Traveling is one of our favorite things as a family to do.  As a child the only thing I truly wanted to do more than anything else was to travel the world.  Jolene and I have traveled many places.  Still, we plan to travel many more location.  Above our fireplace is a map of the places we have traveled, and also places we plan to go.  About 2 years ago we went on our first cruise.  We found out that traveling by ship is not our favorite way to go.  We thought we would try again, this time with MSC Cruises.  So I thought I would write about our first impressions of MSC Cruises.

As a child I was raised by my grandparents for the majority of my upbringing.  Both my grandparents and parents had sayings they would tell me over and over again.  Often I never understood why they said these things, but as a parent I do understand now.  Below are saying that my parents use to say that I now say.

Each and every day Braeden is able to control his head more.   Today I was holding him and he just sat there by himself in a normal sitting position. Since he could sit on his own I figured we would introduce him to his Bumbo we bought him.

Halloween is one of Johanna’s favorite holidays.  Each year she loves to choose a princess and guise herself around our town trick-or-treating.  Each year we buy about $80 of candy and hand it out to all the children and adults who visit.  It takes about two hours before we run out.  Bus loads of children are dropped off in our neighborhood.  This year, Halloween angered me because of 3 boys who seem to have never heard the answer no before.

We always love the change of season.  Each season has it’s perks.  Winter has rain and snow, which generally is our favorite time of year.  Plus you can’t forget Christmas.  Spring, all the flowers begin to grow and our fruit begin to sprout.  Summer we go to the beach, lakes and river.  Fall has it’s own special intrigue.  Trees begin their change and preparation for winter.  Their leaves change color, making it one of the most colorful seasons.  Halloween and Thanksgiving are also fun holidays to experience this time of year.  Everything pumpkin spice makes it way to market.  Apple season begins it’s surge.  Luckily today marks the first day of fall.

My baby boy looks like a red banana, literally.  Most of his skin is a red tinge, but if you place pressure on his skin the underlying color is yellow.  The sclera of his eyes also have a yellow hue to them.  My baby boy has jaundice.  If my daughter had not had jaundice when she was born I would have been more worried.

I am a techy. When anything new in technology comes out I am all over it. I’ve used different types of cameras for surveillance, as well as a bay camera. This year Netgear came out with the Arlo Baby camera. It’s their version of a baby camera, with the perks of of Arlo. All baby cams have their pros and cons. However, for me Arlo Baby has the most pros.

As of September 17, 2017 at 8:20 p.m. Braeden Lucas Bearden officially entered the world.  He arrived a healthy weight of 8 lbs 9 oz and a length of 20 inches.  Braeden was born 9 days early.   In the words similar to what Kevin Hart would say, I wasn’t ready.

We have been really busy as of late running different businesses. Since it was Labor Day yesterday Johanna didn’t have school. So we finally had a few hours where we could run out and take some photos. Yesterday was a little cooler so we ran up to The Wildlands Conservancy in Oak Glen.

As each and everyday progresses Johanna is getting more and more excited on the idea that her baby brother is coming soon.  When September hit we changed the calendar.  September 26th marked our sons estimated birthday.  The date was marked with “Baby Due.”  Johanna noticed that he’s coming soon.