First time to bleed! :(

Last week Bryson accomplished another milestone...His favorite thing is for you to let him hold on to your fingers and let him run. Last Sunday night Bryson and I were in the floor playing and I decided that I would get out his push toy and let him try to walk behind it. He seemed to be really excited and WAS having fun until he started running and bumped into his horse Jumperoo causing him to hit his mouth on the push toy causing him to bust his lip. :( Although the video is hilarious now I will admit that when I ran over to him and there was blood coming out of both corners of his mouth I panicked a little. Turned out it was just a busted lip and he only cried for a minute.

Milestones

These past 2 weeks our Sweet Bryson has reached a lot of milestones. He pulled up for the first time, learned to RUN in the walker, learned to say KeyKey (Kitty Kitty), learned to army crawl and then just last night to crawl on his knees, learned to walk behind a push toy, learned to blow kisses and drank a whole cup of milk out of a straw. It is so fun to see him growing and learning and how he went from being this lazy kid that didn't move around much to getting into-- well everything. :) Once again I find myself thinking this is the best stage he has been through so far. He is SO much fun and he is absolutely HILARIOUS! :) I haven't had time to post any of his pics from his 1 year photo shoot so here is a sneak peek from his photo session with Brandi! :)

Mickey Gear!

Last week was a super hard week for Mommy. I had a once in a lifetime opportunity to go to Orlando, FL with 6 of my teacher girlfriends at BSLK to receive an Exemplary Reading Award that our school earned. I was only gone for 5 nights but it sure seemed like FOREVER. We had so much fun and it was great to have some much needed Mommy time with friends even though I missed my guys like crazy. We attended the conference for 4 days and then had a free day to visit Disney and I thought I just had to get my little guy everything I saw. We are taking Bryson for his first trip to Disney next Spring Break and now that I have just had a refresher visit I am even more excited to take our little man to meet Mickey Mouse!!!! :) Here are some pictures of my not so happy Bryson wearing his Mickey ears gearing up for our upcoming trip! :)

The back of his cute Mickey Ears!

Loving on Mickey! :)

Another Ear Infection :(

Ok, so I am about 2 weeks behind on blogging and since the last time I have blogged Bryson has had an ear infection and is already over it. :) He actually started running a fever the Sunday after all of the tornadoes. Bradley took him to the doctor on Monday and sure enough he had another ear infection in his left ear. Dr. Jones gave him an antibiotic for 10 days and it took care of it. He seems to think that he is going to do better in the summer since it is so warm which makes sense so we'll see! :) At his appointment he weighed 19.5 lbs. :)

I know he doesn't really look sick! :)

He's just always this happy. ;)

Easter 2011

This year was Bryson's second Easter although it seemed like his first because he was only 2 weeks old last year. We had so much fun dyeing eggs, opening surprises from the Easter Bunny, hunting eggs and even petting a new baby goat.

Easter 2010 - 2 weeks old :( so sweet!!!

Dyeing eggs for the 1st time

Checking out his surprises from the Easter Bunny

Petting the baby goat

Hanging out with cousin Gage

Hunting eggs for the 1st time

Although I was not happy about the outfit

on this poor kid he sure is CUTE!

Hunting eggs at Merrill Gardens with Ruth & Daddy

Trying New Things

We have been slowly letting Bryson try new foods from the table and he is absolutely loving it! Although you can't tell by his size he LOVES to eat! :)

Visiting Mommy at Big Spring Lake!

Bryson came to visit Mommy at school. He loved being around all of my kiddos and they were SO excited to see him. As you can see in the picture my Kindergarten babies were clapping because Bryson was clapping. SO sweet! :)

Learning New Tricks

I know I say this a lot but I LOVE the stage that Bryson is in right now. He is SO much fun! He is exploring and learning new things all the time. His new tricks are waving Bye-Bye (consistently), shaking his head no REALLY fast (hilarious--Daddy's favorite), touching EVERYTHING he sees (not my favorite new trick), giving kisses (Mommy's favorite), saying "Uh Oh" when he chunks something at you :) or drops something on purpose, playing with his food and putting it on his head, falling asleep in the high chair, pitching fits (bowing his back, kicking, and slinging his head :( ) and mocking just about anything that you do. Here are a few pictures of his "new" tricks. :)

Pitching a fit :(

Playing with his Mum Mums and Puffs

Sleeping in the High Chair

Giving Mommy Kisses :)

1 Year Check-Up

We took Bryson to the doctor on March 21st for his 1 year check-up and shots. He did such a good job and took it like a champ when he got stuck 4 times (3 shots and 1 finger prick). He weighed 18 lbs and was 28 1/2 inches long-- such a little shrimp big boy. He is still not crawling or walking but the doctor did not seem too concerned. She said that she just thought that he was really laid back and could care less and that she expected to see a lot of progress at his 15 month check-up, but my thoughts are why would he waste his energy trying to walk when he knows that someone is going to carry him! :) It's ok to spoil them rotten right?!?! None the less we were just glad to hear that we have a healthy boy.

51 Weeks

I got SO excited about Bryson's Birthday I skipped his 51 weeks post! :) So here it is...