Catching Up

I have been seriously falling behind in writing so I have a few things to say this time. The first being that Bradley took his first steps on the 10th! It was wild to see! He is so sturdy standing up on his own now but lacks the confidence to take more than one or two steps at a time. He loves walking so much though and chuckles to himself anytime he walks with his push toy. I think he will be walking on his own pretty soon as he goes from couch to table to couch and his transfers are so easy for him now. He doesn't hold onto anything but reaches out to the object that he is leaving behind and that he is trying to get to so he is on his own but doesnt realize it.

He loves dancing and watching Scott and I make fools of ourselves dancing and singing with him. He gets a little smirk on his face and starts bouncing. Now when he hears music on the radio or TV he is dancing almost every time.

They say at daycare that he is trying so hard to walk and it will be any day now. I love his daycare and the teachers there. Well at least until last night when Scott brought my world crashing down. He picked Bradley up from daycare and caught one of the teachers painting on Bradley's art work trying to pass it off as Bradley's. Now, I do realize that my 10 month old son is not able to paint and color yet but I figured they were helping him by holding the brush in his hand and moving it around. What I didn't anticipate was them painting it with him across the room playing with a toy. I am traumatized.

Fall Fun

It was such a nice day on Saturday that I thought I would play with Bradley in the leaves. I had this vision of him crawling around and playing in all the leaves but he had other ideas. When I first put him down in the pile, he scrunched up his face and the tears started flowing. After some comforting, I put him back down he was fine and started to explore and eventually even started making his dinosaur noises at which point I knew he was happy.


"Hmmm, I wonder what this tastes like..."

Belle Comes for a Visit!

My Dad came over to help Scott work on the screen room we are adding onto our house and Debbie came and brought her full sized poodle, Belle. Belle is really good with Bradley because she has been around a lot of babies and kids so she doesn't really lick his face or react when he pulls her hair (and he does that a lot). I get a bit jealous though because all she has to do to put him into a fit of giggles is walk around or sneeze. It is really sweet how they are together though.

Bradley watching Daddy work outside.

Bradley and Belle supervising the workers!

Halloween Fun!

The day before Halloween I was so happy that the weather was amazing because that should mean nice weather for the next day, right? Wrong! It was windy and freezing! We carved pumpkins as a family and had Bradley play in the guts (or at least tried to make him).

"I am not so sure about this..."

"No more, no more!!!!"

We had planned on going to a couple of our friends houses in the neighborhood with Barry, Melissa, and Jaxon a little early so we would be able to pass out candy still. Barry and Melissa rang the doorbell just after 4:30 which was a little earlier than we were thinking and we didnt even have Bradley in his costume yet. However we figured it wasnt that big of a deal so we suited him up quickly and headed to our first neigbor. They werent home. We went to the second house, they were walking out the door to go to a party. We went to the third house, they were just sitting down to dinner. Fourth and fifth houses were eating dinner. We all felt so stupid we called it a night and took some pictures of the boys together.

Here's my bat baby!

The boys together:

Never fear, super baby is here!

It was a good first Halloween and I am so glad we didnt spend a lot of money on his costume because I think he wore it for a total of 30 minutes.