Playing with the Big Kids

Brady's very favorite things in the world are car related.  So when we were at the park and he saw a large remote control car he was in love.  He played with the boys, shared his match box cars and put them in the back of the truck so they could catch a ride.

Sunglasses

Brady and Noelle think it's hilarious to walk around the house with sunglasses.  Never outside the house... but inside it's really cool.

This is a special set of photos of Brady going "shopping" with a cart full of cars, Noelle's jeweled sunglasses and daddy's shoes.

And here's Noelle with her dog and her "purse," which is a Cars basket.

Her Doggy

In the span of 24 hours, Noelle became very attached to a couple stuffed animals.  And by attached, I mean carries them EVERYWHERE and gets really angry if she sees it and can't have it.  Her two favorites: a little dog and pooh bear.  Here's Noelle holding her dog while she eats.  Yes, while she eats because it's really not worth the fight.  We've tried.

A Weekend Without Daddy

Sean spent a weekend in Ohio while I hung out with the kids alone.  We all survived and I'm due a nice anniversary gift, or so I've been told. 

Brady started one morning playing with his cars... and doing so was so important that regular clothes and really pants weren't important at all.

We also spent some time hanging out in a diaper box.  It may have been the highlight of the weekend from their perspective.

Here, Brady's trying to close himself entirely into the box.  I had to explain how (1) he was too big to do so and more importantly (2) it might be a bit dangerous to close himself into a box.

Fashion Sense

Brady is very adamant about choosing his own clothes.  Whether they match is not really up for discussion.  And at home, pants are optional.  Fireman rain boots, however, are not.

No Nap Days

For the past couple months, Brady has decided that about once a week, he won't nap at daycare.  It's not that he doesn't need the nap, he just chooses not to listen and take a nap.  Without fail, after school, he falls asleep in the car on the way home and then usually is super cranky until bedtime.  The evening usually consists of lots of crying, whining and tantrums. 

However, there was one occasion where Brady woke up as we came into the house, but then fell back asleep on me when I sat down on the couch with him.  For like 40 minutes.  He hasn't fallen asleep on me in at least a year.  It was so cute I had to document it:

And here's how he looks when he falls asleep on the way home from school:

Underwear?!?!?!

So we started to potty train Brady after the 4th.  The first weekend went really well.  We even tried big boy underwear (hence the following pictures).  BUT we quickly learned that Brady likes to pee tiny amounts like every 20 minutes and didn't seem to have any motivation to hold it until he got to the potty.  He also decided (after 2 days of pooping on the potty) that he much prefers to poop in his diaper. 

So for now, we use the potty but he's back in diapers.  We need to get a bad weather weekend and have him run around naked... we probably won't post photos of that ;)