Sesame Street: Outdoors with Jason Mraz

I'm Yours by Jason Mraz is a favorite song of ours so when Auntie Minda got wind of this she forwarded this song that he re-did with Elmo!  Jason Mraz visited Sesame Street and turned his hit song into a song about getting outdoors and exploring. 

Need less to say, this is an instant hit with Braiden Makoa!  He simply can't get enough of this song and apparently loves Elmo and the Sesame Street Family!  Can't tell you how many times the replay button was hit.

 Another song to add into Braiden's playlist :)

Despicable Me - Braiden's got it memorized

As soon as Braiden hears the words, "It's sooo fluffy!!!"  He anticipates the next part when Agnes (the little girl) makes that funny face with funny noises.  Being that he can't verbally copy it he can certainly imitate it!

He's got this clip memorized!

Video taken by Auntie Minda via Skype!

Pushing the power button = music to dance to!

As you all know Braiden LOVES to dance.  He normally asks us to turn music on in the livingroom but has discovered the POWER of pushing the power button on daddy's alarm clock.  Matthew's words "It's amazing that out of all the buttons on things, Braiden knows which one is the power button!"  He's one smart baby!

Did you notice all his dance moves!  Especially when he pushed the power button and ran with his pointer finger in the air!

Special Delivery From Oregon

                                     

Look what the mail man delivered to Braiden today!

A box of gifts from Grammee & Farmpa in Oregon!

It was filled with lots of FUN gifts!

These are perfect for him as he is interested in animals and the noises they make!

Farm Animals See N' Say

Braiden trying to figure out how to push the lever down...

The cow says "mooo"!!!

Sing-Along Farm Book

This was so cute... Braiden laying on his tummy reading his new book about Farm Animals and the noises they make.  You could hear him imitate some of the sounds.

BIG HUGGS N' KISSES

to Grammee & Farmpa!

Dynamite

Matthew got the opportunity to take a sign language class and learned how to sign the entire song titled DYNAMITE by Taio Cruz.

He accomplished this in less than 5 weeks.  He and his class actually performed it on stage by means of wearing white gloves under black lights.  

  Unfortunately it was too dark for us to record it but here is a video that we taped of him performing it.

During the time while Matthew was rehearsing this, Braiden started to copy him and recognized the song whenever it came on the radio.

Not only did Braiden learn to sign to this song but LOVED to dance to it too!  Put your hands in the air!

15 month check-up

Growing into the doctor's office chairs

Gotto measure my eyelashes!

Being such a big boy while Dr. Chan is checking me out!

BRAIDEN STATISTICS:

Weight : 23 1/2 pounds (40%)
Height : 32 1/4 inches (85%)

Playing video games

Braiden loves being part of the crew especially when everyone is playing video games. He has to sit on the couch front and center and have his very own wireless remote!

Kids faces are so serious
*notice Braiden's "fourCHINS"!!!

Making sure his settings are correct.

Silent Whistles with Cute Lips

Grammee mentioned that she loves Braiden's LIPS pictures from a previous posting so when we discovered that when Braiden was trying to whistle, he was making the same cute face with his lips...we captured it on video.  This ones for you Grammee!

Got Milk!

Gotta Love the Milk Mustache!

Afternoon at the Disney parks

Hanging out in Bugs Land...

Flying high in a gigantic take out box

Are we spinning around in this gigantic take out box?

Took this picture for Auntie Minda

It's Francis the spinning lady bug!

We got to spend some time in Toontown...

Let us outta here!

Quick! Escape!

Driving Goofy's crazy car

Helping Mickey clean his house!

Family picture with Steamboat Mickey

Braiden had a blast in the arcade

driving cars that had LOTS of buttons to push

and playing pint sized classic games!

Shrinky Dinks

Thought these pictures that Matthew took of Braiden were cute. It reminded me of those Shrinky Dinks we used to play with back in the day. If we colored a Shrinky Dink of Matthew and then put it in the oven....bammm! Lil' Braiden would be the outcome of the Shrinky Dink!

Out Going Care Package - Destination: Auntie's House

Braiden received a care package from Auntie Minda today and of course after opening his package he was more interested in trying to get himself into the box in hopes of being shipped out to Illinois :)
Almost in...

Ta Dah!!! I fit mommy!

Ready to go!

Despicable Me

This is a clip from the movie Despicable Me.

Even though we haven't seen the movie yet... this particular segment has become a favorite of ours... including Braiden.

Watch as he imitates video.

Out-tee

Who knew that Braiden had an out-tee?!?!

Actually he doesn't...

BUT...

after eating AND eating AND eating...

he DOES!

*note: his belly button went back to normal after a few full diapers the next day!

Lips

As Braiden's vocabulary is expanding, so are the faces he is making. It is probably because he is more aware of the muscles in his face. One of his animal noises that he can make is "MOO" for cow. Sometimes he just makes this face with his lips!

BLOW!

Watch as Braiden BLOWS his turkey chili n' rice tonight!

Golfing

Look at me everyone!

Putt, Putt, Puttt!!!

Perfect form!

Golfing + Louie (Cousin Selina's dog)

= always getting my ball back :)

Going in for the swing

Post golfing nap!

Braiden's NO head shake

Daddy's repercussion to our previous blog about teaching Braiden "YES" suddenly backfired at dinner tonight. Braiden truly doesn't know that shaking his head back and forth means "NO"... normally he does that when his food is "YUMMY or DELICIOUS", but this time it made sense to us!

*note this video was carefully scripted and edited :)

Basketball shots

Scoping out the competition

Ready to defend his home court

Going in...

Looking both ways

Trying to dribble

Shooting

That was a foul!

Braiden Makoa #22 ~ point guard