Friday, December 30, 2011

Funny guy

I spent the entire week with Braylen, by myself, between Christmas and New Years.  I either thought the week would end in time outs all day for both of us, or I would truly second guess my job to spend lots more time with my little, "big" 2 yr old.  I really thought the latter would happen...we gets weekends together, but Jeremy is usually around and evenings with Braylen is just a blur of cooking, cleaning up, bath time and bed.  But I was pleasantly surprised.  Braylen was so full of comments and funny things I cannot possibly document them all, but here are a few funny things that happened.
Braylen's new thing is shutting doors.  Everywhere he goes he shuts the door to the room you're in with you or without you.  He often time shuts the door on me when I'm in the bathroom and I can reach the door to open it again when he knocks, which he always does after it's shut.  The routine started like this...I'm in the restroom, Braylen shuts the door, then he yells, "momma momma" and knocks, I say, "who is it" and he says, "Bray J".  It went this way many times and I decided to add another step into our routine...started as above, I say, "Who is it?" Braylen says, "Bray J", I ask "Braylen who" he reponds, "Bray J Fluhr".  So, through our bathroom routine he now knows his full name, well except for the Bray J...
Story number 2.  Since we were talking about names and that Braylen's name is Braylen FLuhr I asked him if he knew what mommy's name is.  He thought about it while I continued saying what does Daddy call me and what do Nana and Papa and Mandi and Jessica call me.  He guessed Momma Fluhr.  I corrected him that he calls me that but other people call me Lara Fluhr.  I went through this routine with him regarding Jeremy's name as well.  He's pretty good, although sometimes when I ask he stills says Momma Fluhr.
Final story about names...it's been bugging that he calls our dogs mommy and rirey, when he can pretty clearly say his Ls.  I started having him say Molly and Riley, enunciating the Ls and he now says Mollllllleeeyy and Rilllleeeyyy and adds Fluhr onto them, because that is their name after all, right?!
Lat story, we went to the vet because Molly had been acting funny the past couple of weekends and I wanted the vet to check out her back.  I explained to Braylen that we were going to Molly's doctor.  This isn't like mommy and Braylen's doctor this is a doctor that works with animals, dogs, cats, ect...  He was sitting in the back seat I could tell taking everything in and repeating Molly's doctor and vet.  But when we got to the vet's office, he was so chatty and, again, taking everything in.  We weigh Molly and take her into the back room and wait for the vet to come in.  We hear lots of barking and meowing and hissing and he gasps or says he wants to go see the dog or cat, but we patiently wait for the vet in the room.  Molly is shaking like a leaf and I tell Braylen it's because she's scared and afraid of the doctor.  Braylen pets Molly's head and says, "Don't be scary Molly.  It's OK."  Molly jumps down and I also tell Braylen that lots of other animals have been in the room and Molly is smelling all of those animals.  He proceeds to get on his hands and knees and mimics Molly, at least until I pull him up and tell him only dogs have good noses like that.  Just before the vet comes in we hear a cat that is super pissed in the room next door.  It is howling and growling and hissing like crazy.  Braylen says, "Mom, the cat." I said something like yeah that cat isn't very happy to be at the vet, it's mad.  Braylen thinks for a second and then says, "That cat needs a time out."  True, it probably did and only to a young child does time outs work for every kind of punishment!!  As we left we saw that cat in it's carrier and my son knows no fear when it comes to domestic animals and goes to reach right in and right before he did the women grabs his hand.  It scared the daylights out of him, but it would have been better that cat claws and teeth digging into his finger!!
We really had a great week together and it was tough on Tuesday sending him back to daycare.  I think I learned so much about him and most importantly how big he really is getting.  I will definitely add this to my New Year's resolution list for 2012, spend a few days with Braylen, just 1 on 1.  I will also make this a must for dad and Braylen, they need that time together just the 2 of them too, that would actually be something I would like to secretly video!!

Thursday, December 29, 2011

13 weeks

I feel so much bigger this pregnancy compared to last and sure enough, it's true.  Looking at my pregnancy with Braylen I was barely showing at this stage and this time I can barely fit into my clothes!!  I hope this laziness wears off and I become a lot more active than I'm feeling now, otherwise it's not just my stomach that will be growing...

