Happy 1st Birthday Brett!

Yesterday, we celebrated Brett's 1st birthday. When he woke up, Garrett & I sang Happy Birthday to him and when we arrived at church for the day, Brett's teacher had a "Happy Birthday" balloon for him. Brett loved it. I think he really loved it because his big brother wasn't around to take it away from him :)
After lunch, Garrett, his classmates and the teachers all got together to sing Happy Birthday and to watch him eat his 1st cake, which was shaped like a basketball.
For some reason, (like it is a requirement of being a good mom) I felt compelled to make Garrett and Brett's 1st birthday cake. So I made a cake and brought cupcakes for the other kids and the teachers.
I hoped that Brett would like his cake more than Garrett did. Garrett just looked at his, cried and wanted us to get it away from him! I had better luck with Brett; however, because it was shaped like a basketball, Brett had more fun hitting it like a ball instead of eating it.
We all had fun watching him and Garrett did a great job letting Brett get the attention.

My, how they grow!

We spent Memorial Day weekend at my mother-in-law's house because our a/c broke that Thursday and they couldn't get the part in until the following Tuesday. Luckily, my MIL was glad to have us for the weekend, so we all enjoyed the weekend playing in her pool.

I caught this picture of Fred and Garrett...and it reminded me of a similar picture I had taken 2 years before.





Brett enjoyed the day as well and his Daddy had fun creating new mohawk hair-dos for them!

Band-aids

Most kids, I'm told, like to wear band-aids and think they are cool...not Garrett. He acts like it is the end of the world when you need to put a band-aid on him. Recently, he was playing in the pool at my mother-in-laws when he slipped and fell, and scraped his chin pretty bad. The next day, he was messing around and fell again on the same spot, this time cracking it open wider and definitely needing a band-aid.

It took both me and Fred to put a little neosporin and a band-aid on his chin. You would of thought that we were pouring alcohol in his cut and performing surgery on it without anesthesia. He was truly freaking out! I was trying to be calm throughout the whole thing, even though it was making my stomach upset hearing him scream bloody murder, and seeing all the blood, but I kept myself together enough to tell him repeatedly that he was alright, the band-aid was not going to hurt him, and that it would help his boo-boo heal. At the time, it did not seem like he was hearing anything that I said because he just kept on screaming at the top of his lungs.

A couple days later, however, I was getting ready for work and I overheard him saying, "this is a band-aid and it won't hurt, it is going to make your boo-boo heal" I looked up to see him sticking my post-it notes all over his face as his band-aids.






He was even willing to help Brett out and put a couple band-aids on his boo-boos!


I smiled to myself, realizing that some of what you teach them actually does stick :o)

Brotherly Love

I'm beginning to learn what brotherly love is all about! One minute Garrett is pushing, hitting, kicking or choking Brett and the next minute he is trying to protect him from falling off the bed or telling me that he wants him to go riding on his new tractor.






It's exciting to watch them together! Garrett got a John Deere "Gator" for his 3rd birthday and he and Brett drive all around our yard. It is SOOOO cute and Garrett is a natural behind the wheel. He can maneuver it around trees and he and Brett help their Daddy by "mowing the lawn" with it.



And Brett just loves Garrett...even with all of the "love" hits that he gives him. Brett calls hims "Ga" and will patiently wait for him while Garrett takes a rest from his driving duties. Secretly, I think Brett is thinking, "just wait, a few more months and I'll be the driver!"

Garrett's 3rd Birthday Party

Garrett turned 3 on May 15th. Wow!!! I've been a Mom for 3 years now and now know what people were talking about when they say that they can't imagine life without them or remember how life was without them.

We had his birthday party at Ready-Set-Play in Round Rock.




He had a blast with all his friends...and so did his little brother.






A BIG THANKS goes out to my friend, Cathy. She made Garrett's birthday cake, and, as you can see by the pictures, she is extremely talented. If anyone needs a cake for any occasion, I highly recommend her!