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11/3/09

Brady's new "CHEESE!" face.

 

11/7/09

It's hard enough to get Brady to sit long enough to get his own hair cut-- forget about getting him to sit through Paul's haircut as well. Fortunately, there's a Petsmart next door to the salon. I am not above saying that we totally use it like a zoo. Come on-- there are fish, birds, kittens, frogs, and even dogs getting their own haircuts-- what's not for a kid to love? 

11/8/09

We are finally getting some real fall weather, and we're taking full advantage. This morning we rode our bikes to a beautiful park that's about 3 miles from our house, and Brady explored his newfound love of crunching the fallen leaves.

I love that this park is big enough that he can just run and run... but flat enough that I can still see him. Be free, little runner!

Fall is happy.

 

Project 365

Ok, so it's bee way too long since I actually just sat down and did a Project 365 post. I'm not declaring the project a failure, through-- I'll soldier on! I pretty much took zero photos while we were all sick, so there are quite a few missing. I think I'll just pick up where I left off last time, put up what I have, and then move on from there, k?

10/12/09

The kid enjoys his apples.

10/15/09

Paul is particularly proud of this photo. Look at that form!

10/18/09

The obligatory, "Just sit nicely with your father so I can take a heart-warming holiday photo, darn it!" The was the best we did. As you may be able to tell, Brady was a little squirmy.

10/19/09

I LOVE the fall colors here. For some reason, we just didn't seem to get that in L.A. :)

10/22/09

Hanging out with Brady and Baby Jude. Look, Ma! I can watch two at once!

10/31/09

Happy little trick-or-treater.

  
 

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10/6/09

Brady's new favorite pastime is looking at books of family pictures. Seriously. At least once a day he'll ask for help climbing up on the couch, and then want me to take out the books in the coffee table drawer. We flip through the book of pictures from his first year (the "MamaDadaBrady book"), and then through our wedding album. He names all the people he knows, and is generally very pleased with himself.

10/7/09

With snow (SNOW!) looming in the forecast, I made sure that we spent Wednesday morning outside. The temperature was in the upper 60's by late morning, so it was pretty much the last comfortable day (boo). We made the most of it, though, playing in the park and going for one last ride on the train at the zoo.

This is Brady, clutching his ticket, just as the train came into view...

 

10/8/09

There's a girl in the newsroom who likes to write inspirational quotes on the board every morning. On this particular morning, somebody Rick Rolled her, which cracked me up.

10/9/09

Some of our loot from the Lincoln libraries annual book sale. It was huge and overwhelming, but I got Brady 14 new books for 10 dollars, so I'm glad we went.

10/10/09

Seriously? SNOW?? We woke up Saturday morning to an inch of snow on the ground, and my flowers are now pretty much done. It was all gone by late afternoon, but still. Not cool.

10/11/09

Is a boy ever too young to be tortured by his dad with a game of keep-away?

 
 
 
 
 

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9/20/09

The stack of books on my bedside table that I would totally be reading if I ever got in bed without immediately falling asleep. Someday...

9/29/09

Happy little swinger. :)

9/30/09

Anniversary flowers at work! Best of all, the bottom was filled with eucalyptus leaves, so it smelled fabulous!

10/1/09

Pre-haircut, crazy-hair boy.

10/3/09

Post-haircut, neat and tidy little man! (Please ignore the poor quality picture taken with the obnoxious flash. I was apparently too lazy to go downstairs and get the good camera.) 

10/4/09

Homemade Italian Wedding Soup. Soooo good. Go make some! Now! (I used turkey instead of beef, fyi.)

 
 
 
 
 

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9/21/09

Aren't unexpected flowers one of the happiest things in the world? I emceed a Better Business Bureau luncheon last week, and Monday morning these showed up on my desk.

9/22/09

That's one fierce kitty.

9/24/09

On Thursday morning Brady and I got to go see my friend Bridgett and her new baby Jude, who had just turned one week old. He is tiny, and has a perfect little nose and red hair. I tried to steal him, but Bridgett tackled me on my way out. Oh well. I guess she can keep him.

PS-- Doesn't she look unreasonably fabulous? She had a baby a week ago, people.

9/25/09

I was off work Friday because I had to work last Saturday, so Paul and I decided to take Brady to the Omaha Zoo while the weather is still nice (and it was perfect weather, by the way!). Brady talked about elephants the whole way there, and spent a lot of time with the monkeys and gorillas, but apparently the tigers made the biggest impression on him.

More tigers! More tigers! More tigers! 

He was also a fan of this gorilla. I don't know that he understood that it was real, because he was not scared at all. And seriously, that thing could have eaten him whole.

9/26/09

At some point, watching the Husker game always seem to devolve into a game of tackle Dada.

9/27/09

This is my view as I write this, alone in the office. Paul is upstairs watching tv, which is what I will also be doing in 3... 2... 1... Publish!

Project 365 (finally!)

So I (and by "I", I mean Paul) finally figured out my computer issues, which actually turned out to be not so much computer issues as software compatibility issues. I'm already boring myself talking about it, so let's just move on to the photos, shall we?

9/14/09

Sometimes, Brady and Bella do a nice job of sharing. Monday morning at the park was one of those times.

9/15/09

Tuesday morning at Sunken Gardens.

9/16/09

Brady's new "cheese!" smile. Pretty cheesy. :)

9/17/09

One of the fabulous parts of having a husband who works from home is that every once in a while he can drop everything and go for a walk with Brady and me on a sunny morning. Last Thursday we went to feed the ducks (who, for whatever reason, weren't that interested in our bread-- ungrateful fowl), and also played some peek-a-boo around the trees.

