Warning - this post is about PEE and POO!!! If this topic is too disturbing and sensitive for you I advise you to move on to the next post...
You've been warned!
Seeing that I pretty much use this blog as an online baby book, I have to document the potty training progress :) Bradley got his first underwear in December. I would put him in the underwear when we were at home and not going anywhere, every now and then just to test the waters. He would be fine for a little bit and was excited about the new cool underwear but it would always end in him peeing and me cleaning up a mess - which I was totally prepared for. This went on for months while I realized that I wanted to get more absorbant underwear for him until he was totally potty trained. I didn't want to do pull-ups because they're exactly like diapers, they feel the same, and they wouldn't make him feel uncomfortable when he peed in them. So I started looking online and those fancy absorbant underwear are very expensive - about $14 a pair!!! So I printed out patterns to make my own, I priced out fabric and all the material and it was going to cost about $6 a pair to make them on my own. On Craigslist one day I happened to find a lady who was selling 9 pair of exactly what I wanted and I got them for $7 a pair. This all didn't happen until March, so I'll come back to that phase later :) I'm getting ahead of myself - stay tuned!!!
Anyway - this is his first pooing in the potty experience :) (just pretending to push :) )
We decided that everytime he went poo-poo in the potty he would get a poo-poo ball! 
No matter the size :) 
In Nov Bradley was going to go outside with Poppy, and as soon as Poppy opened the door Bradley went to step out and he tripped on the little lip of the sliding door and fell face first down 2 concrete steps and landed on his face. Kevin and I didn't even see it but Bill said that he didn't even have time to get his hands up. I was FREAKING out because that's a good size fall right onto your head. You'd never know it from looking at him - he barely had any cuts and scrapes. Kevin and I are convinced that Carmel was there and broke his fall :) caught him and helped him land safely - because it should have been a lot worse then it ended up being. He really hasn't had hardly any bumps and bruises, he plays very carefully. I find it very funny when little kids get hurt and people always say, "Get used to it, it's the first of many" and "Oh, that'll happen all the time"... Do people really think that is going to make me feel better??? Envisioning my child in pain ALL THE TIME? :) Silly people...
And these are just some of my favorite pictures right around that time...
Me with my little gorilla and monkey!
I think one of the best parts of Mr B's costume was the back-side :)
Bradley has always liked to line up things, he does it to his cars and trucks all the time - what an organized little boy huh? :) So it wasn't a surprise that right away he started lining up his candy when we got home :)
I had high hopes of going to a pumpkin patch last year, but we ran out of time, so we walked over to good 'ol Safeway! Not the most festive place to go pumpkin shopping, but they had a good selection and Bradley still had fun picking his out.
Bradley is such a CLEAN little boy, he doesn't like getting his hands messy or getting dirty too much (although this is quickly changing :) ) So it took him a while to dig into that pumpkin. I'll admit I don't really blame him, the texture is not the most pleasant thing :)
Helping out with Gracie's pumpkin :)
On Halloween, we ended up running to Mom's house and Grandma Gay's, then back home to go up and down our street - not a whole lot of houses, but it ended up being the perfect amount because when we were just about done - so were the kids! They were both ready to go home! 
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