Beginning of Summer 2015

I seriously can't believe it's June, i freaking love that it's summer but I'm sad it's gonna go by too fast and it'll be cold and winter again.  Brew is making sure we make the most of it though with multiple park visits and playing outside everyday.

Since I last blogged Brew has become obsessed with letters and the alphabet.  Like almost to a fault. He can recognize and say all his letters, his favorites are X and P for sure.  He used to call Y "yie" and it was my favorite but he figured out how to say it right the other day. He loves to point out letters at the store or on trucks that drive by and usually picks a "letter of the day" and carries that letter book around the majority of he day.

How's favorite shows are Super Why, Curious George and Mickey Mouse Road Rally. I find him cracking up at the most random part of these shows.

He one day decided that he wanted to talk and will pretty much say anything I tell him to during the day. He loves to talk about all the people he knows.  In the mornings he'll lay in his crib after he wakes up and pretty much recites all the words he knows, all his letters and will count to 3 ha it's pretty hilarious to listen to.  He talks all day and is pulling out new words on the daily.

He tells everyone hi constantly.  Everyone in our neighborhood gets told hi multiple times a day and henthinks it's so awesome when they wave and say hi back. 

He's still so obsessed with trucks, tractors and wheels.  He lays on the ground half the time while he drives his cars just so he can check out the wheels. 

Still big for his age, wearing 2t clothes and size 7 shoes.

He is still a little naughty sometimes but we are working on that ha.  For the most part he's really sweet and loves to sit on my lap and give me hugs. Sometimes he's a little too attached to me though, I can't leave him in nursery, so that means I'm like an honorary nursery worker...not my favorite ha.

He loves to play baseball and throw the football and do "touchdown".

His has been my favorite stage by far! He's my little best bud and I'm loving that he's figuring life out and being a real boy ha.

Dal "let me" mow the lawn for a sec and these two lazies had fun just chillin watching me. Brew loves his camping chair and will sit there longer than he'll sit anywhere else.

Brew watching Delta baseball with his boy cousins.  Seriously so cute.

Packing his Pringles wherever he goes. He's honestly obsessed.

Will wear his hat sometimes. I would be in so much heaven if he would wear one all the time.

Brew loves the chickens and four wheelers in Blanding.  We need to go more often so that he doesn't end up being a "city boy".  (Not that we live in a city, but close enough I guess ha)

Bry said that "We are the super readers and Brew is driving us to save the day" lol so funny.  They played so good this trip and it made it sooo much fun.

Waving hi to my grams Black

He has to "drive" Dal's truck at least once a day. Going around the block is like heaven to him, he loves this truck.

A quick family pic before church.  Let's be honest, church is basically me and Dal switching off chasing him around while he laughs his head off.

Shucking corn with dad. He was all about this task and was very serious about it.

Brew just plopped himself down in this flower bed in the backyard and gave this sweet little face. Like bipolar I'm telling ya.  Either the rowdiest or a little girly ha.

Cozying up with aunt Monay.

The Brew Crew with Oakley

He still loves this slide. Honestly the best little purchase.

Finally we get to go outdoor swimming! I think Brew thinks "swimming" means, play in the water for 10 min, then sit in a chair and eat all the food for the next ten. We are in and out the whole 2 hours.m he does love the water and loves to float on his back, jump off the side (even if I'm not ready) and go down slides. 

Brewer's World at 18 Months

Brew will be 18 months in a couple days so I figured it's time for an update.  He'll be trying out nursery on Sunday which I'm pretty stoked/nervous for haha. Mainly nervous because I worry about the other kids lol Brew is a rough one and loves to be up in everyone's grill and is not afraid of anything ha so we'll see how it goes.

He is sure he's invisible when he hides. He will sit like this forever and not make a peep.  Every once in awhile he'll say "shhh" but that's it ha.

Sunday morning cozy in the diap.

He loves to "work" I'm the yard with us.  If we pull something, he does too, and he normally chooses to pick a flower instead of a weed. Go figure.  He has his tools and whatever me or Dal does he is right on our heels trying to work too. It's my favorite cause he is very serious about is working.

One morning he pulled his chair out of his toy room, but it on the couch and say there to watch his morning shows like "gedge" (curious George).  He thought he was so cool.

Driving his Four wheeler.  You will rarely see this boy without a car, tractor (tra-tuh), dump truck (duh truck) or train in his hand.  Every table, ledge or flat surface in my house has a car on it because that's where he likes to drive.  He stands by this window and yells about all the vehicles he sees.  He's very particular is its a truck or a dump truck, and it's always right ha.  Whenever we drive anywhere he points out every vehicle on the road. He also loves airplanes (ay-pane) and stops dead in his tracks when he hears one and has to go watch it fly over the house.

Excuse my awesome face, but I was making sure he didn't fall ha he can hang up there for forever ha it's pretty crazy and he obviously thinks it's hilarious.

Easter fun. He played the whole day and next year I will know to bring a swim suit ha.  We practiced hunting for Easter eggs all week and man it was a waste, cause this is all he wanted to do.

