Briggs Monster

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Man I love this guy!

Had to add this video and story up on the blog ASAP!

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This past weekend my parents came up for a visit so we headed out Saturday night for some grub. When our favorite BBQ joint was too packed, we ventured over to Smoke & Blues - a place that has live Bluegrass. Just as we finished eating, the band started up and Briggs was in heaven. He danced all over the floor for at least 30 minutes. He tried his best to get every little kid to join him out there. The two little girls in the video were a bit shy about his affection and would only entertain him for a few steps - and like typical girls they stayed together and never really danced with him. It was an absolute riot and we were all were tickled to death! Featured here, his signature "manic" move really had him worn out by the time we left!

This will certainly be a classic that will appear again ... likely at his wedding!

Briggs is truly so entertaining right now and is such a sponge for information! Each day he is adding new words to his vocabulary and his personality is shining through too! He LOVES being outside, playing with his cars, and anything that has to do with DADDY or DODO (aka Logan, our dog).

He has learned his head, ears, eyes, nose, mouth, belly and feet. He can tell you animal noises like duck, dog, cow, tiger, dog, wolf, monkey, horse, and cat. He knows ALL the sesame street characters and GROVER is by far the favorite. Briggs can point at SO many different things in his books when you call them by name and now a favorite childhood book of mine is also one of his - The Everyday Word Book. It is FULL of little pictures that have tons of detail.

This kid is just amazing.

Sunday, January 6, 2013

From 12 mo to 15mo

In the beginning we measured your age by hours, then days, then weeks, then months. Now the mommy world says the important increments are every 3 months - so my blogposts are going to follow that trend. Mostly because now you are moving so fast I can hardly keep up and have much less time then I did before!! So much has happened over the last three months and I cringe a little every time I have to tell someone how old you are.

You are definitely a physical kid and all your milestones up until now were all about physical development, but now we are really starting to see your communication skills grow. You have about a dozen words in your vocabulary with the most common being daddy (or dada), no, bird, ball, quack, and since we just had Christmas, hoho was also a favorite. You are quite the babbler and will sit in the backseat and just go on and on! I love it!!

You can now wave, clap, blow kisses, high five, and occasionally will throw up touchdown arms. You are very regimented in your routine and know all about things like bath time, getting dressed, diaper changes, riding in the car, walking to and from the house, and going to school. Even though you love your routine (and we could literally set a clock by you), you really do well on the weekends and when we visit Summerville. We try hard to stick to your schedule, but you are pretty forgiving when we goof it up.

We've done a lot of visiting and driving throughout November and December. With the holidays and the loss of your great-grandma Kitty, you've spent a lot of time in Summerville. Thanksgiving was kind of a bust since as soon as we got to Summerville I came down with the flu. Thankfully you had gotten a flu shot and didn't ever get sick. You still enjoyed some time with both grandparents and were quite the piggy with all the yummy food.

Christmas was much better and we spent a full week visiting. You had a great time seeing all your cousins, aunts and uncles and of course grandparents. You really weren't that into opening presents this year - you preferred talking about Santa and just running around outdoors. One of the highlights of the holiday was going to the James Island County Park Christmas lights - you absolutely loved it and had a great time seeing the lights and riding the carousel.

As of this past week your stats are 31in tall and 22lbs. (I think the height may be a little off since you wouldn't hold still to be measured accurately) You are mostly wearing 18mo size clothes and your shoe size is a 4. You have really shot up in height here recently ... maybe you won't be such a shorty after all! We are officially down to just one nap a day from 1-3pm. You still get a little crabby in the morning around 10am, but a snack and some elmo can fix that!

You haver had four front teeth and four bottom teeth for quite awhile and now there are two bottom molars that are fully in and two top molars peaking through! This is helpful for all the food you munch. You are not at all a picky eater and I normally just fix you some bites of whatever we are eating. It's hard to say what your favorites even are because you gobble up pretty much everything I put in front of you. As soon as the food starts being donated to Logan, we know you're done. You still love to drink milk and otherwise mostly just drink water and the occasional juice.

You love books, animals, sesame street videos, singing songs, and shooting basketball in your toy room. Logan isn't a huge fan (except for at mealtime), so you don't often get to hug him - but you will pet, hug, and kiss any other animal that will let you!

We've given up on going to get haircuts and now I just snip the long pieces at night when you're sleepy. You are so curious that it is next to impossible - so you mostly wear it pretty long and shaggy.

Here is a quick collection from some various video shots:

Here are some of my favorite pictures from 12mo - 15mo:

These are some of the GEMS from our Christmas Card Photo Shoot ...

Christmas 2012

Fun at the Park

Nightly tradition of naked catch me if you can before bathtime

James Island County Park Lights

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Everybody Dance Now!!

Briggs has started dancing whenever he hears music!!

Enjoy this little gem...

Friday, November 2, 2012

Halloween 2012

Briggs LOVED his first real Halloween! And of course, he was a cute little MONSTER!!

Monday, October 29, 2012

First Haircut

Briggs got his first haircut this month!

CRAZY CURLS

LITTLE MAN HAIRCUT

Monday, October 8, 2012

12 month

Happy Birthday Briggs!! It has been an amazing and exciting year getting to know you and watching you grow from such a little baby into a big smiling boy!!

All along the way, you have hit us with surprises at every turn. You started off with your 3 week early entrance and have kept us on our toes every moment!

Now that you are 1 you are walking, talking, and making everyone smile! You are much more progressed in your physical development than verbal. Although you do babble and make some words, you are much more interested in getting into things and are constantly on the move! As of now, we have heard you say "momma", "dada", "dog", "whoa", "uh oh", and "ball". You also have learned to shake your head no which is funny because you tuck your chin in shake that head back and forth!! You sure know how to make people smile and love to laugh. Everyone who meets you says you are just the happiest baby. You really are a very happy fella, although we have seen the tears and tantrums too!

At your 12month appointment, you measured in at 21lbs, 7oz and were 28 3/4 inches long. You are pretty average size fella. Mostly you wear 12month clothes, but you can still fit into 9mo pants because you are fairly short.

You are a great eater and pretty much will eat anything I put in front of you. You are definitely a meat eater and will choose to eat meat over fruits and veggies! Some of your favorite foods are spaghetti, cherrios, bananas, yogurt, and animal crackers. You've got eight teeth to help with chewing up all that yummy food and you are pretty darn good at feeding yourself. It is easy to tell when you are done eating, you either start spitting food out OR start dropping it off of the high chair for Logan. Keep that up and he'll be your best buddy in no time!!

You are drinking whole milk now and only take a bottle when it's nap or bedtime. Otherwise you drink from a sippy cup and will guzzle water and milk. Daddy likes to break the rules from time to time and give you sips of Tea or Sprite. You even got a taste of Gatorade the other day.

You love to play with your toys and to read books. You like to play outside and especially like playing with toys that you can ride on. You are proficient at giving high-fives, waving bye-bye, and clapping. Although you rarely will do it on demand, it has to be on your time!

We watch lots of videos on the iPad. It is a great way to get you to hold still for diaper changes and also a great way to distract you. Pretty much all of the videos we watch are Sesame Street and most of them are song parodies. For now they seem to work and we are just trying our best not to wear out the trick!

For your first birthday, we traveled down to Summerville and celebrated with family. Your first birthday party was at Granny Brenda & Grandaddy Doyle's house and was just a great time! We had lots of food, played with friends, and got TONS of new toys!! You had a great time ... well ... except for that cake! You loved everyone singing "Happy Birthday" to you and loved to look at the cake, but you were NOT interested in eating it and were pretty mad that we tried to make you!