Taking off

Yesterday Braylen was pulling at his walker toy, so i pulled it out. He grabbed right on and took off walking. I took him outside and let him loose. I uploaded a video on you tube so it's with the rest of the videos on the right.

Two other new things he's doing is high fives. If you hold up your hand and say give me five he puts up his for you to smack. Also if you say, "How big is braylen?" he will hold up his arms and you say "SO BIG!"

First Tooth

Thursday Braylen's first tooth cut through.

I also keep forgetting to blog about his weird fetish. Braylen loves feet. Gross I know. Up until recently he would attack everyone else's feet and try to suck on them but he has know found his feet. well he did a couple weeks ago. but still he know has his own feet to suck on. Every once in a while he will go for my feet but he's pretty content with his own.

Just for Walter

So my mom always raves how Braylen sucks his blanket just like Walter used to. So the picture is for you Walt.

Compacting Clothes

I've been meaning to blog about these space vacuum bags for a while now. I was at work when I found out that we sold them and they were on clearance. The lady I sold them to swore by them. I've been wondering about them because i thought it be a good idea for braylens to small clothes. I bought a couple packs and started to put all his clothes into the biggest cube. I couldn't believe it I fit 2 1/2 tubs into the biggest cube and it still wasn't full but what was amazing was when I sucked all the air out it was about the size of 1 tub.

(2 1/2 of these =...)

(not even a full one of these.)

Not Enough

Last week Nicole told me that Walter yelled at her because she doesn't put up enough pictured and mentioned that I don't either. Today my mom told me that Walter told her that to and that I don't even have to blog to just put up pictures. My thinking is if he's mad at Nicole for not putting up enough pictures then he must REALLY mad at me.

(he was eating a bitter biscuit)

I've been giving Braylen puffs and cheerios for a while now, so I figured i could let him feed himself for breakfast. Well i wont be doing that for a while. It took him forever and he kept gagging. I guess i have to wait til he has a couple teeth to let him feed himself.

One last thing. He loves mirrors. Every morning if i stop at the mirror on my door he smiles so big and usually kisses himself.

The ER visit

On monday I took Braylen into the doctor's because I thought something was wrong but he was ok. Well that's not the story now. He was fine this morning when he woke up. I went to school and when I got home he was napping. He woke up a different baby. He was really whiney and did but didn't want to be held. I wasn't going to go to work but my mom told me too, that she could handle it. Apparently after me and my dad left (he went to get my uncle Danny from the airport) Braylen got worse. I was at work for around a half hour when I was paged to answer a phone line. I knew what it was. I left work and took him straight to the ER at St. John West Shore. They checked his ears, swabbed for RSV, and took chest X-rays. He has a double ear infection and bronchiolitis. They gave him Children's Motrin and Tylenol. He was prescribed amoxicillin and breathing treatments. You could see the Motrin kicking in because he slowly became normal. So now I have my Braylen back to normal.

Another Month

My baby is know 7 months old today, and boy is he growing. It's funny because now he knows what the camera is so if he's doing something and I want to get a picture of it he stops and smiles for the camera. He is now getting around the furniture pretty good, claps but only when he wants to, and balances on his own. It's only a matter of time. Before he used to army crawl but now he crawls normal but only if he's not in a hurry or tired. he's like a little puppy now too. Right after I feed him, if he sees me eating he's at my lap begging. Oh he's also learned to stick his tongue out. It's the funniest thing.


On to me. I started school 2 weeks ago and let me tell you I'm beat. The first week of school I worked 35.5 hrs, went to school full time, did homework and took care of Braylen. This week wasn't too bad I worked less but everything else is the same. I knew it wasn't going to be easy but I have to do it for a better life. I told my work that I can't work more then 25 hrs but no less then 20 which is going to help a lot. School this semester I thought was going to be really hard because of the classes I'm taking but it's going to be easy as long as I read my books. I'm taking my last math and english, child development, and world civilization.