19 months

He's so much like a toddler these days and no longer a little baby:

• He likes to sing along to his CDs. For Old McDonald he sings e-i-e-i-o over and over.
• He loves to be chased. He also likes to run and hide from you when its time to get his faced wiped he'll run under the table or before bed he runs into his room and hides in the closet.
• Starting to put a few words together - all-done bath, more water (when he wanted to get dunked in the pool). And loves to point out things that he knows the words for.
• Starting to eat a few more things - peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and cream cheese on a bagel. Loves all kinds of fruit - though his favorite fruit changes every few weeks. Currently its raspberries and blueberries.
• Starting to learn a few letters. His favorite is O and likes to point it out when ever he sees it. Sometimes he also knows A, B, and L. Still has a lot more to learn to keep up with Nathan (Held family blog) and Andrew (playgroup friend) - they know the entire alphabet!
• Loves to be a little helper - if you give him something to carry or to take to someone he gets the biggest smile on his face when he finishes his task.
• Loves to clean - dust, sweep or use the swiffer mop. He's obsessed! he'll say "clean" and sign clean to ask for a dust rag or say "sweep" for the broom. Not sure where he learned this from.

our little soccer tot

Here's a few photos from Brendan's Soccer Tots class. He likes to kick the soccer ball but is a little young to follow some of the activities. He loves the obstacle course, kicking over the cones, and foxes and farmers (a game of chase).

One of his favorite parts of class is at the end when they all get their stamps from Coach Adam.

They call the goal "the monkey house" - Brendan loves to go in it because of all the soccer balls.

news

There's a new blog link on our 'blog and family website links" list - The Liu family. Leslie and Steve recently welcomed their new son Ryan into the world a few weeks ago. Leslie was a college roommate through most of college and I met Steve my first year of school.

Also, Brendan has a new cousin (second cousin) - we haven't met her yet but she looks like a cutie on her baby announcement.

In other news, Brendan had his 18 month check-up. Checked out healthy and he impressed the doctor when she asked him to look at the zebra on her stethascope and he signed zebra.
weight: 26.6 pounds, 50-75 percentile
height: 33 3/4 inches, 90 percentile
head: 19 inches, 75 percentile

These days he's mostly wearing size 2T clothes and few tops in 3T.

posing for the camera

Brendan likes to pose for the camera and LOVES to see pictures of himself after we take them

some pictures from Thursday morning hanging out in the playroom

doing some reading (he likes to go through books and point to all the pictures that he knows the words to):

Some pictures from today (Saturday):
Brendan and Brendan Brown Bear (his bear that we made for him at Build a Bear on for his birthday):

Sitting with his monkey watching Signing Times:

Wearing Daddy's hat:

Ready to go in the pool:

the little toddler

Here's a few photos from last Sunday. We went to Soccer Tots and he had so much fun during parachute time, that we decided to pull out our play parachute so he could do some more playing. He also got a new horse toy which he likes to run around with.

taking a break for a snack:

Brendan wearing a Simply Sweets hat to celebrate our Grand Opening

photo post

Catching up with some photos from the 4th. Here's some photos of our little toddler playing on his slide -we decided to bring it inside since its too hot to play with it outside.

Blueberry face - he loves blueberries and takes handfulls and stuffs them in his mouth

His current favorite toy - the golf set

I promised to post the 2007 calendars each month so you could see photos of him 1 year ago - I forgot to do this in June, so here's June and July.

we have a new address

no we haven't moved. But the city of Phoenix has given us a new city and zipcode. If you would like our updated address, send us an email.