This last weekend we celebrated Brady's 1st birthday. We had a great time. His Grandma from Oregon came for a visit to celebrate as well. For his birthday we went to my parents house to swim and have pizza. Brady of course had no idea what was going on, but it was fun. Peyton and Addy were both real excited for presents and cake.
Here are some pictures of my baby boy who is now "1"!!!
Where has the summer gone?? I can't believe that it is August. We have had a busy summer. I am currently starting up my own private practice for speech therapy in my home. It has been fun and challenging at the same time. It is called Footsteps Speech Therapy. Please keep me,and my patience in your prayers. Dwayne has been really busy at work also.
Over the last few months, Peyton has been really obsessed with baseball. He wants to play all the time, and he wants to go to Astro's games all the time. I have attached some pictures and a few videos of him playing outside with his cousin Addy. After they played baseball we took them to the splash pad to cool off! We are enrolling Peyton in t-ball in September. We can't wait!!!
Brady well, he turns "1" next week. This is a difficult subject for me. I can't believe how fast this year has gone. I am not ready for my baby to grow up!! He is almost walking by himself, but not quite. Anyway, I will post pics from his 1st B-day next week.
On July 2nd we packed up for our 10 hour rode trip to Oklahoma. My parents and my sister's family all went too. We stayed for a full week. It was nice to get away. We rented a house on the lake. The house was perfect and the kids loved going down to the rock beach and throwing rocks in the lake.
Friday, July 3rd, my cousin Britt had a beautiful sunset wedding. It was good to see lots of family. Saturday, July 4th, it actually rained all morning. We had forgotten what rain looked like ( we have gone over a month with no rain in Houston). That night we went to our Aunt Shari's and Uncle Daves house and had dinner and watched fireworks.
The rest of the week was spent resting and riding on the boats. We rode on our Uncle Brian's and Aunt Carol's boat a couple of days. We rented jet skies, which the kids loved to ride them. They both kept saying faster, faster. Peyton and Daddy even rode on the tube. Peyton did it, but he did not really care for it.
One night we drove to Bartlesville, OK (where I graduated from high school) and went to the kiddie park. It has rides just Peyton's size. He had a blast. He rode a roller coaster 3x, farris wheel, boats, train, horse, and more. He or course threw a fit when we left. It was only 25 cents a ticket and most of the rides were only 1-2 tickets. We wich they had something like that in Houston.
We had a really great time with our family. We were not ready to come home. Peyton cried most of the way home, "I want to go back to Oklahoma".
Here are some pictures of our week!
This last week since we have been home from Oregon has been very eventful. The day after we got home, we went to Grammy and Papa's to swim. To make a long story short, Brady fell off the couch outside on the porch. He was strapped into a portable high chair (I know you are not suppose to do that). I left him on the couch to take Peyton to get his bathing suit on. As I was walking away from him I thought, that their is no way that he can flip out of it. I didn't even make to back door and I turn around and he was on the ground. I ran to get him and we immediately took him to the ER. He was crying, but not as much as I would think that he should have been. His eyes were rolling back in his head. I was freaking out (you can ask my mom). Once we got him to the ER he was starting to perk back up. I thought for a second that we could take him home, that he was fine. I was also thinking better be safe than sorry. They did a CAT scan just to check to make sure that their was no blood clot. Everything came back fine thankfully. We had to watch him closely for 24 hours and he had to sleep with us that night.
2 weeks ago we flew to visit Dwayne's family in Oregon. We had a really good time. Peyton had a blast playing with his cousins Elyse and Luke. The weather was cool for us. I had to pull out jeans and jackets from the storage. We stayed with Grandpa and Grandma for a few nights and then got to stay with Uncle Ben and Aunt Randie and few nights too. Peyton had fun playing with all of their toys. It was fun visiting family.
The 4 hour flight was interesting on the way there. We have found out that Peyton gets motion sick on the way down. He was complaining that his ears hurt and his stomach. Yes, you can image what happened soon after. It was a mess! He felt fine once we got off the plane. I was not looking forward to getting back on the plane 4 days later. On the way home we gave him motion sick medicine and he did fine. We were very thankful.
Here are a few pictures.
Peyton and Brady on the airplane
Peyton looking out the window on the airplane
Inflight Intertainment
Peyton and Luke
Peyton and Elyse
Brady and Grandpa
Peyton, Luke and Elyse playing at an indoor playhouse
We had a wonderful weekend. We stayed at my parents house Saturday and Sunday night.
We spent a lot of time outside in the pool. Peyton just decided this weekend to swim independently with floaties. He did awesome. He swims all over the pool. He never stops!
On Sunday afternoon we went to an Astros Game. He loves to go. Grammy and Papa surprised him the night before we went. It was all he could talk about for the next 12 hours. The game was fun, however the Astros did not play well at all. It was still fun though.
