Tag: Grayson

Spring Is Finally Here!!!

Spring has finally made it’s appearance here in Middle Tennessee, and that means we can finally have some fun at the park with Grayson!  I tried taking him to the park in February, but it was cold and windy, and he was not liking it!  This is the face he made that day when I tried to take his picture.

Luckily, this time, there were no pouty faces, and we all enjoyed the nice, warmer weather.

See that blanket folded up in front of him?  That is so he doesn’t fall forward every time he swings back.  He hasn’t quite gotten the concept of holding on, yet, so the first time I tried to put him on the swings a few months ago he hated it because he kept falling forward.  You live and you learn!

He loves swinging now!  Especially when his daddy is pushing him and making funny faces!

Mommy got in on the swinging action too!  (It’s funny how much I refer to myself in 3rd person now.)

Father and son. 🙂  We’re going to need to work on getting Grayson to say cheese.  He is so used to me shoving a camera in his face that it is SO hard to get him to smile for pictures nowadays.  I have to catch him off guard or do something REALLY funny, otherwise this is the face I get.

I found this pretty patch of yellow flowers in the grass, so we plopped Grayson down for a mini photo shoot.  But, he was more interested in looking at the grass or the people walking by.

Out of all the pictures I took, this was the only one I got of him looking into the camera.  This kid, I tell ya!  I’m gonna have to start bribing him to smile, once he understands what I’m saying.

Since I’m usually the one behind the camera, I don’t have a lot of photos of Grayson and me.  So I had my wonderful hubby snap some pictures of the two of us.

He’s actually pretty good, as long as I get the camera set up for him!  Hey, Honey, if you ever want to stop selling electronic cigarettes, you can always come into business with me as my second shooter! 😉

My new favorite of my son and me.  Sure, he’s making a silly face, but that’s his personality, and I love it!  I can’t wait to get outside more and take some pictures!  Yay for warmer weather!!!

Look Out! He’s On the Move!!!

Well, it’s finally happened!  After weeks and weeks of my wonderful husband hounding me to work on crawling with Grayson, he has finally figured it out!  And now, about 2 weeks after he took those first crawling steps on his own, he is a pro!

Luckily, he hasn’t learned how to climb the stairs yet, so we have a little bit of time to figure out the baby gate situation.  We have some baby gates that we used with the dogs, but they won’t work at the top of the stairs (where we need it the most), so we are currently looking at our options.

I bought two baby gates that are specifically for “top of the stairs” placement, but, of course, our banister on one side is too tall for the correct placement of the brackets, and the railing on the other side is too short, and the gate would hit it whenever it was opened.  Sigh….

Periodically, while Grayson is crawling from room to room (and bruising his little knees along the way), he’ll sit and take a quick break.

And these little breaks make for great pictures!

The morning is Grayson’s favorite time of day (other than when his Daddy comes home from work), and it also makes for glorious lighting in our living room and entryway.

This one is currently the wallpaper on my iPhone.  He is always so happy in the morning!  I love it!

On the move again!  He crawled back and forth from the front door to the living room probably ten times that morning.  He wasn’t chasing a toy or anything like that.  I think he was just relishing his new found mobility and exploring the house like he never could before.

“Oh hi, Kaylee!  Don’t mind me.  Just crawling around.  Don’t feel like you need to get up or anything.”

Don’t worry.  She won’t.

My personal favorite picture of the day.  I started singing his favorite song, “If You’re Happy and You Know It”, and he lit up like he does pretty much every time he hears it.  It’s my little trick to get him to smile for pictures, since he’s so used to the camera now.

If you look closely, you can see his three little teeth.  Two on the bottom, and one on the top that had just broken through a day or two before.  Since I took these pictures three days ago, one more tooth has made it’s appearance, so he now has a total of four teeth!  Poor little guy.  He’s gotten his last three teeth in the past 2 weeks, and at least one more is on it’s way within the next few days.  He’s been pretty miserable at times, but can still crack up at the most random things!  His new funny word is “teeth.”  Whenever I say it, he laughs and laughs.  Silly boy in his firetruck jammies.

10 months old! (And a recap of month 9)

I forgot to post last month’s 9 month photo, so today you get to see my little Grayson at both 9 and 10 months!  I can’t believe in less than 2 months he will be a year old!!!  I’m not ready for it!  Where did my little newborn baby go??

This was his 9 month picture.  He is already looking like a toddler!  I think all that hair is making him look older.  If he was bald he’d still look like a baby…..maybe.

This month had lots of exciting things happen!  Grayson finally learned to crawl on March 14th!  Here’s a video of him about a week after he crawled for the first time. It’s amazing how much he improved in such a short amount of time!

Grayson also got his first tooth on Valentine’s Day!  Now, at 10 months, he has 3 teeth.  Two on the bottom and one on the top that is just barely peeking through.  He also FINALLY started sleeping through the night!!!!

He loves walking around holding onto our hands, and he stomps or marches whenever he walks.  It’s the cutest thing!  Grayson also started swimming lessons this month, and so far he hates it!  He cries pretty much during the entire class, but we’re hoping that he’ll learn to love the water soon!  They had him go underwater on his first day, so I think he’s a little traumatized from that.  But his second lesson seemed a bit better than the first one.  Even though he was crying, he would still jump into the water (from a sitting position) when I counted to three.  Daddy had a nice little present after last week’s lesson when Grayson threw up all over him a few minutes after he got out of the water.  He must have swallowed a bit too much pool water!  Eek!

The weather is starting to get a little warmer (although it did snow this week), so we have ventured to the park a couple times.  The first time I put him on the swing (the baby one) he hated it because he kept falling forward whenever I would push him.  So the second time we went, I wadded up one of his blankets and put it in his lap so he wouldn’t fall forward, and he loved it!

Here is Grayson’s 10 month photo.  That little doggy keeps getting smaller and smaller!  I’m in denial that it’s actually my son that is getting bigger while the dog stays the same size.  *sniff*

Last, but certainly not least, my parents came to visit from CA this past week, and Grayson had so much fun playing with his Nana and Papa!  It was so wonderful that he learned to crawl while they were there.  That just made it even more special!