Family Fun

First off, let me say sorry for not posting for a couple of weeks now. I know I have been getting slack for not posting! We have had a long couple of weeks. Let's just say Brayden hasn't been sleeping really well and nothing gets done with no sleep. All last week Brayden refused to sleep. We had to rock him or walk him up and down the hall in the stroller in order to get him to sleep. So I was convinced he was teething, since I can see the teeth right under the gums. But after a week of blaming it on teething and no teeth, I don't think it is teething. Since I have poked in Brayden's mouth so much, he now refuses to let me look!! He was getting too smart for his own good, he learned that if he cried we would come. We live in a small condo and we don't want to upset our neighbors, so most of the time he cries, we run. Funny thing is you go in there to get him and he laughs and giggles when you pick him up. Stinker. We had talked for a while that we were going to let him cry it out, but we just had to find the perfect place for it. So this past weekend, we went out to Jon's parents house and boy did he cry it out. He is catching on, we let him cry for 15 minutes at a time then went and calmed him down and then let him cry again till he fell asleep. Boy does it break your heart to hear him cry like that!! I will tell you though he has had much better sleeping at night once he does put himself to sleep. So hopefully we are on our way to getting more sleep around here.

Brayden had a blast visiting with grandma Patty and grandpa Dave. We even made a stop at their work places on Friday so that everyone could meet Brayden. He had fun flirting with all the ladies, he even gave a few pouty faces too!! Brayden also got to see cousin Maddie, who he hasn't seen since she was born. She is going to be 4 months old this week.

Cousins Maddie and Brayden

How cute, a kiss for my cousin....

Though her fingers do taste pretty good

Brayden loved playing with the dogs and petting them

He also thought that they made a good pillow

He got to go swinging at grandma and grandpa's house

Our little guy has learned in the last week how to get up on all fours and rock back and forth, I love the expression on his face like he is up to no good!

He got to watch his first Indy 500 (notice the cute racing outfit thanks to the Amos family)

Grandma Patty took very good care of him, she even let him play for a couple hours with her in the middle of the night so that we could sleep

He tried on his life jacket, so that we can take him out on the boat with us

Looks like those boat rides will be very short!

Overall, it was a pretty exhausting but fun weekend!!