The Braatz Family: October 2009

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Not sure if I ever posted these....... shame on me!!
These are Owen's 1 year old pictures, I just LOVE THEM!!!! It was hard to decide what to order, I just got them back yesterday and am excited to get frames for them and start putting them up!

anyway click on the site (and yes that is Owen on the front) click online viewing and then click on Braatz Family and the password is bailey

http://www.heidizimmermanphotography.com/

Randoms and update

Look how happy he is!!

Brady wearing his hat that he paid $1 to wear to school for 1 day... Nice

Brotherly love

I guess not much on my end. Owen is doing good yes even after his 14 step fall! He sure has developed into a little monkey, he wants to climb on everything and anything! He is happy, healthy and that is all that matters! We did recently wean him from the bottle, now that was really hard for me, piece of cake for Owen!! He was only down to 1 bottle at night and doesn't even miss it! Seriously what is next... off to college! First it is the growing like a weed, smiling, cooing, rolling, crawling, walking, turning 1.... I can't take it anymore!!!! Well he will always be my baby so that I can atleast hold onto that!

Brady is concentrating on school a bit more, we have been really working with him so he doesn't fall behind, he has been doing really well! We wrapped up playing soccer for the fall, he had a blast playing and it did him some good to burn off some of his energy! He says he is going to try wrestling again this year, so we shall see in a few weeks at sign up!

Bailey is Bailey, he is a girl crazy maniac!! It is all about the girls, his friends and how cool they all are, dances and this is one is having a party, can I call so and so.....I will be honest, I didn't think this would start this early, he is only in 4th grade for crying out loud and I am really not ready for it! Well after his first mid quarter grades, his main focus now is on school work, that put a small cramp in his style!!! He has another week to get his grades up, pretty confident he can do it, he just needed alittle push from the behind! But he is now doing really well and adjusting to being "responsible" and not a little kid anymore! Oh gosh did I just say that? Where did my little Bailey go? Thank goodness he doesn't read these!

Rodney and I celebrated our anniversary last weekend, even though our anniversary was on the 8th of September. It was hard for him to drag me away, but I went and we did have fun! We got a hotel in Rochester and did some Christmas shopping, had a nice dinner at Red Lobster and just did alot of talking and of course had a few cocktails! I think that our relationship needed that, but because the boys have me so wrapped around their fingers, we don't get the opportunity to do it! It was nice, but I was very happy to be home in the mad chios of our wonderful world!!

Pumpkin fun at the Braatz House

Carving pumpkins in our house is always so much fun! I was hoping Owen would really get into more and get more messy, but he didn't! He was so confused on why we could cut the pumpkins top off and stick out hand in there to fish out the guts.... he sat for the longest time watching us, then he finally stuck his hand in his pumpkin and grabbed some goop and that was really about all! He does love pumpkins though, he gets really excited when he sees one and points to it and babbles! For the first time we used those stencil patterns, of course Brady had to have the same one as Bailey, and of course Bailey was mad about it. But it ended up working out!

So here is proof that we had a blast carving pumpkins on Sunday!

Our 5 pumpkins

Brady getting started

Sticking his hand in it

The boys- yes Brady is sitting on our kitchen table

Checking it out

So confused

Cutting his pattern out

Not so sure

Take a picture of me mom

Rodney showing him it was cool to feel

Hard at work

Going for it

Rodney helping Brady trace his

Not sure...

Bailey is so my kid

Cutting a small one before we started the big ones

checking it out more

Helping me carve his

Owens finished pumpkin

Mine... I think mine is the coolest!

The finished products

Baileys

Bailey and his pumpkin

Mom take another picture ofme, that other one was a bad one.... seriously.

At last a family picture with our pumpkins

Happy Halloween!!!

Owens new toy

I didn't get to alot of garage sales this past summer, so there were a few in the paper for last Saturday, I decided to go by myself!! I scored some things for Brady and this new toy for Owen! He loves it and was so excited from the time we brought it into the house. He was mad when we took it apart and cleaned it up a bit. We brought it downstairs and I bet he played for close to an hour on it!!!! Best $5 I ever spent! The other 2 never had anything like this, so I thought what the heck, and in the spring we can bring it outside! Owen is out little moneky, the kid likes to climb on anything, that is why I knew he would love this!

Of course Brady had to check it out too!

Thursday, October 22, 2009

So very thankful!

More so than ever before!

I honestly don't know why I am even posting this, but I am going too, maybe someone will learn from my mistake and stupidity!

Monday night, typical night at the Braatz house, CRAZY, the boys were downstairs playing Wii and Owen and I went downstairs to check on them, came back up to check dinner. Of course I was holding him like I always do, but I needed 2 hands to do whatever I was doing so I put Owen down. He was teering apart the cubboards like usual, the phone rings I go to look and see who it is, hear the gate and that is pretty much when I blacked out! Owen fell down ALL 14 of our stairs! Did your heart drop...... mine does everytime I think about it!!!

By the time I got to the top of the stairs he was half way down and continued rolling to the bottom! It is a horror picture I WILL NEVER EVER FORGET!!!! The only thing I remember is thinking what shape is he going to be in when I get to the bottom, which seemed like it took forever for me to get there! Of course he was crying and moving all his limbs, so I scooped him up and just held onto him as tight as I could! Nothing happened to him, not a scratch, bruise, nothing only about 5 minutes of tears!! How did this happen, well when Owen and I came back upstairs, I, Stacy, his mother, his protector, forgot to shut the gate!!!! I preach and preach to everyone else about the gate and I forget to shut it, something I WILL NEVER DO AGAIN! Now I know he is fine of course, but it is hard for me to think about what could of happened from my stupidity mistake!

I have never felt so scared in my entire life, NEVER! I also have never cried so much nor I have ever thanked god so much for protecting my sweet baby O during his fall!

It is a memory, more like scary movie I would like to forget, but unfortunatley it will always be in my mind!

So now the boys ask me "did you shut the gate mom?"

Thank you god for keeping him safe!

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Apple Orchard

My mom and I took the boys to the Apple Orchard last Sunday. We take the boys every year and they have a blast! This was Owens first year, Bailey swears we went last year, but pretty sure we didn't. So every year we go and take my mom or my best friend Jennifer, Rodney never goes and that is ok with us, some year he will go with us. The boys have fun feeding the goats, climbing on the haybails, riding in the wagon for a tractor ride and of course picking the apples. This year I let them go on the corn maze and I even let them go by themselves, of course my mom was freaked out, they did fine and were the first ones out! Owen loved every minute of it all. So until next fall....

Trying to get a good picture of all 3 for my fall card! LOL