Mr. Independent

This week marked a HUGE milestone for Brody:

He climbed OUT of his crib.

YIKES!!!! I was in bed, Mike was on an early conference call, and while I could hear Brody on the monitor, I secretly wanted him to go back to sleep so that I could catch a few more zzzzz's before breakfast. All of a sudden, our bedroom door opens, and smiley little Brody yells "Mommy!"

I couldn't believe it!!! I ran into the office, threw open the door, and quickly asked Mike"DidyougetBrodyoutofhiscrib?"

After thinking about what I just said, he calmly replied "Nooooooo...."

Then we both turned to look at our mischeviously little guy. He had a HUGE smile on him face like he was so proud of himself. We took him back in the room, put him in his crib, then asked him how he got out of bed.

Brody's reply: "I joomped!" (jumped)

Lovely. Thank goodness that's not really wat he did. He did manage to show us how he got out of the crib. Pretty clever little guy.

So, I guess now we need to think about Toddler Beds or something? Can you tell that we are clueless and are in denial that our little man is growing up?

Later that morning........

Brody and I are eating breakfast and he DEMANDED that he feed himself his yogurt. Here's what that looked like:

And this is what happens when the yogurt is gone and it's time to wash up:

Guess we need to have lots of yogurt on hand to keep this guy happy. That, and a few cars perhaps?

It's All About CARS!

Obsession Alert!!!

With special thanks to Grandpa and Disney/Pixar's CARS movie, Brody is now officially OBBESESSED with any and all things related to cars. At 19 months, Brody has already acquired quite a collection of any and all things realted to cars (much to our amusement, and sometimes displeasure....I can't tell you how many times I have stepped on a stray car lurking out from under the bed).

When we visited Orange County in July, we went to Disneyland. Brody had to wear his CARS t-shirt and tennis shoes that light up:Then, we happily (hmm....not sure about that now) purchased some CARS related merchandise at Disneyland that Brody refused to put down throughout the rest of our OC adventures:

Now, we do a lot of lining up the cars...all over the house. Perhaps this means Brody will be organized? OCD? A methodical thinker?

And recently, we went out of town for Labor Day Weekend. Of course, we had to take some (try like 20) cars with us for the car ride and for entertainment purposes throughout the weekend. Mike even rigged up his mini laptop so that Brody could ride in style and watch the CARS movie in the car. While this proved to be an excellent mode of entertainment to keep our little guy occupied and eventually help him drift off to dreamland during the 4+ hour car ride, we didn't really like the 1:30am wake up call we received from our cars obsessed toddler. Imagine a cute little sleepy head standing up in his pack-and-play looking at you and asking "Cars? Cars? Cars?" So, we all laid in bed, watching a hour of Cars before heading back to dreamland.

We did manage to enjoy our trip and spent some time at Lake Alpine. Brody had fun playing in the water...chasing after (hmmm, let me think) his CARS!

I secretly hope that this cars phase lasts a LOOOOONG time. We have enough cars here to start our own car lot. And while I now seen the CARS movie more times than I care to admit, I actually think it's a great flick.

Perhaps Brody will skip the LEGO phase. This is my secret wish. I son't know how many times I can go stepping on hidden legos without wanting to throw them away! (Is that terrible of me?)