I am such a non-blogger!

I have not been real good about keeping up my blog lately. Not sure what is going on.....but I am going to try and do better! I have been working alot lately and when I get home, normally we feed Brody and then go to bed. So sad....but that is our life now.....especially during the week!

Brody has been changing more and more everyday. His vocabulary, or what one would call his vocabulary at this age, is expanding. He imitates certain sounds I make and he has started to say "Uh-oh!" and "Ha-do" which I think is hello. When we say hello, he says ha-do. It is pretty cute. I tried to get it on film, but of course once I pulled the camera out, he stopped.

Nothing new to report on the walking front. He is still standing independently more and more, but he has yet to take a step by himself. He is walking around the edge of his playard. I have to say....the playard is the best thing ever invented! Now that he is on the move, it is hard to keep him contained into one space. I felt bad originally about putting him in there, but I have come to realize that it is good for him and me. I am able to get things done in spurts and he is able to play with his toys independently. We bought my dad one too and we both love it.

We had Ethan this weekend. He went with Ted on Saturday up to Charlottesville so Ted could get some of his tree stands out of the woods in his hunt club. They rode the 4-wheeler. He said he had a good time. He is becoming such a little man. Sometimes I look at him and can still see the little boy that he once was. He is getting so grown. It is crazy to think that he was at one point Brody's age!!

Tab came down and we went shopping for baby stuff. She wasn't able to find anything, unfortunately, but she still has time. I am going to go up to her next appointment when she finds out for sure what she is having. The last ultrasound they had, the ultrasound tech said that she was pretty sure it was a girl. Of course, once I heard that, I had to go get some pink stuff! :) I can't wait to see her little baby! It is really exciting!!!

Anyway, here are some random pictures taken over the last week. I also updated my picture on the side of Ethan and Brody. Two handsome boys......

Christmas is over already?

Okay...I have been pretty bad about posting pictures from Christmas so here they are. We celebrated twice....once with my sister and then once with my parents on Christmas day. I can't believe how bad I have been about posting pictures!! It is pretty sad!

I did find out some good news this week. Tabatha had an ultrasound and they are 90% sure she is having a girl! YAY! A little girl to spoil! They are having another ultrasound on February 2, which I plan to attend, where they will find out for sure. She will be 20 weeks then. I am totally going back to pre-arranged marriages and keep joking about how Brody is going to marry their little girl. At this point, her name is Mallory Mae! So cute! :) I can't wait to meet her, but we still have a little while until she comes! Plenty of time to spoil her rotten! :)

Now that I have shared that, here are some pictures from Christmas. Enjoy and have a great week! :)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Hello All! I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanakkuh , and a Happy New Year! I have not posted since before Christmas so alot has happened.

Brody and Ethan had a good Christmas. We decided to go to my parents house on Christmas morning to have our traditional christmas breakfast with mimosas! It was very yummy. If there is one tradition that I never want to go away it is christmas breakfast. My mom makes a yummy sausage and egg caserole and hash brown casserole. As always, it was yummy! Brody went down for a nap and then Ted went to get Ethan from his grandmother's house. Once they got back, Ethan opened his presents. He got some pretty cool stuff, including this huge nerf machine gun. It shoots like 100 darts one right after the other. He had a good time playing with that with my neighbor's kids over the weekend. He also got this robotic dinosaur, which does things on command. When we got home that night, he was playing with it around Chloe, who absolutely hated it. She was barking like crazy and was even showing her teeth. The dinosaur is about 2 feet tall, if that, you wouldn't have thought it would have frightened her. But she is such a wuss when it comes to smaller animals....or things that look and act like animals.

Brody had a pretty good christmas too. He got many toys, which is now overpowering my living room. I even left some at my parents house and we haven't even put together the big toy that Ted and I got him. We have decided that we are going to make our dining room his play room. We don't have a dining room table in there now and figured that we really would never use it so we thought that space would be a good place for Brody's playroom. I talked to Ted about putting a TV in there somehow, because he of course loves him some TV! He took his first steps, with the walker, over Christmas too. He walked to Ethan with it, but hasn't done it since. Of course, when I try and get him to walk to me with the walker, he just gets down and crawls to me instead. He figures he can get there faster that way. He is also talking more. He of course says Da-da all the time (no Ma-ma yet! UGH) but has started saying "doy, doy, doy" and he says something resembling "hello!" It is so cute.

