Brecon's takes over!

Hi. My name is Brecon. I'm almost 5 months old (can you believe it?) Well, I guess I'll tell you a little bit about myself. I like to eat, take naps, smile, and my latest trick.... rolling over! I'm on the verge of crawling (if you know what I mean) I'm happy most of the time, except for when I get mad. My mom likes to stick me in this "saucer" thingy when she needs to get stuff done. It's pretty entertaining, but my fingers are pretty entertaining too!

This is my big brother Cael. He sure is crazy, but I love him anyway. He likes to roll me around tries to carry me around the house, but my mom tells him to stop. I don't know why, Cael is very strong... but oh well.

Well everybody, life is pretty good (at least for me). Hope everyone is doing well and you like my pictures!

Sea World?

Many of your may wonder what Sea World is doing in the middle of Texas? Well, I don't have an answer for you, it just is. Sea World San Antonio.... and we were given some season passes and have been using them like they're going out of style the past year and 1/2. My friends' brother works there (he's the guy in the coveralls) and took us on a "behind-the-scenes" tour of the Sea Lion Stadium and we met a new friend. Seriously, the sea lion is smiling for the picture, is that funny or what? Those sea lions sure are crazy. We've sure enjoyed having something fun to do.

HEY HALLOWEEN!

OH the joys of Halloween!

We pulled out the pumpkin to be carved this past month and this was just a classic "hey let me set the timer and see what happens". Well as you can clearly see, the photo took before any of us were ready., except for Cael-- he looks pretty ready to me.

I need to explain that Cael needs to take his afternoon nap or else we all suffer. So late afternoon on Halloween, I easily put Cael in his bed for a "power nap" so that we will all have FUN FUN FUN later that night. Well, he is sleeping soundly when we suddenly need to leave, so he is not feeling too excited about trick-or-treating and leaving his nice warm bed. In the midst of crying and not cooperating with the latest costume choice, we finally got him out the door (with tears still in his eyes) for a photo before we leave for the night. It will be a memory that stay with him FOREVER! Halloween is fun, quit your cryin'!

The PLATT (boy) PIRATES!

I, on the other hand, was totally excited to dress up this year in this lovely Thrift Town find. You won't believe me if I told you, but the dress and shoes fit like they were made for me, it was amazing! You gotta love the yellow! Also, I think I went through an entire can of hairspray to get my bangs and pony to cooperate accordingly. It could be bigger, I know, but we were in a hurry!
WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A SCURVY PIRATE?!
Brecon was a good sport to have eyebrows drawn on his cute little face, and that pirate bandana really covers up his head nicely. And are you checkin' out the chest hair? oh my!
Halloween was sure fun!

A cute little boy...

Just wanted to throw this one up here, the kid is growing and even is smiling real big for us. Gotta love it.

Just for fun

We like to read books... children's books that is. At night before bed, we pound out as many childrens' library books as we can stand and usually Cael enjoys too. Brecon... well, we're working on him. He usually can only take about 1/2 of a book before he has had enough, which is OK for now. But if he is going to last very long in this family, he needs to learn to love books or he just might not make it (only kidding :) So... After we took this picture, Cael insisted that Brecon sleep in his bed for the night. But it didn't happen. Like I said, Brecon can only do 1/2 a book, or stand to be so close to his brother for so long. I know his loves Cael, but he also knows that Cael = rough love. Cael loves Brecon, only sometimes a KICK to the head or a squeeze TOO TIGHT doesn't always go over well with a baby. Life can be hard when you're a baby and your brother's name is Cael. Anywho... you gotta love it.

BROTHERS... NO MATTER WHAT ( check out the blond widows peak on Brecon. You can see it, right?)


Ben reading to his boys... how precious is that

Now I just threw this one in for fun. I thought some might get a kick out of Caels' shorts hiked up to TIBUKTU. I know I'm laughin'

and now he sleeps...

After our sweet baby was born, this lady didn't receive the luxury of going to bed at night without any A.M. interruptions. And NOW can I get a Hallelujah?!!?! Brecon is going for 7 hour stretches at NIGHT!!! This is a little smile from the man saying "you're welcome mom". He's been allowing me to play a little catch up for about a week now. Let's just hope he keeps it up.

SQUISHY

Ben and Cael love to go on "BUG HUNTS". There must be something about digging in the dirt and catching rollee-pollee's, ants, and crickets, sticking them into a jar and looking at them. I don't know, I just don't get it. I must be a girl or something. Anywho, on one of their fabulous hunts, they discovered this (see photo below)l. We'll just say that this creature was something to behold and Cael was very excited about it. We asked Cael what we should name this new friend and said "SQUISHY" with no hesitation. It was pretty cute that he came up with the name all by himself, so the name has stuck to every hopping friend we see.
After playing in the dirt, we just had to stick the boys in the tub. RUB A DUB DUB...

OH NO.... close your eyes if you are afraid of a little bum