Colorado and 20 months!

Last week we visited our friends Pat and Gibson in Colorado Springs. Grady had his first flight and did great! I was surprised he was not scared on the airplane. He made friends with the flight attendant and he dove across our laps to go to her. She whisked him away (to our surprise) but returned after a visit to the cockpit to get some wings.

Here we are at lunch in the cute town of Manitou Springs.

Grady enjoyed playing with 3 year old Laurel (and baby Freddy).

They had lots of fun in the back seat together..

We visited Garden of the Gods.

This was just supposed to be a pose of Grady climbing, but he took off. (With snack in hand, of course.)

Alex and Pat went hiking and climbed about 1,000 feet.

We felt like Grady learned so many new things on our trip. Lots of new words like Mee- Mou (Mickey Mouse), pee-pop (lollipop), doggie, and outside. He had his 20 month birthday last Friday. He is starting to put words together like "dada night night" when Alex is sleeping and can answer questions like, "What do you want for lunch?" (The answer is always "butt-butt" for peanut butter). He always wants to play outside and will bring my shoes to me and try to put them on my feet so I will take him.

We love to see how he is learning new things everyday!

Green Thumb

Hopefully Grady will have a green thumb! He sure enjoys helping in the yard!

That was a particularly dry spot in the yard. ;)

Athens Visit

In Athens, we ate lunch at Cali-n-Tito's. The food was pretty good, but what was great was the playground that Grady enjoyed while we ate.

We also went to the Botanical Gardens. Being February, there were not too many flowers, but Grady had plenty he was interested in.

The next two pictures are of Grady "reading" the signs. He would go to each small sign and say, "Da da da," and then nod his head in affirmation. He would then go to the bigger signs and say, "da da da da da da," and nod again. So cute. Should've had a video.

Some Recent Pics

Here is Grady playing with his new drum set from Aunt Steph and Uncle Justin.

Grady was apparently quite bored on our road trip. This isn't a great picture, but he was using his foot as a phone. "Hey-yo?"
I loved that Grady drank the milk out of his cereal bowl just like Dad.
I walked in on Grady after he found Alex's cereal bowl on the coffee table.


This is how I entertained Grady on the long trip from Mississippi to Athens, GA. I was peek-a-booing with my hair put on top of my head (as you will see).