Blake Family Blog: My Newest Obsession

Hello friends and family! Brayden here just taking a few minutes again from my newest obsession to post some recent photos. What is this new obsession? BASKETBALL! I cannot get enough of it. My signal for basketball may look like touchdown to you, but don't be fooled, I definitely know basketball when I see it. I am really signaling "Good for a Wildcat 3!" like they do in Manhattan.

So I spend my time playing basketball, watching basketball on TV and asking to play or watch basketball. I ask for basketball as soon as I wake up from naps and in the morning and when mom gets me out of my car seat. I ask for basketball while sitting in my highchair. I ask for basketball when I wake up at 4:30 a.m. because my teeth hurt. That sums up the past month around here. I went to my second KSU basketball game of the season mid-February. The crowd and sounds in Bramlage really scared me that time, but then all of a sudden after the game, all I wanted to do was play and watch basketball. We went back last week for the final home game of the season and I really enjoyed it. I rarely get to watch TV beyond a little Nick Jr. and Busytown Mysteries but I know that mom and dad can turn on that TV if they really want to and find me a game somewhere - ESPN, Metro Sports, the Pac 10 network or that K-State game I know we have on the DVR! Daddy says Blakes usually don't play basketball but maybe I'll change that!

Huge kudos to the Big 12 season champs - my K-State Wildcats! Anyone else looking forward to March Madness as much as I am?

Daddy and I have our own goal in the living room.

I am particularly fond of shooting hoops with my bowling ball.

Watching the Cats

My K-State basketball is my favorite.

Only watching highlights from Lawrence during halftime - don't worry!

Senior Night in Manhattan vs. TCU

Sometimes I read during the games, just like Uncle Steven!

In other happenings around here:

- Welcome to cousin Betsy born last week! Congratulations Aunt Kristin and Uncle Wes!

- I show my manners by signing both "thank you" and "please" now.

- I would tell you that carrots have always been my least favorite food but then I ate a whole bunch of them this weekend. Secretly mom thinks it is because they plant, cultivate and harvest carrots in my John Deere tractor book that I love to read!

- I go to music class and swim lessons again for the spring.

- I say "yes" more everyday. Sometimes I know what I am saying "yes" to and other times probably not, but it is amazing how much I understand and notice so you better be on your toes!

- I am really into coloring right now.
- I prayed six times during dinner tonight.

- I invented a new word which I say about a million times a day - "mama-dada" though sometimes I shorten it to "ma-da".

- I am working on stacking blocks and saying two-word sentences.