BIRTHDAYS!

One of our family traditions growing up has been getting breakfast in bed. We always got to pick out our breakfast the night before, and knew we'd get woken up to the whole family singing us "Happy Birthday" with a big tray of food. This was always especially fun because all my siblings had to sit around and watch us eat.

My birthday was a bit different than my other siblings... you see, Meghan, my oldest sister, has a birthday just 5 days after mine. Though she was a few years older than me, we ALWAYS had combined birthday parties, and ALWAYS had the exact same gifts. It didn't bother me as much, since my birthday was first... but poor Meghan always knew what she'd be getting for her birthday 5 days early.

This got me thinking... about my baby... (which I do quite frequently)... and his birthday. For those of you that have forgotten, Brady is just 9 short hours younger than his cousin, Jack. I am sure they will have many birthday parties together (because Brady will be so popular Jack will want to meet all his friends...)... but Brady will know his gifts before his actually birthday, because he will see what Jack opened. This was all fine and dandy when I was growing up because it was a surprise to ME... but not to Meghan. Do you see where my problem is here?? Brady is now Meghan and Jack is now me!!

That's all I got.

Brady's Firsts!

Well... We have officially been in Texas for 2 weeks. These 2 weeks have been big ones for Brady. He has started eating Rice Cereal, AND he went swimming for the first time!

Our pediatrician actually told us we could give Brady the rice cereal after his 4 month appointment. We didn't start right away for two reasons: 1) We wanted to be settled & have some normalcy in our lives before we introduced something new to him, and 2) HE IS STILL A BABY! I have been having a hard time with it. He is still my baby & it means he is growing up if I were to give him rice cereal! But... I put my own emotions aside & we gave him his first rice cereal.

He loved it! And if you want to see a video of his very first bite, watch below! :)


Brady's other first was swimming. Jack (his identical cousin) has been swimming for the past month or so, so we couldn't fall behind! One of my friends, Megan, gave Brady his first swim diapers & a "beach" outfit. Well... he broke them in this past week...

Bald as a Cue-ball

So, in case any of you may have forgotten... my baby was born bald... zero hair. Seriously... when a baby has less hair on his head than his face... he is definitly bald. Well... I KNEW any baby of mine would take awhile to get hair... since I did not have much (if any) as a baby... I just thought it would START to come by now.

Let's look back on birth... and notice his hair (or lack thereof)


So, I think we can all agree that he has absolutly no hair. Well now, let's look at his progress over the past 4 months....


There is no doubt that this is a stinkin' cute kid... but there is no doubt that there is not a single strand of hair on his head either....

This got me thinking, what my mom EXAGERRATING when she said I didn't get hair until I was 5? Let's look back on Browyn as a child.....

Pretty hairless here.... Though I must say I am a pretty cute kid as well!

My mom is an artist... and she had to put a HAT on me so that the pciture she drew of me was more interesting!!
Still... No hair. Not quite sure how old I was in the picture... but old enough to have hair I am sure!!

So, the question is... WHEN will MY son get hair?!?

We're Pregnant!

Well.... kinda....

A year ago from today was a very special day. I was in Denver, Colorado to be with my best friend as she got married. Little did I know that I would remember that trip for more than just their nuptials.

You see, I was scheduled to fly back to Omaha that afternoon. Austin & I had been trying to get pregnant since January…. And I couldn’t wait… I HAD to take a pregnancy test. I was so used to them being negative that I was quite surprised when the stick immediately said that I was pregnant. I was thrilled. I had to tell someone… but of course not Austin… (I wanted to tell him in person!)… so I called my brother, Willy.

As soon as Laura awoke she came to my hotel room to see what I was doing, and casually asked if I was pregnant. She seemed quite surprised as well when all I could do was smile. If any of you have been trying to get pregnant… you can probably relate to this next one…. How to tell your partner. I had a new way of telling Austin for each month…. (Tell him on Father’s Day… his Birthday…. A Valentines Day present.. Etc, etc, etc)… Well… I had NO idea how to tell him when I was so far away.

So… Austin had been talking about how he really wanted a wolf shirt. Yep. I said it. A wolf shirt. I married a man that likes the wolf shirts. So… I got him one. He was soooo excited when I came home and got him this little doozy….
But then I gave him a onsie. It said “Dad’s the King, Mom’s the Queen, But I Rule!” -From Denver, Colorado. He looked at me, shocked, and said, “Does this mean what I think it means?!?” And the rest is history. We celebrated that night by drinking champagne & smoking "It's a boy" cigars.... okay, that's a lie. I don’t think we realized even then, that a year from then we would have the cutest little boy that could actually wear that onsie.