Who needs toys??

 

Thanksgiving 2014: coffee cup and plastic spoon.  He carried these two things around Benson's aunt's house while he explored.

 

Stole a Tupperware container from the counter.

 

Benson's co-worker nicknamed Bray Wreck-it Ralph!  True story!!!  He LOVED pulling on the cabinet and slamming it shut.  Luckily, my father-in-law is super handy and he was able to fix it....and install heavy duty baby proofing materials!

 

Please ignore the messy living room....we were slowly putting the house back together after the holidays!  I re-organized his toys and how we were storing them and somehow wound up with this green bucket not being used.  He would half carry it, half drag it around.

 

This is him attempting to get it on top of the coffee table....

 

....thinking through his game plan....

 

....VICTORY!!! And there was room up there for him too!

 

And if he stood there was even more room!  Don't worry, Benson is just out of camera range in almost all the un-safe photos!

 

Ignoring poor Mickey in favor of a measuring cup.  It's amazing I'm able to cook/bake at all! ;)

 

Since we figure he's staying around for awhile, we gave him his own drawer...in the kitchen haha  And yes, that is a huge handful of plastic silverware!

 

Trying to get some more drawer real estate ;)

 

I had to give him a cookie container to "store" his plastic silverware.

 

Stole my 4-cup measuring cup (and needing a hair cut!!)

 

Trying to get his little grubby hands on Daddy's protein container!

 

His new favorite over winter break was to dump out all his books and put them back in the basket.  He then dumped out the diapers from their basket to use that one too :)

 

It looks like he's trying to fly here :)

 

Pulled his lamp down from the dresser to give that a closer inspection.

 

Standing in the former diaper basket, surrounded by all the books he carefully took out and arranged around himself.  Bray also likes to sit at the end of the crib, point between the bars at the books and have you hand them to him.  I would LOVE to know what is going through his mind!!!

 

Too cold to go outside and play on a swing?  Daddy will swing me!!

 

Going a bit stir-crazy so we tried to put as many random things on him to see how long they lasted.  Of course with him in almost constant motion, getting pictures is hard.

 

Peek a boo!!

 

Being silly.

 

This boy used to be terrified of the vacuum!  Now, he jumps up and down with excitement when we bring it out.  Bray loves getting the cord unwrapped by taking some and then shaking his arm up and down as fast as he can until it all unspools.

 

His fascination with lights continues.  He doesn't need the step stool anymore; he can reach all of the light switches in the house.  There are times it's super sunny out and all the lights are on in the house! :)  I keep telling him we're going to pay the electric bill from his college fund haha

 

Before Brayden, I doubt I ever noticed these things at the mall, library, grocery store, etc.  But now....I took him to Woodfield to play at the kids place and he stayed for maybe 5 minutes and then we spent the next 30 walking all around it looking at these things (some have covered electrical outlets, some are who knows??)  Bray also loves sewer grates so taking a walk with him does not count for any weight loss ;)

 

All of his buckets and containers a few weeks after the obsession began :)