the more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
the more places you’ll go.
Dr. Seuss

Braysen has always liked books but he is really getting into them. He brings them to us and climbs up on the couch and then plops down either next to you or in your lap. We have these books that have pictures of objects you see in daily life and he loves them most of all. He tends to favor these instead of his storybooks so far. We used to point at the objects and tell him the names but now he points and looks at you with questioning eyes like “what’s that?” He’ll even mumble something as he points almost like he’s asking you.

We make animal sounds for the animals and vroom vroom sounds for cars and trucks. Lately he’s become quite the yip yapper and imitates us all the time! He’s had a lot of new words but sometimes he’ll say them a few times one day and then I don’t hear them for days.

He roars at the tiger and started saying “tiger’ the other morning. He points at the babies or kitties and says their names. He woofs at our dog and other dogs then calls them dog …sounds more like “dahhhg” then dog. He moos at the cow sometimes and baas at the sheep on rare occasions. He takes his toes and presses them against the picture of the feet/toes and LOVES to eat our toes. YUCK! He says up and down for when he wants to be picked up or down and when he wants to upstairs or downstairs. He says dada but mama is rare and when he cries or is upset (*sighs, someday I’ll get a good mama out of him!!!). One of his favorite words is “baboon” aka balloon and everywhere we go he spots them. We’ll be in the car driving past a car dealership and he’ll start saying “baboon baboon” until we repeat it and then he points. At the grocery store he wants to visit all the “baboons”. We still have 1 balloon from his 1st bday party that he loves (yes, can you believe one is still floating, it’s the elephant – they were awesome balloons!!). There are lots more words where this came!!!

He loves being outside and we are “trying” to get the backyard weeded and ready to start some terracing slopes and landscaping the non-grass areas + get a deck built and dog run enclosed (a whole other post for another day!). We are going to get him a climbing structure thing for back there and hopefully a water / sand table so he can play while we get work done. Next summer we’ll get the swingset. He especially likes his visits to our neighbors house, Carl & Linda, because they have a roaring waterfall that flows into a pond in their backyard plus lots of dirt mounds that he likes to play in. They are also working on their yard but their water feature is stunning! He’s such a boy and it shows when he’s over there playing with dirt, picking up rocks and throwing them in their pond or just running back and forth over dirt mounds, all the while falling and just laughing as he covers himself in dirt!

Here’s some pics of our little book worm, more to come soon! I’ve been busy and slacking on updates! But oh the stories I have for the future…….such as Naked Guppyman in the mornings when daddy forgets to put shorts on him for nighttime and he pulls off his diaper and pees all over, or how about stories of Guppyman finding the toilet water for the first time!
Hodgepodge from yesterday and a so so one of us from my 30th bday at my neighbors (all pics are thumbnails, so click to make larger!)