My Lil Monkey..

Well..I had a little scare last night. The normal routine is to give Braylea a bottle and rock her to sleep and off to her crib she goes. Last night didn't go as planned. Braylea refused to relax and go to sleep..that girl has too much energy! Ever since she started crawling, she just acts so free, full of even more energy(if possible) and just really happy in general. Well, it was creeping on 10:30 last night and I was worn out from chasing her around and ready for bed..so I just put her in her crib and turned the mobile on and left. She was playing and squealing. I heard the mobile stop and figured I would hear whining..I heard nothing. I thought, wow, she put herself to sleep fast! Well, shortly after that the intercom went static and then I heard a loud BOOM and it went quiet. My heart dropped..I thought surely she can't climb out of the crib, but the worst was definitely in my head. I walked in her room and noticed it was the intercom that made the loud noise but couldn't figure out how it fell. I walked up closer to the crib and there I was met with those big blue eyes and a big smile. She had figured out that she could get up on her knees and look over the crib and was pretty pleased about the whole ordeal..but Mommy was not. Needless to say, Bryson lowered the crib today. We will see how that turns out tonight!

First Boo-Boo

This crawling business is hard work and painful!! As I have noted before Braylea loves the coffee table but today it didn't love her back. The cut under her nose she woke up with..possibly her fingernails?? But the coffee table scrapped some skin off of her nose..Momma felt horrible!

Princess Birthday Party

No, not Princess Braylea's birthday..but her cousin's 2 year old party..she handed over the crown to Miss B now.

Riding the train with Aunt Lynn..doesn't know what to think.



Mommy's turn with Gma and Birthday girl, Mallory.

She loved the swing!!

And..worn out! She actually fell asleep like this while singing to herself.

Shopping Day!

This girl definitely has shopping in her blood. We went to Joplin today to go shopping with Aunt Lauren to get her ready to go back to school soon. We shopped ALL day..and Miss B was a trooper. She even got a new outfit for a reward..imagine that!

I finally got a good take on her crawling. She is definitely keeping us busy..can't take your eye off of her for one second now!

Crawling!!

I just want to note that Braylea started crawling today!! I was pretty bummed because she did it while I was working..boo! But Bryson was home and was able to capture the moment, so that was good. She is ALL over the place now getting into everything she shouldn't..shocking, right? Here comes the fun!

I'll try to post a video soon. We got it on the video camera, but I haven't dealt with it enough to know how to download the videos onto our computer (I hate trying to figure out high-tech technology! I'm not patient!!).

Birthday Party Fun!

Monday night Braylea and I went to a birthday party. We got to see some family that I hadn't seen in awhile. It was a good time and to catch up with family and friends.

This is my cousin Mallory..she is almost 2!!



My mom and Bray.

This is growing Kamden. He is two months now and is at 9lbs 2oz..very healthy boy for only weighing 3.11lbs two months ago!

He has kissable cheeks now and a double chin..yay! :)

Braylea holding her cousin's hand.

These are all my cousins and our kids now. It is crazy how close in age the babies are!

Bath time

This duck cracked me up! I just thought it was a regular rubber duck that Braylea could play with in the bath. I set it in the bathtub and it shot water in my face immediately! It quacks, flashes a red light, moves about in the water, and squirts water out constantly. Braylea was pretty intriqued. I didn't think she would like the water squirting in her face, but didn't seem to mind it.

Pictures..pictures..pictures

We are getting soooo close to crawling but until then, she still figures out how to get around; either from rolling or kicking her legs real hard on the floor while pushing her butt up makes her scoot backwards while on her back. It cracks me up watching her determination to move. She has a fascination with the coffee table and moves all around it..
We were playing peek-a-boo with the table here..

She figured out that there is a drawer that comes out and thinks that's pretty neat!

Silly girl..

These next few pictures shows how much of a princess she is. My mom found this chair and just HAD to get it for Braylea. Cracks me up they make such things for little kids. We are going to have to check it out lounging in the sun soon. Right now she just enjoys the straps to chew on..ha

She is growling. She is so funny. The other day Bryson and I went to breakfast with Braylea and she was all excited, therefore she started to growl..very lady-like, right? Well there was a 2 or 3 year old little boy that was watching her and told his mom, "Mom, the baby is crying!". Ha..I had to inform him that she was just growling at him and wasn't upset at all. Then she did give him a smile. I think she just likes to hear herself!

Poor thing has to chew on her toys to try to eat because she is so deprived of food!

New Pictures!

We finally got in to get Braylea's pictures taken. It was suppose to be her 6 month pictures, but she turned 7 months the week of..oops!

Anyway..you can view them at www.portraitdesignsbylasha.com and the password is 'nutter'.

They aren't spectacular this time..nothing against the photographer..Braylea just did not want to cooperate. She wasn't in a bad mood at all (until the end) but just wanted to play and stare at things..she is such a curious child that she studies everything..this time it was the camera or something she had in her hand. It was all playtime for her but maybe one or two smiles is all we got! Oh well..they were still cute! Enjoy.

More Weekend Pics

We had a great weekend. We didn't do too much but the best part was just being able to hang out as a family all weekend. Bryson and I both had Friday off of work so we got a 3-day weekend together which was much needed. Now it is the end of the weekend and back to work..boo!

Happy 4th!

We had a good 4th..it could have been a little less muggy but we survived. We went to a friends' house and they put on a pretty good show for all of us. I was nervous that Braylea wouldn't like the loud noise but she loved all the pretties in the sky. Plus I finally got some pics of her and her daddy..