Wordless Wednesday

Thanksgiving

Since I couldn't add pictures after Thanksgiving - this post is very late but I am going to share the pictures anyway.  Just a quick photo dump. 

Turkey

Baby and his Auntie

Taj and Pavi

Sweet Taj kisses

Watchin' some football

G and Mimi

He had us cracking up during the meal

Daddy with his little turkey

Let's play!  Let's play!

playin' with friends

Serious boy

14 Months!

At 14 (10/21-11/20) months old, Grayson is:
-wearing 12-18 month onesies
-wearing 9-12 month shorts and 12 month and some 18 month pants
-wearing 18 month footie pjs
-in size 4 diapers - we switched right at the end of the month.    
-having a rough go at sleeping through the night this month!  I think he ended up in our bed around 2 or 3 most nights this month.  We hope it is due to the teething and NOT becoming a habit.
-walking better and better.  He trots around the house and can basically run these days.
-drinking whole milk. 
-drinking exclusively from sippy cups!  Grayson didn't give us any backlash about removing bottles from his daily routine, which was very nice.  Gray has three sippy cups of milk a day - 1 when he wakes up, 1 around 2 in the afternoon, and 1 before bed.
-having solids at every meal.  He has gotten a lot better at eating the school lunches - which shocks us because there is no way he would eat half of the stuff at home.  For dinner, we still struggle getting Grayson to eat any sort of meat.  We had a few days where he ate some chicken nuggets, but he has since started refusing them again.  In order to get him to eat meat, we still give him some Stage 3 Gerber meals.  We don't have any trouble getting him to eat dairy or fruits.        
-teething - He got FOUR teeth this month - his top two incisors and two more bottom teeth (the ones next to his front two bottom ones).  He is up to 14 teeth now - how many does one little mouth need??  We all need a break from this teething thing!!
-still taking 2 naps a day at school  

 

Other notables:
-Gray has started to bring books to P or me that he would like for us to read.  His favorites right now are a Garfield book that I picked up in a Target dollar bin, and a Peekaboo book that has soft patches for him to pet and flaps for him to open.  This was from last month, but it is still very true this month.  He now brings every book in sight to us.  He listens to the first page or two, and then grabs another book for us to read.
-Gray got a shape sorter for his birthday that is shaped like a toolkit.  He grabs it and brings it to us to play as well.  He likes to sit and either watch me or help me put the shape in the correct hole.  Then, I tell him to shove it in the rest of the way and he loves that part.  He is always so proud of himself when it drops in.
-He likes to pull things out of baskets, bags, my purse, ANYTHING.
-Grayson did his first "more" sign this month.  He does it so much now - it is the cutest thing!
-Grayson started waving bye-bye - FINALLY!  I thought he would never figure it out ;)
-We started a new nighttime routine with him this month.  I was very nervous to take the final bottle away and nix the 5-10 minutes of drinking in the dark to calm him down before bed, but it has gone pretty well.  We give him a sippy cup with milk and read some stories and then we brush his teeth.  Next it is lights out and I sing to him either on the rocker or while he is in his crib.  Then I pat his back until he is asleep - this has taken up to an hour one night - but it is something that we needed to do.
-Grayson blabbers constantly and uses his hands to talk.  SO.DARN.CUTE. (no actual words yet)
-I started introducing a fork to Grayson for the foods that he uses his hands for.  I put it in his hand and then help him spear the food.  He has the coordination to get the fork to his mouth, but the spearing still gives him trouble.  He really likes that he uses a fork though.  He also tries to grab the spoon when we're feeding him his yogurt or purees.
-Grayson has had a few fits when told 'no' this month or when we take things away.
-Grayson had a double ear infection this month and then had an allergic reaction to the medicine that he was prescribed.
-Lots of travel this month - BU Homecoming in Waco and Wurstfest in New Braunfels. 

Pictures

I think I'm back!  I am trying to figure out how to post pictures to the blog from a different site because I have used up all of my free space with blogger.  So!  Here is a photo dump from our life the last few weeks.

