Keeping Up with Braden!

Sadie getting ready to pry Braden's mouth open to get the UNused bandaid out. He even bit her and she still went for it. This was a good big sister day.

Chewing on the 1st of three items in a 3 minute period...an UNused bandaid. Ew.

Going for the stairs...down stairs.

This boy thinks he's funny!

Sadie says, "geez, can Braden get into any more stuff today?"

The 3 things pulled from Braden's mouth today. Unused bandaid, plastic ring, piece of wicker from the toy basket. Watch out! This boy is on the move and into everything!

Almost Crawling!

So, today I finally figured out what would get Braden moving...FOOD!! I should have known. I've been trying to get this little guy to crawl for months, enticing him with everything from the remote to Sadie's puzzle pieces. He's been so frustrated and just cries because he can't make himself move forward! Well, here he is going after his beloved "puffs". Hopefully this is the beginning. And yes, I know what I'm asking for! Enjoy the video!!

Sibling Love...or something like that.

Mersadie loves Braden (most of the time). When he first came home and was pretty much immobile and non-expressive, she didn't care much for him. Now that he watches her and laughs at her silliness, she loves to entertain him. Sometimes her form of entertainment is not Braden's idea of fun. See example below:

You can see it in her face. This isn't going to be a joyful encounter.

I told you guys. And for all of you out there thinking, "why didn't the momma put her camera down and save the poor boy?", I want to say that this all happened in the matter of mere seconds. I have a fast shutter speed on my camera. I saved him, I promise.



After I saved Braden, Sadie asked if she could hug him. "Sure", I said, thinking that she was gonna "hug it out" as a way of making up with him. Wrong answer. This is what happened as a result of that "hug".

Once this boy has words, I'm sure he is going to be saying, "heeeeeyyy - stoooooopppp!"

And the full tackle from the result of the hug. I have learned my lesson.

On to other, more glamorous things about Sadie. Here is some more of her artwork from random toys in her room. Sadie has a ball pit in her room and the other day while Braden was playing in it, this is what Sadie decided to do with all the balls she was stealing from him.

She's a genius. I know!

I love my artistic little lady! Brian and I still aren't sure where her creativeness comes from.

Braden & Mersadie

I posted this picture of Braden recently on the blog and my sister reminded me that I took a very similar picture of Sadie when she was about the same age, so I found the picture of Sadie and decided to do a comparison. Many people have told me that Braden and Sadie look just alike. I didn't really think so until I put the pictures side by side, but every time I look at the pictures I have a different opinion about if they look alike or not. So......what do you think?

Whether they look alike or not, they sure are stinkin cute!

Pizza Night at the Moore's!!

Thursday night was homemade pizza night at our house! I told Brian that we were having homemade pizza for dinner and Sadie was in the room, so I turned to her and said, "do you want to help Mommy make the pizza?" You should have seen the look on her face and how fast she jumped up to help me!! It was so much fun. Enjoy the fun pics!

Spreading the sauce.

Mmmm - cheese!

Now for the pepperoni!!

Gotta snack a little while you put all that yummy stuff on. Sadie couldn't resist the cheese.

My Pizza!!!

Ready for the oven!

On a completely unrelated note, Sadie has this green shirt and when I bought it for her earlier this summer, she said, "Daddy has that shirt!!" Now every time I dress her in it she says the same thing. So, finally the other day Brian and Sadie were wearing their "matching shirts", so I HAD to get a picture of them!!

Playtime in Mersadie's Room!!

Okay, so I've realized that Braden LOVES anything "Sadie". He would rather be in her room playing than anywhere else in the house - except for maybe in front of Sadie's kitchen. Here are some pictures of Sadie and Braden playing in her room.

Mersadie is being MUCH nicer to her little bro these days. He laughs at her and loves to watch her run around. They just giggle at each other. It's so much fun.
Braden playing with Sadie's ball pit.

Sadie was playing with her blocks. I wasn't really paying attention until she said, "hey mom, I made the beach". The blue blocks are the water. The tan blocks are the sand (the one random blue block Sadie said is a towel). The red blocks are the cars in the parking lot. She is so funny!

Playing with Barbie and her corvette.

Braden's New Favorite Passtime!

We are still waiting for Braden to learn to crawl around here. This boy is pretty content to stay where he's put as long as the toys are switched out every once in a while. I have found that he's getting kind of bored with the same 'ol toys, so the other day I sat him in front of Sadie's kitchen and he LOVED it - new place, new toys. Enjoy the pics of Braden enjoying Sadie's kitchen.

And there they go...

...all dumped out on the floor...

...ALL!!!

And now that the food is successfully dumped on the floor, time to bang on the shelves!