I love this kid!! He lights up my life every day. He is so full of life and silliness and wonder and enthusiasm. Sure he's got his typical 3 yr old moments (a-hem ...whining!) but most of the time he is all smiles and silliness and the best little 3 year old friend a mama could have. I'm so lucky :)
We went to Montana a few weeks ago to visit Sean's family. We took the kids to the park early one morning and saw there was a splash park there. We didn't have a swimsuit so we just let Brenden run through the water in his underwear. He had a BLAST. I took so many photos and I couldn't pick any just one as my favorite because they all show a different silly emotion or expression on his face. He was laughing and squealing the whole time he played. He used to be so afraid of water and loud things (like splash pads) and now he's so brave and silly.
He's still surprises me by how smart he is. He's sounding out small words in his books now and he screams and cheers when he figures the word out. I need to get him a few early reader books just to continue to work with him on his reading. One day he says to me "banana.. b.. a...n... a...n...a" and I said where did you learn to spell banana? he says calmly "word world" -- who says TV is bad for kids?! lol. Between LeapFrog, Your baby can read, and Word world - Brenden has this whole reading/phonics/letters thing figured out. His teachers at school say they have to instruct him to wait until he's called on or else he'll answer all of the questions and not give any of the other kids a chance. They were saying this as a compliment, of course.
He loves to play with my iPhone, and frankly can navigate around on it just as well, if not better than I can. He's still a picky eater and pushes boundaries like any preschooler would. He likes to ride his tricycle, play baseball, kick soccer balls, play in the sand box, and of course reinact scenes from "Splashing" (Wipeout).
Logan is doing great and is also getting big and smart just like his brother. His teachers say he's their junior teacher. He tells the teachers what to do, he tells the kids what to do, he tells me what to do lol. Today I was trying to take a picture of Brenden in his pool and I stood on a chair to try to get an overhead shot and I was quickly told by Logan "mama! get down! no stand chair!" We went to a Wiggles concert a few weeks ago. My boys L-O-V-E the Wiggles. It was a 20th anniversary for them and they had this cake prop that had whipped cream on top. Throughout the show Anthony would get hit (in silly ways) by the cake in the face. EVERY time, Logan would BAWL and cry. The first time I had no clue why he was suddenly crying but then he kept saying "Anthony's NOSE! Anthony's NOSE... Whaaaaaaaaaa" It was so sad and pitiful and HILARIOUS. To this day he goes around telling people how Captain hit Anthony's nose with a white cake. But now he says its silly because we had to have a LONG talk with him about how Anthony's nose was not hurt, and the cake was silly and he could laugh instead of cry about it. Its funny because when my brother Joe was little, he too would cry if he saw someone get hit in the face with a cream pie. It lead to a very strange phobia of cream pies. It was always something we thought was just a funny Joe thing, and here is my Logan having the same reaction to seeing a cream pie face. :)
