Christmas 2010

We had a wonderful Christmas. : )

This year Brady and I hosted Christmas Eve. My mom, dad, grandma, grandma, uncle Kyle, uncle David, Ryan, Heather, Jeff and Sydnee all joined us. It was a really nice night. Christmas morning we went to Brady's parents and in the afternoon we went to my parents.

Grayson seemed to have a fun first Christmas, he did really well throughout all the festivities. He actually ripped some wrapping paper off a couple gifts. However, he was really more interested in playing with all the wrapping and tissue paper. Go figure.

I will post a few pictures from Christmas, there are so many so I will try not to go to crazy. Haha, at least I know I got pictures of his first Christmas.

Grayson has actually had a couple BIG milestones in the past month.
He is now moving. Not completely crawling but darn close. I know now he can get to where he wants, some way or any other he gets there. He can go into crawling position now and will either end up on his belly OR go back to sitting. He mainly scoots around and can go backwards. He's getting there, soon enough he will be fully on the move.
Grayson cut his FIRST tooth. All sorts of firsts these past couple of weeks...first Christmas and first tooth.
You can't see all of the tooth yet. I can see the top of it but it is not all the way through. Once it is, trust me I will have a picture for you. : )

Grayson ended us back at the doctor again last week. We spent the entire Sunday night, after Christmas, up crying and with a fever. My child likes to pick the Holiday's to get sick. Anyway, I brought him to the doctor on Monday. Yup, another ear infection. Fourth one in 6 weeks, let me just say one way to many.
So we are on our fourth antibiotic. We are going to try this one and check him again about a week after the antibiotic is gone. That will put us about 2 days before we leave for Florida, so hopefully he wont' be sick for our trip. If things are not cleared up at that time than we will be talking tubes.
I am hopeful we won't have to do tubes. I have heard cutting teeth can have a lot to do with kids getting ear infections so here's to hoping that's the case with Grayson.

9 month & First Haircut!

Grayson turned 9 months a little over a week ago. I took him to the doctor this past Wednesday for the well check. He was 22lb, which puts him between the 50% & 75% weight on the growth charts. He was 30 inches tall, that puts in a little above the 95% for height. He is tall, I just hope he keeps that height. Grayson is otherwise growing just fine, everything is healthy and good : ) Doctor checked his ears to see how the ear infection from the previous week looked...he indicated they looked great!

I will post a few pictures from Grayson's first haircut!! I went to get my hair done and the we all agreed that he needed a little trim around the ears and back. He did so good!! : ) It kinda made me sad, yes I know I am a sap but oh man he is getting so big.

Just a little update..We had a wonderful and yet memorable first Thanksgiving together with Grayson. We went to Brady's mom and dad first than over to my grandparents house in the evening. When we left my grandma's Grayson's cheeks seemed very rosy but I just figured it was warm in there, he had a long day and was spent. After getting home around 830ish I gave Grayson a bath and pretty much fed him his last bottle and he went to bed. However, he did not go to bed as good as he usually does, he fought me a little. After finally falling asleep, I kinda thought he was acting a little off. Yup, about 20 minutes later he woke up screaming. The same scream he had 2 1/2 weeks ago when he had the ear infection. I just knew, he we were in it again, my poor little man was in a lot of pain. You can just tell it hurts so bad. I just couldn't put him through another night of pain. So...we drove to Red Wing and went into Urgent Care. Yup..just as I had thought, DOUBLE ear infection!!! Ahh..man. Soo thank goodness we went in they were able to get him started on the antibiotic right away and also provided us with some ear drops that help with the pain (they numbed his ear) So, one thing is for sure we will never forget our little mans first Thanksgiving, because we spent 3 hours of it in the ER.
He is slowly getting better, it has been a pretty quiet weekend around here. A lot of sleeping and resting.

We did go get our tree yesterday, Grayson seemed to be pretty intrigued with what was going on.

Halloween and First Snow Fall

Grayson's first Halloween was a success. He seemed to enjoy it as much as an 8 month old could. He dressed as an elephant and did not seem to mind being in the costume. We did the parade in Cannon Falls on the Friday before; Grayson just hung out in his stroller and enjoyed watching all the kids in costumes run around.

Today we had our first snow fall. Boy did we get some snow. I have to say I do love the fist few snow falls, but after that I am usually ready for it to be spring. : ) We decided to go to Perkins this morning for breakfast but before we went we had to get Grayson all bundled up in some snow gear and take a couple picture of him in his first snow fall. OHH, all the firsts. However, I believe the last snow falls was Feb 23 and that was the day we brought him home from the hospital so I guess this isn't technically his first snow fall. Anyway, here are some picture of Halloween and him in the snow today ! He has his nine month check up on the 23rd, so I will have to post his growth.

Ohh, I guess we had another, not so fun, first this past week. Grayson had his first ear infection..ohh my goodness was that not fun for mom, dad and Grayson : ( He cried for 7 hours Monday night, it was the most horrible night of my life. I felt so bad for him. He is on amoxicillin and doing much much better.

