Noonan Family wedding

Another weekend in July and we were headed to Cedar Rapids for a wedding. We got both the boys all dressed up and were ready to try and see how they would be at the wedding.  My cousin Katie Noonan was getting married.  Braydon did pretty good during the ceremony and then he decided he should play with Ryan's phone.  He was doing fine while playing angry birds and fruit ninjas and then next thing we knew he was taking pictures with it.  No big deal, but we could not get it to not make a sound every time it took a picture.  Every time we would give him the phone back, he knew how to get it back to camera mode!

After the wedding we headed to a bar for a quick snack and then to the reception.  Braydon had a blast taking my camera around and taking pictures of  EVERYONE!  He did put on a dance performance when the dance floor was empty...he had some great dance moves. It was a fun wedding and congrats to Katie and Andrew!

All dressed up!

At the bar with cousin Lexi

Kellan getting some love from Great Uncle Pau

Baby Kellan and Great Aunt Betty

Braydon and Moms self taken picture!

Kellan and great Aunt Rose

Family Picture!

 I think Braydon did a fabulous job of taking pictures of everyone at the wedding.  So I thought I would share some of his better picures!

Papa

Zach and Great Uncle Tom

Great Uncle Ray

Great Uncle Tom

Cousin Brett

Dave

Lexi

Great Aunt Betty

Lexi again!

Kellan update

I am going to interrupt our little summer update with some info on Kellan. I have not done a good job of recording Kellan updates.  So I thought I would list a few of his updates with a few pictures from the last couple of months.

6 months update (yes it is only a few days until he is 7 months old).
He wants to crawl really bad and gets up on all 4s and rocks back and forth
Sits up by himself
rolls all over the place to get what he wants
Holds his own bottle and cries every time it is empty
Loves his exersaucer
Has a great belly laugh, especially when you tickle his thighs!
Loves watching his brother play
Braydon likes to hold Kellan and give him hugs and kisses
Braydon still prefers to call him brother
He eats solid foods and has finally gotten better at keeping his thumb out of the way
He likes puffs and can shove them in his mouth all by himself
No longer uses a pacifier, he prefers his thumb
Usually sleeps through the night
Puts EVERYTHING in his mouth
Loves taking a bath (Braydon loves to help)
Kellan has one tooth on the bottom
And most importantly...his first word was MAMA!!!

Brother hugs

Hanging out with Dad

Giving the camera a wave

ready to crawl

Do I have something on my face?

Watching his first Iowa game with Dad - his face sums up all of our concerns about the way the hawks played!

Go Hawks!

Sometimes I am unhappy

Enjoying my highchair that my brother put together for me

Wrigley also likes that Kellan is now eating

Big boy sitting up

This is what happens when my dad changes my diaper

Can't beat cuddling with Dad

Kellan is growing really fast and changing every day.  He has the best smiles and he is a great cuddler.  He takes a morning and afternoon nap and sometimes a short snooze in the evening.  He likes sleeping in his crib and Braydon looks for him in his crib every morning!

July update continue! Chicago

After the 4th of July weekend, it was time to head to Chicago! Dani was working as a nanny there this summer, so it gave us a great excuse to take another road trip! We took off on Friday morning and of course hit an unbelievable amount of traffic trying to get into town.  The Cubs were playing at 1pm that day and there was no way we could make the 1st pitch.  The Kansas Lundstroms were in Chicago for that week and were headed to the game.  We told them we were probably not going to make it though.  

Little did we know, there was a 4 hour rain delay and we made it just in time!  We parked and walked to the stadium to just look around, found a friendly gentleman selling tickets on the street.  We got tickets cheap and were excited to head in.  2 of our tickets had already been used that day, but he still let us in anyway.  One thing I learned is that Wrigley field is extremely kid friendly.  We were able to check the stroller and they even had an air conditioned room for me to nurse Kellan!! 

We got a few pictures outside the stadium before the game. 

Once we got inside, we saw Joel right away.  They had sat through the ENTIRE rain delay.  Lucky for us, there were a few seats available by them to join them. 

Tyson LOVES baseball!

Braydon LOVES angry birds!

Charlie LOVES Kellan (Kellan is not so sure)!

Finally Braydon watched a little bit of the game.

Of course popcorn makes it easier to pay attention to the game.

Kellan LOVES sleeping!

Lundstrom family picture

Murphys at Wrigley

The Cubs won!  We even got certificates with the boys' names on them that say "My first visit to Wrigley Field".  It was pretty fun.  After the game, we went to my cousin Teresa's place for some Chicago style pizza and it did not disappoint.  Thanks for the hospitality Teresa for your surprise visitors!

The next morning we slept in a little bit and then we were headed to the beach on Lake Michigan. 
We are never sure how Braydon is going to be around water, but he loved it!  It was a little cold, but he thought it was really fun.  We still talks about the waves knocking him over.  We were looking at these pictures last night when I was working on the blog and he asked "Can we go there again?"  

  

Kellan enjoying the sunshine

Putting his feet in ...not too impressed!

 After the beach we headed to the Children's museum.  Braydon had a blast.  He got to go shopping, play with trains, play with water, musical instruments...lots to do!

"buying" groceries at the Children's Museum. 

That night we went out to dinner and then headed over to the house were Dani was working.  Did I fail to mention that it was a really nice house, just a block from Lake Michigan and they have their own pool!  So Ryan, Braydon and Dani did a little night swimming.  They had a lot of fun and I think Braydon wants a pool at his house now too!!

 

We wanted to do something touristy, so Sunday morning we headed to Navy Pier.  Now of us had ever been there.  So of course we rode the Ferris Wheel.

Braydon tried out the carousel.

 

And of course there were was a good photo opportunity!

We had a great trip!  Aunt D thanks for showing us a great time!