Family Pictures

For Christmas this year I wanted to get both my parents and my in laws family pictures.  We were able to get my side of the family's done over Thanksgiving.  My family has not had our pictures taken for years!  It was so nice to get pictures of the entire family.

10 Months

Here are Bryken's weekly pictures:
40 Weeks

41 Weeks

42 Weeks

43 Weeks

 This little monkey is getting so big!  Bryken is moving all over the place and he is getting so close to crawling.  I'm actually pretty surprised that he isn't crawling yet.  He gets up on his hands and knees and rocks back and forth.  He has started moving his hands a little but he will fall down on his tummy.

He is trying so hard to get around to everything.  I'm sure he is really close to getting there, but for now, I'm enjoying the limited mobility.

How cute is this boy on his hands and knees though?

Bryken still loves his jumper though.

This silly boy is crazy in the tub.  He splashes so much that he soaks everyone and everything.

Bryken loves being read to.  He loves his books.  It is so fun to be to this stage.

Bryken had his first Christmas this past month.  He was more interested in the wrapping paper and boxes than many of the toys, but he was a blast.

Bryken and his Sissy on Christmas Eve.

Bryken and Grandma Anderson.

Bryken got this stand and play table from his Grandparents.  He loves to stand up next to it.  Such a big boy!

Here the kids are Christmas Eve night ready for Santa.

The entire fam in our Christmas Jammies.

This is Bryken on Christmas morning.

Bryken and Maycee on Christmas Day.  These two are going to be such good buddies.

We recently got a ton of snow over Christmas.  Naturally, I had to spend a ridiculous amount for a snowsuit for Bryken that he will probably wear once or twice.  He sure looked cute though.


He wasn't a big fan of the snow, but at least he was warm!


This month has been great with Bryken.  He is finally sleeping through the night.  It is absolute heaven.  Bryken will sleep from about 7:00 until we get him up in the morning for Daycare.  It is a huge improvement from the many interruptions we were getting a couple of months ago.

He started cutting another tooth this month.  Last month I thought there was a tooth cutting through the top but nothing actually came through.  He had four on top and three on the bottom.  He finally started cutting the fourth on the bottom so the little guy has eight teeth!  He is a biter too, which is fun.
Bryken is such a snugly baby.  I hope that he stays this way forever.  He always wants to be held and will rest his head on my chest.  He must know that I don't want him to grow up and it makes me cope with it better.  I love my little snugly guy.

He has really started talking a bunch this past month.  He still says, "Ma-ma" and "Da-da", but now he started saying, "Ba-ba" when he wants a bottle.  Averie is counting down the days until he starts saying her name.

We love our little guy.  What a blessing it is to have him!

Nine Months

This little nugget is nine months old!  The past month has been one of the most fun months with this boy.  He is changing so much and learning more and more every day.  Here are his weekly updates:

36 Weeks

37 Weeks

38 Weeks

39 Weeks

This month has been so much fun with Bryken.  He is really changing and doing new things every day.  At the beginning of the month, he and I went to visit my friend, Diana and her family in Denver.  Bryken did so great on the plane and everyone just gushed over him.  It is so fun to travel with a baby.  Everyone treats you like royalty, especially when you are traveling by yourself with a baby.  I've never seen so many complete strangers be willing to help me.  It was awesome.  It might just be because I have the cutest baby in the world, or maybe I just look tired?  Haha. 

While we were there, we went to Build a Bear with the kiddos.  Bryken loved his bear.

I felt bad not having Averie there with us, I will have to take her another time.  Bryken had so much fun with the boys.  I can't wait for him to get a little older so that they can all play together.  Averie is going to be outnumbered when we all get together again.

While we were there, Bryken decided that he really liked to stand up and play.  

It was such a nice visit.  These guys live too far away!

On the flight home.

As I said, there were a lot of big changes over the last month.  Probably one of my favorite things is that Bryken can now hold his own bottle, sort of.  

He is definitely getting better at it.  It makes things a little easier now that he can do that.  He is also sleeping through the night, most nights.  It has been such an amazing thing to SLEEP.  There still has been a few nights that he has ended up in bed with me.

Stinker.

In his defense, it was a little bit of a rough month.  He was sick most of the month with an ear infection and he got a ton of teeth.  His poor little cheeks were rosie all month.  I've never seen a kid pop so many teeth at the same time.  Pretty much the last 6 teeth that he has gotten all came through at the same time.  Poor kid.

Bryken still isn't crawling, which I am ok with.  He prefers to be sitting and doesn't really like to be on his tummy.  He loves to bounce.

He jumps and swings around in the jumparoo.  He just loves to be standing up so he can see around.  He has started scooting backwards though.  Averie did this too right before she started crawling so it might not be as far off as we think.

Bryken just loves to sit up and play with anything he can get his hands on.

He also puts anything and everything in his mouth.

He especially likes to put socks in his mouth!

Bryken started clapping this month and waving bye bye.  It is the most adorable thing ever.  Averie was pretending to be a teacher and he was loving it.  He was laughing and clapping nonstop.

Bryken is starting to get more attached to me.  If I come in the room and don't pick him up, he starts crying.  It is really cute, but could lead to trouble.  For now, I am loving being "needed".

This month Bryken had his first Thanksgiving.  I really didn't get a lot of pictures on Thanksgiving, but I did manage to snag a few of him and Bennett.  I can't believe that these two are two months apart.  Bryken better start growing or Bennett is going to pass him by!

I love this one.  Such happy boys.

Over Thanksgiving we were able to go to the Curiousity Museum with my parents and my sister, Kylee and her family.  Here is the older crew.

Now for the twinsies.

Bryken got to see Grandma and Grandpa Anderson this month too!  Busy month with lots of family time.

I got a little carried away with the pictures this month, but I can't help it with this little ham.  Enjoy the pictures.