The Chunky Monkey

I know updates have not been very frequent and I apologize to those of you who watch this site regularly. Things have been going well, except for the lack of sleep part. Brayden seems to have something against sleeping at night. he has been keeping Miranda up for hours on end just fussing cause he wants to be played with. We try keeping him up during the day to make him sleep at night but he still thinks when the sun goes down it's time to play.

Miranda has suffered the most, she lets me sleep at night during the week because of work, but on the weekends I try and stay up with him so she can get some rest. Not only does she have to keep up with Brayden, she also has to make sure Payton gets his schooling done and makes it to his baseball, gym and swim class. Then you throw in the doctors appointments for both of the boys, I don't know how she makes it.

speaking of doctors, Brayden went to the pulmonologist (lungs) two days ago and she told Miranda that he no longer needs to see Brayden. He is doing so well that the doctor DC'd any future visits. I was shocked though when Miranda called me and told me that Brayden is now 10lbs 1 oz. I can't believe he has gotten that big. I look at him and still see the little baby in the bubble, but he's not that baby anymore. He doesn't even look the same. All the fat has filled in around his face and he looks really different. If we didn't know any better we would think they gave us the wrong baby. (just joking by the way...we know he is ours. Dr. Nesslein assured us of it).

Payton is still loving his little brother. He is so protective of him and always wanting to play with him, so much so that sometimes he actually gets in the way. He still doesn't like the whole diaper change thing but he does help out alot around the house. having Brayden around has made him mature so much. He wants to help do things and is always asking how Brayden is doing when he is not at home. yesterday I was trying to make Brayden wake up so he would sleep at night and I jokingly said I was going to put Brayden in the freezer to wake him up...I opened the door so the cold air would hit him in the face and wake him up...Payton ran over grabbed Brayden by the leg and stared pulling him as hard as he could away from the fridge. He kept saying don't put my baby in there. It was hilarious. I will try and do a better job of keeping this updated in the future.

If any of you out there who are following this see Dr. Nesslein tell her to check out the latest pics.I think she would be amazed at how he looks now. He is such a chunk, all he wants to do is eat. I will add some more pics and video shortly.