We have so much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving, especially 1 adorable little boy and 1 little girl on the way! We were very busy this Thanksgiving but got to see lots of family. We started out in Hebron on Wednesday night with dinner with Dan. Ashley and I then baked some dessert to take to Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday. We stayed in Hebron on Wed. night and then headed to Fairbury on Thursday morning to my Gma Marlene's for Thanksgiving with the Houtwed's. Almost everyone could make it so it was great to see everyone! We were especially excited to see my cousin Kristen's new baby girl Andi, who is already 4 months old but this is the first time we have seen her in person! She is adorable!
After an afternoon of visiting/napping for some we headed to Lincoln for a Thanksgiving supper with some of the Luehring's at my Aunt Lori & Uncle Scott's. We had more great turkey and the trimmings! Ashley and I took Paul and Grady to Cassie's (our sister-in-law) family Thanksgiving later that night so that they could ride back to Paul's family and Ashley and I stayed in Lincoln to do some black Friday shopping!
We started our shopping on Thursday night at 10:00 at Toys R Us. I'm not sure if we will do that again but it was a good experience for one time! We got what we wanted so I guess that is the main thing! We then went back to sleep and didn't get up early for the early morning black friday sales. We went to the mall around 9:00 instead and got lots of great deals there! Most of our Christmas shopping is done!
When we were done with our shopping we headed to Pender for the rest of the weekend. We made it for most of the 2nd half of the football game and Paul's family had a lot of people over to watch it and then more family came for a Thanksgiving supper for the Guenther side of the family that night. We ate MORE turkey and trimmings! And then we played cards/games/watched more football and hung out!
Saturday was spend hanging out and then Isaac's 3rd birthday party was Saturday night! Fun! Sunday we went to church and then out to breakfast before heading back. Very busy, but saw lots of family and got to do lots of fun things!
The bad part of the weekend is that Grady was sick for the 2nd time in his life! YUCK! Ironically both times have been at Paul's parents. Last Christmas was the only time he was sick before this and now Thanksgiving! Hopefully that means that this Christmas he will be fine!! Paul ended up taking him to the Dr. in West Point on Friday morning after his fever hadn't broken for over 24 hours and he woke up a lot worse. He had a throat infection and cold in his eyes, plus lots of congestion and nose problems. He got an antibiotic and looked MUCH better by Saturday morning. He still couldn't break the fever though until Sunday morning. So, not much sleep was had by Gradyn for about 4 days b/c he just couldn't get comfortable and breath! I felt so bad for him! He looked TERRIBLE too! It's too bad that when all of the family gets to see him he looks so bad all the time! He ends up being sick for holidays! Like I said, yuck! We are hoping for a very healthy Christmas because it will be lots of traveling around to see more family!
I hope to get some pics posted soon! I haven't been happy with the way blogspot is letting me post pics, hence the lack of them lately. We didn't take that many pics over Thanksgiving since Grady wasn't feeling good and looking so bad, but we do have a few, especially of the 3 boys and Grady and Andi! I will also try to post some from other things we have done lately.
11.29.2010
11.22.2010
More Gradynisms...
Gradyn has been talking up a storm lately. Even over this past weekend it seems like he has progressed so much more, which maybe is because we were home all weekend with him alone and did nothing so he had a lot of time to absorb a lot of smartness from his mommy and daddy! haha! :)
He is talking nonstop and sometimes too much where we have to tell him to settle down and stop yelling so loud! We were in Herberger's the other day and he had to yell out our play-by-play as we did it. "Go try things on!" "Go pay!" "Go outside!" "Coat on!"
His new thing is to tell us what we/he is doing all the time. We pulled up to church last night and when Paul was getting him out of his seat he says "Daddy at church" over and over. He always wants us to know what we are doing! He also always wants us to have our own posessions. He has to bring me "mommy's" purse, remote, shoes, coat, water bottle, etc. whenever he sees me without it. He does the same to Paul. And, everytime he hands us something he says "Thank You" as he gives it to us. He loves to remind us to be polite! When he brings us his own things he just tells us what it is and then puts it back where it goes. He is VERY in to what possession belongs to what person!
Speaking of "putting things back where they go" he is definately picking up on his mommy's OCD problem. (Which I don't have when I'm pregnant because I usually don't feel well enough to care so maybe his daddy has a little OCD too????) He has to have all of his things where they go and in order. The other day I took off his shoes and threw them over to the "shoe area" and he said, "No Mommy!" and marched right over, picked them up, and put them in the correct spot right next to each other (about 6 inches away from where they were). A little part of my heart was warmed by this, but another part was annoyed that where I put them weren't good enough! ha!
He is such a funny little boy with a VERY strong personality! We are really hoping this next little baby is more mild mannered...... And, that Gradyn doesn't corrupt her with his crazy ways....
