Friday, June 29, 2007

Brendan is 1 1/2 years old!


what he's up to:

  • Keeps adding more words and signs - this is the last month I'll post a list because he's got so many words I can't keep up. Words:momma, dadda, cole-cole (Nicole), cat, un-oh, night-night, nap-nap, wow, no, balloon, duck, bus, socks, shoes, book, bath, ball, belly button, water, car, truck, more, all done, hat, up, banana, fruit, pretzel, sit, apple, two. Also lots of animal sounds: quack-quack, ruff-ruff, hiss, meow, roar, baa, moo. Signs: milk, water, eat, hungry, more, hurt, cereal, banana, cheese, dog, cracker, shoes, flower, all done, potty, snake, mouse, horse, pig, sheep, lion, fish, rabbit, book, apple, icecream, cold, hot, airplane, car, baby, strawberry, dirty, clean, sit, girl, boy, monkey, hippo, giraffe, elephant, chicken, doll, donkey, bread.

  • Loves to find everyone's belly betton.

  • He moved his bedtime back to 630 and wakes around 7 (and sometimes even 8) - he's a good sleeper.

  • Loves loves loves water - bath time, playing in the sprinkler, going in the pool, using the hose, splash parks. He loves to dunk himself in the pool.

  • Finally has most of his teeth - still waiting on the last 4 so he has big gaps between the front teeth and his molars.

  • Loves to play ball - kicking, throwing, hitting. We signed him up for Soccer Tots class to give him a chance to run around indoors since its too hot outside.

  • His current favorite toy is a golf set- since we got it for him a week ago he spends most of his playtime running around with the clubs or trying to hit the balls. He also loves his play fruit, cars, and books.

  • He's doing better with eating but still a limited number of foods that he will eat. His favorite foods are pretzels, icecream, grapes, bananas, strawberries and blueberries. Still no vegetables unless I sneak them in as bread or sweet potato fries.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

San Diego and Father's Day


This past weekend we took a little vacation to San Diego. It was our first trip back as a family and Nicole's first trip to California. Saturday we went to Dog Beach in Ocean Beach, the Del Mar fair, and then up to our old neighborhood where they were having a party in the circle to celebrate Vic's second birthday. The people who bought our house gave us a tour so that we could see what they've done with the place - Brendan's room is now pink because they have twin girls. Sunday, Father's Day we went to Coronado. The weather was perfect and it was great to visit some of our favorite places. Brendan loved played in the sand especially the big hole that Nicole dug for him. Friday night he didn't want to sleep in the hotel crib so he ended up falling asleep on our bed and then we moved him when he was in a deep sleep.
Happy Father's Day to Rob, Brendan's grandpas and all the other Dads who read this blog.









Sunday, June 03, 2007

photo post

Here's a few photos of our boy. The first 3 are from Memorial day weekend and the rest are from this weekend.



watching Signing Times




playing with Jackson