I'm ready for 2010

We have sad news to share today. Gma Sherck's brother in law, Uncle Wayne passed away this morning. We are thinking of him and the family; we know that Uncle Wayne is in a safe place.

We have also said many prayers in the past 3-4 days for Shayden, Auntie Cami & Ryan's super-dog. Shayden went through surgery on Monday morning for a cancerous tumor and the decision was made to put her to sleep softly and soundly. We will all remember her wagging tail and will smile knowing that she "accepted" Cami into Ryan's home.

I'm ready for The New Year for some good news to turn around. I have some great things to look forward to: 1) Addison is my daycare girlfriend lady and me, Mom & Dad are heading over there for a PARTAY on New Years Eve!!! 2) Arrival of Gma & Gpa Durham on Friday.

I've been a rascal lately. I'm really starting to play on my own more now...please see the video below of where I like to play...

Santa brought me a new TOOF

Oh, golly bageezers...I have sooo many things to tell you about my Holiday week/weekend. Even though I could really care less about opening gifts, it was so awesome to be able to see some of my family. The weather was horrible and we all wanted to be safe so I wasn't able to see more family but will soon enough.

Santa was great to me this year. I got a bunch of toys, a huge red wagon, tub crayons n' stuff like that. The best gift all all though...was a new tooth, yep, right there on the bottom next to Mr. Lonely himself. Maybe this is why I've been sleeping a lot and have been a little crank-pot here and there? Moving on...another best part of Christmas were the cookies. I had about 10 cookies a day. Yes, not kidding. They were deeeelish.

I went to Gpa/Gma Becker's house Xmas Eve (we left early to miss the storm). Thankfully, Dad brought his ice shack so he and the girls had a get-away while I was taking my afternoon snoozers. They caught a ton of fish. Xmas eve Zoie and Ellie wrote notes to Santa. I'll sum them up here:

"Marry Chrit-mas Santa!! Put a ipod in every buddies stocken. Love, Zoie, Ellie & Brady"

Ellie got a skateboard and a super-man -like costume for xmas.

Mr Scary Blue Eyes Santa B-man. Did I tell you I wore my pj's for FOUR days straight? WHO CARES!?!?!

Gma Becker and goofball Ellie wearing her dress up stuff. Gpa - where are you hiding?

Zoie got this cool, eskimo lookin' like sweater that's hip...for an 8 yr old chick. I love that lady - she didn't leave my side the entire time we were there visiting.

My Beauties...so boo-iful.

Then, Christmas take 2!~ I hitched a ride back to the cities and went to Gma & Gpa Shercks house. See below, Gma let me play with ALL of the ornaments! I only broke about 5 of them.Here they are, my pride and joy. Gma makes the best baked spinach. I ate about a pound of that stuff. If it's green...I'll eat it.

Dad, Gpa, Mom and I also went out in the snow...we went sledding, made a fort and chilled for a bit. Those are on Gma's camera so I'll have to post them at a later date.

Check out these goofies? This is Cous Rachel and Cous Michael. They live in Georgia but I have no lickin' idea where Georgia is?!?! I miss them.

All in all, a good Christmas (so far) - I'm bummed I haven't been able to see the rest of my family yet but soon enough. Gma/Gpa Durham are coming from CA to see me on Friday. We'll hopefully get to see Cami & Ry-dog (Ryan) soon too. I'm thankful for my family, our health, happiness and to vocabulary. I've learned a few more words (snow, hot, on, off, careful (sounds like care-cul), whoa, and so many more I can't keep track.

More pics to come of ice fishing on St. James Lake, sledding in the snow and more!

Our prayers are with my Great Uncle Wayne and the entire family. We are thinking of all of you.

Walkin' like an Egyptian w/ a Butterburger

Holy ba-geezers, sure can't believe that it's only another 4 days until Santa comes to visit! Yippee! Not much new here except that I'm a walking machine. Crawling is now for sissies.

I went back to daycare this past week and had a chance to see Shelli & all of my friends again. It was absolutely wonderful. We learned about Santa....so much that I've been practicing "ho ho ho."

I was a little bummed yesterday cuz Dad and his friends Wayne & Dirk went out ice fishing for Walleyes. I'm bummed that I'm not big enough, so...what do I do instead? GO SHOPPING!!! Ugh, it's so boring. But, after shopping, thanks to the Mrs., I was introduced to a Butterburger meal from Culvers. Boy have I been missing out! I ate an entire burger (well, 1/2 of it was on the floor)

We skipped church today to sleep in but I promised God that I'd make it up by going to church on Thursday night to sing O' Holy Night. Getting ready for a nappers now to rest up because we're heading to Gpa & Gma Woo-Woo's to watch the Vikes game. Oh, I suppose you don't know who they are....well, it's Gma & Gpa Sherck. I call them the Woo-Woo's because whenever I go to their house Gpa shows me the Woo-Woo (celing fan.) Thanks go him, whenever I see a ceiling fan, I point and say woo woo. Ha!

