New Year 2011

Happy 2011! We have been having a great new year thus far. To celebrate New Years we went to the Bulls Game. We were excited to go and take Brayden to his first game---but I was really nervous about how a one year old would do sitting in close quarters for that amount of time. We got to the stadium pretty early, so we got to explore the United Center. Brayden liked exploring and checking out all the Bulls stuff. They also let you go front row to view practice, so we got up close and watched the Bulls practice too. Brayden was GLUED to the game---he literally sat so still for the first 2 quarters and halftime....but after that he lost interest. We stayed until the 4th quarter and then made our break before all craziness broke loose. But---I was impressed that he made it that long! The Bulls beat New Jersey and what a great way to celebrate New Years!









All of our partying wore us out...

Brayden got this musical dog from his great-grandma for Christmas....he sings and he dances....and he plays with this toy constantly...how he LOVES musical toys

We went to meet one of Aaron's good friends from high school for dinner one night. He and his wife were in town visiting family, so we were able to get together and have our kids meet for the first time. The kids are only about 3 weeks apart--and they were hilarious at dinner! They kept each other entertained by drumming, laughing, pointing and more...we actually had about a 2 hour dinner/visit...and the kids were content in their highchairs the whole time---that never happens!!

Boxes can be fun toys too!

Tonight I let Brayden finger-paint for the first time. Aaron was not so sure about attempting this feat---but it was fun---of course he tried to eat the paint---I am pretty sure he got a lick or 2 in---but it was overall a success. He made his first art project (which of course is proudly displayed on the fridge) and then he was off to the bath...