Except for the frequent spitting up part, he is still a sparkly-eyed, bouncing, giggly baby boy. Well okay, except maybe for that baby part. He has grown so much and so fast in the last year. Surreal still applies, especially when I look at the photos and videos from our bonding days. Is that really the same little boy that is tearing up the house now?!
7.5 months old
A few sweet moments while we were getting acquainted in Aqtobe.
What a difference a year makes!
A few recent photos of Brady in action.
My little guy loves to read books, especially if those books are about cars, trains, trucks, or tractors -- anything with wheels. Elmo is okay too, but Thomas the Train is even better.
Won't wear a hat when I put one on him, but he found this baby swim hat, put it on himself, and wore it for a good hour (in the house).
Faster! Faster! Brady giggled and giggled when his friend Brandon pulled him in his Megablock wagon.
We went to the park on the Fourth of July for the neighborhood celebration. They had a little petting zoo. Brady was afraid of the pony, the burro, the sheep, the goat, and the calf, but the bunny was okay for a couple of seconds.
Brady's love of trucks AND water -- what could be better?! He put this truck in the pool by himself.
I've been missing the simpler life in Kazakhstan rather intensely the last few weeks. No doubt it is because it is summer and this anniversary is upon us. The sweltering, quiet, and repetitious visits twice a day to the babyhouse, the creative meals and warm hospitality served up by Regina, the chuckles and smiles from our native Kazakh driver, Ceric, and the list goes on and on. It was a wondrous and life-changing journey. As stressful as the process and, initially, that first visit to Aqtobe was, I'd do it all over again, a thousand times, for the same result.
I'm SO glad I met you, one year ago today, in a land far, far away!
