Fears!

I received an email a couple of months ago about 3 and a half year olds and fears and interestingly enough the fears started rolling in about that time.. He's now scared of Mudcats Games, Big Movies, Fireworks and Dogs and a few other things I'm probably not thinking about at the moment.

The Mudcats game all I can figure is that the fireworks show afterwards scared him, because he thoroughly enjoyed the game up until then..

Big Movies, that's an interesting one, we have been to see three or four movies since he was about 2. White Oak theatre offers two free movies every Tuesday and Wednesday during the summer, we decided to go and see Horton Hears a Who a couple of weeeks ago. We got in the theatre, got our popcorn and went to walk into see the movie and it was completely dark except for the running lights and he froze and started to scream. I waited a while to see if maybe he would want to stay once the movie actually started and he seemed a bit interested as we were standing in the outside aisle until the elephent screamed out, needless to say we got in our car and headed home!!

Fireworks, let me just tell you that you probably don't want to learn DURING a fireworks show that your child is scared of fireworks, I do believe the noise in our truck was louder than the actual fireworks!!

Dogs, this one happened when our friends little puppy innocently jumped on him, licked him and grabbed his hat off his head and ran. Now when we go around dogs, he promptly asks the owners to "Put doggy in fence" lol

He does not mind a bit letting you know that he's scared, he will say NO big movie, mudcat games or fireworks!! He also doesn't want any dog (2lbs or 100lbs) anywhere near him!

I hope, hope, hope that this is just a phase and that he doesn't continue to add to this list of fears... I have heard from a few reliable sources though that Daddy was a scaredy cat as a kid too ;)

Pullen Park

It's so cool to take Brandon to Pullen Park and for him to ride on the same rides that I did 20 some odd years ago, nostalgic much? He's been a few times now and refers to it as "the big park" and he really enjoys the "little" train and the "little" boats a lot. Frankie had not been to Pullen Park since our dating years (8+ years ago) and I think he enjoyed it as much as Brandon did, we took him this past Saturday and he rode the train (twice), the little boats and he "almost" rode the carosel (yea we stood in line til it started and he says "no ride horse, momma") Here are some pictures:

On the way there with his best buddy Curious George!

View from the train ride:

On the little boats:

Supercala...what?!?

During the summer Grandma and Brandon have a few visitors a/k/a as cousins and friends that are out of school for the summer. These friends are taking major advantage of his booming vocabulary right now and I came home one day and my "just started talking" three and a half year old child says to me "Super Cala Fraga Listic Expi Ali Docious" and he was SO proud of himself, it's SUPER cute! I made a video of it of course!!

Go Carts!

Daddy has introduced Brandon to riding go carts! We first took him on our vacation week to Adventure Landing and let him ride, he fell in love! Mommy wasn't so sure he would like it with all the noise and stuff but he let me know right quickly that he LOVED it!! We have been back two more times since our first visit the first week of June and he begs to go on a regular basis. Here are a few pictures of the times that he has been:

Hair Cut

June 11, 2009 (I'm dating these because I am blogging to catch up from the last month or so..)

I've been bad and haven't updated our blog in a while and since then. Brandon got his first official "big boy" haircut, he decided that he did not want to get his haircut anymore but we talked him into the "tickle brush" and Daddy used the razor and cut his hair, I had a few tears in my eyes looking at my boy that went from looking like a baby to looking like a big boy in a matter of moments..

Before:

After:

Isn't it crazy how much difference a haircut can make?!?!?! He still says he doesn't want a haircut or to use the tickle brush again, but it's getting about that time...I'll update soon ;)