Quick learner at 16 months

Brady has been learning so much lately and so fast I can't keep up with him. He recognizes tons of words, but can't say much yet, but is getting really good at mimicking sounds and trying to say words.

He can't say but knows these words: ball, turtle, dolphin, blanket, dinosaur, drink, book, basketball, balloon, octopus, baby, push, throw, come here, mama, dada; he can do "arms up", point to his nose and your nose; "open your mouth" and he opens it up wide; point to his tummy; "where's your tongue" and he sticks out his tongue; "get the ball" and he looks and gets his ball; get the basket ball and "put it in the basket"; cover his eyes; goes up and down stairs holding on to the railing; give kisses with a wide open mouth; gives hugs; he can jump; clap; growl when he sees animals; wave; give high fives; splash in the water; do motions for "Wheels on the Bus"; he has quite an arm and can throw the ball pretty hard; he can hold the phone up to his ear, and probably more that I can't keep up with. He is also getting in his two top molars which I didn't notice till they had already broke through. He is so much fun!

Some things we're working on are not throwing food; hitting-when he hits, I say "be nice" so now he thinks that that means to hit, so now I say "be careful", he seems to do better with that one; not turning on and off the tv or pushing the channel and volume buttons or taking out the media cables from the tv. Brady is such a smart kid and we have so much fun with him. It is amazing at this stage how much he is learning and absorbing. Yeah for Brady!

Wendy's baby belly

Wendy isn't technically a Potter anymore, but she doesn't have a blog yet, and wants everyone to see her baby belly. This is at the St. George Temple on April 1st. She was about 18 weeks pregnant then and now about 22 weeks. They just found out it's a GIRL! I guess saying "Boy oh Boy" all the time won't assure you have a boy. Ha Ha:)

Easter Egg Hunt

Brady's first Easter Egg Hunt at the Potter's! This video is mostly for Grama Dianne so she can see her grandkids! Yeah for Easter at Jeff and Dawna's. Thanks guys, you're the best!

Spring Break in California

We went to Yorba Linda, CA in the LA/Anahiem area for the week to visit Robert's brother Jeff. Robert's sister Wendy and her husband came with us too. We drove their big Suburban loaded with all our fun stuff. We had so much fun swimming in the pool/hottub, playing sports, watching movies on Jeff's home theater, watching General Conference, Easter egg hunting, going out to eat and singing karaoke, horse back riding at sunset, and going to the beach. It was so fun we were exhausted every day!! We even had an earthquake-that was the total California experience. Enjoy these few pics of our trip:

On our way down we stopped in St. George and went to this sweet park with lots of Red Rocks to climb. It was beautiful.

Outlook of St. George, UT. You can see the temple in the back ground just to the right of Robert's elbow:) Robert and I went to the Newport Beach Temple. It was beautiful inside and out!

St. George Temple and the Potters

All the boys ready to go golfing. Jeff, Brady, Robert, Lance, Cade, and Cannon. Brady didn't really go golfing though.

Brady and Cannon getting burried in the sand at Newport Beach. The beach was a blast! We went boogie boarding, played football, croquet, boccie ball, etc. The ocean was so warm!

Brady in his sun hat eating sand:)

My First Book!!

Yeah My first book! It was so fun to make for Brady! His own customized ABC book! Here you can see a few examples of some of the pages. (Sorry for the camera flash glare). So I guess this is the reason I haven't been blogging as much, cause I've been busy online making books and other projects through Heritage Makers.

I just started working as a Consultant for Heritage Makers too, which has been so fun! I work from home, go and do parties/workshops whenever I want and share my new hobby! It's the best of both worlds! I am also making a wedding canvas with a pic of the temple and some pics of us; a mission book (which I'm so excited about); a deck of cards; business cards; birthday cards etc all online with Heritage Makers! You should try it, it's GENIOUS! My new website is http://www.meganscreativecorner.info/. Check me out:) Let me know if you wanna make a book too!!

