Tren

Every time we see the light rail he gets really excited about the "tren" and we promised him that we would take him so, for our family activity today, we decided to take him for a ride. We parked at the Lincoln Station and we rode to County Line, we got off there and walked to Park Meadows and walked around the mall for a while.

Braiden loved the tren but it was such a short ride that it wasn't enough for him,

we will take him back for a longer ride.

Going back to the car

El tren

Waiting for the light rail to take us

back to the Lincoln station

Daddy & Braiden walking across the bridge

This is so cool!!

I'm a big boy riding by my self...

Mommy & Braiden

Daddy & Braiden

Ready to go

The tren is here!!

Waiting for the tren

Getting our tickets

Where is the tren??

We parked on the 6th level to make the experience last longer for Braiden...

IKEA

After almost a month of its grand opening, we finally made it to IKEA. We decided that going to IKEA would be a good family outing so, we went after work and we had dinner there, then we took the tour of the store, we walk around the store for about two hours. It was the perfect time to go, no issues finding a parking lot, no excessive amount of people on the aisles, it was just the right moment for the experience. It was definitively an adventure for Braiden, he wanted to check out everything he saw, and mommy wanted to take lots of pictures for the blog. We were planning on having him walk the whole time but, he was getting tired, he kept on telling daddy to hold him, at some point daddy had to tell him he was too heavy to be held...

Our next trip to IKEA will be focused on the lower level as we didn't have time or energy to check it out since we had walk for about two hours on the upper level.

Yay for IKEA!!

Handy Braiden

Going down the slide...

Daddy & Braiden checking out toys

(train sets)

Braiden was just fascinated by this little cart...

And of course this cool and huge train set!

Lets count with the abacus

More fun toys :)

Look at this cool chair!!

Coming....

Very comfy and cool big boy beds :)

Decisions decisions...

A cute puppy

More cool beds..

The perfect workstation

I like this one as well

Hard to decide

Meatballs for dinner :)

Dinner at the Mitchell's

Now that Julio is gone, Carol invited us over for dinner two days in a row. She had signed up to have the missionaries over for dinner so we had hot dogs and hamburgers on their new grill.

We had a great time and dinner was delicious. I was there for about half an hour then went home as my visiting teachers were coming to see me and Braiden stayed there, when I went back to pick him up I had dessert.

Thanks for dinner Mitchell family.

The Missionaries, Curran (trying to hide from the camera) & Carol

Curran getting dinner ready

Noah & Braiden having fun on the sandbox..

Daffy - Part # 3

After two days, this is how Daffy looks and Braiden totally in love with him.

We will continue to see how he grows!!

So happy with his amigo Daffy

Daffy has gotten so big!

Daffy el pájaro...

Daffy - Part # 2

This is an update on Daffy. I went to pick up Braiden and we went to look at the pájaro, he is doing amazing, Alexandra and the family (including Braiden) have done such a great job of taking care of Daffy, in a week he is much bigger and he has wings now so, Braiden has decided that pájaro is cute and hermoso now.

He has started to try to fly

Braiden saying good bye to Daffy

Hello Daffy...

This is Daffy now!!!

Chango

We bought Braiden his very cute "baby leash" which we have not used very much, we always forget it and also people look at us weird when they see we are pulling our son with a "leash", they might think is cruel but, I rather have my son safe than missing.

Lately Braiden has started to cuddle with his stuff animals and this chango is one of his favorites, he hugs him and kisses him.

At other points, the will put on the leash him self and runs around the house with it..

Our sweet little boy

Playing with his chango

Abrazo para chango :)

Chocolate cookies

Braiden definitively has started to love candy and sweet things so, when Carol stopped by to drop off some chocolate cookies he was totally excited, he saw her at the door with a plate of cookies and he came really quick. He said thank you Carol, gave her a hug and a kiss and took off with one on his hand.

Thanks for sharing Carol!!

So this is what happened next...

Para chuparse los dedos (to lick your fingers)

Oh wow, look at me, not the greatest combination,

white shirt and chocolate cookies

So yummy!!

A very proud chocolate mustache