I've Been Outsmarted!

So I put Braden's pack 'n play in our family room and put his playmat in it so Mersadie can't terrorize him anymore and he can play in peace. I thought I had come up with a great solution! Well, this morning I walk into the family room and see the ball that I distinctly remember putting in the pack 'n play last night sitting on the chair. "Hmmm", I thought. How did Mersadie manage to get that ball out? Did she climb on the chair and lean over? She would have fallen in. Did she climb in the bed? No, she couldn't have done that. Well... I walked in a little further into the room and found it. The step stool. The girl carries that thing EVERYWHERE these days! She is definitely in "I do it, I do it" mode! I guess I'll have to find a new hiding place for Braden to play peacefully until he's big enough to defend himself!

See the white stool? Sadie's ticket to the world. She thinks she can reach and do EVERYTHING with that stool!

Sadie and one of her best buds - Audra!

A little teaser of the Disneyland post that I will do next - yes, folks, we finally took the little lady to Dizzy-wand and she LOVED it!

I forgot to put this in the "We Love Reece" post - little Braden LOVES Reece too!

We Love Reece!

My sister came to visit over Christmas with the rest of my family and let me tell ya, she's a hit with Mersadie! The girl LOVES her Auntie Reece - here are a few pictures of them having fun together!

So cute! This is frameable!

Man, so is this one!

Maybe I should just make a storyboard and have it framed! I think they look alike in this one. The only difference is my sister's tan - poor Sadie looks ghostly!




Oh, and how Mersadie LOVES to talk on the phone these days! She even asks to use my "ear piece". This is how I found her the other day...


...yep, it's so big on her that she still uses her shoulder to hold it up like she does the phone.

Precious, just precious. Oh, my little Mersadie - please don't grow up so quickly! And, if you're wondering what happened to Sadie's face - she met the concrete while playing outside. She didn't like it too much!

Me and my wonderful sis - I love her! Wish we didn't live on opposite coasts!

At home with Braden and Sadie!

I know it's been way too long since I've posted - but as most of you know, we have been dealing with a baby with severe reflux and a milk protien allergy (both which have been found out through trial and error of medications and switching to a special formula from breastmilk). It has taken what seems like an eternity to figure everything out and poor Braden had to suffer while we tried EVERYTHING in the book to make him feel better. So, since Braden is finally doing better (taking prilosec twice a day and sleeping upright in the swing), here are some long-awaited pictures of the kiddos. I am finally getting some sleep as of the past 4 days, so I am able to stay awake all day without a nap and get some things done. Enjoy!

Sadie loves her little bro, but lying on him like this won't help the reflux issues, I'm sure!

"Cheese"

Smiles! I thought we'd never get smiles out of this little guy!

Don't know who he was rooting for last night - but here is Braden's "touch down" pose!

This one is for Grandpa Moore - I just know this is Braden's favorite shirt ;)

Halloween 2009

I know this is way-late, but I've been going through files on my computer from the past 6 weeks so I can update the blog. I would just skip this stuff altogether, but the blog has become my scrapbook, so I really want to include it all because I'm also in the process of turning my past blog posts into book form (so it really IS going to be our family's scrapbook) - how cool! Check out www.blurb.com if you want to know what I'm talking about.

Anyway...here is our fun family outing on Halloween. A church in our city does a huge family festival - so we went again this year. This was just 4 days after Braden was born, so he was still in the hospital, but we had a good time with Sadie and my mom and sister. Enjoy!

The Fam (minus one)

Sadie LOVES the bounce house!

I love this picture!

I thought she would be scared of the horses, but she had a great time as you can see!

Mersadie got to play a lot of games - she got candy at each one, so she was really into this!

No tossing for Sadie, she just walked right up to the pumpkin and put the beanbags in the slots.

Mersadie LOVES her "Reece" and Mimi!

And I think she loves Mommy too!

Sadie and some of her best buds!

Another one of Sadie and Brian

I wanna go Dizzy-Wand!

I don't know how Sadie figured out that Mickey Mouse lived at Disneyland and we lived close enough to be able to go to Disneyland, but every time she sees the commercial for Christmastime at Disneyland, she says she wants to go to "Dizzy-Wand". I usually tell her, "yes, baby, we'll go to Disneyland sometime soon, but not today". This usually satisfies her and she goes on to talk about how Mickey Mouse lives at Disneyland and then gets distracted by something else. Well, last night - my answer wasn't good enough and she WOULD NOT STOP saying "I wanna go Dizzy-Wand". I got tired of it and asked Brian if he would do something to get her to stop. His solution was what you find in the video. Nice. I picked up the video camera after about 2 minutes of this going on and it lasted another minute and a half. Not my idea of how to get her to stop saying it, but it worked... She was done after this.

And, yes, we will be taking Mersadie to Disneyland sometime soon. Just not today. Enjoy!

Braden's Newborn Pictures

Here are a few of my favorite pictures that I took of Braden the other day. He slept like a champ right through it all. I have more to show, but he is calling me now - he needs to eat. The last 2 are my favorites I think! Enjoy!

Our Little Man is Finally Home!

Praise the Lord - today we brought our little Braden home! He is doing so well and has come a really long way in his short 13 days of life! Thank you so much for all of your prayers and support. Enjoy the pictures from today!

Finally at home!

First car ride.

Mimi is just as happy as we are to have Braden home - and to be able to love on him!

And our Mersadie. She LOVES her little bro! She couldn't wait to hug and kiss him. Brian and I got her a little baby doll and gave it to her when we brought Braden home. In this picture she is trying to share it with Braden.

Sadie is showing us how the baby eats and how she is going to help with Braden. She's got this big sister thing down already!

Kisses! This melts my heart!

She couldn't stop touching his "yittle" face.

Proud big sis!

More pictures to come soon - Sadie wanted to hold him tonight and we got some great shots of that!