My little Monkey

May 12, 2008

Brant really loves bananas and often asks for us to pick some up when he comes grocery shopping with us. I took some pictures of our little monkey eating his banana like a big boy at the table. He got upset each time we took the banana away to peel some more of the peel off for him to eat more banana. He is such a silly little monkey, and we love him. Here are some pictures of my little monkey.

Mother's Day

Brant and Jason sent me some beautiful tullips to school for an early Mother's Day gift. On Mother's Day Jason and Brant also gave me a gift card to get a 90 minute massage and I can't wait until I go get that done. On Sunday afternoon we all went out to lunch with my parents, and my sister and her husband Ryan. We had lunch and then Maureen, Mom, and I all went to go see Made of Honor at the movie theater. We had a great time having some girl time and seeing the chick flick (the movie was really cute). I got home and then spent some time with my two best guys (Jason and Brant) and then we put Brant to bed. It was a wonderful Mother's Day this year. I am also happy to say that my sister Maureen is pregnant and we now know that she will be having a baby BOY in October. I can't wait to meet my new nephew and I'm sure that he and Brant will have some fun times together once he arrives. I can't wait for my sister to experience the joy have had since I had Brant. Having a little boy is such a blessing, and I am so glad that she will be able to experience the same. Here is a picture of the tullips that my boys got me for Mother's Day.

Sorry about the delayed blogging

Sorry it has been so long since I blogged, but I'll be catching up in the next few posts on a few things with some pictures for you.

First Zoo Visit!

We went to the Fort Worth Zoo together as a family on Saturday. Brant had so much fun looking at all the animals. His favorite part was when we took him on the train at the zoo. He got really upset though when we missed being part of the first group to go on the train because there was no room for his stroller. He was very excited once he got to get on the train and was listening for it while we waited and told us when he heard it. Brant has been telling us about the animals he saw. He usually mentions the monkeys first and reminds me that they were making a mess (one of the chimps was tearing up a paper bag and throwing it around) and then says that they were "silly monkeys". He also liked seeing the kangaroos and the pink flamingos. Here are some of the pictures from our zoo experience over the weekend.

The Flamingos

Looking at the flamingos

Looking backwards for Mommy

Posing, or not really posing in front of the Fort Worth Zoo picture background.

One of the kangaroos that would pose for the camera

Looking through the glass at the crocodiles

One of the crocodiles

Happily waiting for our turn on the train (but only happily waiting for a little while)

Sitting on the train waiting to start the ride

Mommy and Brant on the train

Sitting with Daddy looking ahead as the train gets ready to go

Our zoo train

Waving to the animals as we pull away

This is Brant's silly, messy "monkey"

At the Park with Elmo

I took Brant to the park on Thursday and he wanted to take Elmo out of the car with him. He took him around the park sent him down the slide first and the went down himself and a few times went down holding Elmo with him. He had a great time at the park with his buddy Elmo, but he did have to tell Elmo sorry a few times for throwing him onto the ground. Here are some pictures I took with my camera phone since I didn't have my camera with me (sorry they aren't as good quality).

P.S. Check out his shirt it reads "I look like Mom I act like Dad" I couldn't resist buying that one. He may look like me, but he has his Daddy's great happy and fun personality.

Outside Time

Brant and I spent a little time outside yesterday. I was just taking him outside to play on his new slide that he got from his Grandma and Grandpa and his Aunt Mo and Uncle Ryan. He loves his new slide, but then our neighbors dogs (on both sides) started barking and he took it upon himself to tell them they were not supposed to be barking. He went to both fences telling them "No Bark! Doggie, NO BARK!" even though it just made them bark more. He seems to enjoy telling them to stop so he spent some time doing that and then running around in the backyard, but he did stop for a bit to give the tree in the backyard some love. Brant wants to keep our backyard clean so when he found a Sprite Zero can he kept trying to throw it over the fence into the neighbors yard behind us, but he could never get it to go high enough to go over. After several attempts we took the can and then put it in our recycling bin. We had a fun time in the backyard and I'm so glad that we put it to use more now that Brant is in our lives, we never really used the backyard at the old house except to let the dogs outside. Brant definitely keeps us on our toes and helps keep us more active since he is a VERY active boy.

Playing on the slide:

Playing by the fence after yelling at the dogs.

Posing for the camera

Sweet boy!

Running in the backyard

Throwing the can

"That's How You Know"

Brant loves the movie Enchanted. We have watched it several times together and he watched it this morning with his Daddy. I downloaded the song "That's How You Know" from iTunes and was playing it and he came in and started dancing and trying to sing along, and I was able to capture some video of him doing this.

*Please ignore my messy scrapbooking room and the few parts I'm trying to encourage him to sing myself.*

Here he is dancing (mostly with a flashlight he finds in my scraproom) and singing (a little bit) to "That's How You Know" from the Disney movie Enchanted.