Halloween

Brody has a girl friend...

According to Kerry, Tegan is one of Brody's *favorite* friends. heh.

Jayne update

95th percentile in height and weight and happiness!

Cuteness!

First Football Game...Go Wildcats! NU 30, Syracuse 10

Block Party One Way or The Other...
Good Ol' Oak Park government...won't allow east-west streets to have block parties this year. sheesh. At least one of our friends invited us to theirs. Brody hemmed and hawed and finally got up the nerve to go in the jumpy with the big kids...and loved it. Gosh, he's growing up!

New Haircut!

The T-shirt says it all...

Retrospective
such a tiny foot to begin with... (under the bili lights)

Two Guys

Piggy Back

Food At Last...Food At Last... (8/16)

Mini Pele?

Funny Baba

We Went Bananas!



We went to Morgan's 6th birthday party at Go Bananas! two weekends ago. It's like a ChuckECheese's. There was an indoor mini roller coaster that Brody wanted to go on. I took some pictures to give you a sense for this thing. He didn't get freaked out, but he didn't want to go on it again either. heh.
He's also now obssessed with the claw thingy that theoretically grabs stuffed animals. He's on a mission to get the frog from there. I tried a billion times, and came up empty. Those things are EVIL!

Some Favorites

The facial expressions are priceless.

11 Weeks!

When did she get so big? She's starting to smile and coo. It's ridiculously cute.

Brave Brody

Today, horror of horrors, Brody fell off the last two steps of a ladder at the playground. He's become an expert, but today it was sprinkling, so the steps must have been a little slippery. Luckily, he fell well, so nothing was sprained or even scraped.

There were tears to be sure. But, I asked him if he wanted to get up and try again. Which he did. Just like the pro that he is. My brave boy.

Bathtime
I think these vids speak for themselves.

4th of July

Brody was in HOG heaven with Brian all day. Theme wagon courtesy of Grandma and Grandpa.

...Like a Fox

Our wiley son, aka the love of our lives, will do ANYTHING to get out of falling asleep each night. Usually it's the request for the extra hug...kiss...water...milk...story...snuggle...you name it. Today, as has been usual for the last few weeks, I gave him a bath and Jim read him his stories.
About 10 minutes after Jim came downstairs after finishing storytime, we started hearing, "waah waah wahhhhh....wwaaah waaah waaahh..." Clearly a ploy for attention - and not real cries. Jim went up there to encourage him to be quiet and came down with this explanation for the crying:

"A booger jumped out of my nose and it scared me...it was ouchy."

heh.

4th of July nostalgia


Posting an oldie but goodie from 4th of July weekend 2 years ago. Look at the Brody-pudge! Super cute outfit courtesy of Grandma!

WHY?

Brody's favorite word - this picture captures the facial expression and hand guesture perfectly! Thanks, Kewwy for sending it!

Lilly Pad Success!

Brody is king of the lilly pads. I'm so proud!

Ants and Apples

A brief snack-time discussion about ants at Brody's new favorite park!

Play-Doh Session #58,261

Brody loves Play-Doh more than he loves candy. And that's saying a lot.

Dance Fever

Brody does a dance and shows off his Squishy Tail.

Chatty Cathy

Maybe we should change her name to Cathy? Jayney has been coo'ing and gurgling - apparently she has a lot to say.

Uncle Duck and Aunt Nenny!

Ick and Jenny came to visit at the beginning of May to play with Brody and meet the littlest Terretta. Ick, you didn't stand a chance against Nenny for NYC favorite- a) Aunt Nenny is a girl and b) who wouldn't want to sit next to Nenny?

Navy Pier!

Today, Kerry, Brody, Jayne and I took advantage of the perfect Chicago summer and tooled down to Navy Pier. Brody loved watching the boats, running, climbing and chasing seagulls. There's a video of Jayney at the bottom of this post.