talking

Braedyn has been talking A LOT lately. He's been getting better at chaining words together, mostly 2 or 3 at a time. The other day he just threw a bunch together to make his first pseudo sentance!

Alphabet

Braedyn has been working on his alphabet a lot lately. He's been getting pretty good at recognizing the letters and can get pretty much all of them when he wants to...

Summer???

Although this was one of Braedyn's favorite beach parks it was a little cold yet for spashing around in the water, so he had to make do with throwing some rocks.

 
 
 

Another perfect day for being outside.

 
 
 

Playing in the Front yard

This week has been beautiful in Washington, the temp was a little colder than normal, but the sun was shining all week. Braedyn spent every possible minute of it outside!

 
 
 
 

Skiing

Mike and Rob took the morning away from their favorite kids to get some backcountry skiing in. This was the only picture I took as the snow was too nice to stop for pictures while going down.

 

Chores

We've been trying to give Braedyn some regular chores around the house. He helpes pick up all his toys, put his shoes away, and now he is in charge of feeding Dori.

All sudsed up...

and no place to go.
 

Young Jedi Knight in the making

He was a little scared of his first lightsaber, but now the force is strong with him and he doesn't go anywhere without it. Braedyn practicing his Luke Skywalker pose.

 

We had such a nice day this past Saturday that we headed out for a short little bike ride down to the nieghborhood coffee shop.
 

Braedyn Owen Davis

Puddles

It's clearly the rainy season in the Pacific Northwest! This may make the adults a listtle bluesy and yearning for the sun, but to a toddler there is always a bright side to everything. In this case the bright side manifests itself in endless puddles. Braedyn has had a fascination with puddles since he could move one foot far enough to stomp in them. Now that he's growing it just means he can get to them faster, make bigger splashes, go in deeper ones, throw bigger rocks in them, and so on. There really is no downside to anything here....

 
 
 

mmmm, chili....

With the weather being cold and wet lately, Braedyn has been craving some of mommy's special chili....

Rocking out

There are a lot of instruments to choose from in Braedyn's music storage box. The ones that are out the most and making the noise most of the time are the drums and cymbals. He ju stloves banging away on these things morning, noon and night...

Playing Catch

Braedyn is getting a lot more interested in playing ball lately. He has always been good at throwing, but is now starting to realize that it's fun to try to catch it too!

Uncle Isaac

Hanging out with Uncle Isaac who is here for a visit with his girlfriend Jana.

walk

Museum of Flgiht

As Isaac and Jana were in town we took the morning to head down to the Museum of Flight with Braedyn. He wasn't too interested in things there as it was a little too hands off for a 2 year old to deal with. The little kids area was fun for awhile though!

Happy Year!

Well, it's now 2008 and what a year we had in 2007! It was marked by all kinds of change in our lives and we're excited to look back on it with happiness and excitement. We had so many fun times with friends and family, we moved, we explored and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves while doing. There were some tough time in there as well, but we have so much to be thankful for in the year past. We made a move to Washington for a new job that has turned out to be a great move for Michael, he is really enjoying his work at Microsoft. Talisha has been enjoying here time she gets to spend with Braedyn and her new friends, and still somehow finds time to stay in shape and work out a the local gym. We saw our little baby boy grow into a self-thinking little toddler who can walk and talk and get dirty and smile and throw a mean tantrum! We found a house that we are just in love with, and we kept a 4lb dog alive all at the same time!

Happy New Year from our little family to yours! Following is a recap of our year in pictures. We've chosen a few pictures from each month of the year that represented our experience. There are so many other images (4087 to be exact) that could have been chosen, but we thought these were the best.

December

The last month of the year was one of joy! We got to experience our first wet, Washington snow (which makes very good snowmen), spent time with lots of friends at parties and just around, did a lot of baking in an attempt to make mommy worry about how much she was eating, took a couple of sledding expeditions, visited the acquarium, and did more exploring of our new surroundings. We got to spend the holidays as a small family and just enjoy hanging out together with the extra time off we had.

November

November was marked by lots more leaves falling, and now that we had a house it meant we got to pick them up. At least we have a son now to do all of the work around the yard! We spent lots of time exploring the neighborhood and the nearby woods and river with the nice trail by it. We also got to go to the Science Center and some other Seattle fun spots for kids. Thanksgiving time saw us flying back to Iowa for some holiday time with family which included an always favorite trip out to the farm!

October

October was lots of fun with the colors changing and the leaves falling here in Washington. The excitement of this month was our new house that we bought in Redmond. What a blessing that was!