Walking, walking, walking

Birthday Party!

Last Saturday, January 9th, we celebrated Brayden's first Birthday. We had a wonderful house full of family & friends for his big bash! It was a great day of celebration & love - thank you everyone for being a part of this special day!

The cake
(the little baseball was his smash cake)

Brayden telling everyone thank you for coming

Opening gifts...

Brayden loves any kind of ball

Mommy & Daddy bought Bray a Mickey Mouse that dances - his favorite character

This is Brayden's friend Colin in the wagon with him and one of his girlfriends, Leah, is getting a quick snack before cake (just kidding Erika - she's still too little)

"Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear Brayden, Happy Birthday to you!!!"

He wasn't too sure about the cake at first, but as you'll see, he soon decided he liked it!

He just kept eating, and eating so I actually took it away! Grandma sure knows how to make a good cake ;)

Happy 1st Birthday Brayden Ellis!!!

A year of pictures...

Happy Birthday Brayden! You've been such a joyful blessing from God, we couldn't have asked for a better gift!

Mommy & Daddy love you, to the moon and back!!!

Brayden's first haircut

We took Bray to Cookie Cutters today to get his first haircut - it was getting pretty long and covering his ears. It was quite the adventure! Lets just say that he didn't really like it.

Before...

Looking a little concerned...
And then, the break down...
After...My little boy is so handsome! I can't believe that he got his first haircut and is turning one in a couple of days - lots of firsts and many more to come!

Walking

Brayden is on his way to walking! Today, while I was at work, Ryan said that he was by the entertainment center playing and kept letting go and just standing there for long periods of time and after discovering that he was doing it on his own, he kept doing it and doing it. Then he became even more brave and took about 4 steps on his own! So tonight after I got home, we sat down with him and were having him walk back and forth between us and he was taking steps on his own and just kept doing it and laughing! He thought it was so funny to walk! It was SO cute! I don't think it will be long before he's walking all by himself. My little boy isn't so little any more... And did I mention that he's going to be one in less than a week... snif, snif

Pink eye...

When Brayden woke up this morning his right eye was all red and crusty, along with a yellowish/greenish snotty nose. So I called and got him an appointment with the NP and he has pink eye :( While we were there we also found out that he is working on 4 teeth!!! I knew he was working on his top two but the top four - wow! No wonder he's been fussy and not really himself! Poor guy! They weighed him too and he is now 19lbs 10oz! I hope his little eyes get better soon - they are all red and puffy :( She said that everything else looks and sounds good - no fever, clear lungs, no ear infections, just pink eye - yuck!

Merry Christmas!

This was Brayden's first Christmas and it was so much fun! Christmas day was my holiday to work this year, so we celebrated mostly on Christmas Eve. When Brayden woke up we went down stairs and let Bray open his first present... the busy ball popper! He wasn't too sure about it at first because it makes a lot of noise and blows balls out of the top, but that didn't last long - now he loves it! At around 11 my siblings, Steffany, Cody, Matt & his girlfriend Megan came over and we opened presents with them and had our Christmas dinner before going to church. We had so much fun and it was great to hang out with them!
Then on Christmas day after I got off work, I went to Ryan's parents house and we had another Christmas dinner and opened more presents! Ryan and Brayden got to spend the day with his parents, Great Grandpa Frazier (Ryan's Mom's Dad) and his aunt Carol. It's so fun to watch Brayden and see what toys he gets! He did really well with opening them - he opened most of his presents with little help. He was so cute!!!