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?