Brady's Birthday

We've been busy enjoying fall.  Brady turned one on Oct. 9th, and we had lot so of celebrating because of it.  We took part in a big one year birthday with our mom's group, I think we ended up with 15 families.  It was pretty cute to see how much our little ones have grown over the year, and we had fun celebrating the survival of our first year of parenting.  Here are a few pictures: 

We also had a great party with family and friends, Brady is so lucky to be surrounded by such love in his life:

The Boy Who Eats Everything

Brady typically shoves just about anything we feed him into his mouth. We tried quinoa recently, take a look at his reaction:

- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Wrapping up the summer

We finished up summer with a great Labor Day weekend at the beach with friends and family. Brady's Portland girlfriend, Sophia, was there and as you can see from below, Brady spent some time stealing food from her (what a guy):



Brady also visited daddy at work and had an impromptu guest appearance on the noon show:



Brady turned 11 months this weekend. His favorite toys are his stacking/nesting cups, his walker, the dishwasher, and recycling (and Clyde's water and food bowls if he can get his hands on them). He is cruising along the edge of everything and is just starting to almost stand on his own. Big business in this house! Next week he will be the ring bearer in his Uncle Pete and Aunt Allison's wedding-should be fun!

- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

10 Months!

Brady is now ten months! Time continues to fly, and we've been having a busy, fun summer packed with lots of activities! Brady is crawling all over, has two teeth, loves opening cabinets, doors, and drawers. He is getting lots of pool and beach time, hiking in the gorge,
and continues to eat almost everything in sight. However, we finally found something he doesn't like: quinoa! Check out this video of him trying it for the first time, as well as some of the latest pics of our summer fun.

Hiking the gorge.




Learning to drive the boat.




It's 5:00 somewhere, right?




Pool time.




Helping dad with some projects.




Salmon-yum!!




Cooling down on a hot day.




Backyard naked time.




Hanging while mama dries her hair.




Waiting for dad to get home.




- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Go, Brady, Go

We've got Brady on a strict exercise regime, check it out below:

- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

He's on the Move!

Brady-man decided to finally put the pieces together and start crawling a few days ago. Here is a quick snip of him in action:

We had another great beach weekend with the fam. They even took care of Brady Friday night so Nick and I could sneak away to celebrate our 5 year anniversary. It was sooooo relaxing-we were both ready for a night sans baby. It my the first time we left him with others overnight and it was a big success. I think we should do that more often (Aunt Brenda, you ready?)...!


- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Ha Ha

Here is a quick video of Brady getting some belly laughs in:

- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone