The Braatz Family

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

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!!

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Wrestling

Both boys with their trophies

The wrestlers wrestling with Owen before the tournament started, who doesn't love Owen!?

We took the boys to a wrestling tournament in IGH this past weekend. It was Brady's first individual tournament. Both boys wrestled well and put up good fights! Brady got 4th and Bailey got 3rd earning him 10 points towards state which is in May. Brady is pretty proud of his trophy! Of course Owen was very good, he just amazes me how good he does at these things! Especially since we were there for 5 hours! Some of the videos are a bit shaky, only because I havent mastered the abitlity yet how to hold onto my 30lb kid so he doesnt run off, watch the boys wrestle and tape at the same time, so bare with me! Hopefully I get better with time!

Brady

Bailey- these are the only 2 videos I could get to upload, I had 7 of them!

Monday, January 18, 2010

Happy New Year!!

Yes I am alittle behind, seems to be the pattern lately! We are all doing good. Owen just went back to a regular routine/daycare today, our daycare lady had a hysterectamy and was off for 6 weeks, so we had a couple weeks to scramble to find care for him, it all worked out. He seemed pretty happy to be back this morning! Owen had his 15 month check up a few weeks ago, I think he was 31lb and honestly I have no idea how tall he was, but both were obviously in the 100% tile! Yes my kid is big, but he is cute! He makes us laugh all the time, he is alot like his daddy when in comes to his personality, he is so full of life! And honestly as much as he runs around and is so busy all the time, you would think he would be smaller, he is just go, go, go, heck you would think I would be smaller too, but not the case!! LOL

Brady is enjoying his first year of wrestling! Last Sunday CF Mat Rats hosted a team tournament where the kids have to have wrestle offs to make the team, and he had to wrestle 2 different kids and beat them and made the team. Bailey didnt have to wrestle off anyone, so he was automatically on the team. They did really well, Owen and I only stayed for the first round and then came back for the last round. Brady got pinned 3 times and he pinned his last guy in litterally like 2 seconds! WTG Brady! Bailey lost his first 2, then won the 3rd by points and the last match won by forefit. We are very proud of both of them. We are taking them both this weekend to IGH to what will be Bradys first individual tournament, so he is pumped! Brady is doing excellent in school, he has come a long way since the beginning of the year. Rodney taught him how to tie his shoe in 10 minutes and he picked up on it instantly!!

Bailey is also enjoying wrestling, I think he has grown up alot since wrestling last year! Wrestling is a tough sport on kids I think, because it is an individual effort instead of team! He is doing fantastic and it is fun to watch him! As far as school goes he is struggling a bit, but we are working on that everyday and just encouraging him to get thru this year (he has a hard teacher accompanied by alot of homework everynight!) I honestly didnt think I had to put my thinking cap back on so early on, but some of the stuff he brings home is crazy, most nights he has an hours worth sometimes 2 hours of homework! Overall he is doing good and becoming such a joyful young man!

Rodney has been hanging in there, work is tough, but they seem to keep him working which is a blessing so I am thankful for that! As for me, still the same!! Just loving life every single day even though everyday is so very hectic and very crazy, it is fun and I fear of blinking because I dont want to miss anything my boys are doing! My 4 boys are my whole world and I thank god for them everyday and I feel so blessed to be his wife and their mother!

Of course I have pictures, but I think I need to step it up a bit, I dont have very many, espeically of Brady or Bailey. I did take pictures of them at the tournament but they turned out too dark!

Owen and I one morning when we didnt have daycare, we were playing with my camera!