Eleven Months!

COLLEGE FOOTBALL HAS STARTED!

Well I guess I should have realized the last time I posted that I would be an every other month blogger! I can't believe how busy life got and how little time I have had to actually sit down and work on something for more than a few minutes!


This could be a long entry because I have a month and a half of information to send! In the time since I lost posted Brody started taking his first steps, crawling and has had 8 more teeth come in (the first set of molars came in at the same time)! We have been camping a few times and also to Pennsylvania to visit Jim's family.

Brody's First Steps (Back on 8/14/08)

Brody on the move (he learned to crawl the week before Labor Day)

Everything has been going really well with us - it has been so amazing to see Brody transform so much in the last few months - I can't believe my little baby is only one month from being a YEAR OLD! It seems like he has grown up way too fast!!!

Jim's Mom had given Brody this Thomas the Train for Christmas - he LOVES to ride it around the house (but it kills our backs pushing!)

In the next few weeks we have a lot of doctor's appointments for Brody. He has to go for an MRI next Friday because his head was in the 110th percentile at his 9 month visit - you may remember that we had an ultrasound of his brain done when he was 4 months old (those results were normal). Since his head has continued to grow this will be the final test to show that everything is fine - they get worried when a babys head grows too fast/large because it could be because there is fluid collecting in the brain. Since Brody is developing normally that is very unlikely but of course we want to rule out everything. The worst part of Friday will be that he has to be sedated to undergo the MRI so Jim and I will not be with him for about 45 minutes while he is sedated...I think that will be the longest 45 minutes of our lives! The other doctor's appointment will be with the allergist. We tried to make an appointment with a pulmonologist back in May but when received the appt date it was in December. When Brody was suppose to have his original appointment for the MRI back August the doctor there recommended that we go to an allergist because Brody at that time had too much congestion to safely undergo the sedation. Our appt is in mid October so hopefully after that we will know whether Brody has allergies, asthma or a combination of both!

Brody and his cousins (Sydney and Dylan) taking a bath at Jim's Parent's House

Jim traveled for the first time in a while last week. Brody and I were on our own from Monday thru Thursday night. It was a big change from when Jim traveled and Brody wasn't on the move! I ate my dinner on the move pretty much every night - but we had so much fun! He is so fun to play with and ready books with! He was even nice enough to sleep in each morning until after I was ready for work!

Brody's 10 Month Pictures

I hope everyone had a great summer! Sorry for the delay in writing! My plan is to get back on track now that the weather has gotten cooler and we are only planning on going on one more camping trip this season.

We went camping this weekend (Yes in all the rain!). Brody and Jim made the best of it!

This was Brody shortly after the above video!

While we were unpacking the camper - Brody was unpacking the truck! Jim found his sitting in his carseat opening all of the buns!

Bath time is so much fun!