Happy Holidays everyone. We are thankful everyday for our family, friends, happiness, health and a bag full of cheetos. I'm sure we'll have a long post after Xmas with pics of the family.

So long...

Walkin' and proving it

Crosby...just tryin' to keep up with you buddy.

PS: Don't mind the trash bags. I'm getting ready for the x-mas haul to the Good Will.

My Sunshine, My Carrie

The past 24 hours and the next lifetime will be much different for me. I have lost one of my best friends and buddies, Carrie Lorman (my daycare provider). Carrie was in a bad car accident in the bad weather on Tuesday night coming home from work in Maple Grove. Carrie has been watching me from day one...and, even though I know she's in a different place right now, I know she'll be watching over me for the rest of my life.

Carrie is survived by her 3 yr daughter, my friend, Brooklynn, her direct family of Mom-Shelli, Dad-Walt, Sister-Jenny and Brother-Alex. Our thoughts are prayers are with the entire family.

The funeral will be this Saturday. There has been a memorial trust fund set up for Brooklynn. Donations can be sent to:

Brooklynn Lorman Custodial Trust

c/o Archiver's

Suite 500

5900 Clearwater Drive

Minnetonka, MN 55343

We all will miss you.

11 bucks and I turned into a stud muffin

Yo, yo people. It's snowing - it's awesome, but I'm ticked because I have to stay inside when it's so frigid outside. Dang. So, what I've been doing lately is crawling under the stools, I get stuck and then yell and yell for someone to get me out.I finally got my haircut this past Saturday from that nice lady at Great Clips. A haircut and 11 bucks later, I'm a new man. I'm looking mighty fine...my parents say I look older.

My new favorite toy: Shelli & Carrie from daycare bought me this Thomas the train jungle gym thing with a tunnel and a fort! Check-it!

Toot Toot.

This past Sunday I went to the ice fishing show with Dad and Gpa Sherck. Dad made me wear this funny muskie fargo-like hat to the show. I'm serious!!!! (I loved every minute)

Some of you ask..."are you walking yet Brady?" Well, duh - yeah...when I have my little cart thing. I zoom soooo fast and then I get super mad when I run into things! (See below) I couldn't figure out how to rotate the video but I thought it would be good enough for all of those GG's (Great Gmas) who live out of town even if it's posted sideways.

Statistics from da doc - 12 month appt

Check-up appointment with my fine lady, Dr. MaryBeth. Mama "stole" me out of daycare this morning, and I instantly knew what was up. We drove across town and into that awful parking lot of the Doctor's office. It was a little leery, but when Dr walked in, I was sure happy to see her again!

Some of my measurements - 12 months old.

• Height: 29.5 in (50%)
• Weight: 19lbs 14 oz (10%)
• Head: 46.5 (75%) Maybe this is why my new hat from Cullen didn't fit me? Because I have a fat head?!?!

Talking/communicating: Above normal (surprise, surprise) Does this mean I'm a genius? We'll maybe I'll be a genius that doesn't walk and only has one tooth for the rest of his life? LOL Maybe I'll be an auctioneer? I'm really starting to repeat sounds/words. When Mama lists off of the names of the kids at daycare I repeat them back. They don't sound anything like they should but I'm working on that.

Dr. Marybeth was talking to me and I said to her "mama, papa, mooo, quack quack, ruff ruff." Then, she said something like "he is so happy he has no idea he's getting shots" - I don't know what that means, so I said "gank goo" to her, which in your people language means thank you.
I said gank goo, but I then remembered that those stinkin' shots are no fun so i started throwing a fit (before the shots.)

I'm happy it's Friday today. I'll leave you with a quick pic from when I opened some presents from Gma & Gpa Sherck for my birfday. They got me this Moose pillow and stuck me in this box with that thing!? What are they thinking?!?!

I'm heading out for my first real haircut tomorrow so I can look all stylin' for girls during the Holiday season. We'll see if we can clean up this mess on my head!

PS: Santa...I've been a good boy this year.

The best year of my life...ONE YEAR OLD Nov 28

One year ago....BOY HAVE I GROWN! It's my birthday and I'll cry if I want to... Yeah, is this ridiculous? I had a delicious piece of cake in front of me to celebrate my first birthday and I didn't touch it. We spent Thanksgiving in St. James!! We celebrated Thanksgiving with all of the fam and then Gma & Gpa Becker got me a Thomas the train cake.

I opened up presents and got this cool walker from Cami & Ry-Dog. It took me about 30 seconds to figure out to how to rock and roll...I can't even tell you about all of the cool gifts!

Some fun pics.....me with Auntie Zoie and Ellie. They are HOOTS!

Zoie and Ellie complety exhasted me while I was there...soo much that I fell asleep holding maracas.

Gpa Becker - oh, man - boy did he cook up some delicious treats while I was there! I had oreos and cheetos thanks to him. And...don't tell my Mama but he gave me as many cheetos as I wanted. I call him "papa"

Me and Gma Lisa...she was trying to get me to go to the gym on Thanksgiving...YEAH RIGHT Gma!