9/18/09

Brady's breakfast art project.

9/19/09

The time I finally got home from work on Saturday night. Working on football game days is not my favorite thing in the world.

9/20/09

Ever since we showed him that we can call up videos of firetrucks, airplanes, babies dancing, and Grover singing, it has gotten to the point where a lot of the time I have to hide my iPhone from Brady. As soon as he sees it he starts screaming "Firetrucks! Airplanes! Grover song! More babies, please!" Here, Paul gave in and let him watch a few airplanes take off.

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9/7/09

Rod and I after 9-ish hours of telethon. In case you can't tell, we are exhausted.

 

9/8/09

Brady and I spent Tuesday morning at Sunken Gardens. I'd never been there when everything was really in bloom, and I was blown away by how beautiful it is. Brady loved telling me what color all the flowers were, and was also a fan of all the giant koi fish in the ponds.

 

9/9/09

Trucks... tractors... cars... are taking over my house and my life. Vroom vroom.

9/10/09

The weather was nearly perfect on Thursday morning, so Brady and I took a walk to feed the ducks. We sat in the shade under a tree and talked about all the stuff we saw. Pretty cool. Brady was not so into sharing his Cheerios with the ducks, though. He also may or may not have eaten a Cheerio after a duck spit it out. What can ya do?

 

9/11/09

Given Brady's recently discovered love of trains, I thought he might like to go check out the big train parked down in the Haymarket at the Burlington Northern Station. Contrary to the look on his face in this photo, he did.

 

9/12/09

The quality of this photo isn't great because it was taken with my phone, but it cracks me up. Paul taught Brady how to say "football" on Saturday during the Husker game... so now I have two men in my house who stare at the tv and mumble "football" on Saturday afternoons. Great.

 

9/13/09

Homemade chicken nuggets for Sunday dinner. So easy, so yummy, and so pretty darn healthy!

Project 365

Good news: I found my little camera! Bad news: I didn't find it until later in the week, so I don't have my full 7 pictures again this week. Ug. But remember the Good News? That means next week will be better!

8/31/09

Here's another good news, bad news situation:

Good news: every year before the MDA Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon, I get to go to Dillard's and pick out whatever I want to wear on air. Bad news: this means that I have to go dress shopping with a toddler, which is enough to strike fear in the heart of even the bravest mother. Thankfully, I got off the elevator, saw this dress, liked it, tried it on, and left with it. A completely tear-free outing!  

 

9/01/09

Racing pigs at the State Fair! Yee Haw!

 

9/4/09

Full moon on a Friday night.

 

9/05/09

Brady got to watch his first Husker game on Saturday night. This picture may or may not have been taken when Zac Lee threw an interception.

Also, while Brady may have been born in Nebraska, I think he's still a Californian at heart. We can't get him to say "Go Big Red!"... but he is thisclose to doing the UCLA 8-clap. :)

 

9/06/09

With flu season and winter closing in on us, I've realized that we'll likely be spending an increasing amount of time at home in the coming months and will need more indoor activities. Here's part 1 of my solution. Brady loooooves it. Unfortunately, so does Peanut.

 

Project 365

Before I even start this week, I have to tell you that I'm seriously concerned about the future of my Project 365. At the zoo on Monday morning, I somehow managed to lose my little point-and-shoot camera that I usually keep with me all the time. Without it, I just don't know how well I'll be able to do-- because there is no way I'll carry my giant Canon around on an everyday basis. Sigh. I'll do my best, though, k?

8/24/09

Giant foam letters + bubble bath = happy bath time

 

8/25/09

Peanut doing his best prairie dog impersonation

 

8/27/09

 

8/28/09

After all the rehearsals, bruises, and strains... Friday night was Dancing with the Stars of Lincoln. I was super-crazy nervous, but ended up having so much fun. I'm not 100% satisfied with how I performed, but apparently it was good enough... because we won! I'm not quite sure how that happened, but I won't argue!

 

8/29/09

You totally wanted to see my trophy, right? :)

(And no, it will not be staying on my mantle.)

 

8/30/09

Happy birthday, Bella!

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8/17/09

Brady and I spent Monday morning at Lost in Fun, where he discovered the fun that is the Moon Bounce. There was giggling, jumping, and screaming for joy. He also managed to fall in love with this little car, which of course cost me a quarter every time he wanted to ride. I only had 50 cents, so it didn't last long.

 

8/18/09

We were at Antelope Park on Tuesday morning, and Brady could hear the little train that goes around the zoo. After convincing him that he couldn't run there (but not for lack of his trying!), I decided that we should just go take a ride. He didn't stop saying "Choo choo!" all day long.

 

8/19/09

I took this picture while I was driving back to work after dinner on Wednesday night (don't worry-- I was stopped at a light). It's been a week of crazy clouds.

 

8/20/09

The ducks that live around our local trail are clearly very used to being fed. They surround you as soon as you make any motion of coming toward the water, and they have almost zero fear of people-- they'll even eat from your hand. Brady tries to put some of that healthy fear back in them by running after them screaming "DUCK!"

 

8/22/09

I forgot to take a picture on Friday (I know-- I'm a slacker, right?), so I'll give you 2 of the many, many photos we took on Saturday. Expect a full post on our little trip later, but for now I give you these teasers...

(The first one is courtesy of the random farmer who happened to know how to use our Cannon-- how cool is that?)

 

 

8/23/09

Saturday's adventures resulted in a serious overabundance of peaches. I made peach almond muffins Saturday night, and Sunday night I decided to try a no-bake peach pie. Something went wrong, though, because it just never really set. This is after Barb and I each had a piece. It tastes pretty darn good... but just isn't very pretty.