Binkys Broken

I have decided that not only should I be making a photo record on here of things Braxton does or we do as a family I need to write down and retain the non photo events or sayings so I will remember them.
Such as: Braxton refers to Chocolate milk as Motnudo
or the other day when I said holy moly and he repeated Holy moly dada or how his prayers currently go like this "heavenly father, thank you for this day, amen" I have to chime in and help him with the rest.
About a month and a half ago we decided (well really I did cause brooks was just as attached to the bink as brax was, he wont admit it but he was) we decided to do away with the Binky. We talked about all the ways to do it and I decided it would just get broken. So one morning I snuck into Braxys room while he was still sleeping, grabbed his bink and cut the top off, set it back in his bed and waited for him to wake. When he woke up we changed his diaper and he went for pluto and bink. He picked up his bink, looked at it, looked at me and I said what happened, he said binky broken I said it sure is isn't it. He replies with "fix it mama" I said bud I can't its broken, should we throw it away and he said ya. Braxton walks over to the garbage can and stands there for a minute and walks away bink in hand. He then went over a second time, "throw it away mom?" I said you don't have to bud you can hold onto it or you can throw it away... he set it in the garbage can took a step back thought about it and took it back out. He held onto it off and on that day and a couple days later but did just fine without it.
Last week we were in the baby isle getting a few items for our up and coming new niece and Braxton saw the binkys and got all excited and said "mommy look binkys fixed" it was so cute I followed up and said yep but you are a big boy and you dont need one and he said yep.
Braxton has accused me of being the one that broke his binky, When my mom asked where it was he said "mommy broke it"
A few days ago he was at my friends house while I was at work and she was looking all over for his binky for his nap she said Braxton where is your binky and he said "binky broken" she said it is? does that mean you are a big boy and he said yep.
So that is the story of the broken binky!

Surgery....

Our sweet little boy had to go in on Tuesday and have tubes put in his ears and his adenoids removed. I think that surgery is harder on parents than it is on kids. We headed to Primary Children's at about 10:00 we had to be checked in by 10:30. Braxy had a great time playing with all of the toys in the waiting room. We then went and did all the pre surgery stats and got brax dressed in his surgery attire. I was so impressed with the staff at primarys the nurses were so great and made us and Brax feel so at ease. They did everything to Pluto that they did to Brax which made him happy. After we got B dressed we went into another toy room where Brax played some more. While we were in there they came and gave Braxy his Verset to calm him a little before the Anesthesiologist came to get him. The nurse told us it would take about 5 minutes for the verset to work and then we would need to corral him and watch him close. It was about 5 minutes and braxys eyes glassed over and his head started bobbing and mom started crying. It was so hard to see him like that. The anesthesiologist came in and gave us the run down of what was going to happen next and he said lets just carry brax and then you guys can hand him to me so we walked down the hall and handed him over and turned and as we walked away i could hear Brax in his drunken state crying "Mommy, Mommy" and again I lost it.... Surgery took only about 30 minutes, the Dr came in and told us everything went great a nurse came and got me and I went into the recovery room with Brax as he was waking up. When I walked in he was crying "mommy and owie" We stayed in there for a little while until he drank some juice then he was clear to go to the next recovery room where dad could come and join us. We headed in there and Brooks came in and Braxy slept in his arms for about an hour and a half. He finally woke up enough to get dressed and go home. It was a long day but Brax was so brave and so good. We are just glad to have it all over with.
Playing in the waiting room before surgery:



All dressed and ready for the next toy room:





Playing in the toy room and check out plutos name bracelet. Also one if the volunteers came and let brax pick out a truck to color and take home with him.





And here is where the Verset Kicked in...


Recovery...



Homeward Bound Finally:

Viva Las Vegas Baby (Girls Only!!!)

A couple of weekends ago I got to go down and spend a few days with my Step mom and Sister in Las Vegas. I left the boys home and away I went. There was a big jewelry show going on that My Stepmom can get passes too so that was another reason I went! I got there Thursday night and Mary and I went and looked at the dispay at the Billagio and then went home. Friday we got up and got ready and headed out for some shopping with Heather. We went to the outlets and just bummed around then came home and played some Wii bowling. Satuday we went to the swapmeet and lunch and Sunday we got up went to church then headed to the Jewelry show. It was 6 hours of pure fun. I got a ton of cute jewels and had a great time. Monday we shopped a little more and then it was off to the airport and back home. It was a nice and relaxing weekend we had fun just sitting around visiting and the boys survived without me. I think I will need to plan another trip very soon!!!
The Bellagio flower display:



We went and walked through this AMAZING 1.5 million dollar 10000+ sq foot house, we are still trying to figure out how we can all buy this and move in together!

Wild Turkeys

Brooks and Brax get to spend Wednesdays together while mom goes to work. They are always out and about. They go feed the Ducks, go to Papas and ride the tractor, go look for deer etc etc. A few weeks ago they were up on Btfl Blvd looking for deer and they ran across a ton of wild turkeys on the golf course. Here are some pics

Valentines Day

Our Valentines was quite uneventful the boys brought me flowers home from work and then we ordered in Cafe Rio and made sugar cookies and delivered them to a few friends and the Grandparents. Such is romantic life with a 2 year old!

Short Cabin Getaway

A few weeks ago we decided to take a night and run away to the Cabin. I had a crazy week ahead of me with my bosses going on a cruise so we took the opportunity to run away. Of course we chose to do it when it was in the negatives down here and go to -13 at the cabin. We got there tuesday night had dinner and watched movies and played with brax. It was way to cold to go on the snowmobile but the boys bundled up and went anyway just around the property. Then we woke on Wednesday to no Power. Luckily there is a fireplace that kept us pretty warm however we called the power co to see how long it would be out and they said till about 3 so we decided to pack up and leave. It was a short trip yet fun and Brax cant wait to go back and ride on the snowmobile that he calls the BIG Cycicle.

Happy Birthday Grandma

Ok its Catch up time. My moms bday was on the 29th of January. We got together as a family and had dinner and visited and enjoyed our newly decorated family room. It was so much fun. Rachelle made her moms famous Chile verde and we had all the mexican food fixings. I love this family of mine! Happy Birthday Mom!




I went to go check on the little ones and found this it was the cutest, Ryder reading to the kids!


Moms favorite cake Mint Chocolate from Dicks