We went to my neighbor's house for Christmas Eve which was fun....and then went to my other neighbor's house for New Years Eve. My parents watched Brody New Year's Eve, which was a good thing because I was pretty intoxicated by the time that midnight rolled around. I went with a few of my co-workers for a drink after work (which was pretty hectic this past week) and then just continued drinking when I got home. Needless to say, Ted and I didn't wake up until 10:00 on New Year's Day! It was nice to actually sleep in, but of course it didn't feel like sleeping in since we didn't get to bed until real late!

I am working from home this morning, but Ted is on his way home and I have to go into the office today. Too much to do.....so little time. We are so swamped at work right now it is ridiculous. And there doesn't look like there is an end in sight!! I guess I can't complain because it does give me some job security! Especially since we just lost a really big contract in New Mexico. Since my department is in charge of obtaining new business, hopefully if they do cuts, we will be the last in line! At least that is what I am hoping! :) But can't really worry about that!

Well...I hope everyone had a nice holiday and has a great 2009! 2008 was pretty good (since Brody was born) so I am not sure if 2009 can top it! :) But.....hopefully it will be a good one!

I will try and post a few pictures from the past couple of weeks later. My computer is acting up right now so I can't access my pictures!!

9 month checkup

Yesterday, Brody turned 9 months old and had his 9 month check up. His stats are:

Height - 29 inches (75%)

Head - 18 2/8th inches (90%)

Weight - are you ready for this? 25.2 lbs, which means that for the first time ever he is actually on the weight chart. He is in the 96% for his weight, but hey....he is on the weight chart!!!! Christmas came early.

So, his head measurement had me a little worried. At his 6 month appointment, his head was measuring in the 75-80th percentile and this time, he initally measured at the 95th percentile. She said that because their was such a jump, she would see what it measured at his year checkup and then if it continued to increase, she would schedule a CT scan. I asked her what they were looking for and she said that some times the ventricles in the brain can get blocked and it makes the membranes swell, therefore enlarging the head (or something like it.....once she started talking about his brain, I got completely freaked out). I asked her what the treatment for that was and she said surgery. Once she said that, I said "Can you bring the nurse back in and have her re-measure again? I want to make sure we have the right measurement." The nurse, who Brody has had many times before and I absolutely love, appeased me and re-measured his head. The second time, she measured it a tad bit smaller, which brought it down to the 90%. My doctor said not to be too worried about it and we would see what happens at the next appointment. When you say brain, surgery and Brody in the same sentence, my Mommy alarm goes off! I immediately got flustered, but hopefully, it is nothing. To me, his head does not look abnormally large...it actually looks in proportion to the rest of his body. So I guess we will see what happens over the next couple months.

He ended up getting 2 shots yesterday and he was a little fussy yesterday, but that could have easily been a combination of the shots and the fact that his morning nap was cut short because his appointment was at 11:00. Today, he seemed okay, but seemed a little tired and not his usual self. I hope he is not getting sick....he has yet to get sick and I know it is bound to happen at some point. Last week, our weather was pretty screwy, jumping from the 70s to the 40s. That kind of change in weather can screw anyone up.

Today, Missy came into town so we can celebrate Christmas with her this weekend because she is going to her in-laws for Christmas this year. Tab and Kevin came down too. Tab is starting to get a little bump....it is so cute!! It is crazy to think that next year, we will be both be mothers. We always talked about having babies close together. They should be about a year and a few months apart. Pretty exciting! :)

So, here are some cute pictures that I took this week. Brody is on the move....all the time. Crawling, standing, pulling himself up. He actually stood on his own this week for about 5 seconds. I know that pretty soon he will start taking some steps and there will be no stopping him then!

Not sure if I will post again before the holiday so I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas!! :)

I love this picture! Brody sure loves his Daddy! :)

It's been a long time....

It has been a long time since I last posted. Where does the time go?

