Pet Shop

Well I can officially say that we are stocked up when it comes to pets around here. Two cats, a fish, and a dog...its just right...but I defiantly don't want anything else. We had pictures of everyone with Lando except for me so I had Drew to take a few...this is the only decent one...the rest are very unflattering...such as the one that Drew took the night after this picture of me asleep on the couch, in my night shirt, with my mouth open and Lando asleep on my belly...horrendous! Lando and Braylon do great, but I think that Lando thinks that I am his person and Braylon is his really cool toy.

I found this the other morning...apparently Sabien and Todd have been playing ring after the rest of us go to bed.


















And here is Azzy trying to figure out what that blue thing floating in her water bowl is.

Braylon's Brother, Donovan David

Today makes a year since we lost Donovan. We didn't get to bring him home, but he will always be with us.

Here is a picture of me and Bray right before we brought him home from the hospital...my lots to love baby!

Pop Quiz

I saw this "quiz" on another blog and thought it might be fun to do with Braylon.

1. How old are you? Holds up 3 fingers

2. How old is mommy? "5"

3. How old is daddy? "5"

3. How do you bake a cake? "If there's a grown up"

4. What is daddy's name? "Andrew"

5. When is your birthday? Holds up 4 fingers

6. What is your favorite color? "yellow and green and blue and red"

7. What is your favorite animal? "bears and dinosaurs and zebras"

8. What do you want to be when you grow up? "uh, Luke Skywalker"
....guess what Braylon chose to be for Halloween this year?

Here are some flashback pictures of previous Halloweens:

(I am posting these because this year was the first year Braylon spoke up and said what he wanted to be...goodbye cute costumes....)

First Halloween. Is this not the cutest little lion you have ever seen?

2nd Halloween...Yoda...Dad's year to pick the costume, but Bray sure knew how to make Yoda cute.
...the whole Star Wars Family

Last Halloween...my funky chicken.

Last Weekend

We had a busy but fun weekend.

Friday John, Stephanie, and Paige, and John's brothers and sister-in-law came over to our house for a basketball party and dinner. After dinner the kids built a "cave" in the living room.

Saturday we went to the Mountaineer game. After the late night partying the night before, this was Braylon the whole first half...but he did wake up in time to enjoy the band at half time and the second half of the game. Then after the game we stopped by to have a turn on Paige's slide and get a hug...or two.Sunday we just hung out at the house and relaxed. We finally got to just let Lando play around in the yard. He and Braylon got to have a good romp!

As I feared, our perfect puppy is turning out not to be so perfect. He is still a very good dog (and so very cute), but now that he is feeling better and getting used to the place we are going to have to take away his perfect title.

Meet Lando

Our big boy has not been sucking his fingers for months now and today we were finally able to follow through on our end of the bargain and get him a puppy (with the much appreciated help of MaMaw and PaPaw).Thanks MaMaw and PaPaw for the special delivery!

The first hug (or choke hold).

After throwing around a ton of names such as Tito, Tackles, Pat White (yes he seriously suggested naming the dog Pat White), a bunch of nonsense words, and Star Wars names: ChewBarka, Darth Vader, Darth Sidious, C3Po, and R2D2 we finally just had to limit Braylon to 3 names to choose from. Drew liked Victor, we both liked Amos (Amos is the dog in Drew's fav. children's book), and I liked Lando, which was in my opinion the best option from the Star Wars names Braylon had mentioned ...it reflects Bray's current Star Wars craze and sounds like a pretty cool dog name. At first Bray refused to pick. Then as we were taking the pup out for a walk he said "come on Lando"...so Lando it is. Lando settled right in. He seems to be a very smart, good dog. He did well on his walk tonight (he walked the whole loop around the neighborhood and did not pee until one step back into our yard...pretty cool coincidence or we just adopted the worlds smartest dog from the pound) then as soon as we brought him back in he laid down on his bed to sleep. Braylon wanted Lando to sleep with him but his Dad was very against that so he settled for bringing his pillow down and laying with the pup on his bed...he covered him up and Lando just laid there. Braylon read Lando a couple of bed time stories, told him the story of the Little Boy Who Cried Wolf (which has become his favorite), told him some ghost stories, then had to kiss him and tell him good night. The cutest thing...for those of you who haven't heard Drew and Bray's bed time routine it goes like this "I love you Braylon", "I love you Daddy", "Good night", "Good night", "Sleep well", "Sleep well", "You're my special little man", "You're my special little man too"... they have been doing this for as long as Bray could talk. Well anyway before Braylon could go to bed he said "I love you Lando, Good night, Sleep well, You're my special little dog." Too adorable! Then to top it all off, as I was tucking him in Braylon said "tomorrow I am going to tell Carson and Justin that I got a new dog and his name is Lando Calrissian and they will say Lando Calweessian and I will say no, Lando Calrissian!" I have a feeling you will be seeing a lot more of Lando in the future.

The gold and the blue

Braylon after a touch down...This is how I felt the whole game...finally some decent play calling!

Braylon BooBoo and Papaw

uhhhhhhhhhh...hoo, hoo, hoo....first down!

This is what I call our Mommy and Reluctant Me pic.

Star Wars: Return of the Zoo Animals

Braylon's obsession with Star Wars continues. The other night I went into his room to find this set up. Apparently, in Braylon's mind, zoo animals will be the mode of transportation in the next star war. To go along with Braylon starting to play more on his own and his very good imagination, Braylon's vocabulary is also developing. Earlier in the week when mom and dad were here with their puppy Maggie Blue, Braylon said, "I like Maggie, she's marvelous!" And yesterday before the game Bray set up his stuffed animals facing each other on teams and announced as he pointed to one team: "This team is impressive." He is such a nut...but I sure do love him...no one can bring a smile to my face like he can!