Brody's Birthday Weekend!

Brody's first birthday party was on Saturday and a huge success! We had so much fun celebrating and thank you to all our family and friends who joined us. Brody really enjoyed all the extra attention he received from grandparents, cousins, friends etc. He especially enjoyed hangin' with the big boys, his cousins Spenscer and Brok. He also got to spend time with his cousin Brecken -- they went to the park and rode in the wagon together. Today it was just Brody and I and I think he was bored! :-) We took almost 200 pictures throughout the weekend so it was hard to choose what photos to post. Enjoy!

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Brody's first year!

Happy Birthday Brody - he turns 1 tomorrow. WOW - can't believe how quickly a year has gone by. I created a little slide show of all the highlights of Brody's first year -- was so much fun (and a couple of tears were shed :) to go back through all the great memories. We will be celebrating on Saturday with Brody's first birthday bash!

Sad face!

Brody is such a happy baby but he has decided that he doesn't like to have his picture taken (maybe I have taken too many pictures of him!) When I get the camera out he is instantly not happy and makes a sad face to let us know how he is feeling! Hopefully it is just a phase and will pass VERY quickly as his one year pictures are later this week.

Here are some of his classic looks! :-)

11 months

Brody was 11 months earlier this week. Can't believe he is almost a year! He is really moving around (not walking yet though) and loves to explore and get his little hands on anything he can find. He still only has two bottom teeth. For weeks we have been thinking that another tooth is going to pop through but it hasn't happened yet!

Grandma Betty, My mom finally painted the chair!

Cousin Kitty -- recognize my shirt?!?

Brody's new favorite pastime -- looking out the window and getting fingerprints on the glass!

Mama, I don't want my picture taken!

Pup Pup

For those of you who know our dog, Raleigh, you know she really isn't allowed on the furniture and she really doesn't have an interest in sitting on the furniture with us (except cuddling in bed). She has been kind of nervous ever since Brody started to crawl and the other night something scared her and out of nowhere she jumped on my lap. It was so out of character for her that we had to take a picture. Frank likes to call this picture "Mother Hen" ... Mother will take care of

everything! :-) Pup Pup is what Brody calls Raleigh.

Happy Easter!

We went to Iowa for Easter. We had a great time visiting everyone! Mom and Dad even got to go out on date on Saturday -- Thanks NaNa and PaPa!
Also, since my last post Brody has added a couple of new words to his vocabulary -- Bye, Bye! and Pup Pup (this is what he calls Raleigh :-)

Is there anything else in my Easter bucket??

There was a pink pig outside of the resturant we ate at!

I think this red balloon was probably the highlight of Brody's weekend!

Just chillin in my new Easter outfit.

Sitting on the red chair ... NaNa has had this chair for many, many years!

Happy St. Patty's Day

Thought we would combine Brody's first St. Patty's Day and his 10 month update (he will be 10 months this weekend).

Likes: To crawl and get into mischief, dancing and clapping to music, eating black olives and cheese, reading books, splashing in the bathtub and pulling hair (we keep telling Brody that he is not going to be popular with the ladies if he keeps pulling their hair! :-)

Dislikes: Being told "no", sun in his eyes, getting his diaper changed and any kind of baby food (Brody has decided that he doesn't want to eat anything that is given to him on a spoon)

Brody is so social and always smiling! We are really enjoying this stage, so fun to watch him develop into his own little person.

Happy St. Patty's Day ... Brody will be eating Shepherd's Pie for the first time tonight. No green beer yet! :-)