Brayden's Monster Truck 3rd Birthday Bash

So since Brayden's birthday was Feb 17, and Logan was born on Feb 11, Bray's birthday kinda got pushed to the side. Not like he would notice at his age but still we wanted to celebrate at some point. Taryn decided to wait to the end of March when the weather was nicer so she could do a bounce house and invite some new classmates as well. Initially it was set for March 28th.

Well...it poured for 4 days and March 28 being the 4th day! It was a mess around here, rivers overflowed, thunder, lightning, and non-stop rain. We made the decision on Friday to alert everyone we would have it on Sunday, March 29 instead. All the weather forcasts were for sunny skies so we chanced it. Turned out to be a gorgeous day! Sunshine, perfect temp. Not to hot, not to cool. We had it in my backyard since Taryn's is pretty much a slope with no fence.

Here Dan and Tim are blowing up the huge bounce house. It took only a few minutes for this thing to blow up and it ended up being taller than the house!

Brayden was just in awe at this thing growing in his Grandmommy and Grandpa Tim's backyard!

It turned out to be such a nice day, Bray changed into shorts and climbed in with his buddies to be a little jumping bean.

The men, have you ever noticed how they always stand around the BBQ? Tim BBQ'd Hot Dogs for everyone.

The cake was awesome! It really was as good as it looked, delicious choclate...MMMM!

Bray in the bounce house with his buddies...he probably jumped for 3 hours. He had the greatest time! This was such a perfect thing for him. Autistic kids have sensory problems and they love movement. He loves to jump and during therapy he jumps on a small trampoline.

March Birthday's

We have several birthday's in March. Katie, Tim, Taryn and my Mom. We celebrated Tim's, March 8 and Katie's, March 3 on the morning of March 7th. Taryn, March 19, celebrated with her husband, and Mom, March 20, well she is in California so we didn't get to do much with her but we did send her a super cool gardening windchime!

Katie turned 11. Here she is with another Webkins. She has quite the collection going!

She got a few other cool things - as you can see she loves "Camp Rock" as much as the other almost tweens.

This is Tim's "cake". Instead of a traditional cake, we had a yummy raspberry danish at breakfast.

Ok so here is Tim being as silly as possible and blowing out the candles on his birthday danish. Now I cannot help pointing out that delicious bacon on the table. Mmmmm...B A C O N !!

Brayden Goes To School

Well I have been out of the loop for a while and have many blogs to catch up on. My computer was on the fritz so lets just see if memory of the last couple of months serves.

Brayden started school in the middle of February. It is a Pre-KD class which is for special needs children. We were excited for him, but also apprehensive. Mom got him all ready for school and both Grandmommy and Grandpa Tim were there for the send off.

So here he is cheesing for the camera...he has no idea what is in store for him.

A little giggle time with Grandpa Tim

Outside to wait for the bus with his backpack on. Now he really didn't like to put that on but we snapped a pic before he wigged out. Now he LOVES his backpack and in the morning mom gets him dressed and he runs to get his backpack and puts it on cause he knows he's goin' to school!

Mom handing Bray to the bus aide. He takes the bus every day right from his driveway. There is a driver and an aide. He has a booster seat and gets strapped in. This looks like torture but actually he ended up not crying a bit after she put him in his seat and he just looked all around out his window. He now LOVES his bus rides!

He looks so sad :( Mom and Grandmommy cried when that bus left. But all in all it is such a great experience for Brayden and he's learning so much. Now taking him out to the bus is like old news. He hops right on and is ready to go :)

Now this is his daily ritual...waiting for his bus, with backpack on and no struggles.

They took school pictures of the kids in March. As far as we know, no one was notified, they just came home in Brayden's backpack with request for payment. Anyhow, since they were the first ever she bought them. I have no idea how they got him to sit still and do whatever kind of smile that is...or get him to sit still period!