Other Fun Things for April

Brandon "discovered himself" this month. One morning while I was out running errands Daddy found Brandon standing on our sofa with his pants around his knees proclaiming "Daddy! My penis got bigger! It got real big." I nearly died when I heard this story. I'm not ready for this yet!

Brandon also broke the bathroom sink stopper on April 17th which resulted in a long weekend of house projects because the broken stopper led to me wanting to replace the faucet and the sink, which resulted in a broke pipe in the wall, which resulted in no water for a weekend... oh just go read about it here... and here.

In other cuteness:

Here is my Daddy's boy playing Peggle on the xbox not needing the keypad or headset but wearing them just because he could.

 

Brandon got to make home-made pretzels with Grandma Jan one morning. They were really good too!

 

Here's our man enjoying his visit with Aunt "Grandma" Janice.

 

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River Taxi

On the last night of our visit with Aunt "Grandma" Janice we headed out to the Landing in downtown Jacksonville. It was especially fun for Brandon as it was his first real boat ride when we took the river taxi to the restaurant. Despite the wind, a potty accident and it generally being too cool for what I dressed the boys in, it was a great evening.

 

 

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My Beach Bum

I think we could go to the beach every day and Brandon would be happy. He just loves it there. And that's all there really is to say about that.

 

 

 

 

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Easter Sunday

We had so much fun this year hiding the plastic eggs for the boys to find. We each took half and the best part was when I'd go to "hide" one and find that Joby had already hidden one in the same spot. He found the same thing out for ones I already placed. I can't wait until next year when we can start making them harder to find. Anyways Brandon thought the egg hunt was the best.

 

But the kid who didn't fall for the "clear egg" the night before had trouble finding the bright orange egg in the bush right in front of him.

 

The rest was just pure delight and makes me so incredibly happy.

 

 

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Easter Eggs

Oh my child had a blast dying Easter Eggs this year. Note the black shirt I put him in before we started. Mommy wins not ruining a light or white tshirt! Brandon probably could have dyed all the eggs in less than 5 minutes if we let him because he was so excited to "try another color." Luckily my brilliant child didn't fall for Grandpa Neil's "clear eggs" like my cousin Kristin and I did so long ago. I'm so glad Daddy has been working on his B.S. meter. That kid saw right through Grandpa Neil's sham of the wire egg holder with no egg on it.

 

 

 

 

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Beach Walk

This morning we went for walk on the beach after breakfast with Granpa Joe and Grandma Jan. I should have brought swimming clothes for Brandon because he splashed and dashed his way to a rightous good time. Luckily I brought a change of clothes so it wasn't a total soggy ride home. Brandon couldn't get enough of the little waves crashing on him while he held tightly to Grandma's hand. He had a laugh attack every time the waves lapped over his little legs.

 

 

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The rest of March 2009

On the 20th of March we took the boys to play putt-putt for the first time. Brandon has become quite good at all Wii sports games and to take him to actually play was really fun. He got it! Alex on the other hand was more interested in running the opposite direction we went. What else is new!

 

 

 

On the 23rd Brandon decided to stop calling me "Mommy" and started calling me "Mom." I so wasn't ready for that and for a while I insisted he call me "Mommy." It makes me sad.

The 26th brought special times again back to our house when Brandon woke up in the middle of the night and proceeded to throw up all over me as he ran to me across the house. It was a long night with several sheet changes, clothing changes and lots and lots of rocking and telling Bran it would be ok. The kid had never really thrown up before and it totally freaked him out. It was over after a few days - just some virus that had to run it's course. I did so much laundry in those few days...

We ended the month with Brandon "discovering" convertibles. He has always loved cars, trucks, trains, motorcycles, etc. But now we are in to distinguishing the different makes and models and convertibles are high on the list for excitement when we are driving around town. If we don't "acknowledge" that we see them then he will get louder and louder and louder and louder. And since we live in Florida and it's spring... it's convertible season. We have plenty of eye candy for him to look at these days.

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