Braden is 2

It is hard to believe that Braden celebrated his 2nd birthday two weeks ago. Time goes so fast. He amazes us everyday with the things he does. We had a small birthday party here with the great-grandparents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. I think everyone had a good time and I know Braden did. He has now officially moved out of the crib and into a toddler bed, which works well until 4:45 in the morning when he gets up and stands at the door crying until someone comes to get him. Any ideas to break him from this would be more than appreciated.

Other than that things are going well. We have our Christmas tree and decorations up, which Braden loves. He points to the ornaments and tells us who they belong to and what the ornament is. We have my work Christmas party at the zoo tonight (in a pavillion). It is the year of the family party so they are having face painting, cookie decorating, etc. along with Santa Claus. We have never taken Braden to see Santa so it should be fun. Then we can walk around the zoo and look at the Christmas lights. Hopefully it is not too cold we are getting a little freezing rain right now but it is supposed to warm up.

Nick is being a good sport and going to the party and will watch the Mizzou game after we get back. They are ranked #1 and if they win tonight they will play for the National Championship.

Hope you are all safe, I know a lot of you are getting bad weather today. I finally got new pictures posted in the Sept/Oct and November albums. I will try to post the pictures from tonight quicker than I normally do.

Take care.