Monday, December 26, 2011

Christmas at Nana and Papa's

We left after work on Friday, Dec 23 for the trip to Jacksonville for Christmas.  We were all looking forward to the trip, especially Braylen!!  It was so exciting to see Miss Leah and how much she has grown and to spend lots of QT with the immediate and extended family. 

We spent Christmas Eve day hanging out and relaxing.  Went to church and then headed to Super Nana and Papa's for the Christmas Eve bash!  It was nice to see everyone and Braylen got acclimated to the crazy and big family again.  Bella and him played and we all ates lots of food!!


Braylen, needless to say, got spoiled rotten on Christmas morning.  Santa got him a few cool things, but Nana and Papa, Mandi and Andriy and Jess, Clint and baby Leah really brought in the good loot, THOMAS THE TRAIN stuff!  We are, or at least should be, outfitted with everything Thomas related for a while!!  We spent a great morning together opening gifts and then eating an amazing meal, my mouth is watering just thinking about it!! 









After our lunch we headed over to Grandma Scott's to spent some good QT with her.  Some of the dedicated workers went to work on strategically placing the fruit on the fruit tree while others of us just visited and critiqued their work, :)  Where else can you watch birds on Christmas day??  Um, Grandma's of course!!



Our final stop for the day is the Anslyn's house.  We were all pretty beat, but got revved up pretty quick with all of the presents, food, conversation and laughs.  The grab bag for adults and kids took place and was a success, but the funniest part of the evening was when Braylen got a gift from Nana and Kevin??  Ever heard of him??  In all my years in this family I have never known a Kevin within the immediate or extended family.  I've kept the name tag for a keepsake for scrap booking?? or perhaps an add on to the grab bag!!  Beware!






We were exhausted, but filled with love on the way home.  So many memories are made every time you come together as a family and to cherish them all individually is impossible, but collectively they are the things that make every day so special and so worth living!!  Thanks to all of my family for being so wonderful!!
Merry Christmas!!

Friday, December 23, 2011

I like my boots

Braylen just found these boots in his drawer and has fallen in love.  Nana and Papa gave them to him last year for "playing in the snow" or what little he was walking in the snow then.  They are now going to be his "snow" boots and he loves them.  If only there was snow now...

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Decorating the Christmas tree

My son is totally goofy!  This isn't anything new to us, but this video says it all.  I told him not to take the paper towels out of the tin because they were to put around the ornaments when we were done with the Christmas tree.  I think Braylen interpreted this a little differently...

Sunday, December 18, 2011

A Fluhr Christmas

We had an amazing time with the Fluhr's on Saturday night at our house.  The kids had a blast and we had so much fun relaxing and watching them play, open presents and all interact.  It was a really great Christmas and even though a little crazy, I'm sure this year will be on the calm side compared to years to come. 
The next day was the huge Tranel Christmas with Rita's side of the family and the kids got to play ball in the gym and run around.  After it was all said and done, my guess is that the little rugrats were exhausted, I know we were!!










Friday, December 16, 2011

Christmas Gala

We attended the annual UD Christmas Gala, for a night on the town and Jeremy was looking forward to taking advantage of his free DD!!  While we were waiting for Jeremy to get home Braylen was observing me getting ready and, if I remember correctly wearing my shoes around the bathroom, but he said, "Momma, you are cute."  I have no idea where he got that from, he never gets told he's cute!! 
It was a nice event with amazing food, especially the fresh sushi rolling station.  I was so stuffed with rice by the end of the night, it is a good thing I am pregnant!!

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Visiting Santa

We made a trip after a weekend of baking with the Chukins and Nana to visit Santa.  I wasn't expecting much and when we saw him Braylen wanted to run in the opposite direction.  Nana was able to get him a little closer while we took a picture.  A for effort...

Thursday, December 1, 2011

BIG BROTHER

It's official, not that it wasn't before, but I just had my 12 week appointment and we are expecting baby #2.  Braylen spread the news to my family by telling them, "Big brother" and we told the Fluhr's on Thanksgiving.  It's great to have been through this already, although I don't think you're ever really prepared, maybe especially with #2, but we're excited.  Now we just need to transition Braylen into the BIG bed and potty train him, yeah right, before the new baby comes.  I'm due July 2 and am showing like I did 6 months in last time, ugh!!  Hope to show off my baby bump to all very soon!!