Brothers!!!

When I was pregnant with Brayden, I had many people tell me how crazy I was to have two kids so close together.  And I must say, for the first six months, I thought, "Man, those people were right!" LOL.  As Brayden has gotten older, watching the brother relationship develop is probably my most favorite thing about being a parent. It also helps that Jacob is an AMAZING big brother!!! I just had to share some of my favorite moments between these two crazy kids...

One of Jacob's favorite things to do, is to feed Brayden. I should make it clear that his favorite thing to do is to feed Brayden his own food, he does not like to share his food with Brayden. It allows for a giant mess, but the cuteness is worth it!  He has also started to enjoy pushing Brayden down the Thomas Roller Coaster, that video will be another blog. I must say, as a parent, my favorite thing they do together is take a bath. Not only for the convenience factor, but they actually have a pretty good time!

Jacob has taken on the responsibility of introducing Brayden to new foods... as seen above, strawberry ice cream! It's quite funny when Brayden wants to eat something that I told Jacob he cannot share with Brayden (fruit snacks, peanut butter, honey nut cheerios, etc) I will hear yelling from the other room and then Jacob stating, "NO BRAYDEN! ITS DANGEROUS FOR YOU!" LOL I think I may have said that a few too many times!

Here are the boys at the ever famous "Acorn Park." Jacob loves this park because he can pick up acorns and throw it into the stream.  Today, he was teaching Brayden how to throw them into the stream. He kept finding acorns and telling me, "Mommy, I found one for Brayden and one for me. You don't get one, okay?" LOL!!!! This kid!!! Brayden was much more interested in tasting the acorns, so Jacob had to throw most of them into the water.

One of the cutest moments I have had with these two. Jacob was walking ahead of Brayden for a minute or so, then he looked back. He saw how far ahead of him he was and said, "Brayden is my brother, so I walk with him." It was the slowest walk to the playground ever, but Jacob would not leave his brother behind!

Not only are these two so adorable to each other, about 50% of the time, but they are looking more and more alike! Just in the last week, I have had three strangers say comments of, "Man they are clones of each other!", "I guess it's no surprise what your next child will look like!", "They could be twins!" (I think the last person was confused, but I got the point). This picture of them around the same age just shows how much they do look alike! Gotta love my fatty, chunky babies!!

I love this two boys so much!!! Exhaustion never felt so good!!