Another month passed and I didn't post a thing! I haven't been very good at keeping up with this lately! We had a very busy month!
Gary and I celebrated our 3 year Anniversary! YAY, for us! Thanks to Grammy and Grandma Cindy's help with Brayden, Gary and I were able to go away for a long weekend. We took off for Glenwood Springs. Gary had never been and I feel like I practically grew up there because my grandma and grandpa took my sister and I there at least once a summer. I love it! We went up the mountain on the Gondola and did the Glenwood Caverns. One day we drove to Aspen and walked around... little did we know that nearly everything is closed on Sundays. So we grabbed some hot chocolate and walked over to the bottom of the ski hill and did some fun people watching. And of course we went to the Hot Springs. It was soooo cold out and the pool felt sooo good. It was hard to walk on the cold hard cement in our wet suits when we got out. I could have stayed in the pool all night! We enjoyed our time very much but almost couldn't wait to get back to Brayden. I don't take for granted the time I have with Gary but once you have a family we just enjoy so much our vacations with our little guy. The whole time we kept thinking how he would be enjoying all the things we were doing. Funny how that all works.
I'm so grateful for my loving husband and for these last 3 years we have had. It's been a fun, fast, and crazy ride. I wouldn't have wanted any other way. We have learned so much from each other and about each other and I know we have so much more to learn. I can't wait for the years to come and the love that continues to grow between us!
I know I got a little mushy on everyone reading this... but when your in love that's just what happens sometimes! So I'm not apologizing! HA
Okay ... Okay... Moving on... Brayden...
He is getting so so big! He is talking up a storm these days! It's crazy how fast this has taken off. I had brought him to a speech therapist before Christmas because for turning two he wasn't even saying mama yet. And maybe had 5-10 words in his vocabulary. Which according to the doctors wasn't enough or should I say where he was supposed to be at for his age. I don't always pay much attention to what the doctors have to say in regards to percentages and all... but I talked to a friend who said I can get him free speech therapy. So I said, well it can't hurt. Well now he is talking up a storm. She comes weekly to our home for an hour. He loves sitting with her and playing with her and follows directions really well. He still has a hard time with his P's and B's. So she is concentrating on that right now. He has been doing well with it all though.
Brayden has also started taking a dance class. We did a Hip Hop class for about 5 weeks. It was actually an older group that he wasn't age ready for but the teacher let him stay since his cousin Ravyn was in the same class. He did so good and would go in with out me every time. He learned the crab crawl, sit spin, and sumo dance. He still does them at home really well! We had to go back down to his age group for the next session of classes because Ravyn moved up and Brayden wouldn't go by himself. So now we do a Parent/Toddler class. We have so much fun dancing together. This makes me excited for when I can get him started in all his sports. He just seems to enjoy anything with other children and getting out of the house. Although he has been having his moments of being a little home body.
He is still totally into his trains right now. What's funny though is I can't get him to watch Thomas the Train but he loves his pajamas and trains that are from it. We took him to the Train Expo here in town and he loved it. He didn't want to leave and of course I was ready to go after being there for over an hour as it was. I'm thinking he really enjoyed it!
Brayden LOVES horses. Actually that's almost an understatement. He is addicted to horses. We have watched the movie "Spirit" at least 102 times (we've only owned it for maybe a month and a half). His cousins bought him the show "The Black Stallion". So he always asks to watch the "black horse". He has a stick horse and a cowboy hat that he insists on riding at least 5 times a day.
Other things that he loves:
Caillou
Polar Express (Choo Choo Spress... that's his name for it)
Wow, Wow, Wubbzy (Or Wubb-gee... if you heard him say it)
Dinosaurs ( he calls them ARR's and growls usually when he says it)
He has been having some Terrible Two Tantrums that I would rather do without but I still think I will keep him. :) I'm not gonna lie sometimes on those really bad days of tantrum after tantrum it's not like I'm dying to be around him. But all those cute adorable loving moments definitely do make up for it! I love my kid!!!
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I finally did Brayden's 2 year photo shoot! 2 months late but here they are!
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