Air Show!

This past weekend was the air show. It started on Friday and ended on Sunday. Friday was open to military and schools only which was nice because it was a lot less crowded. Saturday and Sunday it was open to the public and it lasted pretty much all day long. I could hear the F22s and other planes practicing a couple of days before the show began and those are some LOUD jets. They would fly right over our house which was cool to see.

Before I get started on the air show, here are some recent things/pictures of what Brayden has been doing.

This was taken today during Bryan's lunch break.

They were talking to each other.

Brayden was not at all sleeping through the night

this past weekend because he was so hungry. I think

being outside in the humidity made us both a little

dehydrated and I couldn't keep up with him so I

bought some rice cereal and here he is eating it.

It's a green color because I put his vitamins in it.

Without his vitamins in it, he eats the cereal very

well-he eats it all (despite what the movie and

picture show). I feed it to him before bed and he's

been sleeping better. Thank goodness he likes it!

He is sitting in a little chair that straps on to

our kitchen table chair, which is nice because

we don't have a huge high chair to worry about.

We got this little chair at a garage sale for $5!

Bryan and Brayden after a very long day of

church.

Ok, now it's time for air show pictures. I was

going to have Bryan do this post so he could

name all these planes and stuff but he's got a

lot to do so it'll have to do without knowing

what kinds of planes they are.

Even though it's not very sunny, it was so

incredibly humid which is why I think that

Brayden and I might have gotten a little

dehydrated, even though I drank lots of water,

which apparently wasn't enough.

This one is a really big plane. (If you can zoom

in on this, you can see Brayden's sad face).

This is the same plane-in front of the jet engine

I guess you could call it.

This one was my favorite helicopter. It looks

really cool from the side and for some reason

we don't have a picture of that. This one is

actually a Navy chopper.

Bryan and Brayden sitting in the cock pit of a

different helicopter. There are millions of dials,

buttons, controls...

Here they are again in the same chopper.

Bryan was outside and stuck his arm inside the

front of the chopper and took this.

Brayden was asleep in his stroller and Bryan

took him out to check out this helicopter (I think)

and he just kept on sleeping! Someone from the

flight crew stands there and shoots this

gun from the window.

Another cockpit. This is the cockpit of a C-5, a massive

airplane capable of carrying tanks and a large crew of people.

Bryan in an Army tank.

Here are the Thunderbirds. These ones can

get really loud too.

Here is a short video of the Thunderbirds.

It's hard to keep up with them when taking

pictures and videos. I couldn't do it, so Bryan

took all the pics and videos.

This is how close they are to our house. The

bottom left plane is the F22 (the really stinken

loud one). And Bryan adds really stinken COOL!

I didn't see this but I guess a jumper had this

flag when he or she jumped from the plane. It

is a pretty big flag. If he remembers correctly

it is the biggest flag ever flown while parachuting

This was taken in our front yard.

Strawberry

Many of you have been asking about the red mark on Brayden's hand. This post will finally answer your question. What he has on his hand is called a strawberry hemangioma, which is a collection of blood vessels on the skin which essentially is a tumor. Babies are not born with it, but they show up a week or two after birth, which is what happened with Brayden. They will get worse but they will eventually go away by the time they are 5-7 years old. Most of the time they develop on the face, and lucky for us (and for Brayden) his is on his hand. They can be removed by laser or steroids if needed. The doctor wanted us to keep an eye on it because it's on his finger and if it gets worse, it can inhibit his use of his fingers so she wanted us to take him to a dermatologist. So we took him to the dermatologist (which is another story) and she prescribed him some steroids. I'v been putting it on him every night for about 2 weeks, with a sock on his hand and then swaddled so he won't stick his hand in his mouth which he loves to do, and it has been getting better. It was a purple color but now it's going back down to a red color. I do worry about putting steroids on my baby but so far he hasn't had any problems-as soon as I see something out of the ordinary, he will be in the doctor's office.

His middle finger is swollen and the steroids

will help that go down as well.

Here is the inside of his hand.

Yes my husband did this to our son-it's actually

kinda funny.

Brayden is beginning to discover his hands

and feet. Because he loves sticking his legs

in the air, he's able to see his feet and grab

them. It's so much fun being able to see him

learn and discover new things. He can also

reach out and grab toys when you hold it

out in front of him.

He is trying so hard to roll over. He almost

has it. He's crying because he is so frustrated.

It would have been longer, but I ran out of

memory (I would've made a video of him

reaching and grabbing his toy as well).

Brayden will be sitting in his swing

the "right" way and after so much

kicking he ends up like this.

Here is a video of Brayden getting ready to

go for a walk (which he absolutely loves).

I put him in the stroller and he started

kicking his legs.

Sorry, all of our videos are sideways and

for some reason once they're downloaded,

the quality goes down.

I love baby feet.

I love this picture of him.

It's bedtime for Brayden.