At the airport on our way to Iowa we ran into our friends Cordell and Becky Baanhoffman, with their 14th month old baby Adelain (not sure on spelling).

Braedyn opening up one of his presents. He had a hard time keeping Dori away from all of the wrapping paper.

Christmas Books

Aunt Michelle sent Braedyn some good learning books.

Christmas Dinner with Family

We had some family over for a Christmas dinner. Mark and Margie, Dori, Aunt Kay, Braedyn, Mike and Talisha, Uncle Wayne.

Braedyn and Mommy Christmas pictures

Here's Braedyn with his name tag ornament from the small tree. He wanted to get a taste for his name...


Braedyn and Mommy posing in front of the small tree.


Braedyn and mommy in front of the live, potted Christmas tree.

A Box full of toys

Here's Braedyn looking for some toys in his toybox that Grandpa Davis made him.

Laughing at Finkelhopper Frog

Mommy was reading Braedyn's favorite book, Finkelhopper Frog, and Braedyn couldn't help but laugh....

Looking for socks

Braedyn picking out some socks to match his outfit that he is going to wear for Christmas dinner tonight.

Secret Cave

Braedyn believes that he has discovered a secret cave with a portal to another world in it, but alas it is just the tupperware cabinet...

Poop Canyon

We had a bit of a snow storm here, we ended up with a little over 2 feet of snow at our house. Which just meant that we had to shovel out a canyon for our prissy, little, accessory dog to be able to use the bathroom. She did not like the snow one bit and will be very glad to move to Seattle where she will only have to deal with hordes of rain and mud.

Toast for Breakfast

Braedyn loves big chunks of toast because he likes to be in control of his own eating and not have someone shoving food down his throat, and with the toast he is able to pick it up and stuff it in his mouth eventually.....

House for sale!

Anyone want to buy our house?

http://realtor.com/Prop/1073222986

http://www.zillow.com/HomeDetails.htm?zprop=49457600

Another 9 Month picture

New Phone Number

We have a new home phone number, although our old one will continue to work for quite a while, it is: 1-(425)-818-5186. Both of our cell phone numbers are the same.

Braedyn negotiating some obstructions to get to what he wants!

Santa Clause is coming to town

Here's Braedyn with Santa finally (after a looooooong line). He spent about an hour telling Santa all the things that he wanted for Christmas, and then got fed up with Santa not remembering so he just gave him the url for his Amazon wish list! Well, maybe not, but at least he wasn't scared and seemed to have fun. Santa gave him a little Christmas book afterwards which Braedyn immediately ate!

We had a pre-santa lunch at Bloom at the mall with Mike and Kelly Hobbes with Braedyn's buddy Kai.

Dressed up for Santa

Braedyn was very excited to go see Santa. He even got all dressed up for the big day!

9 months old
 

Another of our favorite 9 month pictures

A short video of Braedyn doing some impact testing on daddy's laptop to ensure that the keyboard will stand up to blunt force trauma.

Braedyn's getting some more early introductions to climbing, learning the ropes (ha ha).

A couple more pics from Braedyn's recent photo shoot. (Link to all pictures in next post)

Braedyn's 9 month pictures are now online. See them at
http://jameephotography.lifepics.com/index.cfm enter event code "davis".

Here's a short video of Braedyn eating. He really loves the little sweet potato puffs we got him and can't seem to get enough of them.

Here we thought that we would finally be able to relax a bit at home now that our trips were over and so we thought we would just kick back for a while. But, just like every other baby who has just discovered he controls his own body and is able to pretty much go where he wants when he wants, Braedyn has decided to severely limit the relaxing time of mommy and daddy.

Braedyn has this thing about climbing over stuff. If there is a clear path towards anything he will invariably opt to take the path that takes him over as many chairs, shoes, feet, people, toys, or whatever else. It doesn't matter at all if the climbable object is out of the way, it becomes a main part of the course to where he is going. I guess the pages of the rock climbing guide books that he ate went straight to his head, and he's getting an early jump on it.

.... just in time to cruise down the boulder creek path at night ....

A short, afternoon walk in Boulder

A couple pictures of our favorite kid...

 

A parting family shot before making the long drive back to Colorado from Iowa.

A little family time.

Mommy and Braedyn

Braedyn trying on some new clothes from his great grandma