Brady- Almost 6 months

 
Wow, Brady keeps learning new stuff each day!  I have decided this is one of his most exciting months yet, besides being born of course :)

* He can scoot forward now!  The first few days he would ONLY scoot to get to car keys, but this afternoon is was so fun watching him try to play with a small ball, only for it to roll away from him and then for him to try to chase after it.  It's funny because he looks to see how far it is, then searches around for a toy closer to see if it's actually worth going after the farther toy sometimes it is, but not all the time.
*  He has mastered sitting and playing with toys, but isn't able to move to that position by himself.  Mom loves it when he does because she can get a lot more stuff done when he plays for 30-45min by himself. 
* He got himself a high chair and defiantly misses his freedom of twisting around in his bumbo.   He goes "What, I can't move in this thing?  I am done eating" and wants to get done as SOON as he is finished instead of sitting at the table and chatting like usual. 
* When taking a bath is favorite thing to do is take the rag and shove it in his mouth as FAR as it can go, then keeps it in there while he splashes around.  He now gets his own rag while I use another for him.  I will have to get a pic of it...
*  Brady does NOT like nap time any more, mom doesn't appreciate that very much
* He has mastered jumping... my videos won't download of him jumping or scooting :(  sorry
* He still loves being outside
*  I think his favorite toy is his friends.  After I go running with my friend, we let our kids play together for a bit while we stretch and drink water, Brady will play with this big block toy for-ev-er and be completely content. 
*  HE is a big eater and will eat a 4oz jar of baby food for each meal
* He loved playing with people, and will give almost anyone a smile if you show him a little attention. 
* HE holds his bottle (I think mainly because mommy is to slow with giving it to him, and keeps taking it out because he hasn't learned about the importance of bubbles yet)
*  He is working on getting better with pulling himself to a standing position and standing at the couch
* he gets on his hands and knees so easily and loves to rock back and forth, and sometimes hops with both his knees forward.  He hasn't figured out how to move his arms without toppling over yet. 

I LOVE being his mommy and watching him grow and learn.  I continue to be amazed with how quickly they learn and grow.  We think he is the CUTEST thing on earth!  (We are betting that he will be crawling by the time we move into our new house in 2 weeks)

Wood Floors

our new restored kitchen floor!

Right: Sanded kitchen Left: the warn out brown kitchen and not so warn yellow kitchen

Pre/post sanded living room floor

This is what the bedroom and living room floors look like finished. 
I can't wait to add the new baseboards!

Last Thursday Will took off work, and we sanded all of our upstairs wood floors except the dinning room.  It only took us 6 1/2 hrs with both sanders running almost the whole time.  We are so grateful for my mom watching Brady so we could spend all day working on it.  On Saturday Will started early and was able to finish 3 coats of Polyurethane.  We didn't want to stain it, and LOVE all the different colors in the wood that have shown up.  We both thought the kitchen floor was hideous, and I was tempted to top it with tile or something else; it has become our FAVORITE after sanding and coating it!  I am so excited to paint the kitchen cabinets white and have a nice shining NEW kitchen of my own to cook in again!  Hopfully withing 2 weeks we will be living in our new place.   My mom and I have been going over 3-4 times a week during the morning to work on it, while Will goes after work and in the evenings.  It will be much easier to work on it without having to drive over each day. 

5 Months Pictures

Brady loves to shove anything is his mouth as FAR as it can go and coughs from choking himself each time... He must like it because He never learns.

I can never get a picture of this little guy smiling when the camera comes out

Grandpa always has the funnest toys.  Box and helmet.

No mom, I was not slobbering all over Grandpas helment

He finally learned how to use this thing and LOVES it! 

Family Pictures!

A friend from high school (Calli Elizabeth Photography, find her on Facebook)  took some family pictures for us a month ago!  We LOVE them and are so excited to move in and put some prints up!  Here are some of my favorites...

Work work work

The house is slowly coming along.  We finally finished some plumbing stuff in the bathroom, and just need to instal a new vanity.  The upstairs is about 3/4 of the way painted;  we pretty much have a little bit of trim left, then the kitchen and all the closets (We aren't doing much with the downstairs until after we move in).  The fresh coat of paint on ceilings and walls has been helping with the smell and looks great!  This weekend we moved out the few mismatched cabinets and found a place where the roof was leaking, which should hopeful be a quick fix.  Hopefully by this next weekend we can get the painting finished and wood floor sanded and refinished.  I am so excited to see how the floor/pain/baseboards will all look!  I think I am going to paint all the cabinets in the kitchen white... eventually, and move some stuff around in there.  It's exciting to have a separate kitchen and dining room, and some more space!  We are learning a lot with this new house.  The last house was mainly paint, drywall, and some tile.  This house is a little bit of everything.  I think the biggest thing I have learned is how much a fresh coat of paint on the Ceiling AND walls can change the house.  I am also learning to buy what I want the size that I want, and not worry about price.  There have been a few times where I bought something because it was a good deal, and ended up being too small, or not the exact thing I wanted, so we took it back.  I have also learned it is OK to take tools and other stuff back that just isn't working to get our money back, instead of just not using it and throwing it aside.

Brady has finally learned to JUMP!  He has one of the johnny jumper things and hasn't really loved it.  He would play with toys in it, then fuss after about 5min.  This Sat. while we were at the house he learned to jump!  He jumps high in it too!  It was so fun to watch him jump and twist around.  He has been much happier playing on the floor.  Although he can't scoot forward, he is a pro at scooting backwards, rolling, and turning 360 on the floor where he can usually get anywhere he wants (except 2in in front of him).  He is getting close to crawling too and loved to get on his hands and knees and rock back and forth; sometimes he just gets up on his toes and hands, it's pretty funny.  Unfortunately I don't have very many pictures of any of those, I guess that should be my project this week.  We are very happy that we can still hand him off to people and he will play happy with them (unless he is hungry, that's another story)  He is getting so big and we still love him!