Spider Brenden

Mr. Dangerous

Posting

Been hard to keep up with regular posting to the blog with a little brother. Macs gets up early so no time to do it in the morning and mom spends all night working. Plus I spend computer time playing Super Mario Smash Brothers!

Fishing At The Lake

Today we did some fishing at the lake and I reeled in my first fish. My uncle Trevor thought it could be master angler! Of course we forgot to measure it but it was pretty big and a pretty good fighter.

Battle Scars

This week I got my first hockey injury. I was playing floor hockey at school when some kids whacked me in the chin! I got opened up like a real hockey player. Dad says I should probably have gotten stitches but I was too tough, I didn't even cry.

To balance things out I promptly came home and through a Build-A-Bear shoes at Macsen and gave him a bloody fat lip.

That's how I role.

Extreme Close Up

Here's me practicing with the camera again. I did take some close up pictures of dad too but they were deemed obscene for the internet due to nose hair exposure.

Monster Truck

Legos are pretty much my favorite house toy. Of course I play with other toys but Lego is the fallback 'always fun' toy. Check out the picture of the machine I built today! The only problem is when I build so many trucks and spaceships that key Lego pieces fall into short supply. Then Macs and I really fight over the Legos.

Driveway = Raceway

Nice hat Macsers!
Macsen and my favorite thing to do is to go outside and race our buddy cars down the driveway. Mommy even got us some chalk so now we draw streets and street signs all over the driveway. We could do anything outside but we choose to just zip down the drive way and to stop before flying on to the street.

Photography Practice

I've been practicing my photography skills some more lately. I call these my extreme close ups!

Who Is This Guy?

Grace

A classic sequence from my last day of the hockey session.


How are you doing Brenden?


Faceplant!

At least I could stay on my feet!

Photographer In Training

Tonight I got a hold of one of mom's cameras so I began training to be my mom's assistant!

This is a picture of our playroom closet. A wide variety of items in here. TV table, toy kitchen, vacuum, castle, storage chest, toy car garage, all could turn into a toy at anytime.

One of the ladies at dad's office was getting rid of her valentine's candy (apparently need to get in some Easter merchandise). I thought I would take a picture because... it would last longer!

I thought it would be great to take a picture of a picture. Seems like I'm in a lot of those photos.

Here's a great picture of dad in his Awana Cubbies outfit. Nice shirt dad!

Spies Like Us

This morning I put on my super secret glasses and began a spying campaign. Mostly I spied on Macs and mommy. Not quite sure how the glasses improved my spying abilities but maybe I was harder to recognize?

Mr. Hockey

On Friday we had a real hockey game against the hacks from neighboring Fond Du Lac. We had referrees and everything!

Here's me listening to the coach before our next shift. I think he was telling us to take out their best player but I don't remember. The Fond Du Lac parents were quite crazy. Goals scored by their team resulted in the whole Fond Du Lac section jumping in the air and doing fist pumps replicated by the team on the ice. Our fans were slightly more restrained.

Here's me battling for the puck after the face-off. As you can see I was pretty much the smallest guy on the team. I'm only five and I was playing against eleven year olds. How I got on this team for the scrimmage I am not quite sure. It didn't help that the game went until 8:30 PM. I am usually asleep at 7:30 PM!

After the game they handed out drinks, granola bars, and candy. It was awesome.

They even gave me my first hockey award! I can't wait to put it up in my room! Afterwards I was really exhausted and fell asleep sitting on mom's lap.

Slow Start

Just realized that we have not posted much for a while. I guess we're still recovering from the holidays.

Nana and Papa left last week after coming up mid-January. Grandpa, Uncle Paul, Gunnar, and Auntie were up the week after Christmas.

Lots of visitors!

I've started taking hockey lessons at the YMCA in Oshkosh. I skate twice a week and I love it. Macs likes to watch and cause trouble in the stands.

I'm also in swimming lessons and yesterday mom took Macs and me to the pool and we didn't want to leave! Dad was in Wausau getting beat up in a hockey tournement.

Little Farmer's

Here are more pictures from our visit to Little Farmer's. There is so much to do there. Check out this giant hay bale fort! You could crawl around inside of it through passageways and everything.

Here's me an Macs being sunflowers. Macs is saying 'cheese'!

Here's Macs with an apple he picked at the apple orchard there.

Here's me getting even more apples. My goal was to fit 20 lbs of apples into a 10 lbs bag.

We got to go on a hay ride too through a forest. It was really fun. Macs liked it too!

Birthday Pics

We all sort of look alike don't you think! Nana and Papa came down for my birthday. We had ice cream cake from Dairy Queen that had a picture of a dinosaur on it! You can see the dinosaurs head on the cake in front of me before I ate it.

For my birthday we got to go to Little Farmer's (by Fond du Lac) and play. Here's me and Nana feeding some goats.

Skating Lessons

Yes! It's that time of year again! Skating lessons have begun. Here's me picking up Beannie Babies on the ice. It's pretty cool. Meanwhile Macs hangs out in the lobby and pretends to play video games.

Brenden Trains

Olympic training started early today...

Canada Visit

Last week we made a jaunt up to Canada to visit Nana and Papa's house.

I spent a lot of time in the pool at Nana and Papa's. It was really warm compared to the lake. Hopefully next year I can start swimming on my own.

Macsen didn't come in the pool so much but liked to watch and cause trouble from the sidelines.

One day we went to the Assiniboine Park where we road on this train. It was a real coal burning train and was really fun.

After the train we went and got ice cream from Sargeant Sunday's. It was really yummy. I ended up liking the ice cream that Macsen got more than mine so I had to convince him to give me some licks.

In Assiniboine Park there are these giant sculptures that are supposed to look like ice. Me and Macs tested them out.

We also picked some flowers from Nana's garden to bring to mommy. She had a lot of work to do and couldn't come up. I can't believe the border guards didn't ask about these when we crossed the border!

Nana even let me and Macs water her garden. Here's Macs taking his watering very seriously.

Nana and Papa's house is on a golf course so there are always deer wandering up to check out the salt lick. Here is a nice buck Papa was talking about blasting in the fall. Apparently a rogue racoon sufferred a similar fate.

Canada Day

A little behind on this post but me and Macs got all dressed up for Canada Day. It was a warm up for the 4th of July and the fireworks! Macs and me are in North Dakota right now hanging out at the cabin. Dad is catching up next week then we are actually going to go to Canada!