Indulging Mommy

Playing with some Christmas lights

Investigating the red tree

Cheese Puff Monster

Hanging out at the mall

Self Portrait in front of the mall Santa's tree

First sights of our Christmas tree at home

He was/is very interested in the balls

We didn't put any breakable ornaments on the bottom

He tries to put the balls back on...but he just places them on the limbs...and the usually roll right off

Thanksgiving Videos

I can't upload pictures right now - so I will upload some video that we took on Thanksgiving Day.  In the first one, P is feeding Grayson sweet potato souffle, and Grayson thought it was DELICIOUS.

Grayson and Taj played with a ball with Grandaddy, too!  Grayson was acting even funnier before this video (same as the first one posted.  I hate that, but it just seems to be my luck!), but they are still cute interactions between the two boys.

Wurstfest 2012

We went to Austin last weekend to see some family and attend the New Braunfels Wurstfest on Saturday.  This was Grayson's first trip out of Houston last year, but it was much more fun with him this year!  It is a German festival on the river with lots of polka, beer, wurst, and fun.  My dad used to go to Wurstfest when he was in college, and it is his happy place for sure.
We got out of Houston pretty late on Friday and although Grayson fell asleep on the way, he only slept for the first two hours of the drive.  He probably would have slept for more of the trip, but the car started making a weird noise, so we pulled over to check it out (turned out to be part of the car getting loose in the wheel well) and Grayson woke up.  He was pretty good on the rest of the trip, although he was kinda fussy here and there.  Once we got to our family's house, Grayson started performing and was up until close to 11!  I think everyone was surprised at how long he lasted.
We got to New Braunfels around noon on Saturday, and after purchasing drink tickets and beer, we headed to the music hall for some lunch and music.  We were pretty sure that our little dancer would LOVE the live music!  My parents took Gray out on the dance floor a few times, one time including the chicken dance.  Grayson loved it.  At one point he even walked me out on the dance floor hoping for some music while the band was taking a break. 

mmm...5 sausages on a stick!

 

 It was pretty warm in the hall, so we decided to take Grayson to the fair rides.  He and I rode the carousel and then he rode a crazier ride with P and 'cousin' Jacob. 

We went down to the river for a little bit to cool off after his rides.

silly boy

Apparently 12 year olds can fit ;)

We had such a great time, and were all so exhausted that it was an early bedtime for everyone that night.  Sunday we had a delicious breakfast casserole and then packed up the car.  I drove back so that P could work on a presentation and Grayson slept until we were exiting Kirby! 
Whew!  November has been full of traveling, and we're not quite done since Thanksgiving is coming up.  It has been very nice to be home this weekend though.  And...since I've been working on this during the Baylor game...I just have to say SIC'EM BEARS!!!!  We just beat the #1 team! 

Homecoming

A few weeks ago, we took Grayson to Waco for his first Baylor Homecoming.  We met up with some of our besties (my college roomie, her hubby and their cutie baby) once we got to our hotel.  We decided that we'd try to keep the kids up and take them to the bonfire Friday night.  I completely forgot our camera, so Steph and Brian took some pictures of us.

A stupid mosquito got Gray square in the middle of his forehead the night before

Enjoying the jams from the live band in the background

The next morning we ate breakfast at the hotel and then headed to campus for the homecoming parade.  When we got there, one of the floats had some sort of malfunction and had stopped up the parade for a while.  We took the opportunity to get some more pictures of the kiddos in their Baylor gear.

 We had some lunch near campus and then drove around in the car for about 45 minutes hoping that the kids would take a nap.  We got two naps out of the deal, so that was a great success! 

Baylor babies can't keep their eyes off of each other ;)

I was worried about taking Grayson to the game because I wasn't sure that he would cooperate during the game.  Our seats ended up being on the top row, which would normally suck, but actually provided a 'seat back' for the kids to lean on.  Right before the halftime show, P took Grayson down to the concessions area and I stayed behind.  The band did a great show, and then they announced that there was a severe weather delay.  As I was going to head down to everyone else, they announced that a storm with potential hail and heavy rains was headed our way.  We hated to leave the game, but we knew we couldn't keep the kids in those elements (and I wasn't too keen on sitting through it either!).

Sic'em!

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