Our Crazy Life

Life is crazy in our house lately. Mostly because of school, family events, and a few other things going on. I thought it was time to maybe give an update. I must first apologize for the lack of pictures. Being a mom and student, and doing photography and everything else I have going on- well, I often just have my phone on me and snap quick pictures on there. They are fine for loading onto facebook, but not the kind of quality that uploads well to a blog, etc. So, my goal is after midterms (March 15th) I am going to start getting out my big dslr camera more and taking some real pictures of things we are doing.

On to the updates-

Mike and I are staying busy and Grayson keeps us on our tows. Mike is back on his fitness plan and doing really well. He has already lost 18 pounds of the 30 he gained back after Grayson was born. I am losing as well, slower, but that is expected as weight gain is common for women with PCOS. Luckily though- what I do lose, stays off, even if I have a day or two where I slip up.

Grayson is the one everyone really wants an update on.....
He is doing great. He had a huge growth spurt a while back and is officially over 20 pounds! A little sad because it was an easy answer when I didn't want to explain to people why we continue to have him rear facing to just say "he hasn't reached the weight required to forward face" but I plan to use this as a teaching tool when people wonder why he is still rear facing.
He is now, at 21 months, in 9-12 month clothing. He is perfectly proportioned, just small. Continues to be healthy and meeting or exceeding all milestones.
We did however, have our first ear infection recently. Followed by an allergic reaction to the antibiotics. That was not fun. But he is all better and now is fighting off a cold he caught. We have all been sick recently, for about the past month or so, someone is always sick in the house, but we are finally on the mend.
Grayson amazes us every day with how much he is learning and how much he knows. I will forget a lot of stuff, but right now some of his words/phrases are:

eat, night night, poopy, more, agua, milk, book, shoe, sock, bye bye, hi, whats that, where'd it go, I get it, help, uva (grape), cheese, yogurt, cookie (granola bar), cracker, no, yes, door, sock, shirt, Mickey, Pluto, Pete, Goofy, Daisy, car, see, blue, red, down, up, light, please, thank you, banana, apple, hot dog (from the hot dog dance- hot dog refers to Mickey Mouse, not the food), puppy, kitty, cat, pray, go bye in car, head butt (yes- he head butts and asks to do one if you don't offer- thanks Mike), color, Mommy, Daddy, Gamma (Grandma),  door, tree, bird, baby and many more that I can't think of right this instant

He can sign eat, nigh night (sign for sleepy), more, poopy (the sign for diaper- he signs diaper and says poopy), dog, cat, book, mommy, daddy, milk, water, hurt, all done, and I think there are a few more.

He knows the colors red, blue and purple really well and is doing better at green. He also knows what a goat, duck, frog, snake, chicken, cow, cat, dog, pig, horse, lion, and sheep say (I think that is all the animals he knows but I might be missing some).

This age is a lot of fun, but very trying for me. Grayson wants to do everything himself, and I worry about the mess, or think how I can do it faster, and Miss Anxiety, me, gets all stressed over the tiniest things. I have gotten better, but it is still hard to let him go ahead and let him pick up every toy by himself, or let him put the socks into a pile as I separate them from our other whites, but I am getting better.

All in all, our family is doing well. We are excited to be going on vacation at the end of the month and looking forward to relaxing and having some family time as well as meeting up with our friends the Bolanders.