Cocoa Beach in the Heat

Bryan and Katelyn returning from a swim in the cool waves.




Brady watching the water.



Despite the 100 + degree heat, we drove over to Cocoa Beach (about a 40 minute drive) on Saturday. Usually, there is a cool breeze at the beach, a nice escape from the heat and humidity. But not on Saturday. The heat was just too much and we fried in the hot sun. The only relief was in the cool water. Bryan took Katelyn in pretty deep and I had Brady at the water's edge, sitting on the cool, wet sand and letting the water roll over our feet and laps. After only 2 hrs., we decided to leave. Brady was one cranky baby!! He has never handled the heat well. So, even though we were only there for a short time, we did have a good time. Katelyn could've stayed all day long!!

House Happenings

Sorry, I can't seem to rearrange the pictures in the order I want!


Look who is FINALLY standing (but not happy about it???)!!!



K inherited her dad's OCD gene....here she is arranging the shoes in pairs that were just kicked off into a pile....






Watching the Jonas Brothers live on the Today Show...she loves Nick Jonas!!




Crawling under the exersaucer.


It's that time of year again in Florida, time to stay inside because it's so stinkin' hot outside!! We do our errands/playdates in the morning, when it's a bit cooler, then we stay inside for lunch and naptime and afternoons. Here's what the kids have been doing to keep busy inside:

K and B have actually been playing pretty well together :-) For the most part, K has been very sweet with Brady, but is really after his toys and car. Any opportunity she can find, she races away with it (but after 2x running over Brady's little fingers, the car has been taken away from her).

Brady's First Head Injury....

I tried to photograph the injury on his forehead, but the flash really washes it out. Poor baby boy!!! He's sucking/chewing on frozen grapes in his mesh feeder...great for the gums!



This is the car he fell off of. He slid off one side and caught the corner of the coffee table.

I know it's bound to happen, but poor Brady fell off his beloved car, head first into the coffee table. I was sitting right next to him and couldn't grab him in time. This has left a swollen, red/purple mark on his forehead. He cried for less than a minute, but I wanted to cry myself for much longer!!! I keep thinking people are going think we're abusing him....but everyone keeps telling me that's life with a little boy and it's only first of MANY bumps and bruises!

Katelyn and the Shoe Obsession

I took Katelyn to see a local production of Beauty and the Beast, the musical, last weekend. K's babysitter played the part of "Chip" (the baby teacup), so we went to support her and the production was VERY impressive! Anyway, while we were watching the show, K spotted a little girl with pink sparkly mary jane shoes and became obsessed with them. At one point, the little girl came to sit next to K and K told her Bryan's mom would buy those same shoes for her. Well, a day or two later, Bryan's mom called and Katelyn was still going on and on about the shoes, so she graciously offered to buy them for her that day. Talk about being over the moon!! Katelyn wore the shoes out of Target and hasn't taken them off since....no matter what she's wearing!!
Thank you Mama Nana for these princess shoes!

Sorry, been M.I.A....

Action shot from our seats at the NBA finals, game 3. Bryan got the tickets through work.


Bryan stands in front of the blue fountain outside the arena before gametime.


Brady's new bathtub...he LOVES bathtime!


We hosted a baby playdate while K was in school, here's Brady with his buddy Brooks and Ella.



Brady and Brooks at our house, playing and having a good time.


K's end of the year performance, I could barely see her from here, she's on the far left, back row.



I love this picture!! Love those baby feet!!


