Tyler Time

Tyler came over to play today. The boys were playing so sweetly together, that I tried to snap a quick picture.

As you can see, it is blurry, so when I went to get another one, the boys (more like Tyler) wanted to pose.
Here they are enjoying a snack on Grady's new table!

Last Day of School!

Yesterday was Grady's last say of school. They had a little party with fruit cocktail instead of cupcakes, but Grady didn't seem to mind (there were marshmallows in there).These are some of his classmates. Apparently, Grady and the little blond girl on the right have a special relationship. The teacher told me that she will go lay on the bean bag, call Grady over, and he will twirl her hair like he does mine (and everyone else who holds him).
I stuck around to watch Grady play a bit. I like to see how he interacts with different toys and kids. For example, he was playing with this truck and making, what I am to assume, was a truck noise (Alex needs to work with him on that). He never does that with trucks at home.
He played so nicely with Hamilton.
The teachers gave the kids some presents, including this bubble sword. Sounds great. Not so much. He could not put the wand back into the soap without some help.
But Grady REFUSED to let me help him and broke down into a fit.

Finally, he let me help.

And then promptly spilled all of the soap onto the ground. :(

22 Months!

We have seen so many fun changes in Grady over the past few weeks-mainly with his acquiring new words and putting them together. Some of his favorite phrases are, "I did it!" and "Hold it!"- as in he wants to hold the bag of chips, etc. He also is very into naming the color of everything. He is usually wrong (unless it is green). That is his first color of choice. He has started the beginning stages of potty training, with his asking to go potty sometimes, although it generally is a false alarm. It doesn't stop him from asking for a chocolate chip (but it sounds like he is asking for a"potty chip".) He likes to sit on the pot, get a piece of "sissue" and drop it in the pot. Then "all done!"

Here are some things we have been doing lately!

Climbing!

Keeping cool!

Here, Grady was playing with homemade play dough using my kitchen utensils. He started out on the table. I used this picture because he actually smiled for me! He got a potty chip for that!

Easter 2011

Happy Easter!

We celebrated by dyeing a few egg...

making a picture with Easter stickers...

looking through Easter baskets...

playing with new toys...

and spending time with family!

Parties!

Grady's "school" had an Easter party with an egg hunt and cup cakes!

This week was Tyler's birthday, too, so Grady got to enjoy his TWO parties.

This picture is of Tyler blowing bubbles. It is so cute how he stomps his foot and gets "into position" with each forceful blow. Unfortunately, not too many bubbles come out.

Pre- Easter Egg Hunt!

Grady was invited over to have an Easter egg hunt last Saturday. He just needed a little help finding eggs, and had a lot of fun!

This is a rare moment where Grady is the only boy! (Except baby Austin, who was napping some of the time).

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!