Dining Out

Bradley had his first kiddie meal at a restaurant tonight. He had chicken strips, fries, and milk at Applebees.

Too Skinny

Brad's been getting his fill of fast food lately. In the last couple weeks he had McDonald's and Taco Bell at school. Last Saturday, he ate 5 chicken nuggets from Wendy's (only 99 cents!) and today he ate a lot of mommy's quesadilla at Baja Fresh.

Bradley's Book Club

Bradley has taken quite the interest in books lately. His favorite is Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do you See. He will read it forwards, backwards, upside down, right side up, in the crib, on the floor, and even in the dark. Each page has a different animal pictured on it. However, the page with the brown bear is usually stuck shut, so Bradley never sees it.

Baby Signs

Bradley has really improved his use of sign language this week. I am really glad about that. It must be more than 9 months that we have been teaching him. Here are a few of his favorites:
More
All done
Milk
Upstairs - this one isn't in the book, we just came up with it on our own.
Get that away from me - this is probably Brad's most favorite sign.
Dirty diaper - he hasn't quite mastered this one. He gave us the sign for the first time yesterday. Today he made the sign just before he made a dirty diaper. He made it again after the diaper was dirty. However, he made the sign again about 10 minutes later when the diaper was fine. We'll keep working on it.
Go outside - this is another custom sign. Bradley forms this sign by picking up his shoes (or yours) and then throwing them at your feet.

All Wright!

The family all saddled up and participated in the Wright Ride on Saturday. We only did the 10 mile option. That was more than enough. Bradley slept for the first half and was very well behaved on the second half.

Splash Park

We went to Ty Warner Park on Saturday for a birthday party. Bradley had fun both in the water and in the sand.

Paperboy

As many of you know, Bradley was in the Post Tribune on August 1st. Here is a copy of the actual article (Page B1, baby!). Higher quality pictures are at the newspaper website.

Swimming

Bradley had his first swimming class on Saturday. He enjoyed it, but he was pretty clingy by the end of the half-hour. Some of the games were a little too advanced. Somehow, we wound up in the 2-year old class. Next week, we will try the 1-year old class. Here is short video of dad and Bradley warming up before class.

On Friday, we went back to the pool, this time with the camera. It was at least 10 degrees cooler than on Monday and therefore there was about 50% less people there. (After getting a few more data points, Christine and I will work up a formula that correlates temperature and pool attendance.) Here's a short video of Brad having fun.

Mr. Clean Part 2

Bradley likes playing with brooms so much, that we bought him his own mini-broom. However, I like it better when he plays with full-size brooms. They are heavier and he can't swing them around. When he lifts his broom in the air, I tell him to put it down. So much so, that now when he swings it around, he says "dow".


Now that we have him fully trained on the broom, the laundry is next.

What's That Smell?

For once, the answer isn't Bradley. It's the animals. Bradley went to the Porter county fair on Friday and saw prize-winning rabbits, fowl, swine, and cattle.

Since the seniors can make it out to the fair, the fair comes to the seniors in the form of horse-drawn carriage rides. Earlier in the day, Brad went to the senior center to join in the fun. Click here for video (20mb).