Daddy did my hair

The other night after bath time Jared brushed Brayden's hair. How do you like his new do?

Waving...kinda

While we were in Boise I watched Jared's cousins children for a week. They have three children ages 5, 3, and 15 months add Brayden 9 months, let just say it was a challenge. Brayden had fun with all the kids, but I think he was ready to have his mom back to himself by the end of the week. These pictures were taken our last night in Boise at my parent's house. He would wave to my dad and my dad would wave back, and Brayden would crack up laughing. When he waves he sticks his pointer finger out. In true Brayden fashion he only has one sock on...his new favorite thing is to pull his socks off, so it is very rare that he has both of them on at once.He is always smiling; such a happy baby.

Helping Aunt Libby with laundry

Brayden had so much fun with aunt Libby while we were visiting. He is very helpful, and wanted to help her with her laundry. He loved watching the clothes in the dryer.

Here is a shot of him standing. He has been standing on his own a ton lately.

First Steps

While we were visiting in Boise, Brayden decided to take his first steps. We were sitting in the chairs and Brayden was walking around them holding on. My dad decided to take the Knoll boys outside to see the horses, well Brayden must not have wanted to be the only boy still inside so he took his hand off the chair and took 4 steps towards the door where the boys were getting their shoes on. Each day he has started to take more and more steps. He get really excited when he can walk from place to place.
When he walks he puts his arms up for balance. It is so funny.

Discovering outside

Brayden loves to see what is going on outside. The morning this picture was taken, I had shown him that it was snowing outside several times. When I put him down for his nap, he kept getting up and looking out the window. It was so cute...I had to take a picture.A week later at my parent's house, he loved looking out the window. He liked to wave to my dad when he was outside, and he was able to see lots of birds. My parents neighbor had just had a baby cow, it was a week old and the cutest thing...I wish that Brayden could have seen it, but it was a too far away.

Brayden is 9 months

We had a very busy month and Brayden had so much fun with his cousin Kira. Brayden hasn't been sleeping very well, he wakes up 2 or 3 times a night. Brayden comes to bed with mommy and daddy almost every night. He is a very good eater and he continues to try new foods and likes almost everything he tries. He has discovered his love for pulling the TV cords and unplugs the TV when ever I turn my back. Brayden also dumps over the humidify and pulls down the X-Box controllers as often as he can. Brayden has been standing on his own fr a few seconds at a time. Brayden has been much better in his car seat which is a good thing because we spent a lot of time in the car driving around with Cale, Hailey, and Kira. We went to the aquarium with Libby and Shreveport for the bowl game. Brayden has been making a lot of la and ma sounds. When he cries it sounds like he is saying ma ma.

Brayden's truck

Brayden got this truck for Christmas. He usually honks the horn or walks behind it, but for some reason he thought it was so much fun to climb over it and face plant on the other side. One night he did this over and over. The minute he would land on the other side he would get up and go over the other way.

It was so funny watching him. Kira also like the truck, but she liked sitting on it and she would rock her body like she was trying to move it. We determined that Kira has longer legs, because she could touch on both sides.
We had Hailey take a picture of all of us, that doesn't happen very often.