So what have we been up to? A LOT! So I'll start out with the most exciting news first....Grey has a new "cousin" Sutton (Amanda and Patrick) who is just beautiful! She is so sweet and easy-going...ahhh what a joy! Erica and Daniel also had another "cousin", Hayes, who we are excited to meet! We are also going to have another new cousin (Noah) in October (Uncle Tim and Aunt Shelly). It will be so much fun with all the new cousins to play with!
This summer has been very eventful! Grey is getting so big! He moved to the toddler room at school and loves it! He gets to play outside everyday ("side" as he calls it) and comes home daily with new artwork. He's learned to march (he only lifts one leg :) ), go in circles and walk backwards. He also dances if you ask him to. It's too cute! I tried to video tape it but he gets too distracted by the camera. My favorite is when he sings. You can't make out what he is singing but he is pretty consistent with what he says so I know it must be some song he is trying to sing :) What it is, we may never know but that's okay! He recently started singing "I like to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas". He says "eat, eat, eat" clearly but the rest is a little fuzzy. He does his sign language for "eat" too when he sings it. I think he likes that he can sing that song :)
He is still obsessed with "puppies" and we even make trips to PetSmart just to see them. I think he says "puppy" about 500 times a day and somehow finds every puppy on t.v., in books, magazines, etc. He also loves to make animal noises (i.e. lions, cats, puppies, monkeys, roosters, ducks, horses). When we read books now, he takes our finger and points to an animal and says "That?" and we have to tell him what every animal is. At times I have to make up the name because I don't even know what it's suppose to be :)
He is starting to love baths now and will squirt me and Dan with his water bottle ("pow pow"). That seems to be his favorite bath toy these days - go figure. He also tells me and Dan to "sit" so we can throw balls to each other. He just laughs and laughs when we do this.
Here are a few pictures from the last few months.
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Grey playing with p.j. pants on his head.
Grey saying "cheese" for the camera.
Concentrating real hard on his art work.
Grandpa and Grandmommy holding Grey and Maddie at Maddie's first birthday party.
Grey walking Morgan's dog Bailey. He thought it was great!
Grey messing up my hair. He would then move it out of my face, sweetly say "Hi" and do it all over again.
Dad and Grey at White Rock Lake on a HOT afternoon.
A few weeks ago Grey and I went to the Aquarium with some of our friends (Sutton, Beckett, Margo, Hannah, and Ryan). He was a little nervous at first but got the hang of it quickly. We went through the whole thing and I could tell he didn't want to leave so Amanda, Sutton, Grey and I went back into the main area that had all the birds and monkeys and look around again. He loved the monkeys! He also loved the fact that it was empty enough that he got to walk around at his own pace too...we zoomed by some animals and spent 10 minutes looking at others :) He crashed on the way home! I don't think I drove for more than 2 minutes before he fell asleep. We had a fun day and can't wait to take Dan back with us next time!
Labor Day weekend we went to Turtle Creek to feed the ducks. That was another fun day! He kept saying "Quack, quack" the whole time we were feeding the ducks. There was one FAT duck that would get real close to the creek bank, which Grey thought was great because then he could really throw the bread to him. The other ducks would come and go, but this one stayed around. He was smart :).JPG)
Grey also got his first "professional" haircut last Monday (aka. not a haircut by me). He liked playing with the toys while we waiting for his turn but as soon as we had to put him in the chair he started crying. Even a dum dum didn't work! He stayed in the chair the whole time but didn't ease up once on the crying. Hopefully next time he will like it more :) He looks handsome (and older) with the new hair do.
(Ahh, it feels good to kind of get caught up on this :) I will try to be better about updates!)
