Starting the New Year with a Post All About Last Year

For labor day weekend we spent 2 nights at the beach with some friends. This was Brigham's first real beach trip and he absolutely loved it! I can't wait to go back this coming summer. We pulled into the condo and walked straight down to the beach.

I took this picture to show how cute I thought Brigham looked in his underwear but this is also a very common position for him when the television is on. He likes to be right in front of it. I limit his tv watching to about 2 hours a day. I would like to get it to less than that but there are some days where it is even more than that. Currently his favorite show is Curious George. He asks for it all the time. He also loves Jack's Big Music Show, Blue's Clues, and Sesame Street. He will really watch just about anything that is on but these are the shows he actually asks for.


Here is a picture from Grandma and Grandpa Mooney's Mission Farewell party. It was a great party and we were all sad to see them go. Luckily they get to leave the mission for 10 days during the 18 months they are there so at least we will get to see them every so often. They can also have visitors and we plan on making our way up to Pittsburgh to visit them at some point.

In September Brigham turned 2! I can't believe he is already 2. We had 2 birthday parties to celebrate! We really only had 2 parties so that most of the family would be able to attend. We had most of Mark's family over on a Tuesday night and then my family over the following Saturday. Brigham had a chocolate oreo cream cake for both parties and at both parties the candle was a little too scary for him. At the time, he was scared of a lot of things that he had never even been bothered by before. Luckily it was a very short lived phase and he he is back to his mostly fearless self now. He even tries to blow out every candle he sees, even on tv.

Party #1

This is from the days in between his 2 parties where I gave him some paint for the first time. He really loves drawing and painting. The worst part is that he makes a huge mess and is only entertained for 5-10 minutes. The mess would be more worth it if the fun lasted a little longer for him.

Party #2

This is the first time I gave him some Play-Doh to play with. He loved it (for about 5 minutes).

This is from a fall festival we went to. Needless to say his favorite part was the cotton candy. Sugar is his favorite food but he is getting better about eating other things. He really loves pasta and pizza more than anything (except sugar of course).
We had 2 Halloweens and Brigham had 2 costumes. The first Halloween was the church's trunk or treat where he and Mark were dressed as Amish guys. I didn't get a picture of them because I wanted to take one once we were indoors since it was dark out and the pictures from last year were awful since they were all taken in the dark. Well, I forgot about taking any pictures once we were indoors and Mark shaved off his Amish beard almost as soon as we got home. He had been growing that thing out for a couple months and was only keeping it until after the trunk or treat since it is what inspired his costume and played a major part in it! They were super cute together but not many people guessed what they were dressed as.

This picture os from Halloween #2 which was on Halloween. We dressed him as a homeless man and his costume was a big hit! I put some black eye shadow on his face for a beard and everything else was clothing he already had! The sign was originally intended to hang around his neck but he didn't like it there so we taped it to his candy bucket and it worked just as well. He was a champion trick or treater and we are still eating the candy he got that night! He asks for some several times a day, every single day. I am unsuccessfully trying to break this candy addiction.
At the beginning of November I took Brigham to the doctor for a cough that he had for 2 weeks. Turns out he had developed asthma caused by an allergy to dust mites. We had to do breathing treatments for a month and a half, get allergen blocking pillow covers for his bed, and also an air purifier for his room. December 12th he was released from breathing treatments and all has been well! He did really well with the daily treatments.