Monday we had some good friends come over and swim and have a barbecue.
It was a relaxing weekend!
Here are some pics of our Holiday!
Brady is 9 months old today. He is getting big so fast. We went to the doctor today for his check up. He is 20 lbs 4 ounces, and 27 inches tall. He is eating all kinds of stuff, he is working on his 7th tooth, he is crawling, he is pulling up on everything, he is talking more, and he is starting to follow Peyton around the house.
He is such a sweet little boy! We love him very much! Enjoy his 9 month video.
We had a wonderful Mother's Day. We started the day by having baby dedication at church. Brady recieved his little blue bible with his name on it. After church, we were told to go to my parents house. My mom, sister and I had no idea what we were doing for the day. Soon after we got to my parents, they had a sixteen passenger van with a driver pick us up. They told us that we would be in the car for a little over an hour. I was trying to figure it out the whole way. We were surprised when the van took us to a pier near Kemah. We were going on a lunch cruise. The boat had a buffet lunch and live music. It was so much fun. I was very impressed with the guys. It was very creative. The kids had a lot of fun too!
Here are some pictures of our special day!!
Lets just say, that we got 20 inches of rain in 16 hours. We were in a tornado warning, thunderstorm warning, and flood warning. It started raining yesterday afternoon before I went to work. I went to work thinking that we were just going to get a little bit of rain. I was at work for 45 minutes, and we were sent to one room in the middle of the clinic with all patients and parents due to a tornado warning. After the warning ended we sent everyone home due to heavy rain and flooding. On my way home a couple of roads were totally under water and our subdivision was under water. Luckily, Dwayne brought home from work a big truck. I was able to get home okay. The water was up to the floor boards in the big truck.
Our neighbor across the street lost a tree
We went this past Saturday with some friends to the Kemah Boardwalk. It was a lot of fun. The weather was beautiful. Peyton had his first taste of carnival rides. I think that he is going to be one of those kids that is not afraid of anything. He wanted to ride the wooden roller coaster and all of the big kid rides. He got to ride the train and the airplane. He had a blast. He of course cried when we had to leave. We will definitely be going back soon.
Brady relaxing listening to the waves
Peyton waiting for the train
Peyton and Daddy riding the train
Peyton and Daddy at Joes Crab Shack
Mommy and Brady
Peyton and Mommy riding the airplanes 
These last few weeks have been very busy. Peyton was allergy tested on April 14th for his eczema. The results showed that he was slighty allergic to peanuts. We were surprised. He has been eating peanuts for a few months and been just fine. Also, his skin was really bad this time last year and he was not eating peanuts. Who knows!! I have taken peanuts and anything with a trace of nuts out of his diet for almost 2 weeks now and have not really seen a change. We started him a few days ago on an oral steriod to help and heal the wounds on his wrists and the back of his knees. We have to have his wrists wrapped all the time or he will inch them to the point that they bleed. The steriod is starting to work. All of his wounds look much better. It has been a very frustrating couple of weeks with his skin. Please keep Peyton in your prayers that after he stops taking the steriod that the eczema will stay under control and not get worse than before. I have been doing research on this steriod and almost all the kids that took it got it back worse than before after they were done with the medication. We are nervous, but trying to keep this in Gods hands that he can live without being bandaged up and in pain.
The exciting news from the last few weeks, is that Peyton is potty trained. It happened a lot faster than I thought it was going to. He wore a pull up for about a week and a half and was staying dry all day long. Finally I just decided to put him in big boy underpants and he has done great. He has had a few accidents, but he has learned what the feeling is and is going independantly to the bathroom when we are home. We are working through the times that we are out and when we are at church. Overall we are excited and proud. He is very proud also. He loves to pick out which underpants he is going to wear for the day. I was looking forward to having less diapers to change, but Brady has decided to poop more throughout the day. Oh well!
Here are some pics and a video for the last few weeks. Enjoy!!
We had a great Easter Sunday with family. We started the day at church, and then spent the rest of the day at Grammy and Papa's. We hope that you all had a wonderful Easter!
Taking pictures of his teeth. He was a trooper! I told him to bite the little device thing like Rusty ( my moms dog does) and it worked. He pretended he was a dog and bit down every time.
Laying down watching the tv that was on the ceiling. I wish they had that when I was a kid going to the Dentist.
And this was the point when he freaked out. He realized he was not just laying down to watch tv.
This past Monday night my family went to the first Astros game of the season. We had a great time. Peyton had been looking forward to this night and has talked about it for months. Brady and him did great the whole game. Peyton actually cried when we had to leave 3 hours later. I guess we will be going to a lot of games this season.