This past weekend, I went up to Tab's so we could finish our Christmas shopping. Whew! What a day. I got up there around 11:00 and we went non-stop until about 8:00 that night. But, the good news is we are all done! :) I spent an obscene amount of money at the Toys R Us for Ethan and Brody and just need to get some stocking stuffers for them this week. Not too bad. I had finished my niece and nephew's presents last week so atleast I didn't have to shop for them. We are going to be celebrating Christmas with Missy this weekend because she is heading to her in-laws for Christmas. Since Christy isn't coming (boo Christy!), it will just be my parents, Ted, Brody and I. We will get Ethan Christmas afternoon but it sure would be nice to have him Christmas morning so we could spend it all together as a family! I told Ted that I don't plan to wrap Brody's presents....we would just put the toys together and let him play with them in the morning. I think my parents are going to spend the night Christmas eve since we normally spend it over their house. It will be nice to wake up at our house Christmas morning for a change.

I still can't believe it is Christmas already. It was 72 degrees today!! Such a nice day. And, I can't believe that Brody will be 9 months on Friday. He has his 9 month checkup on Friday too. Ted is going with us, which will be the first time that he actually meets Brody's pediatrician. He wasn't there when she came to talk to me in the hospital and for most of his appointments, he has been out of town. It will be nice for Daddy to know Brody's doctor. He is definitely on the move. He has started to take steps, of course not on his own, but he is always on the go. He is an extremely fast crawler and is standing up all the time. We have all figured he will be walking by the end of the year by himself. I can't believe my baby is walking!! It is completely amazing to see how much he has changed in just 9 short months.

I am so excited for Tab, who is about 4 months pregnant now, that she can experience all of this starting next year. She goes to the doctor this weekend and will hopefully schedule her next appointment to find out what she is having. When we were shopping this weekend, we were trying to find some clothes for her 2 nieces. The girl clothes they have are so stinking cute! She thinks she is having a girl, but I am not so sure! It would be nice for us to have a little girl in our family, but either way, it will be so exciting to meet this little Grubbs! :)

I meant to post some pictures, but I haven't downloaded them from the camera yet and the camera is in my diaper bag, which happens to be at my parent's house....so no pictures today. Sorry! :) I will try to remember to take the camera home tomorrow so I can post some.

I hope everyone has a good week and if you have more Christmas shopping, good luck! :)

Jail Bird

So, I posted before about how we got my parents a play yard for their house since Brody is now on the move. He is on the go all the time and since he liked it so much at my parents house, I decided to pull ours out and set it up in the middle of the living room. It is such a blessing at this point because he has just enough room to move around like he wants to do ALL the time and he is still contained so I don't have to worry about him getting into anything. He LOVES it in there. He has started to pull up and take steps around the edge of it and I even caught him standing up on his little play table, getting a better look at the TV. He is so cute in there. Here are a couple pictures I took of him playing in it.

Here is the picture of my little daredevil, standing on his little musical table, trying to get a better glimpse of the TV.

This morning, I caught him just laying there watching TV. He loves watching TV...but like I said before, I don't feel so bad because the station he watches is somewhat educational. Each show teaches kids a particular lesson and they tell you the lessons before the show starts. Of course, alot is for children pre-school age, but he is never too young to start learning!

Brody the Stand Man

So, this was the picture I saw when I came around the corner last night into his room, after I made his bottle.....

And a few more.....

He is constantly pulling up on everything! Now, instead of feeding him his bottle and having him fall asleep in my arms, as I put him in the crib, he instantly rolls over, gets on his knees and looks at me as I leave the room after feeding him. Ted said he did that last night too. It is pretty funny. I can't believe he is already old enough to be standing in his crib. I know that I am going to be saying I can't believe his old enough to do this and that over the next couple of years, even decades, but it is true! Just looking at some older pictures of him really shows how much he has changed in just 8 short months!

Today, he decided to go on bottle strike. My dad said he only took half and ounce this morning at breakfast and didn't take hardly anything at lunch. We figured his teeth were bothering him since his two top front teeth are coming in, but he had no problems taking the bottle tonight. I guess he just didn't want the bottle today. Of course, I am constantly offering him the sippy cup, but he would much rather chew on the handles than actually take a drink. He still has a couple months more of the bottle, so it should be interesting.

I hope everyone is having a good week so far! :)