playgroup

Last Friday we had our final playgroup before the MOMS club split - our club has become too large so it is splitting into 2 groups. We will miss seeing Madison, Blake, CJ and Alec every Friday.

snow in AZ?

Not snow, but hail. Last Wednesday evening we got hit with a fast moving storm with lots of rain and hail. Brendan liked the storm because it was so loud.

at play:

Happy Valentine's Day

Sunday morning at the park

Sunday morning we went over to a local park to see the birds and play on the playground.

Visit with Grandpa Frank

Brendan got to meet another Grandpa this past week, Grandpa Frank. Now he has et all of his grandparents - Brendan is extra spoiled by having 4 grandmas and 3 grandpas. Frank also helped out a lot around the house putting together a shed, build a half wall in the playroom and lots of child proofing projects.

Nicole's Birthday

Nicole turned 21 on January 27th. I made a cake for her in her favorite color, PINK. We took this cake with us to bunco.

13 months

Seems like he just turned 1 but he's already 13 months.

What he's up to these days:

• Instead of walking these days he's running all over the place. No more crawling for this little guy.
• Discovered fruit! he loves bananas, grapes, oranges, apples, mangos and peaches. This adds to his short list of favorites - oatmeal, yogurt, cheerios, crackers, toast and puffs. No meat, cheese, or vegetables but we keep trying. He's starting trying to feed himself using his spoon. He puts the spoon in his food and then scoops out, up and over into his mouth with the spoon going in upside down - since its been oatmeal or yogurt it sticks to the spoon.
• His new word this month is "uh-oh".
• Still loves music. He now claps and sings along with the CD from his Music Together class.
• He cracks himself up. He thinks sneezing is funny so he'll do a fake sneeze and start laughing. He'll also stand on his head to get a different view of the world.
• Current favorite toys - weebles weebelot castle, Playskool Swing 'N Score Baseball, Melissa and Doug stacking construction vehicles, quatro legos, popper push toy, babystyle soft blocks classic cruiser.
• He'll give kisses and sometimes hugs.
• Loves to go for wagon rides around the neighborhood.
• Loves to take his bath and play with all his bath toys.
• Loves to play outside in his sandpit and has finally stopped trying to eat sand all the time. Occasionally he'll try to eat a rock.
• Loves balloons and airplanes

photo update

We haven't had a blog entry in a little while so here are some photos of the little boy

first haircut

Rob took Brendan for his first haircut today. They went to a place called Little Chops and after they went to Dairy Queen - Brendan liked Rob's chocolate shake.

Brendan also had a playdate this morning with Chase

playing around

standing on his head

Saturday morning it was cold out but we decided to go for a walk to get out of the house for a little bit. We bundled Brendan up in his little hat and popped him in my Ergo carrier.

playing on daddy

Saturday afternoon we took Brendan to his first Music Together class. He liked the part where he got to play with musical instruments and he did a little dancing, bouncing on his knees and moving back and forth.