I do love my Brady...

So pretty much Brady has been giving me *&^%# recently as he has been trying to prove is two year-old "manhood." He won't do anything that I tell him to do, but of course does EVERYTHING that I tell him not to do.  I kind of just want to pull my hair out right now.  However, despite everything that he is throwing at me,  I do have to say that I love that little guy.

Tonight when I was feeding Pyper dinner, he came up to me and wrapped his arms around my legs and said, "I love you mommy."  I of course replied back with, "I love you Brady," when he promptly responded, "I love you more." Did he just melt my heart? Yes! (I do have to say though that I'm pretty sure that he did not come up with this line on his own, but rather stole it from his new favorite movie TANGLED.  He has been watching it quite a bit recently...oh well, still cute).

Another random Brady moment happened today that I wanted to get down for future posterity...mainly to be able to embarrass him on future dates.  Tonight I was having some edamame, when Brady came into the kitchen and said he wanted one of my 'green carrots.' I, of course, shared one of my 'green carrots' with him and he proceeded to put the whole thing in his mouth....pod and all.  I thought about stopping him, but decided I was enjoying it too much.  Several minutes later he came back with full mouth and said, "open your hand" as he quickly tried to spit it out into my hand.  Luckily, I guided him to the trash just in time (this isn't the first time he has tried to spit the remnants of his food into my hand).  Later, as we were having dinner I was trying to coerce him into eating his green beans and told him that if he ate one bean, he could have his milk.  He again proceeded to stick the WHOLE bean into his mouth at once (another Brady trait), and began chewing.  Again, several chews later, he said "trash" and started walking towards the trash to spit the bean out.  Well, at least I got him to spit into the trash can as opposed to my hand....NOT...when I wouldn't let him spit it out in the trash can, his next plan of attack started with, "open your hand..."

Well, I have to say I did finally get him to swallow his ONE green bean and we managed to finish dinner with only a few minor casualties.

Grandma's Bed vs. the Trampoline

So, one of the cool things about living at grandma's house is that they have a trampoline.  For a two year old, this is a dream come true.  When we first arrived, I could keep the kid off of the trampoline.  In fact, on one occasion I came upstairs from putting Pyper down for a nap to try to find Brady.  I kept calling his name and he didn't respond.  I finally thought I would check outside and or course, there he was jumping on the trampoline.  He decided that he wanted to jump to he crawled out the doggie door to make it happen.

Since then, however, it has been quite cold so we have had to figure out some alternate activities.  Well...grandma's bed made the team.  Now whenever I am looking for him, I go directly to grandma's bed.  One cool thing about grandma's bed is that there is a mirror.  My Brady is just a little bit vain at this point in life.  His next favorite thing after jumping is probably making faces at himself in the mirror.  So, I guess grandma's bed is the perfect combination. I don't really know how grandma feels about this new found toy, but I think I'll just plead the fifth if she asks me anything about it.

Oh yeah, and one other thing about this video clip.  Brady has recently been wanting Pyper to participate in our conversations.  Whenever he wants Pyper to have a turn to talk he says, "Pyper's turn" in a super high, squeaky voice and then expects me to be the voice.  If I don't do it right, he will keep saying "Pyper's turn. Pyper's turn" until I get the exact right intonation.  I guess we know who is the boss in our family.

Life in Utah

So, I decided that I should probably start blogging again. I was just reading some of my friends blogs from California and it reminded me how much I miss all of them.  Miss you guys!!!!

Anyway, life is good so far....other than the fact that our car was stolen, it snows pretty much every other day, and John is not quite yet in love with his new job. Bummer!  I've decided it's all a learning process and there is a reason we are here now and who knows where this new adventure will take us.

However, having said all that...I do love being with family!  Brady LOVES living with grandma and grandpa and Buddy (the dog of course).  One of the new found loves in Brady's life is the drinking fountain at grandma's house.  Not only does Brady love to fill up Buddy's water dish (especially when it's already full of water, which usually ends up with the an empty water dish and VERY wet Brady), but he also love giving Thomas drinks from the fountain....of course!!!  How thoughtful right? At least once a day, we are cleaning up water or dog food from this room.  That's why Brady is so vigilant in this video clip as he is trying to clean up his mess.