Homestead Gardens

Last Saturday, Brody, Papa (thats what Brody calls Grandpa), Daddy and I all went to visit a local farm in Davidsonville. The weather was not so nice, but the festival was great! We had a great time listening to the band, playing on haybales, going through the maze, petting animals, and riding a pony. Lets not forget the best part...they served beer for the parents! Everthing was going great until Brody broke a glass jar of honey (that we had to pay for), then the day took a turn for the worse. All in all though, good time!

Baltimore Zoo

Monday I had the day off from school and we met up with my friend Kimmie and her daughter Chloe (and her friend's daughter Skyler) to go to the zoo. Brody had a blast and was so into the animals that he refused to look at the camera to smile! Since we had no nap, the post zoo evening was no so fun. I think that he had an hour meltdown and finally went to bed at 6:30. Definately more kid friendly than the DC zoo! We are going to try to go again before it gets too cold.

And we thought he was sleeping...

So this morning when we put Brody down for a nap, he decided to jump ship SUPER quietly and destroy his room for 30 minutes. He emptied his closet, dresser drawers, the book basket, his stuffed animals and the cabinet that had all of his bath lotions and vasaline in it. I had also left the camera on his dresser and here are some of the pictures from his photo shoot. Good times...

Updates, updates...

Since school has started, I have been awful at posting new pictures and info, but its so hard getting back into the swing of things! Brody has been so much fun lately (and so grown up). He is eating with utensils, going down stairs frontways, climbing in and out of his chair at the table, talking, building towers with his blocks, playing cars and his most favorite, "tucks" and unfortunately, getting in and out of the crib (thankfully mostly at daycare!). It seems like yesterday he was only 8 lbs...now he's a whopping 30! Also, the bad mom that I am, he has been wearing a 6 sandal and apparantly, we got him new shoes and those shoes are 1 1/2 sizes too small!!! Poor Brody...

These pictures are from Sunday Football party in Baltimore at Brian's house. Uncle Nate and he really liked playing the bongos! All of the Patriots gear we had was too small, so we will have to order new for the season. THe scar on his face is from eating concrete while running...always something...The rest of the pictures are from us playing at the house. I especially love the look he is giving me from behind the sunglasses! Classic lady killer!

Labor Day Weekend

Get it off Mommy...

Notice the giant bump between his eyes. He head-butted the rocking chair upstairs. It almost looks like he has a uni-brow!!!:)
Brody and his truck collection

Zoning out on Sesame Street

Here are some random pictures of Brody from last weekend. Since the start of fall is unfortunately upon us, we went out and bought B a jacket, vest, sneakers, and a hat. He definately has a love/hate relationship with the hat! I tried to get a video of him dancing to Sean Kingston on the Today Show Monday morning, but I was too late. I WILL get it on tape...I will!!!! Also, he got his first "big boy" hair cut. They used the clippers on him and everything!

Going to bed

Brody found Jon's flag football bag and REFUSED to go without the football all evening and even HAD to go to bed with it. I had to wipe the gross ball off with wipes so he could sleep with it...sad!

These are the first pictures I have taken of him in a while becuase he had a big welt on his eye from a spider bite which turned into an infection, and so on, and so forth. Believe me, he was not camera ready. Also, I was out of town this weekend so Dad was flying solo...translation: no pictures. Nana is coming in this weekend so hopefully, we can get some good new pictures!

Ouch!

So, last weekend, as I innocently lay on the couch, Brody threw a wood toy train in the air and it nailed me in the face. It then promptly gave me a black eye. This is the what it looked like about three days after the incident. He felt bad, mostly because I was yelling and carrying on, which I think scared him into crying! I apologize for the lack of makeup:)