Valentine's Day Party

Because of the snow of Friday, Brannon's Valentine's party at school was postponed to Monday. Unfortunately I was already scheduled to work so I missed the party, but David happened to have the day off and was able to make it. He was shocked (and a little disgusted) at how much junk each of the kids got at the party, but I guess it only happens every now and then.

Brannon with his box of valentines from his friends! (Of course full of candy!)

New exhibit

This past weekend we went to the new fun exhibit at the science museum. I think David liked the museum so much the first time he actually suggested we go back again this past weekend. The exhibit is very hands on which Brannon loved. I've sure we'll go back plenty of times before it heads out of town.

Generation gap

Last night during bath time:
Brannon: Daddy, do you know that toy I have that's a ball and that you can push on and that you can bounce and it is blue and ....(on and on)?
Daddy: What you talkin' about Willis? (In his best Gary Coleman voice)
Brannon: DADDY, I'm NOT talking about Willis. I'm talking about my BALL!

A great learning environment

In the car one afternoon on the way home from school I was blaring some Black Eyed Peas pretty loudly and I'm sure singing along.
Brannon: Mommy... MOMMY!
Me: Yes Brannon (turning the music down).
Brannon: Can you turn the music down? I can't hear my book.

Snow Day

Brannon in the snow.

Taylor somewhat protected from the snow.

Our first snowman!

Brannon's favorite part: hot chocolate!!

Our house before the kids woke up.

... and it's still snowing!

Daddy's first trip to the museum

I can't believe we've been here almost 5 years and this was David's first trip to the Natural Science Museum. We've been about 100 times. Brannon loved showing his daddy all of the exhibits and Taylor loved watching the turtles. They even had a touch tank! This is on my list of places/things I will miss about Jackson.

Random pics

Brannon and Wenston feeding ducks

He spent the whole car trip shining the flashlight in Taylor's eyes. A true big brother.

Right before he attacks Hallie!

Look at me! This is SO much fun!

How did our parents do shopping without these carts?

There must be a gene for this

Taylor's first haircut

Waiting on brother to get his haircut.

Last week Taylor had a big day. He had his 9-month-old check-up and his first haircut. Weight: 19lbs, 13ozs, Height: 2ft, 4ins. At 9 months Taylor can crawl (his army crawl only), pull to stand, clap, say da-da-da-da (no ma-ma-ma-ma yet), has three teeth (with a fourth almost there), and eats finger foods. He loves to play with toys (especially books), play peak-a-boo, crawl around, play with anything his big brother is playing with, put his arms up and down, "talk" with you, take baths and splash with his brother, do "sit-ups", and laugh hysterically at anything his brother does.

Tales from Waffle House

Brannon and I had a date this morning at Waffle House. We took Taylor to school first so just Brannon and I could go. He kept asking if Taylor could come but I tried to explain that this was something special just for him. He did like the fact that we could sit on the stools at the counter and watch them cook which we can't do when we have Taylor. We were about to leave when an older man came and sat beside Brannon and struck up a conversation (only one-sided because Brannon is extremely shy around strangers). The man asked Brannon if he had ever seen someone take his thumb off. (My fear is that it wasn't going to be a trick and that he really had a prosthetic thumb. We are in Waffle House remember.) Well, he performed his trick perfectly much to the astonishment of my little boy. Brannon's eyes kept getting bigger and bigger the closer he got to the separation. He looked at me, back at the man, and then back at me and said, "Mommy, I don't want him to take my thumb off". My child was terrified. Back in the car I spent 5 minutes explaining to him it was just like when Poppy "takes his nose". I think he's not traumatized anymore but we'll see if he wakes up crying tonight about a man taking off his thumb.