He's been running around for quite a while now and is getting better. Falling a little less often and does better when transitioning to new surfaces, such as walking from the concret driveway onto the grass in the front yard. :-) He LOVES to climb. I've been working on putting new floors in the entire downstairs. Boy, what a job! I'll warn everyone right now, don't EVER take on a huge home improvement project with a 1 yr. old unless you have someone to watch him/her a lot! I've had a step ladder downstairs that I've been using. I swear, Braden tries to climb up that thing 100 times every night. He just thinks it's great fun!
He's starting to talk more too. Of course, it's tough to understand him most of the time and he's not really annunciating well yet but there are some things that he repeats often. He says Hi and it comes out I. Says Bye and it sounds like Bah. I was taking him to daycare and all of a sudden I hear him say BAH! Then I look back and he's waving at me! Too funny. So, he likes to play the Hi & Bye game by opening and closing doors. He says uh oh, whoa, and vroom when he plays with cars, etc. Of course, there is the usual chatter that he doesn't say anything but he changes the tone of his voice to sound like he's really telling you something! We just keep talking to him and carry on a conversation.
I'm proud to announce that he is still the happiest kid I've ever been around. I know, I'm biased. But he truly is a happy guy. He just cracks himself up. He'll be sitting there and all of a sudden just laughing like crazy; which of course gets everyone else going. He's just too much fun!
I need to tell everyone that Braden received a very special gift for his first birthday from Jonnie & Roy Dilsaver. They gave him his first rocking horse. Roy passed away from cancer recently so this gift was even more special to all of us. Braden really likes the horse so we thought it would be really cute to have it in the pictures. Unfortunately, the woman taking the pictures said we couldn't have him sitting on it because he was a little small for it; even though he sits on it great. She said she could get into trouble because he could fall. But, we were still able to get some really great pictures with it! So, without further ado, here are some of his 1 yr. pictures!
