Party Time!

This is actually Grant opening presents on his birthday. He got the hat at preschool and liked wearing it around. And yes, we actually bought him some drums. Surprisingly they aren't too obnoxious.


Here's the birthday party. My parents got him one of those recordable books and read the story to him. At the beginning they say they are going to read him a story for his birthday and every time he hears it he gets a big grin on his face.


Dump truck birthday cake decorated by mommy.


Grant looks thrilled to be having his picture taken.


This isn't from his birthday but I didn't want to forget to put it in. I was at work and Grant was supposed to be having rest time. Daddy went upstairs for something and found Grant fast asleep at the top of the stairs. It looks like he fell asleep mid cry. The funny thing is I think I found him asleep at the top of the stairs last night too. Hopefully he doesn't do this and roll down the stairs one of these times.

3 Years Old!

Happy 3rd Birthday Grant!

Today we had a special Grant-Mommy-Daddy day. After he opened his presents (the Buzz Lightyear drums were a hit) Leah went to daycare and the rest of us went to the community center to go swimming. Grant was excited to have both of us swim with him and it was a lot of fun spending time with just him. After that we went out for lunch and braved the zoo. It was way colder than we expected so we pretty much walked as fast as we could from building to building. It felt like we had the zoo to ourselves. We hardly saw anyone else and for a while had the elephants and the aquarium completely to ourselves.

At his 3 year check up Grant weighed 33 pounds (65 percentile) andwais 39.5 inches (90th percentile) tall.  He did such a great job and didn't even cry when he got his shot.  Here's last year's quilt picture for comparison.

5 Months

Leah is 5 months old!  She's rolling over from back to front only, can sit on her own for a little while, and has started this new screeching noise.  She loves to watch her brother run around and be crazy and is fascinated when we play board games with him.  She's been getting pretty mad when toys are out of reach so it wouldn't surprise me if she figured out how to army crawl pretty soon so she can get what she wants.  Everything she touches goes in her mouth. She isn't napping well at all at daycare, but she does ok (sometimes) at home.  Here she's wearing an outfit I bought before she was born and I absolutely love it.  Please notice the coordinating socks and shoes. :)