February 2012

February 2012 recap!

Luke played t-ball for Sandy Springs Little League. His team was the Braves.
He had a blast learning the game.

On the way home from the first day of practice/try-outs!

Luke as Buzz Lightyear! He got this as a reward for something...I can't remember what now but he was allowed to pick something out at the Disney Store and this is what he chose.

2/6/12 Brad push-toy walking

We had a trip to FL in February, I think Josh may have been interviewing for jobs at the time.  We took a trip to Lakeland and the boys played on a nice playground there.

We visited Papa in his classroom.  Brad, helping students learn math.

Luke, sitting at Papa's desk.

Luke lounging with the pugs at my parent's pool.

2/18/2012 Josh throwing Brad up in the air, Luke trying to pose for a picture :)

We went to a fun birthday party in Atlanta for our friends' Danny and Regina's son Preston.  Brad was walking around with Daddy on the big sports field.

Big smiles Brad (Nana's cookies make him smile)!

Does Brad like donuts?

Brad's FIRST STEPS (caught on camera) at PT 2/22/12 (they discharged Brad pretty much after this appointment!)

Brothers, making each other smile!

Finished video loading!

Alright! I finally got the four January videos loaded (see the two earlier posts). My apologies for the two with words through them and turned sideways.  Now I know to take several short videos instead of long ones if I am using my iphone.  Luckily I still had the mac n cheese video on my iphone and could trim that one up to be short enough to post.  Thanks for checking back!

videos, tried something new

I spent two hours tonight trying to figure out why my videos from my iphone won't load on blogger.  I've managed to figure out that the files are too big. So I searched for a way to either edit them to make them smaller or save them a different way to make them smaller.  The result of this search is not optimal, but it does allow me to post them here which was the whole point of this.  Please refer back to the first January '12 post and scroll down, the video of Brad doing his core exercises was added.  Editing/converting it flipped it on its side and added those lovely words across the screen, but try to ignore that :)  I'll work on converting the other 2 missing videos later, it is late and I am tired!

Jan 12 videos

 

I couldn't get videos to post in the previous January 12 post.  There were four total I wanted to share.  I seem to be having better luck with this new post :)

 

This video was taken just a couple of days before Brad took his very first steps

 

Hilarious (to us anyway) video of Brad eating mac n cheese but hating broccoli!

 

Jan 12

Recapping January 2012 :) Hey, I've moved into this year!

Cute video of Brad and his new found cruising skills. And Luke first whining, then entertaining :)

 

Brad loves donuts!

So does big brother

Brad in his "little old man" outfit

I think I've mentioned before, Brad really loves beans.

 

Trying to ride this little toy with some new found motor skills

1/21/12, this video may look boring, but it is a good example of the kind of exercises that are good for Brad's developing core strength at this point in time :)

Brad's hair before his first hair cut, I loved those curls, but Daddy thought the mullet look was not too cool.

Happy boy

Brothers! Sometimes they play nice...

Brad works out!

After Christmas- New Year's 2011

Lots of pictures to recap our week after Christmas through New Year's in 2011. 

Luke made cookies with Nana.  He reminds me of Drew (my cousin) in this picture when he was this age.

Neil and Ansev's wedding week festivities began! Here are me and my cousins (Kirstin, Me, Holly) all decked out for Ansev's 20's themed bachelorette party.
The wig was fun, but itchy!

Ansev had a photographer capture the evening. The photographer was standing up those stairs taking a picture of Ansev below.

We took some time to visit the Strawberry Farms place we go to every year for strawberry shortcake!  We had to take turns being the Strawberry King and Queen.

Luke and mommy

Aunt Trish and Luke

Pouty Brand and Luke trying to get him to sit nicely

Aunt Susan and Luke

Nana and her two boys

Ring bearer Luke and Flower girl Sophia at the Rehearsal

Luke and Sophia running/dancing at the rehearsal

Luke and Ansev's brother Cem before the wedding

My groom looking handsome

Neil and Ansev's friend Katie (a talented artist!) created this tribute wall honoring the family members that have passed away.  It was beautiful.

I don't have any pictures from the ceremony, but this is when the toasts were being given. 

After all the festivities, we packed up and headed home to Atlanta.  This is how Brad traveled!

Neil and Ansev had a photo booth during the reception.  We had a great time with that!
Here are a couple of strips we got.

a teaser photo we got from the photographer of the beautiful flower girl Sophia

part 2 continued

I couldn't get this video to load in the previous post, maybe I had too many videos already.
December 2011, Silly Brad-ee :)

iphone photos part 2

Here are some more photos and video I had fun seeing again!

Some of these dates I am guessing at, when they merged onto my new Iphone the dates taken got messed up.

August 2011  Brad's first crawling attempts :)

 

Luke, Summer 2010 I believe (I remember being pregnant and we were in the front yard of our house in Atlanta which we didn't move into until June of 2010).

December 2011- Brad trying out the swings at the playground by our house.  Here is where the love affair between Brad and swings, that continues today, began.

12/19/11- I just want to pinch those cheeks!

Brad, 12/22/11, this is the first time he pulled himself up into a standing position.  He had been in PT for a couple of weeks at this point.

12/23/11 Luke sweeps leaves and loves it!

 

 

 

12/23/11 Christmas began at home with presents from GG and GGpa and Aunt Carrie, Uncle Mike, and Haley that had arrived to our house.  We left the next day to drive to FL.