Mommy and Me

Grayson and I have been on our own a bit with Marc's new opening. The last three weeks have been exciting and exhausting all in one. Marc is such a huge help with everything that with him working so much lately, it has been tough on us both but that is about to slow down as his employees develop. Grayson and I have been busy going to the zoo, parks, visiting Grandpa and Grandma, playing in the water, walking Macie and just having lots of fun! When Grayson and I went to the zoo the last time, he was really into the goats and they were into him. When we walked into the petting area, three came running over to him. I thought maybe he was the 'Goat Whisperer'.

We spent Memorial Day with Grandpa and Grandma. Grayson just loves going over to their house. Grandpa taught Grayson ladder golf. He loved playing the game and did pretty good for a two year old. We also celebrated Marc's birthday. Grayson helped open all the presents and blow out the candles. We always try to make Daddy's birthday a special one! :) Marc finally has gotten some days off. Grayson was having Daddy withdrawal so him and Marc spent the day together. They went to The Children's Museum together while I went to lunch and got a pedicure with my mother. It was a special treat!

Grayson got all dressed in his swim gear and we headed out for some fun in the sprinkler. We have an attachment that is a round tube the shoots water out in a circle. It is a lot of fun. Grayson and I both enjoyed running through it. Grayson has been playing lots of play dough as usual. The other day, he got out his hammer and saw to work on the play dough.

He is such a little singer! It is so cute to hear him sing songs while we are in the car. He hears a song once and knows how it goes. My mom said I was just like that when I was his age! Grayson is into Kenny Chesney and Brad Paisley at the moment. We have also been making our weekly trips to the library. They have a reading program for the summer. When we read books to him, we fill out his card and once he's read 10 books he gets a prize. We read so much, it took us one day to fill it up.

Grayson is also really into Spider Man as you all know. He woke up form his nap today and was singing, 'Spectacular Spider Man'. It's the song from the new cartoon. I was listening to him just laughing. Grayson got a power Jeep a couple of weeks ago. He does pretty good driving it. He had to warm up to it at first. He began by just sitting it the passenger seat, then moved on to the driver's seat and now actually drives it with a little help from us with steering. That in a nut shell is what has been going on in our lives.

Celebrating Mommy!!!

Mother's Day was a wonderful celebration! On Friday, Grayson gave me one of his presents that he had made. He painted a flower pot with cut out flowers that had a picture of himself on the flower! It melted my heart. He also made me a picture with his hand print and a poem. The hand print represented him and the heart on the hand was me. He is just so precious to me! On Thursday, Grayson and Marc treated me to dinner at my favorite place... Texas Road House!!! Yummy!!

On Sunday, Marc had to work for a bit so Grayson and I headed to the Children's Museum for a little Mommy and Grayson one on one for Mother's Day. When Marc got home, we headed over to my Mother's house to celebrate with my family and have dinner and cake. Grayson always loves going to his Grandparents house. There is always something new there for him! and not to mention, he is the center of attention!

Grayson made me laugh so hard today. He was pretending to be the trash man. He took several baskets and lined them up and told me, "Take out trash, trash man!" As he filled them up and dumped them over he kept announcing he was the trash man. He is fascinated when the trash truck comes every Monday. When he hears it, he runs to the window or around the corner if we are outside and waits anxiously waits for the trash man to return the garbage can so he can help me put them back in the garage. That's my little helper!

Grayson's new favorite song is 'Beautiful Boy'. He makes me play it over and over. I told him it was his song, just for him and he loves it. He likes the Beetles version and Celine Dion's too. Grayson is my music man. At breakfast we always listen to music (of his choice of course).

Wonderful news for my family. My Aunt Nan has been waiting for a liver transplant and today they called! She is having the procedure this evening. Please pray for her. It is a very long process even after the surgery. God is Great!!

Making Poo on Potty!!! Yea!!

