2 years 9 months allready, where has the time gone?

Dear Braden,
Ive decided that since I am out of room in your baby book that I will start updating you on the comings and goings of your everyday toddler life via this blog. This way you will have something to look at years from now.
Today you are 2 years, 9 months, 3 weeks and 5 days old. My goodness how time flies. You are growing so fast, I cant believe it. Everyday you amaze me. You are so smart and witty. Lately you have decided that you are going to be more independent. We are working on potty training and it goes really well at home as long as you are running around half naked. Out and about not so well. At home when it comes time to "go" you run in and lift the lid and go, if I come to help you tell me to "step out". Do you not remember the last two years when I was the one cleaning you up? It wont hurt you to let me be in there just in case you need some help! If outside rather at home or in public you insist on going on a tree.
You no longer like to sit on my lap and be rocked you would rather sit in your own chair or on the couch. This is really hard for me to accept, because it means that you are really growing up. when you were little I would just sit and rock you for hours, just because. I hardly ever let you down. This might of been a bad thing I dont know, but so far you are normal. I knew that these days would come soon enough and I wanted to hold you while I could.

You really enjoy books, which pleases me more than you will ever know. Reading is something that I hope you continue to enjoy for the rest of your life. You would sit for hours on hours listening to me read you stories if I let you. Lately if I am busy and you want a book read you will go sit down and look at the pictures and try to read it yourself, if its a book we have read a million times you do pretty well with the words and get most of the story out. You have tons of books and they are one of your favorite things.

You have such a big imagination, I think alot of it comes from Uncle Chase and you playing. You love your toys. Uncle Chase did at your age too. You two are the same when chase was little he always had toys in his hands and if he tripped or fell he would let his head hit the floor before he dropped his toys, you are the same way. You will sit in your play room and play away with your toys forever. You talk to them and make them talk back. I love to sit and listen to you go on and on. You always have a toy or two in your hand.

You are in love with rodeo and clowns with barrels. We watch a rodeo movie at least twice a day. I just redecorated your room, done in PBR and cowboy stuff, you love it. You have a log bed with a lasso hanging off the end, your calf head above the door a horseshoe hook thing and I have yet to hang up your pictures. Grandma Bonnie went and had a picture of you on your first bull ride blown up so we can hang that in there. Your first bull ride was at Wallowa Lake Oregon. It was a plastic bull that you sat on wearing there old nasty hat. I had to pay a dollar, it was the best dollar ever spent! You had a great time and did not want to get off.
You will make anything into a bull and rider puzzel pieces, blocks, food you name it and you have made them into a bull and rider. You keep saying that you want to be a bullrider, I encourage you to follow your dreams but secretly I hope to god you never get on one of those huge beasts.
You love to go to the beach and play in the water and jump the waves. You also love playing in the pool in the backyard. You are a waterbaby that is for sure. Yesterday you decided that you were going to dive into the pool headfirst while plugging your nose, you did it for a long time. I am so glad that you are not affraid of the water. We have the slide from the playset in the pool and you love going down it splashing in the water. You have even went down it head first a couple of times.

You are a major homebody, anytime we go somewhere it doesnt take long and you want to go home. When we went on vacation at wallowa lake all you could talk about was going home. You are happy as can be at home sitting in your play room reading books and playing with your toys.

You are growing up so fast you are over halfway to kindergarten, what am I going to do when you go off to school? I dont even want to think about it.

You are such a great kid, we have our moments but all in all you are the best that anyone could ask for. You give me so much joy watching you grow and learn new things day after day. I wouldnt trade you for the world. I love you more than anything in the world and am truely thankfully for you.

Love Mama