And then there were two

Brody's second tooth finally came in. We had a ruff night a few days ago and I'm pretty sure it was because of the tooth. I took some cute pictures of him this morning and you can kind of see the tooth in the first one. It's the best I could do, he doesn't really want me anywhere near his mouth right now. I don't blame him.

You can just see the second tooth if you look real close. (and yes that is Shasta's ear, he wanted to be in the picture too)

He almost looks like he is trying to show me his teeth.

So cute I just love him so much!

Clearly when his top teeth come in we will have no problem getting a picture!

Baby Talk

Brody has really been talking lately. It's so funny. He just sits and babbles to himself. I keep trying to get him to say mama but everything he says sounds like dada. Oh well it's all cute to me. He'll have to say mama eventually right?

Crawfish Boil

So for wonderful Wednesday last week we attended our first ever Crawfish Boil. It was a lot of fun. Mark has had crawfish before but it was a new thing for me. We went down to San Marcos to Shane's house. They did everything outside on the patio. They boil the crawfish with potatoes, corn on the cob and creole seasoning. There was also warm bread which is never a bad thing. It all gets dumped onto a long table and you dig in. You pull the tail off and getting the meat out is a lot like pealing a shrimp. Then you have the option of sucking the head to get all the juices out. Mark tried it while I stuck to the tails. It was all really good. Abbey took pictures and I asked her to send me a few so I can add them to the blog. In the mean time here are a couple of the pictures from last weekend.

Here we all are at dinner. Emily, Derek, Mark, Liz, Me and Alan.

This one is the same but our waiter decided to join the picture.

Busy Weekend

We had a great but very busy weekend. Mark's little brother Alan, one of his oldest friends Derek, his roommates Emily and her sister Liz all came to visit this weekend. Alan just came to see us and Brody or should I say Brody and us. Derek and the girls came to volunteer with the Obama campaign. Derek, Emily and Liz flew in on Friday and headed straight to San Antonio for a rally. Alan got in at around 9pm. Brody and I dropped Mark and Alan off downtown and then Derek and the girls met up with them a little later. After having such a long day Derek and the girls came back to the house around 1am. I was still up so we visited until Mark and Alan got home later. Everyone had way too much fun and we didn't end up going to bed until almost 4am. What was I thinking? I had to get up with Brody at 6am. Well I survived and once Mark got up I was actually able to go back to sleep for a little while. On Saturday we took everyone out for BBQ. You can't come to Texas and not have authentic Texas BBQ. It was really yummy and we all ate way too much. After that Mark, Alan and Brody came back to the house and the rest of us decided to go see a movie. We went to this place called the Alamo Draft House, it was very cool. You can order food and drinks (yes even alcoholic drinks) and they bring them to you. It's set up kind of like a regular movie theater but the seats have skinny tables in front of them with menus. We didn't have anything like this in California so it was something new and a lot of fun. We saw Vantage Point which I would recommend waiting to rent instead of seeing it in the theater. Then it was back to the house to shower and get ready for dinner. We decided to go into Austin. Our friends Tim and Shara watched Brody for us. It was the first time we have left Brody with anyone but the grandparents. Tim and Shara are the only people we have met so far that we really trust with Brody and who live close. It was really nice of them to watch him. Especially since they just moved into a brand new house on Wednesday and have about a million other things to do. Anyway we headed into Austin and went to eat at a cool little place called Shady Grove. It's nothing fancy but it has a great atmosphere. The weather was beautiful this weekend so we were able to sit outside. The staff was so much fun and we ended up having a blast. Originally we were going to go out to some bars on 6th street but we decided to head back home (I missed Brody). We ended up playing Apples to Apples (if you haven't played I highly recommend it) and drinking some nice wines. Again we had way too much fun and stayed up way too late. Derek and the girls got up and left Sunday morning and we had a very lazy day watching movies and recovering from our crazy weekend. Alan left on Monday and we miss everyone already. We really enjoyed having a full house for the weekend. Now we have this weekend off and then my sister Kelley is coming to visit on the 14th. We can't wait! We were really bad about pictures this weekend. I only got one of Alan and Brody and then the girls got one of all of us at dinner so hopefully they will send it to me and I can add it to the blog.

Getting There

We can check one more thing off the list in terms of decorating the house. We got our patio furniture a few months ago and have been waiting for the bistro set to come back in stock. Well it never happened. I guess it still could but we ended up finding something we liked better. Costco has great outdoor furniture right now. We found the cutest little bistro set. I just love it and the best part is it came with two ottomans so they can act as extra seating if we need them to. I also like that it's a little different, it goes nicely with the other set without being so matchy matchy. So another big thank you to Judy and Joel for the great gift. Of course I took pictures and I got a cute one of Brody, he likes the table too.

Play Date

So Brody had his first play date this weekend. Sydna's friend Tiphini who moved here from Sacramento had her son Kayson 9 days before Brody. Our friend Tanya was in town visiting so we decided to all get together. It was a lot of fun to see Brody interact with another baby. They were pretty cute together. I tried to get some pictures but trying to get two babies to cooperate at the same time is a difficult thing. Here are a couple of the pics.

Brody saying hi!

Kayson saying hi back. (If you look close you can kind of see Brody's mohawk)

Learning to share.

Brody really liked his feet or maybe it was the shoes.

Checking out Kayson's cool jeans.

Brody and Tanya. He is making a weird face in this picture but it was the only one I got of the two of them.

Likes and Dislikes

Brody is now 7 months old. He is getting so big and is starting to develop such a personality. I thought is would be fun to share some of his likes and dislikes with you. His likes list is much longer but I guess that is a good thing. So first off he loves all of his toys. Especially his bouncy seat and his swing. Here is a video of him loving his swing.

He has been doing really good with eating. We started him on a little bit of baby food. He has one serving of some kind of fruit or vegetable a day. So far he has liked pears, bananas, sweet potatoes, carrots, green beans, apple sauce, peaches, peas and squash. I thought I would mention that Shasta has a new like as well. We discovered that he also likes all of the baby food that Brody likes. He is such a weird cat. The only food Brody does not like so far is prunes. Usually when he eats it all goes in the mouth and it's not a very messy process. This is what it was like when he tried prunes.

His only other dislike is public toilets. Whenever I take into a public bathroom to change him and someone flushes the toilet it scares him. The toilets at home don't seem to bother him. Then there is TV. He is really funny with what he likes and dislikes. His two favorite cartoons are Micky Mouse Club House and Handy Manny. He doesn't really care for Winnie the Pooh and Little Einsteins. His absolute favorite show is Wheel of Fortune. It doesn't matter where he is or what he is doing when he hears Wheel of Fortune come on he crawls to the tv and gives it his undivided attention. He also really likes anything to do with music (he enjoyed the Grammy's). He loves to crawl and try to stand. He loves getting into all the things he's not supposed to. He likes sucking on his feet and anything else he can stick in his mouth. And then of course he loves his daddy! and being tickled.