Happy Anniversary

July 3rd..Happy Anniversary to us! We've been married for 4 years now!

I am thankful for my husband and my son. I love my husband very much.
You do so much for us and we love you.

Busy, Busy Busy

It's been pretty busy so I haven't posted in a while. Here are some updates as to what's going on.

First, Jamie's still doing well and jabbering, making noises.

My FIL is doing better, however, in order to save his life, he had to have an above the knee amputation of one of his legs. But he's in Rehab now, and will be finally coming home soon. He is still in good spirits.

My Mom and dad have been having marital problems for a long time, but they might be separating in the next little while for good. As you can imagine, this is a really hard time for my family and also for my brother and sisters.

Oh one story about Jamie, We were trying out this new casserole dish, and I had put the casserole dish on the table (for dinner) and he must have touched it. I had seen him holding his other hand. I got him to the sink and was running water over his hands. I asked him, "Does that feel better?" and I swear I heard Jamie say, "NNNNOOOOOO!" We both cracked up laughing.
Hopefully this will start a language spurt.. but we're not sure. We think Jamie's taking his sweet time talking.
Trey is still going to school and is doing well.

I will need to post a LOT of pictures to make up for not posting them..

More updates coming soon.

Family Updates

There has been a lot of news lately so I'll fill you in.

Me and Trey got our own car back after being repaired. That was this past weekend. Woohoo! :D

Trey's father has been in the hospital fighting a bad infection. He is doing well and will come home soon. That is encouraging. He seems to be in good spirits which is great!

Jamie has had another couple sessions, both with the Occupational Therapist (OT) and the Speech Therapist (ST). The Speech therapist was trying to scare us into thinking Jamie had autism.. but me and Trey have done extensive research on it, and I believe he doesn't have it. The speech therapist has not said a thing since. Jamie and I both like the therapists that are working with Jamie.

It's frustrating sometimes to not know what he needs sometimes, but he's a fun kid. He does a lot of jabbering and babbling, so I know he's close. He also knows how to make his needs known through his actions, which help a lot.

I don't have any pictures to post, but I will soon. :D

I will post more soon..

More news and Pictures

I know I haven't posted for a while.. so I'll fill you in on what's happened.

First, some sad news. My husband got into an accident on the way home from an errand he did after work. He is ok, but the car's not. But we now have a rental car, and the car can be fixed. Woo Hoo.. We don't have to buy another car!!

In other news, Jamie has had his first session of Speech therapy, and will have his second session of theraphy this Wednesday. The speech therapist is nice.
Jamie will also have his first occupational therapy appointment the wedneday after Memorial Day.

Jamie's been very cute.. I've gotten a few pictures of Jamie.
He is now doing some pretend play woo hoo. The therapists were concerned he wasn't doing this.. so that's good.



Here is Jaamie wearing Daddy's long black socks. They come up to his knees! :D



Here he is trying to put on his shoe.. What a kid!

I think my son's a techie kid. He loves anything where he can push buttons. I guess he's really into the cause/effect phase. He's fascinated with turning the lights on and off, etc. Sometimes Jamie can be really cute.



Here as you can see Jamie put on Daddy's headphones.. Is that cute or what?



For some strange reason, Jamie wanted to get in Trey's vanity sink. I let him.. but here he is checking out some shaving cream.. lol
You can also see he doesn't fit in the sink anymore :D

Jamie also likes to imitate us more, and helps us quite a bit.

That's about it right now.. Will post more when I have more pictures.

New Updates and Cute Jamie moments...

I know I haven't posted in a while..things have been so busy around here. I got a new computer, which is fun.. but I'll tell you what's new in the Brady Family.

Things are busy as usual.. I got a phone call from Jamie's new speech therapist a couple days ago. Our first speech therapy lesson will be on Tuesday in the morning. We also got a Occupational therapy consultation on Monday in the afternoon. The speech therapist thinks he has some sensory issues.. but that remains to be seen.

Jamie is still his happy little self, as you can imagine.. He's going to be two and a half in three days! I just can't believe that time goes so fast..

Jamie did something cute.. again..

Jamie had gotten bathed and had his pajamas on.. He then picked up his shirt that he'd worn that day and gave it to me.. He wanted it put on, LOL.. He wanted his shorts and socks and shoes on as well... I was able to get a couple pictures.. They were soo cute.


There He is!!


Here he is again!


Jamie doesn't look too happy and Daddy gave him a kiss. You can see his shoes a little bit in the picture.

What a kid!

News and Funny Things

Well, I know that I haven't posted in a while, but Jamie's been awesome.
At The beginning of the month, I called Early Intervention, and scheduled for someone to come and asses Jamie for the program. The first time it was just a lady who watched him. The second time was a few days ago, on the 26th, a Speech Therapist accompanied the woman we saw earlier this month. We found he's behind on some levels, such as not playing pretend, and not following directions. He also doesn't play with other kids like other kids tend to do and he doesn't have many words he can say. He only actually talks when he feels like it. His attention span isn't that long either, but I think that's normal for his age. Hopefully we'll know more this month.

Today is also my Father in Law's birthday! Happy Birthday to Tom! I'm not sure how old he's going to be.. but I think it might be rude to ask.. :-)

Anyway.. Jamie's very funny when he wants to be.

Jamie still gets upset when I vaccumn, but I was a tad bit surprised when he started playing. I think he's getting more used to the vaccumn.



He's almost as tall as the vaccumn... LOL! He's a month away from being 2 1/2 and he's 3 feet tall! Wow!

This is too funny.

I was baking some banana bread, and had brought the bowl in the living room to share the lickings from out of the bowl after I had put the bread pan in the oven. We had it all eaten, and Jamie did the cutest thing...
He put the batter bowl on his head!
Once he did that I just laughed so hard! I got a photo of it too.



What a cutie!! I'm sure that there are more of these moments to come.

Michevious Toddler Caught In the Act!

Jamie loves bouncing on the mini-trampoline at my In-Laws house.
I had pulled the couch cushions off, in hopes that he'd like to climb the cushion 'tower' instead of climbing onto the back of the couch. Around Dinnertime, he wanted to take off a couch cushion.. and this is what I saw with the camera. This was a few days ago on the 5th of March.



He's standing up on the couch...


He's on the other cushion.


He's getting on.. :-)


You can see he's been jumping. I think he's a little monkey!
See that mischievous little grin on his face in the pictures?
I'm sure there are many more moments like this to come!