Take Me Out to the Ballgame....

I love my job. Especially right now. It is so much fun getting to be with the little man all day every day (and the bigger one too!). We have been staying just busy enough, I think. Lots of walks, wagon rides, visiting friends and family...I just couldn't ask for a better summer vacation. The only problem, of course, is it's gone way too fast!

Brian's mom bought 30 tickets to a Naturals baseball game, and a whole big slew of family came down from Kansas last month to spend the weekend. It was so much fun. HOT, at first, but sooo much fun. And the babies did great, even though they were up way past their bedtimes!

Grandma arrived a day early, with a little present for Brett - a new pool! Such fun. Thanks Grandma, we were definitely needing one of those! Brett has been taking advantage of that thing most every day (us too!). He loves it. More pool pictures some other day.

Here he is in his Natural's hat. He got that hat last year at his very first game.

Here's what he looked like in it last year...


It was so hot when we got there, but once the game started lots of clouds started rolling in along with this AWESOME breeze that might as well have been air conditioning. We thought we were going to get wet, but no rain-just fresh air - and it was PERFECT.
Brett played, watched, clapped, and ate lots of junk food, like cotton candy, cheetos, ice cream....(as you should at a game, right?)


Here is Brett ignoring us at the playground. We were calling his name in an effort to get him to come back our way...

but he had more important things to do than listen to mom and dad.


Peggy fed Brilynn ice cream and Brilynn fed Brett ice cream. I think that system seemed to work out pretty well for a bit, until the bites were just coming in to fast for Brett...maybe he got a brain freeze?
Some of our other family and friends enjoying the game...

The Chicken - very entertaining for the kiddos, as long as he kept his distance.

Kissing Cousins

An abundance of Cheetos

Brian's brother Rob and his Hannah Montana Bag. Just kidding. Not really his. He is outnumbered in a house full of girls!

This game was SO much fun, even more so to have so many family and friends there too. Thanks Peggy for organizing it!

Lost In Translation

Long time no blog! I think it's safe to say that, particularly since Brett started walking around mid-April, things have gone quickly from baby-hood to toddler-hood around here...and it's happening so fast! When did we acquire this walking talking little wonder?? Brett started to become a little extra chattier after he got tubes in his ears in May (he had had 6 ear infections in 10 months, the first one when he was less than 5 months old-absolutely no problems now!), but now things are actually starting to make sense. I love listening to him "talk". It's crazy how, in just the past couple weeks, he's picked up a few more words all of a sudden. I know he also understands a lot more than he can say or express too. He's a little sponge. And, of course, we think he's the smartest thing ever!! There are a few things he's been saying for several months like mama, dada, bah (ball - has now become "bot" for some reason), ba-ba (usually something to drink) and he's been doing a signal for "all done" for a while now, and in the past couple months he's been doing the signal for "milk" and "more". So, for anyone interested, here is a sampling from some of sweet boy's ever expanding vocabulary with translations where necessary. :)
"Bite"
"Moe" or "muh" - more. Sweet thing loves his bites.
"shoosh" - shoes. Loves shoes. His shoes, our shoes, one shoe; doesn't matter.
"Ot" - hot
"bye-bye"
"Peese" - please. sometimes does hand signal for this one too. Has to REALLY want something to say this.
"MAOW!!" - meow. he says this just as excitedly as it looks.
"kkkkk" - kitty
"Buppy" - puppy/Buster
"Boo" - Peekaboo
"up" - ...sometimes sprays the p sound.
"waa waa" - quack quack
"mehmoe" - Elmo. He's just recently started noticing/being somewhat interested in some things on tv. Yo Gabba Gabba, Looney Toons, and the Garfield show also catch his attention now and then. Sometimes also uses "mehmoe" to refer to Gymbo the clown at Gymboree.
"Out" - Ouch.
"cheesh" - cheese or keys; again, pretty similar. The kid loves cheese.
"tcheetch" - teeth. He says this when he takes a bath since we brush his teeth in the bath.
"da-doo" - ???? We have no clue what this is yet. still trying to figure this one out, but he's said it several times
"La-Low" - Jello
"beebee" - binky
"baby"
"djootch" - juice
"nuh" - no. Generally accompanied by a shake of the head.
"psew" - pew/yucky - has just begun to connect this "word" to all diapers and trash cans.
"uh-oh" - nothing to explain here! probably the most used word at our house right now. That and "moe".


Around all the learning to talk, our little funny guy is also pretty good at tickling our feet, giving zerberts, throwing the bot for buppy, giving hugs and kisses, and cracking us up. It's awesome that he's starting so be able to communicate now. Many things are still a guessing game, but....So cool.

(psew) ("Mehmoe, anyone?")