All about Brady

Brady gets the limelight this time and I know Bailey reads this so don't be mad Bailey, you have had the spotlight several times before!! Plus you get mad at me when I post and talk about your wrestling!

Brady was on fire this past weekend! Saturday we went to Shakopee and he pinned all 3 of his opponents taking first place, which also means he will get to compete in the state wrestling tournament in March in Rochester! We also had a tournament on Sunday as well, there was only Brady and another kid in his bracket, he wrestled that kid 2 times, also pinning him both times again taking 1st place. 5 pins, 4 kids.... WAY TO GO BRADY!!! Really Brady has no emotions while wrestling, he just goes out there does his thing and could really care less if he wins or looses, he is too cute to watch wheather he wins or looses, but lately he has been on fire! He is enjoying wrestling very much and loves the hardware that he gets. I just made up and painted a shelve for him like his big brothers so we can display all of his trophies and medals! He is pretty proud of those!

This is in Shakopee, the parade

Brady and his opponents

Bailey placing 4th in Shakopee

This is from Sunday at the CF tournament

So we will see how Brady does in March, we are all excited for this will be his 1st State tournament!!!

Can't forget about baby O

My precious darling Owen! I have to say that little O has developed a bit of an additude lately, not crabby, but if he wants something he is bound determined to get it, very bull headed like his mother! His vocabulary is really taken off, his new words are "owie", everything is owie when he falls for bumps himself! And "apple", the kids loves apples and applesauce and not only does he love applesauce he has to feed it to himself at the kitchen table on the big chair! Yes that is my Owen! Even though he has been saying Bailey for awhile, everything is "Baiey", he loves Bailey and vise versa, it is fun to watch Bailey and Brady interact with him, they are both so good with him, for now anyways! That is pretty much Owen, he has been a trooper since wrestling started, it gets to be long days at these tournaments and he is so good at them. I am usually exhausted by the day end though, but wouldnt trade any of it for anything!

Here are a few pictures from the playoff games, Rodney and Owen had a blast watching the game together, amongs other things!!
Cheers!

Owen cleaning up before the game, he loves this thing!

Reading the paper with dad

Owen also loves to sneak into Brady's room, pull the tub out from under his bed, climb on it so he can get into Brady's bed!! He will put the covers up, crawl underneath, pull the covers back over him and lay down and tell us "ni-ni"! What he doesnt know is that I am keeping him in his crib until he is 18!!!!

And then there was more wrestling

We had a full weekend of wrestling last weekend. Saturday we took both boys to Kenyon for an individual tournament. It was a long day, but fun! Brady placed 2nd in his bracket, pinning 2 of his opponents and Bailey placed 4th. As you will tell from the picture of Bailey he was not happy! Which I dont blame him, it is fun to win, but like we tell him time and time again that you cant win them all and as long as he does he best we are proud of him no matter what! We have another filled weekend of tournaments this weekend and then we should be done for awhile. Saturday we go to Shakopee where both boys will compete in an individual tournament and also compete to qualify for state in March. Brady has to get 1st or 2nd place to qualify and Bailey has to do the same, otherwise get 3rd to get 10 points and place 3rd on Sunday to get another 10 points. Both boys said they are going to shoot for 1st both days! That is the additude I like to hear from them! If they dont that is ok too, they have both worked very hard this year and we are proud of them, but both Rodney and I would love to go to Rochester again for state, just for selfish reasons! (we had alot of fun with the other wrestlers parents!) So I am hoping that they both do well!

Brady wrestled Sunday in a team tournament in Kasson. Bailey choose not to because he was getting his stones from his faith steps in chruch. So Rodney took Brady and I took Bailey and Owen. Rodney said Brady had another good day, he pinned 2 more of his opponents, making a total of 5 pins since he started wrestling! WTG Brady! The Mat Rats team took 4th in the tournament and Rodney said everyone wrestled really hard! So WTG Mat Rats!

This is from Sunday after the team tournament, modeling his pins on his hat and medal!

This is from Saturday, Bailey not happy as you can see! But he did great in our eyes!

Brady on Saturday modeling his 2nd place trophy! He loves to have his picture taken!

So if you think of it this weekend, think of the Braatz boys and in your mind root them both on!! We are all pretty pumped and excited to watch them!!