we can live without that.  Oh wait, now Brady isn't looking at the camera.  He's too obsessed with his new book about Katy the Snowplow (probably because we've had no snow this winter!). Try again.

 Picture #3.  Hey, hey, hey.  Both kids looking at the camera at the same time.  And they're not crying!  Now we don't have smiles in this shot, but hey, you can't be too picky.  Maybe, just maybe we could get one with smiles?  Maybe?  Pretty please? 

Picture #4.  Well, at least I got a smile from one of them.  And doesn't that smile just melt your heart?  It's not perfection in the picture category, but then again, life isn't about perfection.



Mild winter weather = outside fun

This mild winter weather isn't so bad.  Mom has been able to do all kinds of running, Dad has done all kinds of "outside the house-work" and the kids have enjoyed playing outside several times.

We are now able to traverse to the playground hauling both kids in the wagon.  Brady thinks it's pretty great that Brenna can ride in the wagon with him.  We do strap her in since that head of hers still tends to topple her over on occasion.  The first wagon ride was a success.

Off we go!

Brady swings on the big-kid swings now and is slowly starting to learn the whole lean and kick concept.

Brenna got to enjoy her first ride in the swing.  She clearly wasn't hating it!

Serious look here; I think she was observing all the kids playing on the playground equipment.

Peek-a-Boo!

Peek-a-boo.  Smoller Style.  'Nuff said.

That's how she crawls

Yep, Brenna is officially a mover.  It's hard to catch on video, but I did manage to capture this the other evening.