Preschool!

I haven't updated in a while (Imagine that!)

We had a pretty uneventful summer, though we bought a swimming pool and that was tons of fun! We haven't had our vacation yet, but will next week so be on the lookout for that post!

However, Mr Brandon officially left the nest of Grandma and Mommy (for 3 half days a week anyway) and started Preschool. The first day was full of tears from Mama and sheer joy and excitement from Brandon!

My first tears started over our conversation in the van on the way there:

Brandon - Mama, are you going to miss me?
Me - Of course I'm going to miss you
Brandon - It's okay Mama I'll be back in a little while

Who knew the boy would have to comfort the Mama on this big day in both of our lives..

It's been a week since that first day and the boy loves it more and more every day I think. He comes home singing songs and telling me about things that happened, this amazes me since not quite 2yrs ago my little boy couldn't say 10 words and we were going through the hell that is known as "Evaluations".. Speaking of, he's come so far in that 2yrs that his speech therapist doesn't think she'll need to see him much longer so we'll be having another evaluation soon and I believe that this one will be met with happy tears instead of frustrated ones!

Here are a few pictures of his first day of school:

Brandons 4th Birthday

Brandon turned four on December 6th, where in the world does the time go!! We did our usual birthday party at the Church Fellowship Hall of my Moms Church and had hot dogs, chips and cake. We got him a Leapster2 which has been a huge hit and Grandma got him the "crash cage" for his monster jams that he had been begging for forever! Here are a few pictures from the festivities!

Catching Up (Yet again!)

So I am back to catching up (yet again!) on here! It has been a long while since I posted on here and a lot and not a lot has happened in that time frame.

Brandon turned 4 and is finally talking (almost) like he should be. He is still learning how to put sentences that make complete sense together, but for the most part we're right on track! In October we took a short family vacation to the beach and although it rained on us at the beach, we enjoyed the time away.

I am still working at the bank, but I am trying to get in at the new Emergency Room that opened near our house doing patient registration, I've had my first interview and that went well so I'm hoping and praying that I hear back on that as soon as possible..

Here are some pictures of the beach trip!

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: