Bradley's Tools

Today Bradley was playing, no, "working" with his tools. As he would pick up one of his tools, he would tell me what he was working with. Let me introduce you to his tools.

First, we have the hammer. Yes, you and I would agree this is a hammer.


Next is the screwdriver.


Or is this the screwdriver?

According to Bradley, they both are.

Then, there is the apple"saw"ce, of course.


And, last, is the bubbles.

Yes, that's right, it's called bubbles, because this end looks like a bubbles wand.


Don't ask me how he puts some of these things together, but it's awfully cute. And, here is one more cute thing. My two boys sitting together on the rocking chair. Bradley is only slightly offended by having his brother within touching distance.

Bradley Baby Pusher

Bradley decided that if Mom could push a baby in a stroller then he could do it too!

More Trains!

There was an old steam engine coming through Ogden for the annual reenactment of the Golden Spike Ceremony on Sunday.


We took Bradley and Daniel to see it. Well, we didn't expect Daniel to even wake up and he didn't disappoint us in that.

"Bradley was absolutely fascinated with the size of them in real life!"

Bradley loved it and we spent quite a bit of time looking at all the other trains the Union Station has on display. Bradley kept saying, "more trains, more trains".

Introducing...

Daniel James Ekstrom

7lbs 15oz
20"






Bradley on the way to meet his new brother




Bradley wasn't sure about this new addition at first.

Jump Drawing

Brian uses large prints at works with electrical drawings on them. We thought Bradley might like them to draw on. He has not done much drawing with his markers, that is until he discovered he can "Jump Draw".

Hiking

With the good weather we have been having lately we decided to go on a hike. We let Bradley lead the way. It was a pretty long hike and Bradley walked most of it.


Bradley stopped to check out our progress, looking back toward Ogden below.

Bradley kept wanting to go higher and higher. He enjoys the up hill climb but doesn't like going down.

Choices, which way will he choose?

I guess we go left.

On our way down.

Happy?

Happy? As in, are you happy? Now, just imagine being asked this question by a two-year-old at the exact moment you're not really sure you're happy with that two-year-old. What do you say to that? It's classic and makes you melt, of course you can't say anything but, Yes, I'm happy, how are you?

Yep, that's Bradley these days. Definitely a two-year-old, sometimes absolutely irrational, but always there when you least expect it to say, "Happy?"