Grayson John

Here are just some random pictures we have taken lately of Grayson. Nothing to much new to report. We still have NO teeth..lol. I was told from a lady at work that her son did not get his first tooth till he was 16 months!! Can you believe that...even being in the dental field that amazed me. Well I guess there is still hope for my little guy. As well as no teeth we are still not crawling yet. I thought for sure by now he would have been. If he were me he would be just about walking, I believe I was walking around 10 months. However, his father did not walk until he was 14 months, I have a feeling he might be taking after his dad. He is just very content sitting on the floor with his toys. He does not seem to feel the need to move yet. As a first time mom, I find myself always worrying that he is doing everything right and on time, but I have to remind myself that he will do it all on his own time. In the mean time we are having a blast as usually with him. He seems to get more of his own personality every day. He babbles constantly...maybe that's what he will gets from his mom : ) I have some more picture from the pumpkin patch that I need to get on here but they are on my old camera so I will have to do that. Stay tuned for those AND Halloween picture next week, his costume is adorable : )

Pumkin Patch & Apple Orchard

Brady, Grayson and I went to Apple Junction in Hastings on Sat. We had such a great time. : ) It was a hot day, which is something you don't normally say around pumpkin/apple picking time. This apple orchard was very nice, so many things for kids to do. We said we will definitely be bringing Grayson back when he is older and able to run around. There was play area, petting zoo, pumpkin patches, hayrides, apple picking and yummy apple food. We got three pumpkins, one for each of us and the next thing will be to carve them in a couple weeks : ) We also got some very very yummy juicy apples. The day was a success. Here are some pictures from our day.

Nanna Time

I just love these couple pictures. Had to share them with you : )
Mom...why do you have to leave me soon...we are going to miss you sooooo much! Please don't go : (

Pictures

I have been a on a bit of picture taking spree. I feel like it goes in waves. I have lots of newborn pictures then I kinda slacked. Now I am going crazy again. : ) I thought I would share some of the many many pics we have taken lately.
Hope you enjoy!






Grayson and his buddy Avery



What do you want mom?


Daddy and Grayson watching Football

July/August

I tried to post a couple weeks ago and it wouldn't let me download any pictures. It has been way to long since I have last posted anything. So here it goes..

Grayson turned 6 months on 8/19. I can't believe my little man is 6 months. Time has just flown by. I told Brady the other day to imagine the next 6 months to going as fast as the last 6 months he is going to be a year in no time. WOW...people were not kidding when they tell you they grow fast.

Grayson had his six month check this past Wednesday. He did great. Doctor said he is growing GREAT! He weighed 19.2lb and was 28 inches long. He fell between the 50% and 75%
for weight. Although, he went up in percentile for weight his length shot up. 29 inches falls a little over the 95%. The nurse said as she was measuring him, "holy cow he is long." I hope that stay with him as he grows because we all Brady and I are not tall at all. He did fine with his shots..cried for about a minute then after when I got to pick him up, of course, he flashed a HUGE smile. I swear this kid doesn't ever stop smiling. : )

Grayson is sitting very well. He very rarely falls over anymore, maybe when he gets to excited and can't seem to catch himself as he rocks back and forth. He has rolled over about a maybe 8-10 times. :) Just not to ambitious about rolling non-stop yet.

He has had a VERY busy summer. It seems like we have just gone none stop this summer. Lots of weddings, house warming parties, birthday parties, engagement parties and all sorts of stuff in between. Things are finally slowing down and we are looking forward to hopefully a semi-quiet fall.

I started school this past week. Very excited about getting back in and getting done. It will hopefully only take me 2 years. I am a little scared that I might be taking on to much; baby, husband, house, work and maybe still find a little time for myself. Ha ha. Brady is also taking a course at the U of M starting after Labor day weekend. He is excited too. I think this alone will keep us busy this fall/winter. We are hoping our weekends will be nice and quiet.

Here are some picture from the last part of our summer...Hope you enjoy!







He seriously fell ASLEEP while eating dinner one night...we found it sooo funny!

Grayson and his buddy Cooper

Auntie Mandi, Amelia and Grayson

Summer Fun!

I just thought I would post a few fun pictures of Grayson hanging out this summer. I take so many that I need to get them on here sooner so I don't have 50 to post all at once...haha. One thing we have discovered this summer is Grayson REALLY loves water. Whether he is taking a bath or sitting in a floaty at the pool or in the lake, he seems to be very happy. The water seems to fascinate him.

Grayson and I came up north this weekend to spend some very nice time with my mom and dad and we went in the lake today and yesterday. He just thought it was the greatest thing. He was laughing and smiling!! It was sooo cute and funny!













Over the fourth of July weekend we stay around Hastings and Cannon Falls. We took Grayson to the pool and man did think that was pretty cool. He just watched all the kids swimming and splashing around. We also went to the fair, the parade and got to catch some fireworks. We was sleeping when we got to where we were watching the parade and as the parade started they honked the BIG firetrucks horns and sounded the sirens. OHHHH myyyy...did we NOT like that. He just screamed and screamed. Scared him right out of his nice nap. However after I got him calmed down he sat on my lap and was amazed with all that was going on. He watched the ENTIRE parade. We had a very nice Fourth just hanging out with each other.