Putting rocks in his car. This happens every morning without fail.

His pose before church.  Don't let this fool you, he's a nightmare at church. He cannot sit still for 2 seconds, and if he sees another kid (2 year old, newborn baby, whoever) that has a pacifier he will beeline it across the chapel and rip that thing right out of their mouth ha so naughty.  We are the ward circus.

His face here kills me, he was not pleased about hat snowsuit.

Toy Story was on tv one night and he laid and watched most of it.  Loves his shows!

Brew and Crew.  Best buds and are exactly alike.  They play pretty much every day and have so much fun.  Plus they love to deck each other and steal each other's toys.

Loves to help vacuum. If there's not a cat in his hand there's a sippy. Usually both.

He loves to dump out all the laundry and put this on his head. Ticks me off but he thinks it's hilarious.

Thinks he's cool

Our daily brunch snack on the front porch. One of my favorite parts of the day for sure.

We busted out the pool finally and we were out there for over 4 hours straight.  He was obsessed.  I looove this nice weather, makes life so much easier!

He has started talking so much more and is really figuring life out.  He can point out and say the letters, A,B,H,M,O,M and X. 

He thinks if he brings me his shoes he gets to go outside, and it usually works ha.

He is still a climber and loves to climb and hang on everything.  

We still go to the park everyday and he thinks he owns the place.

He talks about Mimi and Monie constantly and Chey-na-na and poppa sometimes too. He will not say Sagy or Ginny and Grandpa but he will say Aiker, baby for Wake, and Austri. 

He likes to feed himself and I find forks all over my house from him just ditchin them wherever.  I found one in my makeup thing the other day ha.

He loves to say no no or naugh naugh for naughty when he's doing something he isn't supposed to do. It never stops him though. 

He is very used to getting out in time out multiple times every day, and it usually doesn't phase him too much, he just finds something in his room to play with. When he knows he's in big trouble though, he'll come out and hug me and all is forgiven haha.

I am exhausted every single day because he doesn't stop at all during the day but this has by far been my favorite stage. He's my best little bud!

Clearwater Beach, FL

Me and Dal just got back from our first trip without Brew, and let me tell you, it was SO nice to sleep in, eat without fighting him to stay in his chair, and not be putting him in a car seat constantly, but man I missed that boy.  I don't know how parents leave their kids very often, cause all we did was say, "Brew would love this" to everything we saw haha. But it really was so nice to go without him and get to relax a little.

So we had flights we needed to use and we did a little research and decided to go to Clearwater Beach outside of Tampa.  Everything I read raved about it and it did not disappoint! We will for sure go back. It was the funnest trip either of us had been on, alone or together.  The water was warm, clear, and the beaches were the whitest, best sand I had ever seen.  A bunch of the locals said it was a pretty unknown vacation spot, which is crazy cause it was seriously so cool.  I kinda expected it to be like California or Mexico but honestly,  SO much better.

We took a red eye flight there and couldn't check into our hotel until 11 so we went straight to the beach and this is what we pulled up to at 6 am. Perfect weather and like no one there.  We were exhausted and ended up sleeping on the beach chairs and it was awesome ha. 

Dal was in the water within minutes of getting there.

This is Pier 60.  Looking off the edge of this there were TONS of sting rays. Like seriously everywhere.  Apparently it's breeding season there since the water is so warm they just come and hang out in the shallows. They tell you to do the "stingray shuffle" to scare them away.  Totally works.

I think this was from St Pete Beach one evening.  This beach was less crowded and more chillaxed.  

Cutest little hotel on the water on the bay side. Totally want to stay there next time.

Selfie it up.  My hair looked like this the entire trip because it was so humid.  A black lady informed me that "this ain't nothin girl" haha.

He wasn't too pumped on the picture taking.

One of my favorite beaches.  We spent most of our days at this beach people watching ha.  It's amazing how confident everyone is, you can be pushing 300 pounds and still be wearing your thong bikini here ha I saw wayyyyy too much of some people lol.

Waiting for our boat to Caladesi Island.  Hands down our favorite place.  We made sure to take the first boat out there (it's an uninhabited private island) and we were the first people on the beach.  Literally alone on miles of white sandy beaches.

First thing I saw when I got off the boat, and Dal talked me out of bringing it home:(

This pic does not do these shells justice.  They are pretty dang big and they were everywhere! We spent hours looking for shells, so fun.  I knew Brew wouldn't give a crap about one so I made sure to get some for Bryir.  

That shows a little better how big they were.

Literally alone on this island, so cool.

Gulf of Mexico 

Red Sox vs Rays at Tropicana Field

Dal has been obsessed with the Red Sox his whole life and has never seen them play.  He was seriously in heaven.  It was a way fun game and I have even been pretty into the Red Sox the last couple years so we had fun, definitely the highlight of his trip. 

This was the flight home.  The little strips of island was where we were.

For picking a random place that no one we knew had ever been to, I was so impressed by it.  There was so much we didn't get to do so we will go back again.  Thanks to Russ and Liz for watching Brew boy for us!