Grocery Cart Fun

Auntie Jo Jo, Uncle Johnny and Lucy got Grady a grocery cart for his birthday. As he opened the package he gasped with excitement since he knew exactly what it was since they have one in his classroom at school.

Grady loves his grocery cart! It has already provided him with hours of entertainment! Thanks Auntie Jo Jo!

It's Been Awhile....

Sorry it's been awhile since I have blogged.  I really have no excuse, except that I have a year old little boy and am 18 weeks pregnant.  Does that work?  

We have been busy doing random things.  The Friday after Grady's birthday party, I hosted a baby shower for my best friend Joe.  I was a soup making fool. We had three different soups, salad, fruit, cheese and bread.  It was perfect as it was about 25 degrees that night.  We had a great time and Joe got great things for Lucy!  

I spent the next week trying to recuperate from the shower and get our house back in order.  

Thanksgiving was wonderful.  We spent the day with Ya Ya, Mr. and Mrs. Howie and Tiffany Pendell (who had to stay behind in NY while her family was in Michigan because she had to work on Friday).  The food was wonderful and Grady ate everything that we gave him.  The only thing that we did not give him to try was the brussel sprouts!  (Neither David or I like them, so we decided that Grady did not need to be subjected to them!)

Monday was the first day of our Christmas card photo shoot.  The above picture is my favorite from the shoot.  Unfortunately, as I started to edit the pictures I noticed that Grady still had mac and cheese on his face from lunch and it was even on his onzie!  Argh!  As hard as I tried I could not edit it out, so yesterday we tried again, this time with a different outfit and I got some great shots.  I'll share some of the ones that we did not choose this week.  I'm finding it hard to actually get pictures of him now because he is on the go and so fast!  Photo shoots tend to be 10 minutes and I manage to get about 100-150 pictures in that amount of time--granted only about 20-30 are keepers, but at least I have a lot to choose from.

I had a doctor's appointment on Monday. Things are looking great with the BITB.  We are just 18 weeks and things are going well.  We go on the 15th for our next ultrasound to find out if it is a boy or a girl.  I am extremely anxious to find out.  I am pretty much half way through the pregnancy.  The doctor said on Monday that as long as everything is going fine and the baby and my body are tolerating the pregnancy they will wait until week 37 to deliver me.  So, that looks to be the week of April 13th.  Which will come fast.  We are anxious to start getting the baby's room ready, but have decided to wait until the new year to start any projects.  

This week will be quiet as we start to get ready for the holidays.  I need to have David bring the Christmas decorations upstairs so I can begin to get things out. I was telling someone that it will be weird, as we did no decorating last year with Grady in NICU.  So, I am sure that it will be interesting to see some of the decorations that I have probably forgotten about!  

Halloween Part Two

On Halloween I poured Grady into his Chicken costume one more time and we headed into the city to Highland Hospital to see Auntie Jo Jo.  She was the one who found and bought Grady's costume last year the day after Halloween.  Little did we know that he would come two weeks later - so Auntie Jo Jo had bought a 0-9 month costume and we actually ended up needing a 9-12 month costume, but we made it work.  Thankfully Grady will never remember how we had to POUR him into it!  

Needless to say, Auntie Jo Jo was very surprised.  We called from the lobby and I said... "there's a chicken in your lobby can you come and see it?"  What a fun surprise!  

After Highland we were off to Ya Ya's for the Halloween party that she was having with her work.  We were so excited to have been invited to it!  Grady made his rounds visiting all of his fans at Xerox.  Ya Ya got him some fun Leap Frog Maraca's for his Halloween gift and those kept him busy for some time.  

That evening we left David at home to hand out his full size candy bars (he started this tradition last year and the kids love it.  You can hear them say "dude, you're awesome" when they see their options.  Ya Ya and I went and visited the Jansen's and the Howies.  It was a lot of fun and Grady had a great time.