Loving the Winter Weather

It's the last day of January and it's 65 degrees.  If February ends up being cold and I'm complaining, remind me about the great weather we had in January.  Brady and I hit up the neighborhood playground after school/work.  Just wanted to document the beautiful weather.  Now if only I could get Brady to smile for the camera.  He either closes his eyes or gives me the super serious face. 

Sesame Street Live

I'm pretty sure Sesame Street Live has been around longer than I have.  My one take away fun fact was that the Sesame Street show first aired in 1969.  Heck, It's almost in the same league as Days of Our Lives.  Very different genre, but same type of longevity. 

Cory and I thought it would be fun for Brady to go to the show this past weekend.  While Buzz Light Year, Cars & Thomas the Train have surpassed Elmo on the cool list he still enjoys a little Elmo from time to time.  I will say that if you don't have a 18 month - 4 year old with you I highly recommend not attending the show.  All in all it wasn't the greatest entertainment, but Brady enjoyed it.  There were quite a few people who brought their infants thinking that they would maybe enjoy it.  If you are considering that, I would suggest rethinking it as a good percentage of them were crying.

On the positive side, there were less stands selling Sesame Street 'junk' than I expected.  When we went to Toy Story on Ice we were inundated with paraphernalia to the point you could not avoid it.  Brady only requested a "spinning light toy" two times during the show and we managed to escape spending about $6- one cup of donut holes for $1.25, a hot chocolate for $1.00 and a $4.00 bottle of water.  One nice thing about the Sprint Center is they have a QuickTrip in the arena where you can buy some things at normal prices.  Can you guess which items were bought at QuickTrip versus the standard concession stand?  Also, we scored a free parking spot which was an added bonus.

Will I be rushing to buy tickets for next year's Sesame Street Live?  Probably not.  With that said, it was a fun morning for Brady and something different than our normal Saturday routine.

Brady and Cory trying to look 'grouchy'.

Expanding from 3 to 4

I guess it’s time to make the news official.  The Woods Family will have a new addition in early June.   I am currently 19 weeks along so almost at the half way point.  We are very excited!

When we first told Brady we were expecting back in November his reaction was hilarious.  If I recall, it went something like this.  Brady, we’re going to have a new baby joining our family.  Brady, “Huh”.  Mommy is going to be having a baby.   Brady, “Ok, Let’s go to Target and pick out a baby.”  No, the baby is inside Mommy’s belly.  Brady, “I can’t see it.”   Brady proceeds to lose interest. 

We continued to talk about the baby and finally convinced him that in fact the baby was not coming from Target.  He even started saying that he wanted a little sister.  One day, he was talking about his sister and I asked him if a sister was a girl or a boy.  Brady said boy.  I explained to him that a sister is a girl.  Brady states, “I want a boy and I want him to be three.”  I think to myself this is going to be a pretty impossible feat, but I have plenty of time to convince Brady it’s ok if the baby is not three.

Wednesday morning we had our sonogram.  Before we headed to the appointment we asked Brady one more time whether he wanted a brother or a sister and he said a boy.  After we picked Brady up from school we showed him the Ultrasound pictures.  Then we told him he was going to have a little sister.  Brady’s reaction with a very serious face, “No, it’s a boy.”   We talked about it for a couple more minutes and he finally agreed that he was ok with having a sister and that he was going to be a helper.  Specifically he’s offered up his services to feed and play with the baby.  We will see how that goes when the time comes.  

We are very thrilled to have a baby girl joining the family.  Our bank account may suffer, but it will be well worth it.

I am typically not a fan of posting ultrasound pictures since I can never tell what I’m looking at, but I am going to share anyways.

Blue Mommy!

For about the past month, Brady has randomly told me he wants a blue mommy.  For the most part I just thought to myself random and explain to him he's going to have a hard time finding a blue mommy.  Well, it all came together the week before Christmas as we were watching TV and a commercial for the Smurfs comes on.  Brady gets really excited and starts yelling "There's my blue mommy."  Apparently he wants Smurfette to be his mom.  We have never watched the Smurfs or talked about the Smurfs so Cory and I both found this pretty amusing.  The only thing I can think of is over the summer McDonalds put Smurfs in the Happy Meals and I think he got at least a couple of Smurfs as prizes.  (Ashamed to admit we visit McDonalds at least twice a month)  Since we finally figured out who Brady's blue mommy is we decide we better rent the Smurfs.  Not the best movie, but hey for Red Box prizes you can't go too wrong.  Neither Cory or Brady had much interest in watching the whole thing, but it entertained me a little.  Something about mixing real people with animated characters just doesn't feel quite right.

Christmas 2011

Christmas Itinerary:

Christmas #1 - Cory's parents and Grandma Ruth came to KC to celebrate the weekend of the 16th.  It was Brady's first year participating in the annual Woods Christmas game and of course he was a big winner.

Christmas #2 - Cory, Brady and I celebrated at home on the 23rd.  We made sure to let Santa know we would be out of town on Christmas Eve so he could stop by early.  Brady must have been a good boy as he got everything on his list.  (Yes, he is spoiled.)  He was thrilled with everything and pretty amused that Santa included some underwear in his stocking since that was 'not a toy'.

Christmas #3 - We headed to mom's house in Edmond, Oklahoma on the 23rd.  On Christmas Eve we went to church and then enjoyed a steak and lobster dinner at home.  I should say some enjoyed the lobster, I unfortunately have a bad lobster allergy. 

Christmas #4 - On Christmas morning we drove to Wichita to celebrate with my grandparents and cousins.  Brady had lots of fun running around with Grayson.  Grandma was happy as she got her picture of the grandkids.

I did a pretty terrible job of taking pictures given that I didn't take a single picture at my Mom's and only the picture of my cousins at my Grandmas.  Below are a few highlights from when we did remember to use the camera.