I'm getting closer and closer to the walking thing........and, notice Ellie playing her DS upside down in the background? sheesh...

Gpa and Daddy headed out to the Mexican store in St. James and Daddy bought Ellie this mustache. Well, crazy auntil Ellie was wearing this outfit all night! Here is my love and joy - Zoester. I am not kidding, she did not leave my side the entire trip!

We came back this weekend and I had a chance to go out to lunch at my FAVORITE lunch place at Good Earth with Mom & her friends for my birthday. They didn't have any french fries or chicken nuggets which was not so cool. I had my 2nd birthday party at home last night with Gma & Gpa Sherck!! More pics to come...

I've been feeling a little under-the-weather the past couple days but I think I've turned the corner. I sure hope so, because tomorrow I get my 3rd birthday party at daycare. I have cupcakes sprinkled with mini m&ms and ready to go.

I'm starting to repeat some sounds. Instead of saying "thank you", I say "gank yoo." Know what I'm going to be when I grow up? Check out the video below...never know!!

T-Minus 6 days until I'm ONE YEAR OLD

Thinking back almost one year ago at this time, I was sitting in Mama's tummy all ready to shoot on out for my Birthday on Nov 28th! This has been the best year in my entire life. I am so thankful everyday for my family, health and the enormous amounts of LOVE that I have in my family. I've been a buzzzy little bee lately...but a quick update on what I've been up to!
Last weekend, it was awful and Dad came down with the icky FLU so he couldn't come with us but we met Gpa & Gma Becker, Zoie & Ellie at their hotel for swimming! Besides the big pool being a little chilly, it was a blast! Just like before, I LOVE THE WATER.
On Sunday, Daddy was still not feeling too well and Mom had to fly on an airplane to Michigan for work so, it was just awesome. I SKIPPED two days of daycare and had a chance to stay overnight at Gma & Gpa Shercks while Daddy was resting. Gpa read me books... I helped Gma sweep her magazines into the pot....

I slept through the night (both nights) and ate like a champ because Gma is the best cook around! Don't tell Mom, but Gma held me in her arms a lot which was awesome. So awesome that this past week I've been hanging on Mom's pant leg yelling "mama mama mama mama mama" because I want her to pick me up.

Dada is finally feeling better. This weekend, a quick salad and beer at Applebees Friday night, and Saturday Dad went pheasant hunting with his friend Jacob and we had he and his wife Kathleen over for dinner. That guy Jacob, what was he doing? He got out this umbrella thing, big lights, and a huge camera and he was chasing me all over the room taking pictures of me. Something about Christmas pictures???!?!? Nope, not sharing with anyone until Christmas arrives....I ended my weekend by watching the Vikes game with my main gal Jade. I wore my Vikes outfit and she wore her dress thing and was shakin' her bootie.

The latest thing for me, I'm almost walking (will walk around a coffee table and walk along the wall), I still have one tooth on the bottom and another one is poppin' through, I counted that yesterday I said the word "Mama" 4 million times, I love puzzles, I'm trying to feed myself with a fork/spoon, you can see in the pics that my hair is ALWAYS messy and I'm starting to get a curly mullet and I STILL DO NOT KNOW how to go down the stairs backwards on my tummy. Anyone have any suggestions?

Peace out. Heading to STJ for Thanksgiving and Bday party #1 and a 2nd round Bday party next Saturday. Cannot wait!!!

What does a cow say?

Well, what is new with me?

1. I'm a talking machine (surprise, surprise because my Mom never stops talking) I can't really say many words that people understand but the little kids at daycare understand me. In the morning when I wake up? Nope - I don't cry, I just sit and talk to my animals.

2. I have one tooth that popped through on the bottom. I love gnawing on anything to make them feel better. Can't wait to start biting the kids at daycare...ha, just kiddin'.

3. T-minus 19 days until I'm ONE YEAR OLD. No big birthday bash this year - but we are going to celebrate with gmas, gpas, aunts and family.

4. This past weekend was awesome. Spent Saturday biking with my parents at Baker Park and then we went to the bar for beer & popcorn. Saturday night was boyz night with me and my DADDIO - mom ditched us for girl's night and we had a blast. Dad and I chilled: we cleaned the garage, ate cheetos for dinner, and watched hockey. I love that guy.

5. I'm eating much more than I did the past few months. I think I'm finally going to start gettin' chunks legs.

6. I know how a cow, a dog and a duck talk. Ma tried to catch a video of me, buy my favorite what I normally do is "oooooooooooooooooooooo", which means "moo" but I always forget to do the "mmm" sound. I'm a little rascal, whenever Mom tries to take a video of me - I'll try to grab the camera from her hand! Dad was fishing on Sunday so we were playing trying to keep busy. Sure happy he's home from the Suriname Jungle!!! XOO