Driving

Gotta have moo-cow in the front basket riding along!

I'm beginning to notice a theme here!

Soakin Wet

Future water fight champion.

Now there's an over-wrinkled foot.

Brody had fun playing with his water table on the deck, he was dripping wet, clothes and all!

Celebrating the day before Father's Day with Papa

Like Mama, Like Son

Brody & Bethanie, age 1

I will try to get a better picture of Brody for comparison because he does that exact thing with his mouth (the slight under bite). It's fun to see that he's starting to resemble me a little bit.

Snuggles

(In my opinion) Brody has been the cutest recently when he gets up in the morning. I come into his room and he quickly scrambles to scoop up his blanket, pillow, and moo-cow before I pick him up. If he misses one in his short little arms, he turns around while I'm holding him and points to the crib until I pick it up too. The smile on his face is like he's won the lottery. Last night when it was time for "nigh-nigh", Barry told him to get his blanket and pillow. He ran to the living room and found them, then ran into the bedroom all excited to get to go to bed with moo-cow, blanket, and pillow.
It's so cute to have a snuggle monster every once in awhile.
The other cute thing which I will have to get on video to truly capture the weird cuteness is that he does this strange foot/leg thing when he's overly happy. For example, if he wants a bite to eat and I give him one, he smiles, turns, then lifts up one of his feet/legs way high and stomps it down, like a mini march. It's like he doesn't quite know what to do with his happiness.

Happy Father's Day Barry!

Then: Fall, 2010

Now: June, 2011

Happy Father's Day to Barry! It's been a crazy year, but we're over half way through the Duluth separation! The top one is a picture of our visit to Duluth when Brody was about 8 months. The other one is our more recent visit in June right before Barry came home for the summer (with the exception of a few more days to come in Duluth).

Daddy & Brody

Mommy & Brody

Duluth

He loves to pick the flowers and then blow on them because his daddy taught him that the seeds will fly all over.

We're working on the holding hands while walking thing. A skill he has no patience for.

Practicing rock throwing with both hands. Lefty or righty?

Kicking back on the swing looking over at his daddy.

Cheekers

Try resisting those cheekers, just try!

Visit to Duluth

Brody and I went to Duluth for the weekend. Saturday we met up with Grandpa Steve and Grandma Cindy and went to the lake for a picnic in the afternoon, the weather was so nice. Sunday we went back to the lake and met up with some friends, the weather was even hotter! Brody learned how to throw rocks into the water, a very important skill!

More pictures later this week.

Hot Hot Hot

When Brody was "little", Barry went on a Harley trip West and bought this t-shirt for Brody. At the time we laughed at the 2T size and now I think I have to pack it away already. Did I mention Brody can swing his little leg up high enough to get on the furniture unassisted as well as in and out of the tub? Yeah, that's not an achievement I'm particularly excited about! How can those short little legs get that high?

Better have a closer look to see what's really going on.

Filling up the water table, still in his PJs and everything.

We went to a nearby park to play on the toddler playground a couple of weekends ago with Barry and Kelly. He liked the big kid slides more!

This is before he could swing his leg up to get on the couch, back when he had to be creative and climb on other toys first.

He's taken ladies!

In summary, I think we have a climber on our hands. He thought the water table was more enjoyable when he was on top of it.

Pontoon Ride

Good level of concentration by the drivers!

A snuggle with GG