Happy Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was great. On Thanksgiving Day we went to Connie and William's house and had a wonderful meal and a great time together. Of couse I forgot to whip out my camera so you'll just have to take my word for it :) I felt bad for Bradley because he wanted so bad to be running around with all the big kids, doing what they were doing, and he just couldn't because he's too little. He sure is going to love having a little brother or sister to play with soon :) I'm so glad they're going to be close in age so they can play together.

Then a couple days later Mindy and Scott welcomed everyone into their home for another Thanksgiving :) Once again - great food and great company. Scott and Mindy have a little baseball net set up in the basement for practicing hitting, so we all went downstairs and watching Katie and Drew hit some balls - and of course Bradley thought that was the coolest thing and wanted to try since he LOVES baseball. Seriously - he is AMAZING! I can't believe how good he is at swinging that huge bat (almost bigger than his whole body) and hitting those balls. He was great! He hit SO many! Have you ever heard of a Professional Baseball Player coming straight out of Elementary School? Bradley might be the first one :) He just loves it SO much, he could swing that bat all day long if we let him. And I love how sometimes when he misses he says "ohhh" in an "oh darnit" tone :)

And then when we finally drug him away from the bat, he wanted to play catch :)

We all had a really good time with family - so much to be thankful for!!

Nov Pictures

Why do I always feel like I'm catching up? And somehow it's not just on here, it's everywhere! Oh well... here are some of my favorite pictures from November:

Having a cold lunch at the park - explaining how the plane fly's in the sky, and pretending to be a lion in the grass.

Hanging out with Daddy - playing Wii and napping together.

Showing off his new favorite Mickey Hat.

And just being plain cute :)

Forgotten videos

I was just thinking about these 2 videos the other day and realized that I don't think I ever posted them. They were taken back in September.
The first one is something that Mr Bradley loved to do for a long time, stand up on his chair and peer over the half wall into the tv room. It was so cute to watch his little head bob up every once and a while, but dangerous - so we did make him stop when we saw him doing it - but this is the perfect example - I'm sitting on the couch and all the sudden you just see him slowly creep up, and then he's so ornery because he won't sit down until you actually stand up to come make him sit down (and in the video you can even see that he crouches below and was going to wait a second and pop right back up :) ) And then the second half of the video he is exercising his new found word "no". Before September he would say "yeah" to everything, but shake his head yes and no so you could tell which one he was saying. Then he figured out no - and it's the same thing - now (almost) everything sounds like "no" but you can tell the difference with the shake of the head, and the way he says it.


This video he is showing off his "bowling" skills - he really is very good and concentrates very hard and really aims the truck. Oh - and I just love the way he shows "one more" :)

Table Manners

Reading

Bradley LOVES to read his books. The other day we were upstairs in my room, he left to go into his room and I started to follow. As soon as he turned around and saw me coming, he grabbed that door and shut it in my face! So I thought, ok - I'll let you hang out alone for a little bit. About 5 minutes later, hearing no noise at all, I was wondering what he was doing, so I opened the door to find him doing this - SO CUTE! He had got his boppy pillow off the chair, put it in the middle of the room, got a book, sat down in the middle of the pillow and was reading his book... all by himself... concentrating so hard. It was adorable :) Now he's been doing that more and more, going upstairs out of nowhere to go read a book by himself. He is such a sweetheart!!

Comparison Shots

Ok - I really hate posting bare belly pictures, especially this time around because I am all stretched and gross :) But, it's a beautiful thing right?! :) hmph!

I haven't been doing a very good job taking pictures at the same time, but oh well - you can still get the picture - I'm way bigger! :) That's basically what it all boils down to :) (Sorry to anyone who is offended by my bare pregnant belly!)

With Bradley at 16 1/2 weeks With Baby at only 15 weeks With Bradley at 23 1/2 weeks With Baby at only 20 weeks With Bradley at 26 weeks With Baby at 25 1/2 weeks

After looking at all of Bradley's pictures from here on out - I am amazed at how much bigger it is going to get :) Did I block that out of my memory for some reason?? :)

Happy Halloween!

So with everyone being sick this year for the whole month of October, I feel like Halloween snuck up on us and Bradley got a little jipped :( We never got around to going to the corn maze like I wanted to, never got to a pumpkin patch to get pumpkins to carve, and almost didn't get a chance to have our annual party. Luckily we snuck it in just in time. After Bradley lost 4 pounds off his tiny little 24 pound frame it was tricky getting the right size costume - at which I failed :( It was too small! Whenever we put the head part on it was so stretched out it made his neck immobile and he looked so stiff - so he barely had that part on. That's ok, he still looked adorable. Mr B was Mr BEE :) He was a little bumble-bee and we were his flowers :) We had a lot of fun at the party, and Bradley had a blast running around with his friends. I'm still pretty sad about the whole 'no pumpkin carving' thing - I know, I know - Bradley won't even notice... but I do...