Adventures of Brady

Here are a few pics of the last couple months of Brady's adventures. He is so cute, and funny. He makes me laugh every day, just like his dad. He is a master crawler-when someone sees him crawl, they say "dang! He is so fast!" But now...he is finally mastering the 'cruising' stage and teasing us with the few steps he will take on his own. He is SO close to walking. He can hold on to one of my hands, and walk all around the apartment, and even let go of something and stand still with out holding onto anything, or take a few steps. It's so fun to see him progressing. Enjoy his cute pics:

Paint and Poop

This morning I woke up tired.....got Brady out of Bed....played with Brady....read my scriptures....and just as I picked up Brady to go get his bottle....something wet. Yes wet all over him and now me. Usually it would be poop, but it was Paint! He had tipped over a buket of paint and it had slowly leaked all over the carpet...and of course he was playing and sitting in it, so when I picked him up....it was paint. Aye yay yay! As I was cleaning him off (lukily the paint cleans off with water) I think I would it rather have been explosive poo than paint all over him. So as I'm cleaning him off...the I realize...he sort of stinks. Great, poop! Ok...no problem, just a poopy diaper right. As I procede to change his diaper he sticks his hands down there...getting poop all over his hands...and on whatever he touches. That's when I decided...well he's already naked (from stripping off his paint clothes)...time to let the bath do the rest of the work. So at 9am...before he or I even ate breakfast...he's in the bath. Then with all the dirty towels and clothes from paint, poop, and bathing, of course I decide to do a load of laundry. Sheesh I'm still tired. I need a shower, and a nap, and breakfast! Now the kid is hungry...So we eat breakfast...and he's throwing his food all over the floor (normal).

So I hope you don't say "ooh poor Megan"...cause that's not really what I'm getting at. I just want you to laugh at my rediculous morning, cause when these things happen, you just have to laugh. Then eat and sleep and shower and hope your husband comes home soon:) Even though you know the latter part won't happen very soon.

It's mornings like these that make me think, "why do i want to have any more kids?" Brady is great, but he's handful enough. Now you're all thinking..."yeah, she wouldn't be able to handle any more kids". And....you're probably right;)

And for any of you who are baby hungry...please come and babysit mine. He'll cure you.

Brady's first time Sledding

We took Brady sledding for his first time over by the Mariott center on BYU campus. There was hardly any snow, but luckily we found some. Then later that day it snowed like 5 more inches:) We had lots of fun anyway! I think the one of me going off the jump is my favorite:) Brady didn't like going down with me cause I always scream. Good thing we got Brady a sled for his birthday! Enjoy!

Happy 1st Birthday Brady!

Robert and Brady on his birthday after eating his Birthday cake:)

Brady's homemade birthday cake; this was the most complicated recipe I've ever made. It involved boiling carrots in apple juice concentrate and pureeing with craisins etc. Some of the other ingredients were...2 eggs and 4 egg whites, applesauce, apple juice concentrate, wheat germ, wheat flour, and pureed cream cheese, apple juice and craisins for the frosting and geletin. WOW. This cake probably took me 2 hours to make, it was crazy. But it was good, and healthy for Brady and he loved it. It was also his dinner:) Here is Brady eating his First Birthday cake:

For a last minute birthday party this one sure turned out good! Some of our friends came over to celebrate with us and brought a couple presents for Brady. We had a great time and thanks to all of you who came over on last minute notice. We are having a family Birthady party for Brady in Salt Lake City on Friday, which has been planned for a while. Brady is so popular he has to have two birthday parties! Happy First Birthday Brady!

Settlers of Catan

Ok so we are addicted to the game Settlers of Catan. We must've played it 10 times over the Holidays. It is a family favorite, we just love it. Last year when I was on bed rest and Brady was in the hospital we must have played it about 10 times too.

The other day Robert and I played it, and we like to set it up different every time, just for fun. Robert won of course, but that doesn't keep me from wanting to play again and try to win, but instead after he won, I wanted to keep playing, so we played till we could build all our pieces, and he still won. He totally killed me, twice.

Anyway we need to get the expansion version so we can play with more than 4 people! But we are so cheap, we are waiting to find a good deal (cause we buy most of our games at second hand stores, we at least have to buy NEW games on sale).

So...if anyone wants to play...come on over! Or any game for that matter, we love to play games!