"You are my Sunshine"

My mom and dad stopped by today to watch Brody enjoy some outside time and some sunshine!! He certainly lights up their lives!!

He's playing with a cell phone, his favorite thing to do when Mimi visits!

Brody showing his Poppy some birds flying by.
:)

My little Scholar

So today I was upstairs cleaning the bathroom and I just let Brody run around up here while doing so. He was being awfully quiet so I decided to go see what my curious little monkey was up to...

I found him in the office/playroom (ha!) sitting quietly with a thesaurus!

It seemed as though he was on a mission to find the words he was looking for. When I got a better look at what he did indeed find I didn't know if I should laugh or be afraid. He was intently looking at the words Anarchy and Authority!!!!
HA!!

"Easy like a Sunday morning" well, more like afternoon...

Yesterday we celebrated Brandon's mom, Nana's birthday at Uncle Brent, Aunt Rosemary and Marielle's house. We had a fabulous day, great food and beautiful weather. The kids enjoyed each other's company of course and us adults did as well. As usual there was an abundance of pictures taken so bear with me as I share some. Thanks guys for an awesome Sunday!

Swingin'!

This is what happens when all of your cousins are girls, haha!!!

Don't show my dad! ;)

Queen for the day, with her prince and one of her princesses

Aunt Helen brought Brody and Marielle crowns, very fitting for these two!

Nana blowing out her candles on the delicious cake Aunt Rosemary made.

This just cracked me up...Marielle and Brody were painting with water paints. They ran out of water and Aunt Rose went to get them more upstairs. Well, Marielle got tired of waiting and decided to take it upon herself to unscrew the cap off this bottle of water and use that!!! Very inventive!!! :)

Enjoyin' some water play!

I think these are 2 signs of a good day, don't you?

Playin' it safe...

Yesterday, we decided that Brody needed another pet so, we bought...

FISH!!!
Meet Jackie and Bruce.

(Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee, the are Bettas-Siamese fighting fish) ;)

I think that'll work just fine for now!

Lions, Tigers and Doctors...OH MY!!

Today Brody had his 2nd follow-up appointment at Children's. They thought he looked pretty good for it only being 3 weeks since the accident. There were a couple of stitches just lingering around so they had to pull them out, which Brody did not like! Poor guy, I don't blame him! They said we can start massaging and putting creams on his scars now too, this will hopefully help diminish any scarring. We were told that they won't need to see him again for 2 months! Woo Hoo, that was good news for us! So we decided to take Brody to the zoo to celebrate!

No, this is not us!!! ;)

It's hard to see but, there is a big beautiful lion in the background. Brody kept waving to him. :)

A couple of weeks ago Brody received a letter in the mail stating that a gorilla was adopted in his name at the zoo. While this was a very nice gift, we have no idea who did this for him! Hopefully we'll soon find out.

Ahh...my favorite exhibit, can you tell why?! I thought the flag was an awesome touch!

Spotting the polar bears! He kept saying his favorite phrase these days, "what is that?" For those of you who don't know this, I used to say the same thing the same way, apparently, when I was his age.

They have a new shark exhibit at the zoo. Brody thought they were so funny for some reason. Every time one would swim by with those sharp teeth, he'd crack up!!!

I couldn't help but to think of a certain movie at this moment...

Here is a first look for some of you of my precious little boy. The doctor gave us a special kind of tape to help with scarring so it is covering up most of the bad areas but, we think he looks amazing for what he went through!

Happy 4th of July!

We spent the 4th in Pittsburgh this year. We just decided that it would be good to get out of the house for a while. So, we got a room and we swam and hung out at Uncle Brett's. Aunt Vicki and Uncle Mike served up some good food and company!

We watched the fireworks at a little park close by with Uncle Brett and Sarah. I was very anxious to see how Brody would react to them this year. He LOVED them! His eyes were as big as quarters the whole time. We had a great view and nice time, thanks Uncle Mike, Aunt Vicki, Brett and Sarah for everything!

My camera was dying so I didn't really get great shots but this one you can see how big his eyes were while watching!! You can also see a little bit of the poor guy's boo boos :( which are healing more and more everyday!

I actually do love this picture! Happy 4th! Hope everyone had a good one!

Many thanks...

This came in the mail today for Brody from my cousin Courtney! We just love it! Brody kisses it all of time! Thanks Court!

I just wanted to dedicate this blog to all our family and friends for the overwhelming amount of love and support you have given us over the past couple of weeks. It truly means the world to us knowing that we have people to lean on in times like these. Human kindness is alive and well and in the world we live in, that is nice to know!