Braska Bear

We're getting things put away in our new house.  I've found alot of neat places to play and bunches of things to throw around and make messes with.  This is my new play corner in the living room.   I've got drawers with toys in them and lots of room to practice my steps with my walking toy.  I can't do it by myself yet, but we're working on it alot.  I like taking steps, but I just need lots of help still so I don't fall. I'll try to have more new pictures of my stuff soon.  We've been busy trying to put everything where it should go.  I better go help some more. Oh, by the way, about yesterday's riddle.... Mommy and I went with Auntie Rachel to get her really pretty dress ordered for her wedding.  It's a secret though, so I can't show you the whole thing.  I thought it was SO fun to touch!!  I'm gonna have a pretty dress too, but I might still grow before May!

I came home to a new house on Saturday when Grammy brought me back. We're trying to get things put away, and we don't have internet at the new house yet. So we'll have to wait to put up more stories for now. Mommy's been sick too, so we're trying to take naps and rest some. While you're waiting for new stories, go a little ways down the right side of the page here to where it says Blog Archive and pick a month to check out. You might have missed something, you know! We can still get comments from those, so tell us if you find one you like! See you soon!

(I put up some other new stories, so make sure you go down and look at those too!) Let me show you around my new house a little. We just got it to be ours today! We don't get to live there til next week since a bunch of people are coming to make some messes and redo some things. Mommy will talk about it more in her stories . Here's my fireplace. (Mommy says its going away tomorrow, but I wanted to show you anyway.) Here's Baby Pepino's room. ( Mommy note: The green looks a little brighter in this pic than it really is .) Here's my new bathtub for splashing fun! It even has little things that will make splashies for me! Here's the kitchen, and my favorite new spot where I can knock on the big black door! Here's the best room!! My new room! (Mommy note: The blue is not quite this bright, and it's tone-on-tone stripe.) And check out the fun cubby holes in my new closet! Tonight we went to a meeting with my friend Jack and some other ladies. I was so tired...

Last week I learned some new fun things and went to some new places. First I went to see Mommy's new doctor for the tummy baby, Dr. N. She was really nice. I had fun in my wheels while they did their talking. Miss Lori came to help me practice getting stronger. I tried to do some standing up, and she tricked me into playing so I forgot I was standing! She also wants me to practice climbing up on the couch, but Mommy didn't think I would want to do it or be strong enough yet. But after she left, later in the day, look what Mommy caught me doing! Mommy was SO surprised, and now I'm doing it all the time! I just didn't know it was so much fun! The only problem is that after I play, I get really tired. Mommy went looking for me and found me in the hallway like this. I fell asleep right on the floor!! We also went to another new place, well, lots of them. We looked at lots of new houses last week to see if we wanted to buy one, and we found one we liked! We are gonna get to ...

Tomorrow I'll be 18 months old. I think that sounds pretty grown up. Since I'm having that birthday, I went to see Dr. Y last week on Thursday so he could see how good I'm doing. We won't get to see him anymore since we're moving to St. Charles. That's kind of sad, because he's a very good doctor for me. I got on the silly scale again. It said I weighed 18 lbs and 1 oz. 18 pounds and 18 months! Dr. Y said I really need to try to gain some more, but I think I've got enough on me for now. Otherwise, he said I was doing really good. Miss Courtney gave Mommy a package of all my papers from there, so we can take them to our new doctor. On Saturday, lots of people came over to help us load up a big truck. It was like people all over and they kept carrying our stuff around. I just stayed out of the way and played by myself. I thought they might accidentally put me on the truck too! Mommy even had to go get another truck so they could load it too! O...

Things at my house are really messy. Mommy is putting all our stuff in boxes, and it is making for a real messy place. I don't hardly have places to play anymore, but she says it will be done soon. Since everyone has been busy doing things, I've had to find stuff to keep me from being bored. Daddy was packing some books, so I looked through a few of those. I also thought I'd help by packing up the trash in Daddy's room. Mommy said I should find something else to do. On Monday morning I found some neat lines on the floor while I was waiting for Miss Judy to come. Miss Judy said this is the last time she would see me. I guess she's not coming with us to St. Charles. She showed me some pretty fun bubbles that come out of a little stick. I thought it was really neat! I even tried to do it myself. Here's a little movie of me playing with the bubbles. After Miss Judy left, Miss Andrea came over with Josiah, Ty, and Levi . She helped Mommy and played...

It's big news time--We're moving to St. Louis. Well, actually St. Charles, just NW of St. Louis. It's where I lived before we got married 7 1/2 years ago and I moved to Champaign. It's where M got a new job, just finalized yesterday after a whirlwind process that only began late last week. It's a bittersweet time, as we will miss Champaign a whole lot. This is the longest I've lived anywhere in my life, and that's something. It's been very good to us, and sometimes it's been a little cruel to us, but that's life in this world. All in all, I will think on my time here very fondly. We are excited about being close to family, close to friends in that area, close to Braska's doctors, eliminating the trips down for appointments and such, trading a 3 hour drive for about 30 minutes to downtown. The new job is very good, and it seems like it will be an easy transition for M to slide right into. He starts in 2 weeks, so the chaos will be overwhelming...