The Zoo

We all decided to take a day off and take the kids to the zoo - Bradley's first time! It was so much fun, I haven't been there in years. Of course my favorite were the cats - especially the tigers - which are Kevin's favorite too - and what do you know... Tigers were Bradley's favorite too. One was inside so he was behind the glass, pacing back and forth and Mr B would get SO excited when he would turn and come back towards us.They had a new baby giraffe that was very cute too. It was a lot of fun, the weather was perfect and so was the company :)

Sticks!

With the nicer weather, and hanging out outside more often, Bradley has found a new favorite toy - and it's amazing - they seem to be everywhere!! STICKS :) He will go searching for sticks and once he finds them he'll hang on so tight and not let go. If he happens to find another one he finds intriguing, he'll carefully examine the ones he has in his hands to decide which one he should let go in favor of the new one. I'm sure he's sad he doesn't have more hands for this reason :) These pictures are from 2 different days - the first couple we went to City Park to take a walk with the Gilmartin's, then the others are from our backyard.

New Park

When the weather started getting nicer, we went to a new park with Connor, Katie, Dustin and Mom. It's crazy how big it was. We used to go over there all the time to take the dogs to the dog park and to practice softball on the dinky little field. Now it's HUGE and all new and fancy! They even added new benches in the dog run and nice new softball fields. This was the first time Mr Bradley got to hang out with Connor since he'd started walking - so it was a little easier for him to keep up :)They have a nice trail right next to it so we decided to take a walk and found these cool trees that someone carved. It's amazing the detail - this picture doesn't do it justice. It was such a nice little surpise to find!

Birthday Parties

Bradley went to 2 different birthday parties at the beginning of March. The first one was for our friend's twin girls that were born last year on Leap Day. It was the girliest party you can imagine! All the little girls were dressed in little tu-tu's and everything was pink - and for a long time Bradley was the only boy - he sure stuck out like a sore thumb but he sure looked cute, surrounded by all those girls :) I think his favorite part was this party favor he got - it's a bath toy - I mean chew toy :)

Second was baby Addison's party (Kevin's step-brother's daughter). There weren't too many kids there, just a couple. One little boy was there and did not want anyone sitting on his cow (but of course didn't want to sit on it himself) so it caused quite a commotion when all the little kids took turns riding for a little bit - Bradley loved it!

Backing down

Mr Bradley has learned how to back down stairs and off of couches and other things - he's very good at it and was very proud of himself when he learned how :) It's cute because no matter how far he is away from the stairs - if we open that gate and say "Let's go downstairs" he will automatically get on the ground, turn around and start backing up - even if he's 10 feet away from the stairs :) it's SO cute!

Now - the OTHER kind of backing down - like in conversations involving the word "no" - not so good at backing down - kind of stubborn - like his Daddy :)

Visit from the Witters!

Erin and her family came into town on Valentine's Day and we had the pleasure of having them over for 1 night. It was a short stay, unfortunately, but we had so much fun with the time we had. Her little boy Joe Joe is about a week younger than Bradley - so they had a lot of fun together! It was so cute seeing them interact.And her daughter Sadie is just adorable! Erin is quite the photographer and was so nice and took a bunch of pictures of Bradley - here are some of my favorites! Thanks Erin - I LOVE them!!

Walking timeline

Bradley has been learning so many new things lately I have to try to catch everyone up. So he took his first offical step on 1/30 but then wouldn't do it again and was still crawling and cruising along furniture. Then on 2/10 he was standing and dancing on his own, and took several steps together towards Tammy ( I didn't get the steps on camera) -

Then took more on 2/11 (and was very vocal about it) -

Starting 2/15 he was officially walking more than crawling and getting more and more sturdy every day :) It's SO cute! I love it, a lot of times he'll shrug his shoulders or wave them if he's excited.