It's Gettin' HOT in here..............

Whew! We have officially reached that part of the year where I refuse to go outside. Today's high was supposedly 99 with a heat index of 107, but as you can see from the thermometer on our back door it was a little higher - and this picture was taken around 5:30 this evening, NOT during the middle of the day. Ugh, I miss snow!

Of course what else is a wiener dog supposed to do when it's this hot out? Poor Frank doesn't even get to go on walks with us anymore, he's can't handle the heat. We had to stop taking him a couple weeks ago when he started laying down in the grass and hiding under cars to stay in the shade during the middle of a walk because he was too hot to finish. Poor thing, I think he's mad at us because of this. 

Here's a sneak peak at Rob's Father's Day present. I dressed Brady up in one of his ties and bought some D-A-D wooden letters and painted them black. I was trying to get a decent picture of him holding each one, but our photo shoot didn't go so well. It was very hard trying to get him to look at the camera and hold each letter in a way that you could actually see it. Instead I bought one of those "photo cubes" and am going to put a few of these pictures in it as well as some others and give it to him. I don't think he has any pictures of Brady at the pharmacy so this will be a good way to display a lot of photos without taking up much space. 

Here's Brady hangin' in the laundry basket with his clean dipes, we had just taken then down off the clothes line. That is the one good thing about this heat - I can use the line and clothes dry VERY quickly!......and yes, I know I'm a redneck hippie for using a clothes line, laugh if you must. 

I bought Brady Mr. Ducky to bathe in and he LOVES it. Now he can finally sit up and play with some toys. Too bad he's almost already too big for it. On the package it said for ages 6 months - 2 years, yeah right! Not when your 7 month old is as big as a 2 year old! Speaking of which, he will officially be 8 months old tomorrow!

Did you ever see a cuter face? Aww, my own real life Kewpie doll!

"Mom, that camera is scaring me!"

Brady got a package in the mail from Grandma A. on Thursday with a new outfit in it! He was VERY excited! Thanks Grandma!

Here he is modeling his new clothes! See that tongue hanging out? He's been doing that a lot lately. Rob calls it his "Michael Jordan tongue". What's really gross is that Frank likes to lick his face when I'm not looking and I know he's gotten a few good licks of this already. Of course Brady squeels and thinks it's the funniest thing ever. EWWW!

And lastly we had some "nakkie time" tonight. Brady's got some red bumps on his belly where the top of his diaper hits and I was trying to air him out. I don't think it's diaper rash, but maybe more of a heat rash. Hopefully it clears up soon.

P.S.   I'm trying out a new format tonight - hopefully the pictures appear a lot bigger than normal.

***WARNING! Picture Overload***

This post is for you mom! She was bugging me a few nights ago about not updating the blog recently and wanting to see more pictures - so I just spent over an hour uploading all of these. I went back through some recent pictures and picked out all my favorites - some are as old as March though. Don't be fooled if Brady looks small in some of them. Rest assured he is not! He was 20 lbs 1 oz and almost 30 inches long at his last appointment!

I can't even begin to tell you how much I am FINALLY starting to truly enjoy motherhood. I LOVE spending time with this little boy. He cracks me up. He is always making the goofiest faces and gets excited over the most random things. And he has gotten so much easier as far as naps go. Today he actually took a 3 hour nap in the morning and another 2 hour nap in the afternoon - I hope he sleeps all night like he's supposed to! He is getting ready to cut his 1st tooth though so I think that is why his sleeping has been off. His bottom gums look very swollen and I've never seen a baby slobber so much in my life. He's also had a very runny nose and been tugging at his ears which I've heard are signs of teething. Hopefully it will pop through soon!

I had a great mother's day - Brady (along with Daddy's help) made me a stepping stone for the garden with his handprint in it. I love it! I was actually hoping Rob would get me something like this instead of spending a bunch of money on something we don't need. He did a great job! We started the day off at church and then ran some errands and Brady took another 3 hour nap that afternoon! It was very relaxing and I could tell Brady was trying hard to be on his best behavior for his mama!

Enjoy all the pics! If you click on them they (should) become larger.

Mother's Day 2009

My garden stepping stone from Brady

This is how we found Brady one morning last week - he rolled over sometime during the night!

Excuse me have you seen my puff?

He loves his Babylegs. And don't you dare take that remote control away from him!

In his handsome football outfit courtesy of Justin & Britni!

He was the cutest baby in the nursery that day.

I love this picture

Are these not the silliest faces you've ever seen?

How many of those rolls count as his cheeks?

Preparing to get lubed up during his nightly eczema treatment

My absolute favorite picture of Brady and Frank together. Don't they look like best friends already?

Finally, an Update!

I know it has been way too long since my last post, but I've been a little preoccupied lately since I finally decided to join facebook. I've been having too much fun stalking peoples profiles to spend time updating you over here. A lot has happened since my last post. Brady turned 4 months old on Friday. He discovered his feet about 2 weeks ago and finally rolled over (tummy to back) last week. Rob & I were so excited for him. He did it 4 times, but then the next day acted like he had never done it before and hasn't done it again since. I think he has forgotten already!

My parents came down to visit for the weekend and we had a great time visiting with them. We even took Brady to the beach for the first time. On Sunday we were really looking forward to going downtown to eat brunch at the Spot of Tea, but I completely forgot about all the stupid Mardi Gras parades and we drove right into the mess. We saw some VERY interesting people. Anyway, we just turned around and came home because we couldn't get anywhere near the restaurant and figured there was a good chance they'd be closed anyway. Here are some pictures from our beach trip...

Now for some really exciting news.... My niece, Macy, is turning 1 year old next month and I was really hoping that somehow I would be able to make it home to celebrate with our family. Rob & I talked about it and decided that I should take Brady and fly home to visit! We'll be in Cincy for about a week and a half! I am so excited, yet so nervous at the same time. I hope I can handle Brady all by myself on the airplane and in the airport during our layover. And I hope having him out of his normal environment for this amount of time doesn't totally screw up his "schedule." Lately though he hasn't had much of a schedule anyway. I definitely think he is going through the "4 month wakeful/sleep regression" phase right now. He went on a nap strike about a week ago, but I think that is starting to get better. Then on Saturday night starting at 3 am he woke up every 45 minutes! Thank goodness my parents were here so that they could help out with him on Sunday morning while I went back to bed! Last night was better in that he only woke up once (but stayed up for 1.5 hours). My mom got up with him first, but he wouldn't go back to sleep so I eventually had to get up and nurse him back to sleep. I hope this phase doesn't last too long!