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:)

Kaz and Brody

We were so happy that Courtney and Kaz were able to come to Mary's house to play for an afternoon. The boys had fun playing when they weren't fighting over the same toy (how typical). The highlight of the visit was when Kaz wanted Mimi and Brody got very jealous and almost ripped her shirt trying to get on her lap. Kaz really didn't seem to care too much!

Back to NY

Missy and Jon
Mike, Danny, Uncle Jerry, Shanley, and Aunt Jo

Hanging out on the Gator

Jon playing Polish Horseshoes

Uncle Jerry and Brody going for a ride...His head was too big for Quinn's helmet so they just went up and down the road

Brody in his cabana wear playing with Play-Doh

Aunt Jo, Grampie, Missy and Nana

Watching Mommy kick butt at Go-Karts

The Bianca kids

Mike's first drive on the golf cart

Uncle Jim and the boys

Nolan and Brody

Quinn and Brody cooling off on the deck

Quinn chowing down

Aunt Kathy bought all the little kids terry cover-ups for the pool

We went back up to NY on a Tuesday morning so we could greet the Biancas and Tenneys at the airport (my family from Washington State). It was wonderful seeing them and we were so happy that we got to spend a few days with them. We spent the whole rest of the week playing around at my Aunt Kathy's house. We also went Go-Cart Racing, played in the pool, had bonfires, and Jon played 3 rounds of golf. All in all, very fun trip!

You will notice there are alot of pictures of golf carts, gators, etc. Brody was OBSESSED with them. I don't know why, but I have no pictures or videos of him on the electric 4-wheeler. He got right on that thing, pushed the button and went as fast as he could (sometimes into a car) down the road. It was kind of hysterical.