18 Months!

I can't believe my baby is 18 months old today! Time has gone by so fast!

Grayson was supposed to start Nursery today.....but a huge bang of the head on the pew in front of us during the first 5 minutes of sacrament meeting ended out church day....it was bad.... Poor guy!

Grayson's 18 month appointment is not until the beginning of December, but we think he is hovering right around 20 lbs and 28 inches.....but that is unofficial.

He has changed so much in the last 3 months!

He is very social and loves to play. He is a busy kid and is always busy playing, running, or building something. But he likes to be a cuddle bug too. He hates to sit still and do things like body parts, but will gladly sit still for books, coloring, and such. So we have started to become creative in our book choices and coloring choices to help him learn body parts and colors.
He has learned a lot of new words, but uses them all sparingly. He also can mimmick most of the words we say. He also has his own little language that he uses. We have noticed he uses certain "phrases" at the same moments/things. It is kind of entertaining.
Here is a list of words he says regularly:

Mama, Daddy, Door, Up, Banana, Cracker, Apple, No, Yeah, Door, Eat, GO GO, Coco (the dog a few doors down), Bry (for Bryn, the toddler girl whose mom watches Grayson while I am at school), Night night, Book, Play, In, Out, Blue, Gamma (Grandma), Drink, That, WazDat (What's that- whenever he hears a sound), Woah, OW, Please, Thank You, Hot Dog (not from the food, from Mickey Mouses Hot Dog song), Oobas (spelling? - Spanish word for grapes), cheese, bird, bath, hat, hi, bye

He has been mastering forks and spoons, although many times the hands still win in the feeding wars- especially if he is really hungry. He has also learned about dipping his food into things. He loves to dip food.

Grayson loves to make people laugh. However, he is quite sensitve. If you laugh when he didn't want you to he will cry. He lets you know when he wants you to laugh with his "fake/polite laugh".

Grayson is quite inventive. The other day my parents were watching him while I was at school (babysitter had other things going that day). He decided to push a toy over to his book shelf, one of those ride on or walk behind car toys, so that he could reach the top shelf and get his piggy bank off of it. He then proceeded to bring it out (oh, after a fall, Grandma putting the pig back, and him throwing a tantrum to get it back) and show Grandpa where you "feed" the pig. He got all of Grandpa's coins and half of Grandma's.

He enjoys helping around the house- and even has his own broom. He is very insistent on doing things himself. This age is so much fun because he wants to be so independent, and this age is very frustrating, because he wants to be so independent :)

MIA

WOW---- It has been a while. I apologize for going MIA!

Let's see, I guess I should do some updating.

First- I have been super busy with my photography! It has been a whirlwind and I just realized how much I have been doing while trying to wrap up the end of the year.
Second- I started school in August and it has kept me pretty busy as well. Mike is also in school and working 50-60 hours a week. We are actually busier then we have ever been, yet, the way things have been scheduled, and how things have worked out, it feels like we have been able to have more family time and we aren't overwhelmed. Hoping we can continue this next semester.

In October we took a vacation for our 10 year anniversary down to California and Disneyland. Originally my sister Amanda and my older sister Joyce were supposed to come with Mike, Grayson, my friend Sarah and I. Some things came up though and they were not able to come. So, in order to have 4 riders, Mike's niece Sienna got to come with us again. It worked out so part of the time was during parent teacher conferences so she didn't have to miss much school. We had a lot of fun, but I didn't take as many photos this time because we had just been down there in March....but here are a few.

Grayson LOVED the Splash Park in DCA! He was so tired after- you can really see it on his face.

We had a lot of fun and it was a great way to celebrate 10 years of marriage.

After we came back, we got back into the grind of things and have kept really busy ever since. We are finally getting a little breather with the Thanksgiving Holiday.