Brady's New Chair

It is about impossible find something with Brady's name on it, no pencils, no cups or license plates. For some silly reason I always enjoyed this items that where already pre labeled as mine. I saw this chair a few months ago and decided that we must get it for Brady's Birthday. He seems to really enjoy it. He doesn't sit in it for long periods of time, but loves pushing it around and using it to get up on things.

Checking out the chair, not sure what to think.

Still checking it out.His first attempt using it as a climbing tool.

Oh, you are suppose to sit in it.

This seems to be how he prefers to use it.

Birthday Party!

We celebrated Brady's 1st Birthday on Saturday. He had a great time. He also enjoyed spending the day with his family and friends.

Happy Birthday!

Happy 1st Birthday Brady Boy!

Brady's 1st Year Slide Show

Catching Up

Sorry for the lack of post recently. Here are some pictures of what Brady has been up to.

Broccoli Mac and Cheese

I have been trying to figure out some ideas of new things to feed Brady that are not over processed or completely premade from the store. Also not a ton of extra work at each meal time. Someone awhile back suggested Mac and Cheese to me, but after looking at the box and noticing the huge sodium content there was no way I could make that a regular part of his diet. We are by no means the healthiest eaters out there, but I try my best to make better choices for us.
Then it dawned on me to make my own mac and cheese, I just used a regular recipe for mac and cheese. I cut out most of the seasoning since it was for Brady and added some broccoli. I think the grand total of sodium for the entire batch was less than one serving of the pre made stuff. I then put it in lightly greased muffin tins, this is so I could freeze what Brady will not eat in the next few days. I cover it with low sodium panko bread crumbs. It turned out great and Brady seem to enjoy eating. I think I may add some sort of meat next I make, who knows.
I will also try to post any other food ideas I come up with. Also please share if you have any food ideas for Brady.

Before I baked them.

After they cooled.

Top view.

Brady loved it, I tried some too and it was pretty darn good!

Playing at the Park

Brady had a great time playing with Grandma and Grandpa at The Park.

My Little Dare Devil

For some reason I have feeling this is going to be the first of many post about the daring ideas Brady gets. Since all three of these incidents happened during a two day time span. I seriously cannot turn my head for a few seconds.
Brady appears to be practicing his acrobat skills, maybe he has a future doing shows in Vegas.

He apparently got frustrated with my attempts to block the stairs with extra tall baby gates. He pushed his dump-truck up to the banister and attempted to climb to the stairs. After this incident the dump-truck got moved to another room.

The the next day Brady figured out how to climb on the coffee table. He thought he was pretty sly crawling around the table. Thankfully he hasn't tried to do this again.

Halfway to the North Pole

We took a really random drive to Alpena last week and found this sign along the side of the highway. So I guess if we had started at the Equator we would of been halfway to the North Pole.

Remembering

I can still remember this day to every detail, including what I was wearing and who I talked to. We will never forget.

Swimming

Brady loves swimming. He was finally able to take a dip in the lake this weekend. Every weekend we visited the cottage this summer it was just to darn cold for him to go swimming. Ryan and him went everyday during our stay at the cottage.

A Boat Ride

Slinky Fun

Ryan found a slinky while packing his stuff to move last week. Brady thought it was amazing. They spent a good 20 minutes playing with it on the stairs at our old apartment.

Oma

This past week we said goodbye to Ryan's Oma (Grandma). Here are just a few of the pictures that I have of us with her. I really wish right now that I could find the pictures from her 80th birthday party, I think they are on my other computer. That was the day I first meet Oma. It is truly amazing to think how one persons choices can leave such a deep impact on your life. This past week I have found myself wondering what would of happen if The Klementowski's had not came to the United States, I know that my life would not be what is right now.

Brady, Oma, and Caleb at Christmas

Christmas

Oma meeting Brady for the first time, he was 1 month and 1 day old.

Christmas 2007, I think I promised to email this picture and I never did. So if you wanted please feel free to save a copy for yourself.

At our wedding

Family Picture

Here is the picture of everyone after the funeral. I tried to edited it to make it a little better. If you would like to save the picture for yourself you just need to right click on it and select save as picture. Also please free to come back and visit Brady's blog, I try my best to keep it up to date with the happenings in Brady's world.