YES! You may have noticed that I said HER! We found out last week that we are expecting a little girl in April! We are very excited to have 1 of each! Paul is weirded out by the thought of G having a sister. He doesn't understand how a boy could have a sister???? But, he has said that he thinks G will be very good with the ladies when he is older! Hopefully that means a very nice gentleman.... :)
Gradyn is SO SWEET with his little sister already! Every day, at least once a day, he comes up to my belly and says "Hi Sister" and lifts my shirt up. We then go through the routine of giving sister a Kiss, then an Eskimo kiss, then a Fox kiss, then a Hug. Then he says "bye sister" and pulls my shirt down and says "all done!". It is beyond adorable!
One last funny little story! Grady has been very obsessed with his poopy lately. (I actually just ordered him a potty chair yesterday so we can start getting used to that idea.) He has always been obsessed with watching Paul go potty and especially our nephew Isaac. In fact Isaac knows he loves it so before he goes to the bathroom he calls Grady to come watch. "Grady come watch me go potty!" And Grady runs in and watches. Now he will always tell us when we are going potty, "mommy potty" or if he thinks we are going "poopy" he will tell us and hand us toilet paper. haha! :) Anyway, these last couple of weeks he has been more obsessed with his OWN poopy. (Still has no clue about his own potty.) Every time he poops (which is a lot) he comes and stands in front of us and tells us and grabs his bottom as he goes. It is never in time where we could rush him to the toilet, but he wants us to know righ away. And, he has been doing that with his farts too. He then says "wipes" and goes to find the wipes and then "diaper" and runs to find a diaper to bring to us so we can change him. He has also gotten in a bad habit of putting his hands down his diaper to take it off himself and wants to change himself.....which we are really trying to stop!
ANYWAY, this weekend Paul farted (pretty loudly) and then Grady yelled, "Daddy's Poopy!". It was hilarious! He had no idea why we were laughing so hard and I think we actually scared him a little....
He is talking nonstop and sometimes too much where we have to tell him to settle down and stop yelling so loud! We were in Herberger's the other day and he had to yell out our play-by-play as we did it. "Go try things on!" "Go pay!" "Go outside!" "Coat on!"
His new thing is to tell us what we/he is doing all the time. We pulled up to church last night and when Paul was getting him out of his seat he says "Daddy at church" over and over. He always wants us to know what we are doing! He also always wants us to have our own posessions. He has to bring me "mommy's" purse, remote, shoes, coat, water bottle, etc. whenever he sees me without it. He does the same to Paul. And, everytime he hands us something he says "Thank You" as he gives it to us. He loves to remind us to be polite! When he brings us his own things he just tells us what it is and then puts it back where it goes. He is VERY in to what possession belongs to what person!
Speaking of "putting things back where they go" he is definately picking up on his mommy's OCD problem. (Which I don't have when I'm pregnant because I usually don't feel well enough to care so maybe his daddy has a little OCD too????) He has to have all of his things where they go and in order. The other day I took off his shoes and threw them over to the "shoe area" and he said, "No Mommy!" and marched right over, picked them up, and put them in the correct spot right next to each other (about 6 inches away from where they were). A little part of my heart was warmed by this, but another part was annoyed that where I put them weren't good enough! ha!
He is such a funny little boy with a VERY strong personality! We are really hoping this next little baby is more mild mannered...... And, that Gradyn doesn't corrupt her with his crazy ways....
YES! You may have noticed that I said HER! We found out last week that we are expecting a little girl in April! We are very excited to have 1 of each! Paul is weirded out by the thought of G having a sister. He doesn't understand how a boy could have a sister???? But, he has said that he thinks G will be very good with the ladies when he is older! Hopefully that means a very nice gentleman.... :)
Gradyn is SO SWEET with his little sister already! Every day, at least once a day, he comes up to my belly and says "Hi Sister" and lifts my shirt up. We then go through the routine of giving sister a Kiss, then an Eskimo kiss, then a Fox kiss, then a Hug. Then he says "bye sister" and pulls my shirt down and says "all done!". It is beyond adorable!
One last funny little story! Grady has been very obsessed with his poopy lately. (I actually just ordered him a potty chair yesterday so we can start getting used to that idea.) He has always been obsessed with watching Paul go potty and especially our nephew Isaac. In fact Isaac knows he loves it so before he goes to the bathroom he calls Grady to come watch. "Grady come watch me go potty!" And Grady runs in and watches. Now he will always tell us when we are going potty, "mommy potty" or if he thinks we are going "poopy" he will tell us and hand us toilet paper. haha! :) Anyway, these last couple of weeks he has been more obsessed with his OWN poopy. (Still has no clue about his own potty.) Every time he poops (which is a lot) he comes and stands in front of us and tells us and grabs his bottom as he goes. It is never in time where we could rush him to the toilet, but he wants us to know righ away. And, he has been doing that with his farts too. He then says "wipes" and goes to find the wipes and then "diaper" and runs to find a diaper to bring to us so we can change him. He has also gotten in a bad habit of putting his hands down his diaper to take it off himself and wants to change himself.....which we are really trying to stop!
ANYWAY, this weekend Paul farted (pretty loudly) and then Grady yelled, "Daddy's Poopy!". It was hilarious! He had no idea why we were laughing so hard and I think we actually scared him a little....
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