Let's see, there has been a lot going on lately. We took Braden to the doctor to get a check up. He's still our little peanut, but he's gaining and staying on his curve now, so that's a good thing! As of Friday he is 16 pounds 8 ounces (they marked down 7 because the scale landed on 7 after he managed to get his feet all the way up by his ears), but we saw 8 the whole time before he started wiggling so we're sticking to that! anyway that keeps him in the 2nd % for weight, little string bean! oh, and he's 27 1/2 inches long.
On Sunday we discovered that his two bottom teeth have finally popped through, so now he's on his way to having 2 full grown bottom teeth!
And his new tricks: showing us his muscles! and waving! We have no idea if he knows what he's doing when he waves yet, but he's got the motion down, so we'll count it.
Oh! He can also crawl like a normal kid now. (I really didn't know if that would ever happen!) He still throws in a slug now and then but I think it's safe to say he's not too freakish with the crawling thing anymore. Ah well, it was fun while it lasted.
It was pretty warm here for a few days. Today it was in the low 80s but I'm not counting that since it feels so cool compared to 104 degrees which is what it was the other day. And yes, it is May, just to remind you. But we've been able to take Braden swimming a couple of times, so that's been fun. He's just as mellow in the water as he is out of it. We've managed to dunk him a couple of times each time we've been. It doesn't even phase him! Well... except for the last time Chris did it, I think he swallowed a little water, which he wasn't too happy about. Oops. Oh well, what doesn't kill him only makes him stronger, right?!
Me? I had my first official Mother's Day. It was actually a pretty relaxing day, which is always nice. I got to sleep in, woke up to breakfast being made for me. We went to lunch over at Chris's brother's house. Then my mom came over for a bit later in the evening. I was pretty tired at that point so I asked Chris if we could skip going out to dinner, so we did. We watched a movie and I had Chris pick up some fried chicken instead! WHAT? I could eat whatever I wanted to eat, it was MY day! Other than that, I managed to get my hair cut yesterday, which was really nice seeing as how I haven't gotten it cut in 6 months. This mommy thing can really suck the presentableness (yes it's a word) right out of a girl!
Chris has (I think) 10 more days of school left before he's out for the summer! We plan on getting a lot of our backyard done during the two months he's off. And it's a lot! I hope doing all the backyard work will help me work off this mommy gut I've got going on before Summer's over!
Our backyard plans:
Break up the current concrete patios
Replace them with new ones
Kill off all the weeds
Replace them with grass
Plant 25 Italian Cypress trees along the back sound wall
Build 2 water features to muffle the traffic sounds
MAYBE build a bocce ball court (Chris wants one so desperately, me not so much)
Build at least one pergola for the side entertaining patio, maybe another one later for the back patio
and get a nice above ground pool to jump into when it's all finished!
We'll see how much we get done in time for Braden's 1st birthday party! If we get a lot done, we'll host it here, if not it'll be up at the neighborhood park.
I leave you with some pictures... and even a video this time! Don't you feel so lucky??
Holy crap this post took forever! Uploading pictures really does take a long time!
Enjoy!
Braden's 1st time swimming
My little baldy
Braden on Mother's Day
Me on Mother's Day...(Guess who forgot to take a picture of the two of us on Mother's Day? That's right, me! BAD MOMMY!)
Eating pizza
Showing off his muscles!
About to go swimming for the 2nd time!
Getting his technique down
"I will be a professional swimmer by age..."
Chillin' out poolside 
After his dad splashed him!
After his dad dunked him!
After showing off his guns... what a silly face!
His first two teeth!
Be grateful, these were hard shots to get!
He ate an entire cream cheese sandwich and then more food!(Yes I did cover his high chair with a plastic garbage bag!)
The long awaited video of him showing off his muscles!
Dude, y'all BETTER have a pool with all that goddamn room. I'm saying it should be an IN GROUND POOL, and then when I come home I can be like *loungin'* and it'll be suh-weet. I'll ignore my nephew, cause... you know, pool.
ReplyDeleteSaving every single one of these pictures. They're going in my Braden folder. Kyle came for the weekend and I made him sit by me and scroll through EVERY PICTURE I HAVE SINCE HE WAS BORN, even though he was here in January/February and I showed him everything since August, already. He was actually good at pretending to be interested. He said that I had the cutest nephew ever. And it's true, I do.
I want to see pictures of the new hair cut.
Did you get sick after the bucket of chicken? Was it KFC or Popeyes? Whenever we get KFC (which we haven't in like, over a year now) I get MAD sick the next day.
Anyways, I LOVE YOU! You're adorable!
actually we don't touch kfc. the last time we got it (a few years ago) both of us got sick, so that was it. we get it from the raley's deli now! it's not as good as albertson's chicken but since albertson's doesn't exist anymore, it'll have to do!
ReplyDeleteand the guy chris works with has his own pool business and offered to build us a pool at cost, but even at cost it's damn expensive, so we'll have to settle for an above ground. i wouldn't waist money on an inground in this loud ass backyard anyway cuz i hope to move at some point!
i'll try to get on that pic of the hair here soon... you know after i wash it! =P
xoxo!!
That little guy is the cutest muscle man in the world. What a ham!
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