New Addition!

It's been busy around here lately! Big headlines happening!

I spent most of yesterday with my two nephews. Not much else happens when you're taking care of 3 boys all at once. Good birth control. haha! It just goes to show me I might want to take it one kid at a time, or drink more coffee, or, I don't know, take some kind of pills. No, I'm kidding of course. The boys were very well behaved and very excited for what was to come later that day: their new baby brother! On the way to the hospital, Matthew (the oldest) kept us pretty entertained, like he usually does. They didn't know if they were getting a baby brother or a baby sister, so we joked with him about the baby coming out with two heads, one being a girl head and one being a boy head. Of course he didn't believe us. We asked if he'd be excited if it had two heads. He said "No! Wouldn't you be horrified if YOUR baby came out with two heads??" What kind of 5 year old uses words like "horrified"? The same kind of kid who knows the word "antidisestablishmentarianism", the word almost every one thinks is the longest word in the English language. We just found out that pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is actually the longest word in the English language. Found that out by looking up the definition of antidisestablishmentarianism. ANYWAY, all that to say- he's such a smart kid!! So enough of that, here's the newest addition!

Joel Christopher

*Yawn*

Today is going by so slowly. It's only 2:00 and I'm exhausted. Chris has a meeting after school and then a softball game later tonight, so he won't be home until late tonight. Luckily my mom is coming over for a little while after she gets out of school for the day. Today (well ok every day) I'm thankful for that! Braden seems to be getting up earlier every day, regardless of when I put him down for bed the night before. Today it's kicking my butt for some reason. Luckily he ended up taking an hour and a half nap earlier today (they're usually only 30 minutes!!!), so I at least got to sneak a shower in, but what I really need to sneak in is a nap. Right now he's all tucked in with his favorite blanket, snoozing away in his crib. Thank goodness! He's into everything and has gotten so FAST at crawling, it's a lot more draining chasing after him all day. Where has the time gone?? It really feels like just yesterday that he was teeny tiny and sleeping the days away. I promise myself right now, I won't wish it away so soon next time. Silly mommy!

Catch up!

I hate Mondays! They're the worst, aren't they? The start of another long week, the farthest away from next weekend as you can get! We had a pretty good weekend. Chris woke up early on Saturday morning and got his Jeep smogged (it passed! that's always a plus!), and then replaced the motor of the passenger side window of one of our other cars... now I can roll it up and down again! What a handy guy he is! After that was all done, we headed out to my Mom's for pretty much the rest of the day. We went to Sam's Club to get diapers and then I split my toe open! Oh what? Yea that's right, I split my toe open by dropping one of those 40 pound plastic tubs of cat litter onto it. So that was fun. It's still Band-Aided up because frankly it looks absolutely disgusting and I'm scared of leaving it out in the open. It's missing a bunch of skin and it's got some dried blood all on it... I'm hoping I don't lose the toe nail just in time for Summer. Aren't you glad you read this? I'll move on.

Sunday morning we woke up and went to Chris' brother's/SIL's place. It was their Easter (they're Orthodox) so we got together to watch their boys hunt for some eggs in the backyard, then we had some breakfast. Then I decided I hadn't messed myself up enough for one weekend, so I decided to sneak in chipping my front tooth last night. I figured it'd be a good way to wrap it all up.

That brings me to today...

It was 92 degrees! Gotta love Summer Spring time in Sacramento. Or actually you don't. It wasn't too bad in the early parts of the day, but I think around 2:00 our house pooped out and gave in to the heat. Me being my cheap self did not give in to the AC screaming my name. How could I call myself my mother's daughter if I turned the AC on for anything less than 105 degrees?? I told Chris I'm turning it on tomorrow if it was anything like today. I feel like such a wimp. Don't I know it's bound to get another 20 degrees hotter here in the next few months?
So even though Braden got a bath last night, we decided to fill the tub with a few inches of water and let him splash around in some cool water before bed time. Of course my brain turned off in the midst of all the heat, so I didn't take any pictures.

BUT, here are some pictures of the last few days all rolled into one post!

At his cousin's t-ball game.
Trying on his new swim trunks, getting ready for the heat!

With his cousins on their Easter. He's trying to eat their candy for them.
It's pretty hard getting 3 boys to pay attention at the same time.

Who needs to buy toys? These are his favorites!
Mr. Empty Water Bottle!

and Mr. Fireplace Safety Guard!


Eh. At least they're real.

Hop hop hopping!

This whole crawling thing must be hard work! At first Braden would crawl around like a slug, and now he hops like a frog. He must like impersonating animals! His older cousin used to crawl like a crab, so I guess he's not that weird. Here's a video of him from a few days ago when he first started hopping. He's seemed to have mastered it, because now he hops everywhere. He's starting to make me wonder if he'll ever crawl like a "normal" kid... but I kinda like it. It's definitely entertaining.

Spring is definitely here!

Spring break was this past week. Chris was home all week with us. I love his teacher schedule! So we figured it was a good time to transfer Braden out of our room and into his own. He's 8 months old now and needs his own space. He's done awesome! He loves to sleep on his side and stretch out all over the place! And he slept through the night for the first time the night before Easter! He's done it the past 4 nights! That by far was the best present I could have asked for!

Braden sleeping in his crib.

Of course Easter was this past Sunday. Instead of staying home this year, we were invited to my aunt's house in Chico (1 hr. 45 min. away). Longest car ride we've taken Braden on yet. Luckily he took his 30 minute nap on the way there and on the way back. After about an hour and a half, he was over it and wanted out, so that's definitely something to keep in mind for the next long ride. My brother came with us and rode in the front seat, so I kept Braden company in the back. When we got there, Braden had a few Easter baskets waiting for him (what a lucky guy!). He was a good little boy and even took a nap in his playpen that we brought with us. He's growing up so fast! Here are a few pics from Easter.

Braden and his Easter basket in the morning.

He chewed on just about everything he got.

Asleep on the way to Chico.

I was bored too.

Sitting with Noni (my mom) and Gammy (my grandma).

Handsome little man.

Bocce ball gets serious!

Staring each other down on the way home.

It was great to get out of the house for the day, and now we know how well he does. We look forward to carting him around a lot more now that the weather has turned nice!

I guess I should actually post something.

So I figured now that I have the pretty page up, some posts might be nice. Since this is really my first ever blog post, I'm sure I'm supposed to have something cool to say. But I don't. So I'll just kick this thing off by telling you that I'm sure I'm gonna be extremely bad at this whole thing. I spend way too much time online but you probably won't know that by looking at my blog. But I know a lot of people (like my sister) that that's true for. And when I do pop up, I'm sure you'll be seeing very little of me, and a lot of my little cool dude, because he's really all that matters. Don't you think?