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Brett's Birthday and Party!

May 2010

For Brett’s birthday on May 24th, he spent the day with his ladies (mommy and Bailey)! Brett got a new haircut and new Nikes that look just like Daddy’s. Every time we put them on, he says Daddy’s shoes. We went to have lunch at Brett’s favorite restaurant, The ChooChoo. Brett was sooo excited. Every time the train came by, he would yell and point Bailey’s head in the right direction and tell her to look. We have some wonderful pictures of a very happy boy from that morning. Brett ended the day with playing with Daddy, and opening up his first Thomas the Train set. It was a good day.
Brett’s Truck Bday party weekend was quite the success! He had lots of friends and family to share the day with him. He got so many new trucks that he actually has tried sharing them with Bailey. A great step, I think. The Wood family all made the trip and I know Brett and his mommy certainly appreciated and enjoyed their company. Brett can say all their names now so it was very sad when they left and he asked where EACH one of them went? Brett did a great job at his 2 year appt. The doctor was asking different developmental questions; can he name 8 body parts, is he putting 2-3 words together, etc. She asked if he could jump with both feet off the ground… Brett proceeded to jump off the stool. The doctor said, ‘that would be a yes’. Brett is measuring 35 inches tall and 27lbs. He jumped up to the 75% for height and just under 50% for weight. If anyone is keeping track, add 27 to Bailey’s 16, and you have me carrying 43 pounds of babies at some point during each day. Brett surprises me and makes me laugh with the new things that he is saying. Lately if he is making a sentence negative, he just throws a ‘no’ at the end. So yesterday he told me “Be-Ta (Brett) night night NO!” I was running around forgetting things left and right the other day, and Brett said “silly mommy”. He loves talking to his trucks and counts them and calls them by name and color. On the way to his bday festivities, we passed a Black Police SUV pulling over a Cement Mixer Truck. I think he yelled it 15 times! He’s also become pretty perceptive. The other morning Bailey started getting cranky and Brett said “Baby tired, night night”. I looked at the clock and he was right, it was time for her nap.
Bailey has turned a corner! She is such a happy, smiling baby now. I was a little worried for Brett’s birthday party that I would be stuck holding her the entire time, but I don’t think I had her at all. It was such a relief! She was passed around the whole day and was perfectly content. She took a little longer than Brett to roll over, but once she did it, she had it down. She rolls back and forth and is never in the same spot that I lay her anymore. We started cereal with her a week ago, she all the sudden seemed interested in grabbing our spoons and food so we thought it was time. She picked up on it rather quickly. The first feeding, she started fussing so I thought maybe she didn’t like it or was having a hard time, but then I realized I just wasn’t going fast enough for her!
Brett seems fascinated with Bailey’s development. He gets so excited for her to do new things. His new thing is to ‘carry her on his shoulders’ like Daddy does with him. She thinks it’s hilarious and he gets so proud of himself!

Bailey's 5 Months! Brett Turns 2!

We got a tooth!

As soon as I thought we were getting into a routine, Bailey started teething. I knew the drooling was getting out of control but realized when she was 'chewing' on my finger that a tooth had already popped through. No wonder we are back to getting up at 4am!

Brett still loves his sister dearly and we continue to work on 'gentle' ways of showing it. We thought he was kissing her hand and after she started screaming, we realized he was biting her. "Brett! Did you just bite Bailey?" "YEAH!" Apparently something else we need to work on.

Brett figured out this month how to climb into Bailey's crib...we asked him how he got in there so he showed us how he scaled the bars, pulled himself up, and then flipped over, falling head first into the mattress. Thankfully he has not done this while Bailey was IN the crib. I'm sure she would not appreciate her brother jumping on her when she's asleep. I guess she is learning quickly what it's like having an older brother.

We've been working on new words every day with Brett, saying names of family members and things we see. We were doing patty-cake the other day, Brett thinks it's hilarious to do "ROOOOLLLL it" with his hands. He was giving me names of people to make cakes for. We did our cousins Asha (yaya) and Aubrey (AH-Bee), Uncle Chris (kiss) and then Obama. So because Brett insisted, we made a cake for the president.

The other afternoon we were cooking dinner and waiting for daddy to come home. Bailey was in her bouncy chair and Brett was running around. Bailey had kicked off her shoe and somehow got it into her mouth to chew on and I laughed saying "Oh Bailey we don't eat our shoes" I turned back to the stove but not before catching Brett smacking her saying "NO SHOE MOUTH!" People warned us how hard it would be having 2 kids this close in age and they were right. We are definitely admitting we were naive, but no one could prepare you for how funny it is.

Is it really May already?

I'm struggling to grasp the fact that it's May and in this month Bailey is 4 months old and Brett will be turning 2! Where does the time go?
Bailey had her 4 month appt and her doc said clearly she has no issues with growing! Bailey is now over 16lbs and in the 95th percentile for weight for girls her age....yes I said 95. She is still sleeping well through the night and the long crying fits are not nearly as often. She smiles and laughs but it's usually at Brett. Last night Brett and I were reading and Bailey thought it was hilarious for us to "Nay" like a horse. We got out Brett's old jumperoo and she seems to be a big fan of it!
Brett is almost 2. I feel like we just had his first birthday. While I'm in denial about how old he is, he is growing and changing daily! It's funny as he is becoming more verbal, I'm seeing how much he really does understand and take in. He used to growl (for truck) and shrug his shoulders meaning "where is his truck?". Now he is saying "white truck go?" I worked on colors with him for like a day or two and now his favorite thing is to name what color everything is. It's quite cute. He loves going to the library and looking at books. It's so nice that the library is 1/2 a block away, we go for evening walks there 3-4 times a week. I visited a friend for lunch last week at an elementary school. Not only was the room full of kid-size furniture and bright colors but Brett saw a fire truck (twice!), a school bus (multiple times), a white van, and then we were stopped by a train on the way home with 84 cars. He was yelling and pointing so much he was exhausted by the time we got home. Brett was in heaven!

May flowers!