What happens when Daddy dresses me.....

One day when Paul was dressing Grady he didn't realize it was a onesie top so he put the jeans on first. He didn't want to go to the work of taking them off so he just buttoned the onesie on over top of the jeans. Grady didn't seem to mind!

Such a big boy!

As I have said before, Gradyn loves to be up standing, walking around, jumping, bouncing, any sort of movement. He pretty much never ever sits still. Which is starting to become more and more of a problem during church......but we keep him occupied with lots of puffs! He is now walking along all the furniture with 1 hand, standing by himself at times, and getting braver and braver trying to walk on his own. The good thing is that he is a pretty big chicken and scared of falling, which will be good when he is walking soon!
Here are some pictures of him standing, walking, etc. which is pretty much the only way you can take pictures of him these days!

Trick-or-Treat!

Here are some pictures of Gradyn on Halloween all dressed up as a penguin to go Trick-or-Treating, which consisted of being pushed around in the stroller while he followed his cousin Isaac around to some houses. :) His cousin Luke was also dressed up as a penguin, so we had 2 very cute little penguin twins and the Dragon Isaac!

Gradyn's First Snow!

We had about 14 inches of snow on Friday in North Platte. It had already snowed about 17 inches a month ago, so that is a grand total of about 30 inches for the month!
We were not in town for the first one, so this is the first time Gradyn has really seen snow or was around for it. It was a very heavy, wet snow with lots of drifts. I had to scoop part of our HUGE driveway for our family to have a place to park when they arrived and it was NOT fun. I am still sore 3 days later......
Anyway, here are some pictures of the snow and Gradyn sitting in the garage watching while I scooped! He didn't think it was very much fun either!

Videos Galore!

Here are the videos! The first one is of Grady and Dominic in the bath together! It was so funny how they would both laugh! Dominic would splash Grady and he loved it and thought it was so funny! The second one is of Grady with his new toy! He loves to walk behind it and push it all over the house!

This is just another video of Grady walking with his toy!

Happy Halloween!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

We are looking forward to the Halloween weekend! My sister, Ashley, is coming tonight to NP and some of Paul's family is coming tomorrow morning! So, we should have a house full of Husker fans and Trick-or-Treater's! It will be a fun time!

Check back for Halloween pictures! Our little penguin is looking to score lots of candy for his mom and dad! Also, I hope to get a few videos posted this afternoon!

Update on Gradyn:

He is now Crawling, Pulling himself up to stand, and has taken a few wobbly steps! He has really gotten mobile within this past week! I thought he would be so much happier when he could crawl and get where he wants to go, but NO, he is not happy unless he is standing or walking. He will crawl up to my legs and then pull himself up to standing against them and wants up. He has also been pulling himself up onto all of the furniture and wants up with us, or will just stand there and bounce because he is so happy! The only problem is that he doesn't have good enough balance yet to move around objects he is standing on, although the past 2 days he has been much better, so he will fall over if he moves around too much.

He is forever on the move as fast as he can go! We're getting scared for when he can run! Which, shouldn't be too much longer, apparently!

He had his 9 month well baby check-up yesterday and here are the stats on that:

Weight: 18 lbs. 5 oz. - 15th percentile

Height: 27 in. - 10th percentile

Head: 75th percentile - can't remember the exact measurement

So, he is still small for his age, but apparently has kind of a big head! Which, I'm sure means he has a big brain! :)

Everything else at his appointment went well. He is meeting or exceeding all of the other milestones. His hemoglobin level was a little bit low, which means he is low in iron, but since he is still on formula we don't need to do anything about it right now. The Dr. said when he is 1 and on cow's milk we will probably need a vitamin supplement if it is still low.

He is still seeing the Physical Therapist twice a month and she thinks everything looks good with him too. She hasn't seem him crawl, pull himself up or any of that stuff yet, so she will have a lot to watch him do this week when she comes!

Everything else with Gradyn is good! He is so much fun! So far we would say his personality is: dramatic, funny, and busy! He is usually always happy, smiley, and going crazy! :)

A Weekend With Dominic!

Last weekend Luke and Becky went to a wedding in Indiana and took the twins with them. We got to watch Dominic for the weekend! It was a ton of fun! Paul actually spent most of the time with both of the boys because I had parent-teacher conferences that week and a conference in Omaha. He was excited to get lots of boy bonding time in. Dominic did really well with us and seemed to have fun.
I was worried he would get bored with our house since we don't have many 2-year-old things and since he wasn't around his usual things, but we found things to stay busy with. We went out to eat a couple times, went to the doctor's office for my allergy shots and Grady's flu shot, went to Menards's, watch the Husker football game, went to church, played bowling on the Wii, watched lots of Hi-5 (his favorite show), went on 2 walks, went to the park, and played around the house!
We all missed him this week, and especially Grady because he got a little bit used to having somebody down on the floor playing with him and also having somebody to watch run around. He expected his mom and dad to do that for him this week! :)

This has been a fun week for Grady because his daycare was closed almost the whole week so he got to stay home with Mom and Dad! Well, mostly Dad since I was in Omaha for the conference at the beginning of the week and had to be back in school the other days. I did take a half day off on Wednesday to stay with him. And, I am lucky enough to get to be home with him today because we had a Snow Day! About 16 inches of snow I guess! I can't get out of the driveway so we are having lots of bonding time today!

Here are some pictures of our fun weekend with Dominic: