Little Fishy

Much to my Joy, Grady loves the pool!! We have taken him a few times this winter to the indoor pool at the Rec Center and he just loves it! We usually try the baby pool first where he can stand on his own and splash around like crazy. He isn't quite tall enough to be able to walk around on his own yet. He will walk from one of us to the wall, but that's about as far as he will go without falling in because the water is just still a little too deep for him to walk. Then we move on to the big pool where we lay him on a kickboard and walk along with him while he lays there and kicks. He also loves to sit on the kick board like he is surfing too. He squeals with delight and laughs a lot!

Playing with my HomeDogs....the Deaver Boys!

Gradyn loves going over to play with his best friends, The 3 Deaver Boys. And by "play" I mostly mean run around chasing Dominic, stealing toys from the twins, or climbing up the chairs and table. So far, the 3 little ones are still sort of oblivious to each other, except when 1 of them has a toy that the other one wants or is doing something that the other one wants to do, etc. Grady is pretty happy running back and forth around the house and enjoying the wood floors that are much easier to run on than our carpet is! Oh how much fun it will be for them all when they can play together and enjoy it! :)

Dominic decided to make a train with his chairs. Each boy had a spot on the train!

The 3 Deavers: Jackson, Dominic, Patrick

Grady checking out the Deaver action...

More "baby train"!!

Helping Daddy

We had some more snow this weekend and Grady loved being outside helping Daddy shovel the driveway. He ran around and experimented in the snow for a long time. He loved trying to climb up the big drifts and piles that Daddy was making! He was finally ready to go inside after he fell face first into the snow!

Helping Mommy

Gradyn loves to help me get ready every morning. I sit on the living room floor to put my make-up on and dry my hair and he usually wakes up right about the time I am ready to do this. His favorite thing to do is take everything out of my make-up bag and then carry it all over the house. My mascara went missing for a few days one time! And, he usually always puts 1 things in his mouth (the mascara or lip gloss) and then carries 2 or 3 other things around. I tried really hard to get a picture of him like this one day, but as soon as he saw the camera he dropped them all and wanted the camera. But, I did get him with the lip gloss in his mouth, as you will see below.
Also, his other new thing to do is put things in the trash can. He took my headband from the bathroom one day and when I went out to see what he was doing he was caught putting it in the trash can!! I did catch this one on camera!

Taking a break from "helping" mommy get ready!

The headband in the trash can incident....

"Helping" mommy shop!

Just playing with his toys


Lipstick mouth...

Our Future Basketball Star!

What we've been up to...

This is a little glimpse of what we've been up to lately. Gradyn has been walking/running up a storm and is so much happier now that he is mobile! His new favorite thing is to put things in the trash can. We have lost many things that we are pretty sure got put into the trash. We are currently looking into a new method of trash disposal.... :)

In other Gradyn news: he is cutting a molar on the top and 2 other teeth at the same time, so that has been a pain lately. He is starting to become very vocal and associates lots of items with words now. It is so excited to see him being able to communicate! He just recently knows how to kiss when you tell him to give you a kiss he sticks forehead to yours and opens his mouth to kiss. It's so cute! It goes along nicely with his constant hugging that everyone loves!! Especially the kids at daycare. They line up every morning to give him hugs when he gets there!
Among his favorite words are: milk, more, mama, dada, moo(for a cow), bye, and he will imitate thank you pretty well. He doesn't say all of these words every time, but they are the ones he can for sure say at the appropriate time. His favorite is MILK, which should make his Grandpa Ron proud. He will go find his milk if you tell him to go get it and if you ask him if he wants it he will start crying and head to the refrigerator. It's so funny!

Anyway, these pictures show a few things we have been up to lately. I really need to keep the camera out more often. It seems like I haven't been taking many pictures lately! I'll fix that!

PLAYING!

We went to visit Aunt Ashley in Sidney! Grandma Jo's was yummy!

Playing on his new slide!

Riding the horse at Gma & Gpa G's.

Hanging out at Luke's Bday Party!

Valentine's Day Fun

Gradyn had a good first Valentine's Day. We didn't really do much that day except go to church, go out for lunch, take naps, and then get a heart shape pizza. It was filled with a lot of love!
He also took cookies to daycare with everyone's initial on them and some fruit snacks for his Valentine's for the kids. He received many awesome valentine's in the mail, which were really fun to open! His personal (and his mom's) favorite is a set of McDonald's certificates from Paul's cousin Eric! We are sooo excited to use them! :)