Hope for Japan

This is our small attempt to help a huge disaster. Heidi and I are selling these pendants and donating all the proceeds to relief efforts for Japan. Have a blog? Post this button/link and share the Hope!

This Week Last Year

 I cannot believe how much Bradley has grown! Just one year ago at this time we weren't even contemplating solid foods. But a year later, and I'm sitting here thinking how fun it will be to celebrate Peanut Butter Day with Brad! (Sandwiches are all the rave in our house right now.)

 But last year... I think I was just starting to realize the potential fun around this age. 3ish months old, out of the cry alllll the time phase, but not in any other real horrible phase yet.

I guess we were still in the "it is hard to fall asleep by myself" phase. But really, I thought life was just beginning to get fun. He smiled, he giggled sometimes, he liked laying down and playing with a few toys. Fun stuff!

I had no idea how much more fun Bradley could be. He has the sweetest personality, and he loves to be a BOY! He is into airplanes and cars. He loves building blocks. He loves taking all the kid dvds out and spreading them around the craft room. He LOVES the old box of cds I gave him and has endless fun shoving them into the broke dvd/vhs player that I cleverly keep next to the real dvd player. Total decoy- I'm a genius.

Now I change my mind daily, but today... Toddlers are way more fun than babies!


However, tomorrow when Brad dumps out the puppy food after dunking elmo in the puppy water, and then begins to color on my scriptures with a pencil (which were the events of last night) I may change my mind back to: Babies are easier than toddlers. We'll see.

I heart U

We went to target today and found some pretty fun Valentine's decorations.
I put these gel hearts up while he was sleeping, he thought they were pretty cool

He walked from window to window sticking them on and taking them off.

So creative. So inquisitive.

Christmas 2010

Brian found my camera! So now I can post some pics from christmas!

I heart baby einstines

Bradley loves his newest movie. It features movin and shaking all your body parts. His fave is touch your nose and peekaboo.
He also likes to sit on the box i use to block the dvd player.

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Happy to be home

We had so much fun at heidi and deric's but brad really missed his home. It has been fun all day to watch him go into a room and remember all the cool things in it. Portland is equally happy to be home and sooo tired from puppy camp.

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Birthday Boy

All right. It is the video you have all been waiting for.
Every family must have the first birthday cake tradition, and we are no different. I don't think he was too fond of the frosting, as it kept coming out, but the cake wasn't so bad.

He went straight from the highchair to the bathtub after this experience.

Thank you all for your birthday wishes. You made Brad's birthday very special. He really did love every Happy Birthday song that was sung to him. He smiled at the phone and often bounced along. He loved the birthday banner we have (thanks gma lou) and all the presents.

Love you all.

Here are the bday photos!