Friends, Food, and Drool!

Brady had his first play date with a friend! It was a couple Sundays ago at Grammy's house. Scarlett is my mom's neighbor's granddaughter. She is actually the daughter of a high school friend of mine that married my childhood neighbor. Mom said they were cute; she kept bringing toys to him and tried to crawl into his exersauser. Scarlett is about a year and a half. Brady is 8 months here!

He talks to babies in stores, so I'm sure he had fun playing with another little person!


He is growing so quickly that he is now in a big boy car seat! He is 22+ lbs now, so he can't ride in his old one anymore. It's exciting, but now we'll have to carry him everywhere; it was easy to just set the car seat down! :)


All else is well. Brady had cheesy puffy things and peach yogurt melts today for the first time. This was his first yogurt melt...what a face! He likes the cheese puffs better! I think it stresses me out the most; I don't do well with messes (Erik too, surprisingly), so the whole thing is tough to get used to. Brady continues to roll and pivot, but no crawling. He is pulling himself up on us and wanting to stand and play with things.


The other new news is that I stopped breastfeeding yesterday. I started to pump at work and then realized now is as good of time as any to stop it. I've been talking about it for a long time, but then when Brady was sick earlier this month, I really didn't want to stop. I'm in pain right now, but an odd sense of calmness has come over me. My initial goal was 6 months, so making it almost 9 months is great in my eyes. Everyone has been very supportive; that is helping. I'm a bit emotional about it still; I feel a bit guilty even though I know he is FINE and got 9 solid months of breast milk. This is Brady this morning; we were playing. He is drooling a lot! His 3rd tooth broke through; two bottom and one on top!