We have a huge announcement to make... Grayson made poo on his potty!!! Now only those of you with toddlers can truly appreciate the excitement of making poo. It was a huge to do in our house. Grayson decided on Saturday evening he was going to start wearing his Pull Ups. Sunday evening we were taking a bath and he said, "Get on Potty!" I took him out and he said, "Poopy on Potty." I thought to myself, sure he is pretending to poop. He wanted me to read him his 'Potty Time with Bear' book while he sat on it. Not only did he poop but he peed too! We sang a huge song and called everyone to let them know! He told Grandpa and Grandma, Aunt Sarah and Uncle Mike, Palmer, Holly, Sherry, anyone he talked to. Monday we went and got a special prize from Target. Grayson wanted a 'Spectacular Spider Man' figure! We are so proud of him! We are just jazzed that he is wearing his Pull Ups!

Grayson has been up to his usual business. On Earth Day he helped Daddy plant another tree in our yard. We try to plant one each year. It's a fun tradition of ours. He also helped me plant lots of flowers. He looked so cute in his little gloves shoveling dirt. This past Saturday we went to The Children's Museum for the opening of the Super Heroes exhibit. On the first Saturday of each month members can come an hour early. We stayed for the appearance of Spider Man! Grayson was so excited to see Spidy! He also met the Ninja Turtles. He liked them also. I think Marc had as much fun as Grayson. Marc loves all that stuff (comic book heroes).

Grayson has made his rounds at the Zoo also. The weather has been great for that. He loves the Hippos. He has a few books about Hippos also. He also loves petting the sharks. What is a visit to the Zoo without stopping at the play ground! We have been really enjoying playing outside again. He asks every day, "Play Outside!" We have been spending a lot of time at the library too! He loves the fish and playing blocks! We went to Forrest Park the other day and met Palmer and Lily. Grayson and I had a picnic lunch before they arrived. We met with Jack last week at McDonald's to play. Aunt Sarah has a really neat play ground at her house too that Grayson loves. We just play a lot and enjoy every minute of being young! Happy Mother's Day to everyone! I am looking forward to Sunday with my favorite boys!!

Scooby Doo! Where are you!

Grayson has been keeping busy as usual. Last week was Palmer's 4th birthday party and they also moved over the weekend. Very sad to see them go but I know we will all stay close. Grayson hasn't walked down to their former house yet looking for Palmer and Lily. Palmer's party was all about Scooby Doo!! Yea! Grayson has also made a few stops to the Children's Museum. Grandma went with us this last time. Grandma bought Grayson a new Curious George book in the gift shop that is really neat. Grayson loves that monkey!

Grayson has also made trips to the library, that is always a fun free treat! He loves looking at the aquarium there and playing with the Lego table and counting steps as we walk up and down. He is getting really good with counting and ABC's. Daddy has been teaching him to count in Spanish. Grayson and Daddy flew their Spider Man kite the other day. I think Marc enjoyed it as much if not more than Grayson. Playing outside again had been so nice. Grayson now has a really nice swing set to play on thanks to Palmer and Lily. We are keeping it for the season. It is the one we want to buy so that works out great. We get to try it before we buy it. :) We already new we liked it from playing down at Palmer's.

We made a trip to the zoo yesterday. It was perfect! The weather could not have been any better. We began our adventure by petting the sharks. Grayson just loves that. We went by the petting farm and then to the desert. We observed the pretty flowers in bloom and fed the birds. We will be making many more trips with our pass this year. We will frequent it as much as we do the museum, until it gets really hot. But, they are adding a splash pad to the zoo. Fun! :) Grayson is at Mother's Day Out right now so I thought I would play a little catch up on blogging. Macie (our dog) got a walk all to herself today. It was a treat. Grayson is usually with us and these days, setting in the stroller to walk has not been a favorite. He is really good with walking and holding my hand, so I pretty much just let him walk where ever we go and bring the stroller or wagon (which he insists upon pulling) as back up in case he wants to rest.

Marc is getting ready to open up his Qdoba so things will get a little crazy around here for about a month or so. He will be working really hard getting that off and going. He will be at the new mall out here. Enjoy this weather and don't forget your sun screen! :)

The Easter Bunny Rock!