Ugh, I've really been trying to be much better about blogging (one of MANY new year's resolutions), but I dropped the ball these last few weeks. Missing In Action has definitely been the case. We've had some action-packed weeks here in Orlando. Katelyn finished up her last year at mother's morning out (she's been attending for the last 2 years, next year she's on to VPK) and then I enrolled her in a FREE (!) vacation bible school this week (every day 9-12). Rewind to two weeks ago, and sweet Brady got a stomach virus out of nowhere and covered both of us in vomit several times (always a pleasure). Once he recovered, Katelyn ran into our room at 2:40am teling us she's vomitted in her room. So, poor Katelyn was down for the count for 24 hrs. Luckily, she bounced back quickly and Bryan and I were able to attend game 3 of the NBA Finals here in Orlando. It was pretty amazing...the crowd was super-pumped! And the magic won!!
And another reason for the missing in action....like most women, I was totally engrossed with the Twilight series of books. If you haven't read them, I HIGHLY recommend them. There are 4 books and I just couldn't put them down...before bed, naptime, early arrival at school in the parking lot...you name it, I was reading.
So, here are some recent pics of the kids, both doing well. Brady just got his 2 front teeth and is still cruising everywhere, really picking up speed. Still not pulling up on furniture or crib, but he hasn't met a power cord he doesn't love.
Katelyn continues to amaze us with her imagination and she is still talking our ears off!

Recent Pics and stories

So much has been going on the last week or so, so I figured it would be best to catch up through pictures (I know that's why you're here anyway!). Enjoy!



My friend Abbie and her sweet buddha baby Brooks (he's 6 weeks younger than Brady, but quite bigger, as you can see) met for lunch at Pei Wei while K was in school. The boys enjoyed a morning out...but I think Abbie and I had more fun :-)


More Brooks and Brady...it looks like Brady is telling Brooks some crazy story.



Our poor baby boy. Another battle with an ear infection which led to his awful cough. We have to be on top of his coughs, as he's been diagnosed with R.A.D. (reactionary airway disease...sounds way worse than it is, but his airways constrict when he's sick and he wheezes terribly. They are watching him for asthma since Bryan had it as a kid). We have our own nebulizer at home and once his cough starts, we have to give him a breathing treatment 3x a day for a week. He's mostly good during the treatments, but by the end of the week, he is over them (and so are we!). The worst part is the amount of time they take, esp. in the morning when there is so much else to do.

Brady snagged a pair of a Katelyn's clean underwear out of the laundry and had way too much fun playing with them!

Watching cartoons and playing together in the front room.

Our neighbor had a birthday pool party and K had a blast! Here she is enjoying cake with the kids.

Brady has so much fun sitting in a high chair at restaurants. He loves eating snacks, playing with toys, and mostly looking at the other people and babies...and he gets so much attention from the waitresses. They eat him up!

Looking out the back door in his new favorite toy, a walker we borrowed from a friend.

A trip to sea world together!

Enjoying some vanilla soft serve and sprinkles at Sea World. We went on my birthday (5/15) for the morning and had a great time....just me and the kids.

Brady passed out in his stroller after lunch.

Riding the carousel at SW...Brady and I sat on the bench in front of her.

At SW, they have this silly oyster diving display, where you pay $15, then one of these divers will select an oyster for you and you're guarenteed a pearl. K is now obsessed with the divers and will watch them for hours if you let her. They wave to her, put their hands against the glass, etc. This day, we were able to walk up to the bridge and talk to them. The girl was so sweet, and told K if she wants to be a diver at SW, she has to take swim lessons and dance lessons. Guess what K is begging for now???

Brady enjoying a morning at sea world in his stroller.

Katelyn playing with this foam clay stuff and decided to create "carpet." So, here she is making carpet (I thought it was a map)...

The finished product....carpet!!

Katelyn getting soooo big!!

Here Brady is again on his favorite toy....and he can cruise!

Brady is mobile, life as we know it over!

Eyeing his favorite set of doors to play with....


Woo-hoo he made it!

I can't figure out how to remove this pic..

This baby is on the move BIG TIME!! He can "crawl" the length of the house now and you often find him under the kitchen table or his favorite, pulling at the doors on our entertainment center. It gets exhausting chasing after Brady, making sure he doesn't chew on cords, eat dog fur, etc. We've entered another stage of parenting...