Thanksgiving 2009

We hope that everyone had a great Thanksgiving! We sure did!

We have so much to be thankful for! This fall certainly so!

This year we ate at Kenn's Father/Step Mother's house first, then over to my parents.

Lots and lots of great food! We learned that B likes Cranberry sauce (or Jelly to him)

That, rolls and one bite of turkey are all he ate pretty much ate.

I wanted to share some sweet pictures of B at Grandpop's house. They have a jukebox that Kenn adored as a child and holds a special place in his heart. This year brandon really got to experience it. He had a blast putting the quarters in, picking the songs out and watching it move to pick out the record.

There was lots of dancing!!!

Bring on the December Holidays!

Brandon the Builder

From November

B Knows...

B Knows Soccer

B Knows Golf

B Knows Baseball

Brandon is into just about any sport you'll show him. He also loves riding his bike (he can pedal now) playing Basketball, and football. He has a ROCKET arm with crazy good aim. He was throwing the football with me yesterday and hit me square in the face. (it was soft so i giggled). The fact it's dark out when we get home kills him b/c he wants to go out and play.

Brandon is very aware of Christmas coming up, and we have watched Mickey Mouse Clubhouse saves Santa several times. This has me completely in the Christmas mood, and I can't wait till Thanksgiving so we can put up the tree and decorations. This year is going to be awesome :)

Go Ravens!

Brandon has become quite the little football player. Between Kenn and GrandRuss he loves to tackle people, and pretends to be tackled and roll on the floor by himself

and of course throw footballs.

Here are a couple pictures of today's Pre-game mood.

B took Daddy's hat and put it on backwards and was playing with the football,

tackling the couch and myself.

Then he started to ask me to take his shirt off...
so i thought maybe he didn't like it because it was a turtle neck.
I grabbed another shirt, and he said "no mommy, don't want it"

So i asked what shirt he wanted to wear. His response...

"Raven's shirt mommy!"

So I got his Jersey out, (which he hasn't worn in a while) and he was very happy.
He wore it the rest of the night and wouldn't take it off to sleep.

So he is now sleeping in his jersey.

He's NEVER asked to sleep in ANYTHING other then PJ's before.

I guess he's definitely living up to his "little Raven" name!

Halloween 2009

Everyone has prob. been wondering why we haven't posted any Halloween costume pictures yet... Well that would be because Brandon HATES to "dress up". He got a Diego vest last Christmas, i have yet to see him put it on. When i tried putting him in the Mickey Halloween costume a month ago he was hysterical, well i thought it must be the costume...

not so lucky.

This is Brandon in his costume Thursday night...

And that is kenns hand on the right trying to bribe with candy... Kenn got this great idea to use my furry leather jacket and say that he was a lion too, and he pretended to trick or treat with me and i'd give him candy. Eventually B let kenn hold him while he did this. So we had a little hope. Friday they had a big party at school and I was told he did wear the body part of the costume for the costume parade.

Halloween morning we went with Aunt Gail to Disney On Ice. Brandon was a little afraid but sat through it and watched everything. During the 2nd half he really got into it dancing on daddy's lap. After it was done he kept asking for to "play again". He talked about seeing Mickey and snow all weekend long. We had a great time :) We went home took naps and then ate dinner and got ready to go out Trick Or Treating... we got the same reaction to the costume.

So we "compromised" on the outfit with no hat, i wore my jacket and we got him outside by telling him he could pull his wagon...

We started going to houses, and i would give him a piece of M&M after every house, and after a few houses he became less shy (and wanting more candy) and so he started to say "trick or treat"and "roar"

Brandon eating his candy.

He after a little bit he let us pull him in the wagon

Chocolate Mouth!

We got home after 1hr 45mins (our whole street) took a bath, watched some TV and was in bed by 9pm. A couple times that night after we were home he would turn to me and ask "trick or treat" and give me a sly smile asking me for more candy.



And I'm sure you all are excited to hear what we did in our office competition this year (last year we did the election) This year we did famous dead people and came in second place.

Top row: Jackie O, Princess Diana, Janis Joplin, John Belushi

Front row: Paparazzi, Marilyn Monroe, Anna Nicole Smith

We each decorated the outside of our cube with our celebrity.

I was Princess Diana..

We hope everyone had a great Halloween!

Random Pictures

Here's B looking super cute in the big hotel bed when we went with GrandMom/GrandRuss

and Aunt Cathy/Uncle Bryan to visit Uncle Mike in Salisbury.

B is now starting to have conversations on the telephone.

He had a good 10-15 conversation with Aunt Gail last week.

Kenn video taped it, and also took some cute pics.

B and Daddy in the Hammock at Noah's First Birthday Party

Sat we went to KinderFarm's Fall Fest with Aunt Teresa, Cousin Olivia and Nan

We got to paint pumpkins!

(ever since Uncle Mikes B's been fascinated with pumpkins)

1 side of the final project

Port Discovery 09

2 weeks ago B and I went to Port Discovery with my Mom,

and I wanted to share some pictures!

They had several areas but I didn't take a lot of pictures.

The ones below are of the store area. He would fill his basket till it was too heavy to carry.

Then I would empty it and then he'd fill it again.

They also had a real VW Bug there that you could fill with gas.

He also enjoyed the Conveyor belt where it would move and he would

have to place the correct shape on the base as it went by.

It made us miss GrandRuss.

His favorite part was the soccer field though.

This was the main thing he talked about after we left too.