Our Visit With The Ducks

On Thursday I told Moss I wanted to take Brenden to see the ducks, so like a good husband he says sure lets do it. Moss' Mom had told us that they would just walk up to you, so I was pretty excited. Right when we got there the ducks started swim towards us and then just walked right out of the water. It was so cool! We didn't have any bread with us so we tried to feed them some of Brenden's puffs but sadly they were not into them so they got back in the water. Moss then ran to his parents house and grabbed some bread. This time they stayed around a lot longer. I gave Brenden a piece of bread and the duck ate it right out of this hand. Brenden jump a little but then thought it was pretty funny. It was seriously way fun. I love animals when you can interact with them but don't have to take care of them haha. We will definitely be going back there a lot. He just loved it! Don't worry I just asked Moss if they are going to fly south for the winter and Moss says he is pretty sure this is south for the winter:)

"Hi Mama and Dada"

As you may know Brenden has been a little slow on hitting his milestones that every parent is looking for. Although I must say he is hitting all his growth ones like a champ. Also his looking pretty dang cute all the time:) Finally Brenden decided to hop on the wagon and start learning some new things. It's not perfect but it works and its just so dang cute. Brenden can finally wave! Well not really wave mostly just stick his hand up in the air. But I figure how many of us adults actually wave now-a-days. We all just usually stick our hands up and say hi. He is just too mature I guess. If that is really confusing for you I will try and demonstrate with this here picture...
Haha! He is just so happy to be able to do it. He also has learned how to clap, by that I mean he did it once while I was doing it. I am a little worried though because now when I clap he waves like this. Too much at one time I think:) Slowly but surely he is learning how to be a big boy and I love it!
*Pardon there not being any pants on the kid. At our house there is a rule that when you poop on your pants you do not get anymore for that day. We have all learned that the hard way, as you can see Moss did well this day:)

4 Years!

Yesterday was Moss' 4 year anniversary of coming home from his mission! It is so crazy that he has been home for the time of two whole missions. Since I was not there when he came home back then I decided to have my own little homecoming for him. Brenden and I made some signs, got some sushi (cause in Seattle they eat sea food) and Moss' favorite Rubarb pie. It was very yummy and a lot of fun to have a little party. I think he enjoyed it:) Brenden and I sure do love our Moss. He is such a hard worker and is so nice to us and always puts us first. We love you Moss!



(Sorry you can't see it very well but it says Welcome Home)

One of my favorite things...

Moss took these pictures a while ago but I thought they were too dang cute to pass up posting on.
The first one I just want mostly for memories. There are not many feelings out there in the world like having you baby fall alseep in your arms. I just love how cuddly Brenden is and I hope he stays like that for awhile. Sooner or later he might start squishing me but at least for now its awesome. I get really excited when Brenden is ready for his afternoon nap cause it means I get to wrap him up in a blanket turn on my Dr. Phil and just relax:)This next picture it just so cute. One day I was just rocking away with Brenden on my lap. I didn't even know he was sleeping, I thought he was just playing with his bouncy ball but after awhile I noticed he had really moved much. I couldn't see if he was asleep or not but I had a pretty good idea. So I did what any Mom would do now-a-days, I grabbed my phone and reached out as far as I could and snapped a picture of his face. My suspicions were correct. When Moss got home a little bit later I was sure to get a real picture.
It's a dang good thing Bonnie and Aaron gave us this recliner, I would not have survived the first couple months with Brenden and this last couple of month wouldn't of been near as fun and cuddly. Thanks again!

First Real Haircut

Brenden's hair was starting to get a bit too long so it was time to get out the clippers. We were not sure how it was going to go but we were hoping I would not slip and hurt him which is a worthy goal I think. Here are the before pictures. I think his hair was starting to tickle his ears cause he would always mess with them until I tucked the hair behind his ears. He had a few curls in the back but not too many that I was too sad to cute.

Afterwards. I think he looks pretty dang cute. I know it's not really noticeable but we can tell and thats what counts right? He did a pretty good job and only tried to grab the clippers a few times. Moss was really good at distraction him though:)

Brenden cute new surprised face that he does all the time now. It is so stinkin cute!!!

Standing Man!

The other day Brenden was being a little fussy so I found a box to sit him in thinking it would keep him entertained. I went into the other room to make some lunch and when I came back in I found Brenden like this!
I was so so excited. Brenden hasn't really hit many milestones as far as moving around goes so I was extra happy about this. He seemed really happy about it too.Later when Moss got home we tried it again by me hiding where he couldn't see so it would make him want to look over the box. It was so dang cute! He has not pulled himself up on anything else yet but soon enough he will:)

In With The New

We finaly got up the muscles to the move our new table from the garage to kitchen. I must say I didn't think I was strong enough but I was nicely surprised when I didn't drop it on my foot, or Moss'. Here she is.
I am very excited about it because it has a leaf that folds up inside of it so we don't have to worry about storying it anywhere and we can have a bigger table in about 30 seconds. I watch price is right every morning and afternoon now, so I decided to model it a bit:)Brenden's is starting to wiggly around a bit too much in his bumbo during dinner time so we needed to make a switch. We found this sweet thing at Wal-mart. We were very excited to try it out.
Here it was time for dinner. I felt like such a family haha. I love it. Brenden fits pretty much perfect in his seat. I love how high it is. My feet don't even touch when I am sitting down.

This is what we had, yummy!This is what Brenden had. He grabbed this cracker off the counter before we moved him over so we let him just munch on that. Here is him showing off his munching.