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Old pictures,Our first tooth and Thanksgiving

I just now found this picture. I post a few blogs back that I got to meet up with some old college friends. Here is a picture of us back in college. We played in a washboard band- which was lots of fun. The other picture is of us recently. My have we changed!

Our First Tooth!

Brayden has got his first tooth!! It has broken through and is coming! He slobbers all the time, so we knew it must be coming! He has not ran any fever, but this may be our problem to waking up in the middle of the night. An update on the doctor's visit----
Brayden weighs 17 lbs. 2 oz. and is 28 1/4 inches long. He is in the 50% in weight and 95% in his length. He got his 6 month shots and of course didn't like them and he did NOT like his doctor this time either. He screamed the whole time the doctor was messing with him.

We had a good Thanksgiving. We went to Batesville for Bo's family Thanksgiving. It was good to see everybody and we had lots of great food. We definatley ate way too much! We got up early on Friday and made it to Walmart! It was CRAZY! I was able to get a little bit of Christmas shopping done, but still have alot more to go. We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving too!

Brayden is half a year old!

Brayden turned 6 months yesterday. We can't believe that half of his first year is gone already! He has come so far just since last month. He is almost sitting up-he sits proped up on his arm. He gets up on his knees and rocks back and forth-so I know that crawling will be any day now. He is now eating all baby foods(green and yellow/orange vegetables and all fruits). He loves sweet potatoes and squash and peaches. He copies us on different things(when we hit something he'll hit at it too)and loves patty cake. He has been sleeping all night until the last couple of weeks. he wakes up at 4:30, which I can't complain when he goes to bed at 9:00. he wakes up starving and goes right back to sleep and then wakes up around 9:30. I guess he is growing. We have uped his feeding at night but he still wakes up. It's amazing watching this child grow. We have had our first Halloween and we're about to have our first Thanksgiving.

Brayden has had a stuffy nose this weekend, but what child doesn't right now with the weather changing. Thankfully he has not run any fever. We will go to the Dr. tomorrow for his 6 month checkup. I always hate the shots part. I can't wait to see how much he weighs now and how long he is. I see other babies his age and Brayden is so much longer -but I guess he can't help that having a 6'6'' daddy. :) Happy 6 Months Brayden!





We had Thanksgiving with my mom's family yesterday also-why I didnt' post yesterday. This was Brayden's first family get together on my side, other than my brothers wedding-but that was hectic. We are having Thanksgiving with Bo's family on Thursday. The bib on Brayden is bigger that he is. His cousin Christie gave it to him.

Christmas time at The Edmistons

It's Christmas time at our house. I always have my Christmas tree up the weekend after Halloween. Yes, Halloween, not Thanksgiving. I get in the Christmas spirit going to to all the Christmas open houses downtown. That weekend, I had My tree up and decorated. I don't have much more done than that, but I am starting to work on the rest. I like to enjoy the Christmas holidays, so this is why I get started early. Brayden just looks at all the lights and the ornaments. I think he likes them!

What a weekend!

This weekend, my inlaws came into town along with The Moore's. We had a house full, but we had a good time. Friday night I got to visit with some friends of mine from college. I had not seen some of them in 4 years! It was great to see everyone. Out of 11, 5 of us have children and 1 on the way. We got to visit with the kids Saturday. I wish everyone lived closer so we could get together more often. The kids are so close in age (2 years - 6 months). I will post some pictures below. Saturday night, we got to meet up with the Longs(Ms. Sue, Mr. Larry, Celeste, Lee, Gabe, and Jenny) at Marty's Steakhouse. We were planning on going to a new steakhouse in town, but it was a 2 hour wait! Sunday was Celeste's baby shower. She got lots of great things. Baby Rowe will be here before we know it! We can't wait to see him!

Ashley, Brayden, and Tori

Ashley and Anna-Claire, Erin and Jake

Becky and Asher

Eating at the Grill with all the babie

The Edmiston's and The Long's

The Moore's and the Gillis'

Gabe and Jenny

Pumpkin Carving

Bo, Brayden and I went to Jerry and Rebecca's apartment Tuesday night to carve pumpkins. Jerry and Rebecca live in a loft apartment downtown, which is very nice, by the way. Jerry grilled out hamburgers and the girls made caramel apples. They were delicious. Bain and his wife Kelly were also able to come. After dinner we carved pumpkins. Bo and I carved a spider into ours. We had to use a stencil since we had to keep an eye on Brayden. We had a lot of fun though! Thanks Jerry and Becca!

Halloween!

This was Brayden's first Halloween. For the day, he was a pumpkin and for trick or treating, he was a dinosaur. We went to Communtiy Baptist Church for the night with my cousin Christie, Shawn, Gavin, Brantley, Resa and Jim. We did make it to a few houses... we got to see Mimi, Aunt Clarice, Granny and PawPaw, Nanny and Joe, Aunt Wendi, Morgan and Julia, Mike, Shannon, and Evan, Aunt Resa and Uncle Jim, Christie, Shawn, Gavin and Brantley. Evan was Thomas the Train, Gavin was Batman, and Brantley was Diego(from Dora the Explorer). Brayden got lots of goodies. He was exhausted when the night was over, but he a good first Halloween. Here are a few pics from yesterday.