Wow! The month of March has come and gone. We celebrated Grandma's birthday. Grayson was all to excited to blow out the candles and open her cards and presents! We have actually been playing outside again here and there. All the gang is out and about again, romping around! :) Grayson has been enjoying his normal play dates. We went to 'That Fun Place' in Greenfield for pizza and games. It was busy for once with some of the schools already out for break.

Grayson also made a trip to the Children's Museum. The staircase was a slide again...Vacation Nation' they called it. Grayson got some sun glasses too! He loves Curious George as you can see. We had to make our normal stop at Play Scape! It was nice to be able to go again without worrying if Grayson would catch something from some other kid who was sick. We are finally over all of that! At least we have only had colds on a positive note accompanied with an ear infection.

Grayson loved Easter even more this year! He had so much fun coloring eggs. He wanted to do it all by himself. On Easter morning, Grayson was excited to go downstairs and see what the bunny had brought him. Finding hidden Easter eggs was even more fun. The Easter Bunny even made a trip to Grandpa and Grandma's with a special basket!

Well, we have a musician in the family. Grayson! and is he a natural. My parents have a drum set at their house that is made for toddlers. The last time we visited, Grandpa brought it up form the basement. Grayson hopped on there and played like he had been doing it for years. He even knew how to work the kick drum. He played a round and then stood up and bowed. How he knew that, I will never now but it was about the cutest thing I have ever seen. He was so proud of his concert performance, he even came back for the encore! He is our August Rush.

Grayson also got another hair cut. He does so well I am proud to say and thankful! We actually had them use the clippers not just around the neck and ears but all over (except the top). He looks like such a big boy even more so! Well, that is about it for now! Off to play and catch up on Arthur.

Super Friends

Grayson went to play date this past Wednesday at Palmer and Lily's. The boys had fun dressing up as Spider Man. Grayson even wanted to dress up too just like Kameron and Palmer. They were shooting webs at one another and creeping along the floor like Spider Man does and can't forget the wrestling. It was so cute to watch Grayson imitating them. He wanted to be 'one of the boys'. We had lunch at Lily and Palmer's and Kameron and his mom (Angie) brought cup cakes. That is always a huge hit with all of them! Especially Grayson!!



Grayson went and saw the Easter Bunny last week after we got new shoes. I had not planned on taking him. I thougtht we could just look at him but to my surprise he went right over to him, held his hand, gave him knuckles (while checking him out) and hopped right on his lap. I couldn't believe it! So needless to say, we got a picture and it turned out great! Yea!!!:) I was so proud of him! Afterwards, we headed down to get a pretzels, Grayson's favorite! He kept telling me while we were getting his shoes, "Get Pretzel Mommy!".

Jump! Jump! Jump Around!

Grayson is our little jumper these days. He was showing everyone at Grandpa and Grandma's how to jump, even Aunt Sarah. Spring is almost here. (yea!) It was nice to play outside a few weeks ago when it got really warm. Grayson ran all over the place! He had to make his usual stop at Palmer's. Hopefully soon, playing outside can be part of our daily routine again. We are all doing better but still on the way to recovery. It has been a long season. Grayson is still getting over his ear infection and sinusitis. We had to visit the doctor yesterday for a follow up. I am still recovering from surgery. It has been a long process. I am still going through lots of testing and am looking forward to it ALL being resolved. Marc's job is going well. He has gotten a few bugs this season too and he never gets sick.

Grayson went to Holly's last Wednesday for her birthday party. All of the kids had fun seeing one another. Soon it will be Palmer's birthday. Him and Holly both turn 4 this year, so hard to believe.

Grayson's school is going well. He had pictures taken last Friday. I can't wait to see them. They even did a class photo. (how cute!) Grayson got another hair cut the other day and did good. He wasn't sure at first but then insisted upon getting a hair cut. He has become our repeater word for word and Mr. Talk A Lot. His teacher's made a comment on how much he repeats and talks. We will just keep jumping, playing play dough, making fun messes,, doing crafts and wait for spring to arrive. As you can see, Daddy and Grayson are very creative with play dough. They made 'Super Grover'.