Bryan Family Blessings : Jace Finally Said Dada Again...

Friday night I got the opportunity to babysit little 4 month old Nathan. Lisa and Josh needed an adult only date night. He was an ANGEL! I was able to go back and remember what Jace was like a year ago. It certainly was easy with Nathan partly because I had been there done that but also he is such an easy going little boy!

The handsome gentleman I spent my Friday night with!

Jace finally said Dada again!!! Praise the LORD!!!

Here is a short video clip of proof!

He seems to be doing very well this weekend with his episodes and with acting like any other 15/16 month old. It is so exciting to see that little boy shine through all that seizure darkness that goes on way too often.

I was playing with my video camera a lot on Saturday. Here are some more video clips I caught of Jace.

Jace playing with Lil Bit - She is starting to be more and more tolerant of toddlers. Good thing because she has her hands full with Jace in the house!

We are also having to watch Jace much closer these days because he is so close to really climbing....Thankfully he has not started climbing out of his crib just yet!

And along with climbing he is *THIS* close to actually running...he tries so hard. He really does but those little legs are just so short and don't seem to let him really get some speed behind them.

Jace's favorite bedtime story is Cuddle, a VERY cute book given to us by Diana. We read it every night and we have Jace point out the little boy. This night he decided the little boy needed kisses though :)

He is so sweet!

Today, Lisa and I went to the Nutcracker Market. We brought our little ones with us as well. I was questioning if we were nuts or just confident in our mothering. Who in their right minds would take a 4 month old and an almost 16 month old to the Nutcracker Market?

This "adventure" turned out better than we had expected and the boys did great!

We both had sleeping children despite having no strollers in the market.

That was EASY! ;)

On the way home Nathan got a little upset and was crying....as you can see Jace didn't want to hear any of it. Lisa and I saw Jace covering his ears and we laughed SO hard about that. Eventually Jace covering his ears turned into him crying with Nathan. He must have thought " If you can't shut them up, then join them!"

Can someone please make him stop?!?!

While at the Nutcracker Market I bought a plate that can be written on with dry erase marker. This plate/platter is to put Santa's cookies on every year. Since we can write on the platter Jace can write a letter to Santa on it and Santa can leave a note on it when he visits.