It's "boy-hawk" time!!!!

I have been waiting so long for this!!! Finally Brax has enough hair for me to give him little mowhawk!! I just snapped with my little point anf shoot so Ihope you can see it well enough!!! Once it grows in a little more I will trim it up! :)

Our first family walk!

Now that the weather is starting to warm up w were able to take Brax on his first walk! (thanks for the hat, Jack ... and the snowsuit thing, Easton!). There is a cool pond by our house so we took him down there! He has HATED the front pack since he was born, so I finally felt like he was big enough to turn him around and that I think did the trick! I don't think he wanted to look at my collar bone! Can you blame him?!?! He had a great time looking at the ducks in the water!

Is this the cutest boy in the world or what?!?!?!

Bouncie Chair Olympics! Brax got Gold!!!!

Who says you only get to wear it once?!?

So, I was putting away some of Braxton's clothes in his closet and I came across a big white bag .... so naturally. I asked Brax, "Do you want to see Mommy in her wedding dress?" and I took his smile and drool to mean yes. I ate lunch in it and even changed Braxton's diaper in it! By the end if the day I packed it back up until the next time it catches my eye..... :)

What a baby SHOULD look like :)

So here is what a new baby should look like! Emma is only 6 weeks younger than Braxton and HALF the size! Brax is going to take her for a ride on his big green tractor in a few years :)

Braxton's new girlfriend, Emma!

Our good friends, Matt and Wendi, came home from DC for a long weekend, so I -- of course -- took pictures of Braxton's girlfriend, Emma! She's only 5 weeks younger than Brax! For those of you who know Abbey, you can probably tell these girls are sisters. Emma is almost a spitting image of Abbey from when she was born! Makes me wonder if we have another boy if I'll get another cutie patoootie like my Braxamus Maximus!

Check out him in his overalls! He's channeling a choo choo train conductor :)

To my 3 month old....

Braxton:

I just wanted to say how much I love you! I cannot believe how much my love for you has grown over the past three months. It's hard to describe even the way I feel about you! You have made me realize that while I was so happy before you --- you have completed a part of my life I didn't even know I was missing! Since my last post to you, here are even more things I love about you:
• the way you make Dinosaur noises
• when I look at you and give you a big smile, you smile back and stick your tounge out!
• how you sleep with both your arms above your head like a "touchdown" position
• how your eyes get sleepy as soon as I start to sing your bedtime song
• how you hold my fingers with your hands when you're nursing
• how I felt when you laughed for the first time last week when I was singing you a song
• how you love the "stand up/sit down" game
• the way you grab your toes during naked jaybird time
• the way you always fart in your bathtub :)
• the way you cuddle with me in the morning after your breakfast
• and the way you stretch and your legs so super straight, feet point up, and your neck disappears!
• how you have my skin :)
• and how you melt my heart when I watch you sleep each night

I love you more than I could ever ever tell you. I was telling my friend just the other day that I don't even know if it's possible for me to love another child as much as him! I was scared to have another one! But she assured me that as soon as the next one's born, the love just continues.

A year ago today I was pregnant with you and didn't even know. You were our little secret baby who was just meant to be here! And I'm so happy you chose us to be your Mommy and Daddy!

You have made my life enormously better and I love you more every day we spend together!

You're mine and Daddy's best friend :) We love you, Baby Balooga!

V-Day!

I did one of Southridge's coaches a favor and took a team pic for a program booklet...while we were there I found a HS collage of Senior athletes that had my charming hubby circa 2000! See below! And while I was waiting I had to get some pics of the cutest boy in the world!

Southridge HS also does advertising for me so I took a picture of the banner with my logo on it! They kind of stretched it weird, but oh well ... not much I can do about it now!

And also in the mix is a pic from Blake and I last night on date night! We went to a great dinner at Monoroso's (cool old dinner train!) then to the movie Valentines Day, then to get ice cream, then home! He surprised me with beautiful roses and my favorite chocolate covered strawberries and even a card written by my 3-month old himself :)

Love you baby! Happy Valentines Day to my two favorite boys!!!

I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaack!

So, did you all think I fell off a cliff? Well, I didn't! I have been horrible at posting and normally I am really good! Somehow these last two weeks have been super busy! We had our friends Pete and Julie come into town: (check my photog blog for their engagement pics! http://www.brittneyklusephotography.com/blog) and that was so fun and then I've been busy with shoots and hanging out with my favorite little boy in the world!

Below is a pic I got today of him smiling! Just the other day he gave his first laugh! It is seriously the sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeetest sound in the world! He's only done it another handful of times, but more laughs are surely on the way! I just can't wait for the next one! Ohhh I just love him so much!!!

In cool news for me (I shared this on my photog blog, but forgot to on this one!). I was recently asked by one of our area hospitals (Kennewick General Hopsital) to be one of two exclusive photographers to provide photos for their Birth Center!!! And the Children's Hospital Harvest Ball Committee (their largest fund raising event) have asked me to take the photos for this year's program! Wahoooooooo! That will be great exposure because it is sent to 1500 Tri-Citians!!

That's all on this front! For Vday my hubby has a cool Saturday evening planned so I'll take pics and post! Nana and Papa (my folks) are going to take Braxton so we get a date night and they get 3's company :)