Tis the season
to spend money, get caught up in the rush and stress of the holidays, have weekends booked with events of some form for weeks on end and lastly try to take a break to enjoy some of this time with our family and be thankful for what we have in our lives.
So a lot has been going on but I keep forgetting to update my blog and write out the craziness of life. With the holidays approaching there isn’t a slow down in sight and then of course the baby coming in May is going to keep us on our toes as we progress through the new year. Last but not least there’s the ever so adventurous toddler that rules the house, who wouldn’t allow us to slow down even if we wanted to!
ALL of our holiday shopping was finished early after my Black Friday shopping trip. I can tell the little man is going to be thoroughly spoiled this Christmas (mainly by everyone else but I will admit to a small part in it). We decided early this year that the almost $1,000 plane tickets out were well our present to ourselves in some sense and then there’s the new king bedroom set we bought at the end of the summer and toss in a PSP slim that Patrick got for his business traveling trips and we exceeded the budget a bit! It’s amazing how many presents you end up buying people when you have a large family, it gets to be overwhelming to say the least and we set ourselves up a certain $ / person limit early on and had a number in our heads that we’d end up at. We pretty much were right at that number to my surprise! I’m just glad the shopping is done and we can stop watching the bank account go down. Well, I did go FINALLY buy some maternity clothes last night and spent money on myself! We got kiddo his holiday dress up clothes for KC visit too but I’m just very hapy to have new clothes that fit and are comfy + cute. I found way more things at the motherhood store then I should’ve and had a hard time narrowing my decisions down. Thanks to a very patient mother in-law we spent a long time trying on nearly every shirt in the store. I walked out with shirts, a DRESS!, some slacks and the lovely new bra that I was dreading having to buy.
Now onto some Braysen stories or funnies (he’ll be 21 months on the 23rd of December):
He is addicted to Tigger and Friends Super Sleuth, he “bounces” just like Tigger around the room. Both of his feet off the ground and all hopping from here to there. If Tigger ends in the morning, he tells me “Tigger go bye bye”. (he watches from 8:00-8:30 before I take him to daycare so I can finish getting ready!)
He came running in the kitchen the other day and tackled our cat, Xaria. She started meowing of course and he starts going “meooooooowwwww” really loud after she would cry out. I had to get him off of her but she is very tolerant and lets him pick her up (or attempt to) and tackles her on a regular basis. He also tells her “down kitty” when she’s up on the counter or “bad kitty” when she’s up there. He’s also quite aware of her litter box in the laundry room (that is gated off from him) and points to it then says “kitty poop”. If he is looking for his kitty he walks around with his hands shrugged up and says “whereareyou kitty” (all one slurred word) and then makes the clicking sound with his tongue like I do when I call her.
For some reason he has a thing for the word “broken”. If anything isn’t working the way it should be or doing what he wants it to do it is “broken”. He comes running in the other day to tell me “broken broken broken” and he has the little Pooh window clings I bought for him to put on and off the windows. Apparently he took it off the window and couldn’t get it back on so it was “broken”. If the huge ball won’t fit into the tiny container like he wants, it’s broken. Where does he get this stuff?
We haven’t had any major cuss word problems…yet. Patrick said something was “crappy” the other day and Braysen started saying “crappy” but that ended after about 30 minutes and we have yet to hear it again thankfully. He is a little Parrot though and will repeat
He’s got a slew of new phrases.
“I see snow” after Patrick showed him snow Sat. morning for the first time. He says “I see…..” all the time and it’s so cute. Again, where did he get that phrase? LOL
“Go boo boo house” means we are going to grandpas house. For some reason my father in-laws name is “boo boo”. I can’t even try and list all the words he has honestly. He can pretty much point to and say each name of the objects in his picture books without much problem now. The kid has diarrhea of the mouth now a days and is nonstop talking.
(more random braysen ahead)
He went Poop in the potty for Patrick a week or so back but has yet to do it again or pee. It was just a random event and took us by surprise. We have a little Baby Bjorn potty in the corner of the bathroom downstairs. We let him come in while we go to the bathroom and he will sit on it and put toilet paper in it and what not. He’s very curious about the whole potty thing but I haven’t pushed the issue, I figure he’s young and if he’s interested now then great, we’ll let him try it if he wants. I know boys also are usually older and take longer to train so I’m not expecting much yet. He tells us when he has to go “poo poo or poop” and then usually within 10 minutes he does. Sometimes when he tells us that he’ll run into the bathroom and we’ll take his diaper off and let him in sit in the toilet. Up until the one time with Patrick, he will just sit there for a good while and then finally I’ll get him off, put the diaper back on and he’ll go poop in minutes. I figure with time he’ll do it in the potty but again, no rush and I’m just happy he’s not scared of the potty and is interested in it already.
We are going to get him a big boy bed shortly after the first of the year and start transitioning him over to that so the baby will get the crib. I’d like to get him used to the big bed for a little while before the little one comes. Oh so much to do really before the next one comes and a few things on my wish list to buy but I haven’t put much thought into that stuff quite yet. I know we have lots from before which makes this easy but there are things that I wanted so bad before and can’t imagine not having them this go around. (Sling carrier, new stroller, jumper and possibly the papasan swing all on my list of wants!)
Well that’s all the time I have now, update sometime soon again I’m sure! 
