Brycen Boy

For part of Joy school today, we toured the fire station. The firemen were awesome with the boys. Brycen is SO curious these days and asked all sorts of questions, "What does this button do? And this one?" At the end of the tour, they gave each child a hat--all one size--- to take home. With my big head boys, the hat fit Cian just perfectly at 13.5 months old....

 ...And sat on top of Brycen's. One of the fireman tried to guess Brycen's age, "4...no, 5". Our big bundle of joy has yet to slow down (and is 3 and 1/2)!

 Isn't he adorable??? Cian is SO fun. Loves to giggle. And is currently into pointing to things and saying, "uh uh uh!" At a party last night, he walked across the room and pointed at someone's cup to tell me that he was thirsty.

Update on the boys (mainly Brycen)/ more Oct/Nov pictures:

Brycen loves his time with Daddy. Daddy is the fun one, for sure!

Such a character!

Halloween at Fair Oaks Farm.



This was his smile for awhile there.







Cian ADORES Brycen. He wants to do and have whatever Brycen is doing/having. And in the morning and after naptime, Cian expects Mommy to be there--tears will come if not---but it is not until he spots Brycen, that Cian immediately grins from ear to ear.


Brycen is so good with Cian. SUCH an awesome older brother. Daily, Brycen does anything I need him to do to distract, feed, and play with Cian so I can get dinner made and chores done. Don't get me wrong, they do have their moments but it's only when one or both is/are tired OR trying to share me...that almost never works. We went to a friend's party for her one year old daughter yesterday and Brycen was making her laugh so hard the entire time. A sister some day may work out, just great.

When Daddy comes home, life is good. The boys know that they can have Daddy all to themselves while Mommy handles the rest (dinner, cleaning, etc). It works out perfectly awesome. Mommy loves using both hands.


Oh P.S. Totally had a visit from Uncle Mike in October. What a treat!

Waiting for Purdue's Homecoming Parade to start. Brycen learned that when he danced to the music, they gave him candy. There was alot of dancing and alot of candy. The college kids loved him. And Brycen talked about it for weeks.





Brycen loves his friend Madden. We have him over usually once a week while his Mom goes to school. Madden has a 2 year old sister and 4 month old brother. It gets busy but it's do-able because of Brycen (and Madden). At moments, Brycen is throwing away diapers. Other moments, entertaining Cian while I put the baby to sleep and vise versa. I feel SO blessed.

I sure love my Brycen. He loves, gives, laughs, and cries. He is growing up like crazy but there are still a few moments every day that he comes to me and says, "Up, Up!" And wants to be held. I think he will always be my (big) baby.