10 months

Mr. Brantley, or Brantley Boo as our niece Izzy likes to call him, is 10 months old today.  In 2 short months we will have a one year old. He weighs around 22 lbs.  There is nothing little about him. This past month Brantley mastered crawling and pulling himself up to stand, and can cruise around furniture.  He is jabbering more and more and just recently he has started jabbering when he is mad, almost like he is telling us off.  It is pretty funny to hear.  This month we enjoyed many basketball games. Brantley does great at the games.  He has adjusted to the noise and will even clap along with the crowd.  Its pretty cute.  All of the other season ticket holders who sit by us  love Brantley. I think some of them pay more attention to Brantley then the game.  It is pretty funny. Brantley keeps us on our toes but we sure do love him!

Brantley's new favorite activity. Looking out the window. Isn't he so cute!

We had a great Thanksgiving and we were able to spend time with all of our family.  I am excited to enjoy more of the Holiday season with all of our family and Mr. Brantley.

Our little Turkey!

December will be filled with trips to Tremonton and Morgan. Jared and I will be going to Boise to cheer on our Aggies in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.  We will also be enjoying Christmas with family.  It should be a great month! 

Nine Months

Wow...Mr. Brantley is 9 months old.  Where did this year go? In 3 short months I will have a one year old. Crazy! Brantley is surprising us every day with what he is learning.  In the past month Brantley has started crawling.  He sometimes gets going to fast and face plants it, it is pretty funny.  He will also pull himself up to stand, and some times he thinks he can walk, and then he falls and gets mad.  Someday he will figure it out though.  Along with pulling himself up he has tried climbing a few things, luckily he hasn't found the stairs yet. Although I'm pretty sure that will happen any day now. He has also started saying "da da da da"  and that is all we hear any more.  I really don't think we will be able to make him be quiet once he starts talking. He still loves to eat and if we would let him he would eat ALL day.  He prefers to feed himself and doesn't like it too much when I feed him baby food.   This little guy brings so much joy to our lives.  

Fall

Today was such a beautiful day and Brantley was in such a great mood I thought I would take him outside to take some pictures.  Needless to say he was much more interested in the the leaves and he may or may not have eaten some of them.  The only smiling pictures I got of him were of his cheesy grin. But I think he enjoyed his time playing in the leaves and I definitely enjoyed being outside!

Of course he had to watch the car as it drove by

And did I mention he is on the move? He does a part crawl, dragging legs, and launching himself forward maneuver to get around.  Just the other day he pulled himself up to stand, I am so not ready for that stage but I don't think there is any slowing him down!

8 months

Mr. Brantley is 8 months old.  He is growing like crazy and I don't think he will slow down any time soon.  He weighs a little over 20 lbs.  He still loves his food.  He can feed himself finger foods and hold his own bottle.  He is still a social little boy and he loves just the slightest attention from anyone.  He will wave hi and bye to people....it is pretty darn cute.  Another new thing he has started is when you pick him up he will pat your back. I didn't think we did it that much, but I guess we do.  Brantley is trying to figure out the crawling thing.  He can get up on his hands and knees, but he doesn't quite know what to do after that.  He can army crawl to get to places, it just isn't very quick yet.  He still loves his bath time and loves laying down and splashing in the water.  He still just has six teeth, but we think he is working on his seventh.  This kid may have a full set of teeth by the time he is one!  
We have a had an exciting month filled with the JDRF walk in memory of Logan, a wedding, football, and visiting family.  It has been a great month, and October will be just as fun!

7 months

Another month as come and gone and Brantley just keeps growing! August was a busy month for us.  September will even be a busier month, but that is part of life right?  Brantley is getting quite the little personality.  His laugh is so funny and it doesn't take much for him to laugh.  I just think he likes the attention.  He FINALLY figured out how to roll from his stomach to his back consistentley. Although there are still the times he gets on his belly and gets mad he just cries until we roll him back over.  He is getting closer to crawling.  He gets up on his knees, but doesn't push up with his arms at the same time. I think he is going to be into EVERYTHING once he starts crawling, but that is part of learning right?  He can feed himself cheerios like a pro.  I started giving him other finger foods this week and he has handled them pretty well.  He definitely loves his food and some days we can get it to him fast enough. He loves being in his walker and can make his way across the carpet now.  It is so nice he can entertain himself a little longer now! Brantley will wave  lift his arm up when saying hi or bye to people.  I'm pretty sure it is intentionally, but can't totally tell yet.  We are looking forward to another great month with this little guy!

Sporting his new ear muffs that reduce sound for Aggie sporting events.  We will be trying them out tonight at the first Aggie football game of the season.

This is what happens when I leave him by the diaper bag.  He was grabbing the cereal in hand fulls and shoving it in his mouth.  He was pretty proud of himself.

2....4....6....Teeth!

Brantley now has 6 teeth. You read that right 6! And the best or worst part is he got them all with in a month.  He has 2 on the bottom and 4 on the top.  Over all he handled it ok, but I am so glad it is over.  Hopefully he won't be teething again for a while!
This past weekend we had our Sessions family reunion.  On Friday we went to Morgan and swam at our family friend's house.   That night Jared and I took Brantley to the Davis County Rodeo. I had to keep reminding myself I was surrounded by a bunch of city slickers.  It was a pretty small rodeo.  Then on Saturday we went out to Erda and just visited with everyone.  That night we went to a Real Salt Lake game.  It was fun, other than Real lost in stoppage time.  Brantley handled it ok, and only freaked out a couple of times.  We are just getting him use to loud events since we will be dragging him to Aggie football and basketball games.  
It was nice to spend some time with my family and just visit with everyone!

Back to School

Yes you read that right, for Jared that is.  After being graduated for a year Jared decided he missed school so much that he wanted to go back...or something like that!  He has decided to study Speech Language Pathology.  Right now he is taking undergrad courses online to complete requirements to get into the Master program.  If all works out he will start the Masters program at Utah State next summer.  It is just a two year program which won't be too bad to handle (at least for me). I am so proud of Jared for this step in life he has taken.  This summer he has worked full time and took 12 credit hours.  He has done very well in his classes and has been able to stay caught up on work.  He will continue to work full time until he starts the masters program. Hopefully at that time my work can bump me up to at least 75%.

Jared had to reapply to USU. Here is his acceptance letter.

And of course I have to mention Brantley in a post.  He is currently cutting his 4th tooth.  I hope it breaks through soon.  This poor kid has cut 3 teeth since July 20th, working on his 4th, and had to get his 6 month shots on top of all of that.