Rock Climbing and Other Stuff.....

This morning, I took Ethan to his friend's birthday party at a sporing store where they went rock climbing. Yesterday, and even this morning, he kept saying how bad he was at rock climbing and didn't seem that excited to go. But, of course, once we got there, he had a good time and was actually better than he thought! They have three different courses, or whatever you call them, with #1 being the easiest and #3 being the hardest. He made it up to the top of #1, and rang the bell. He skipped #2 and went straight for #3 next. His goal was to make it up halfway and he only made it 1/4 of the way. He did have a pretty negative attitude, which probably contributed to his lack of succes as he kept saying "I can't do it the whole time!" His legs and arms were shaking at one point as he was trying to hold on, though, and I can't even imagine how difficult it probably is. I have never done it and have no desire to so I guess I probably won't know what it is actually like! Here are a few pictures....

And, as you can tell, Brody had a lot of fun watching his brother!!!

On another note...one morning last week, while Ted was trying to get ready (he drops Brody off in the morning now), he brought Brody in our room and turned the TV on. I mentioned to him that one time when we were at my parents, they had SpongeBob on for my niece and nephews and Brody was staring at the TV. He thought he would see what he would do if he turned cartoons on. Sure enough, Brody sat there, mesmerized by the TV. I know that one of the development milestones around 4-5 months is the ability to see bold colors and I think I can definitely check that one off. I put him in front of the TV the other night and he sat there for 30 minutes, completely content, just watching the TV. He probably would have sat there longer if I would have let him. Here is a picture...(excuse all the mess....between Ethan and Brody's stuff, it looks like ToysRUs threw up in my living room!)

Tab and Kevin were here this weekend and everyone knows how much Tab loves to have her picture taken...here are a few of her and Brody....

We got down on the floor with him and took this picture. I love his look.....

And finally, I don't have many pictures with Brody since I am normally the picture-taker and take his picture like its my job! I think he might actually start posing soon! :) If nothing else, there will definitely be plenty of pictures to embarass him with when he gets older, that's for sure!