Just some pictures and stories

Here are some random pictures and stories of Grey from the past two months. Since I've been terrible about updating the blog, I thought it might just be easier to post everything at once.

I guess it must have been at least a few months ago Grey's class went on a buggy ride. Grey was sitting next to Azure in the buggy and Ms. Nancy said that he nonchalantly reached over and grabbed her hand and held it the whole buggy ride. What a flirt he is already!

Then last week, the teachers told me they thought Grey was going to be a football player because he and his friend Jackson were throwing a ball and then chasing after it. Ms. Veronica said that one time Grey crawled and tackled the ball before Jackson could even get there. He definitely is not afraid of anything!

So for a few days, Grey was getting bad report cards saying that he was being aggressive towards his friends. I was thinking, "Great, I've got the kid that's going to be the biter in the group." About a week later, his report said "Grey is learning to play and give back toys to his friends." Although this was meant to be a compliment, they were still saying that he is continuing to take toys away from friends....just giving them back now. Never dull! We are working on being gentle and sharing.

Tonight after school Grey, Spencer and I went on a quick walk. Grey had to hold Spencer's leash (with my help) as we walked literally two houses down and back. He thought it was great that he was the one holding the leash. Spencer did good - I think he was too nervous to go crazy because he knew Grey was in charge :)

Here are some pictures:

Grey coming home from school. I almost didn't recognize him because he looked so much older that day and his hair was curly!


I was cooking dinner and looked over and Grey had crawled into Spencer's cage. He was so excited!

Grey just having fun before bed.

Grey's Walking!

On February 27, Grey took his first few steps. I was standing in the kitchen and Grey had crawled in to say "hi" (he really comes into rooms and goes "Hi".) He stood up holding onto the wall and then took 2-3 steps towards me. At first I couldn't believe it! I knew he was close to walking but he also likes to make sure he can really do something before he makes the jump (i.e. standing without holding on to my pant leg). We have been practicing walking a lot - he makes me take him in circles from the living room, down the hall, through the kitchen and dining room, and back into the living room. I think we have made that loop a million times in the past few months!

Since then, he has started taking more and more steps before he plops down and starts crawling. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before he is running with his determination!

Takin' Care of Business

So Grey's new thing is to play "business" while we work. He takes his pens (or in the case below - highlighters) and take notes on his pads of paper or his coloring book. When Dan is studying for schools, he will crawl into the back bedroom and sit on his lap and make "notes" in Dan's school books or class notes. It's funny because Grey is very serious when he is writing. He will start on one page, scribble a little bit, flip to the next, sigh, and then go back to the first page like he forgot to write something.

Grey stayed home one day while I was having to work so I set him up with a bunch of pens and paper. I look over a little later and he has highlighter all over his face! We had to take a shower before Dad got home to hide the evidence, although I ended up showing Dan the pictures later anyway :)

Let it snow, let it snow

We got 11 inches of snow in one day - a new record for Dallas! We woke up to it snowing and we went to bed (late) with it snowing. Grey didn't really get to enjoy it because he was getting over being sick and we didn't want him to get more sick. Dan and I played in it a little bit after Grey went to bed. It was really pretty when it first snowed but I was ready for it to get warmer because it was SO cold! I think I had on 5 layers of clothes and I was still cold outside. I don't know how people up North do it....I enjoy the sun way too much!

Grey's ONE!

I can't believe that Grey is already one year old! I can still remember driving at 6 am to the hospital on January 27 last year. It's been amazing to see him grow up and how quickly he learns new things! I can't imagine our lives without him - he is such a precious boy and brings so much laughter to our lives!

For his birthday we had family and friends over to celebrate with food, cake and ice cream. At first he was a little shy with everyone over, but that lasted about 2 minutes. It was funny watching him play with the other kids because he definitely did not want them to be playing with "his" toys. Every time someone would be playing with his toy, Grey would decide that he wanted to play with it now (we are working on sharing :) ).

He thought it was great when we all sang "Happy Birthday" to him and smiled the whole time. He liked being the center of attention (surprise, surprise). He didn't want any cake, though. He tried a few bites but didn't really like it all that much. I think his mom and dad enjoyed the cake much more - we ate about 1/3 of it ourselves over the next day or so. Finally we had to just throw the rest of it away because we kept eating it!

He was more enthralled with the ribbons on the presents than the presents themselves. We could have all bought him ribbon and he would have thought that was fabulous! We had fun at the party and thank everyone for sharing it with us!

It's weird to think that he is not a baby anymore! At the age of one:
1. He crawls faster than any kid in class and it's hard to catch him sometimes. His teachers say they will set him down and if they turn away, he is across the room before they even realize it.
2. He has 8 teeth but still prefers to eat baby food unless he gets to eat what we are eating (pizza with Ranch is his favorite).
3. He is almost about to take off walking any day.
4. He can say "Momma", "Dada", "Uh oh" and "Hi".
5. His smile and laugh are contagious and can light up a room.

We just love him so much!! I can't wait to see my little man continue to grow up :)

My First Christmas

Grey had a great Christmas and I think he got more toys than he knows what to do with! We went to my parent's house for Christmas morning so we woke up early (because there no longer is sleeping in for us), ate breakfast and opened presents. Grey did pretty good at ripping up the paper! There were times that he definitely was more interested in the boxes or Morgan's new luggage but we had a fun watching him get into everything. We took a break from opening gifts for a while because he started to get distracted by everything and opening that many presents wore him out! Plus we wanted my mom to be there to watch! We had a very nice first Christmas and the next day we were off to Veronica's to open more presents! I'm sure Grey didn't know what to think with all the action going on! Here are a few pictures to enjoy.

Grey passed out after round 1 of opening gifts :)

It was a lot of work ripping the paper!

Grey loves his John Deere tractor from Mutta! He makes me push him in circles throughout our house and laughs when Spencer plays with him while riding it. We even make Spencer ride behind Grey sometimes....Grey thinks it's the best but Spencer thinks otherwise :)

At first we couldn't' keep Grey from not crawling into Morgan's luggage to open presents.

i believe in santa

Today was a big day - we went to go meet Santa! We got dressed early in the morning because we were going to try to be one of the first people in line, but Grey got tired and wanted to take a nap. Instead of having a cranky kid while taking the picture, I let him sleep for a few hours before we went. We originally went during lunch to see him, but the line was so long that we decided to come back after 5. Even then there were a ton of kids waiting in line to take their picture with Santa! I could tell Grey was getting a little antsy while we waited so I didn't know what to expect once he finally got to meet him - all smiles or crying. Fortunately he was good and just stared at Santa. He kept the deer in headlights look throughout the whole time we took pictures. Maybe next year he will smile :) We had fun meeting him!