Tew Much Fun!

I was all alone on Thanksgiving, but not for long... the Sunday after, Ron and Grant returned home and my Mother, Father and Sister drove down for a visit. We had a wonderful time together and the highlight of their trip was picking out the perfect Christmas tree for our home. We have not all decorated a tree together in ages, it was Tew much fun! ;)

Grant enjoying a story being read to him by his Granddaddy Tew, they also had on matching pants!

Grant really enjoyed playing with Sally and Riley. He woke up every morning saying, "DOG" and looking for them both.
Grant and his Grandmama Tew

The front door is all decorated, now it's time to shop for our tree, "Let's Go!"

This picture was actually my runner up for Christmas cards this year.

Let's Boogie!

The only unfortunate picture of Beverly and I and it's oh so bad...

Beverly and Dad at the Christmas tree farm

Grant and his Auntie Bev

"Mom, what's going on here?"

My parents shopping for our tree, they all ironically came from North Carolina as well!

This is the one!

The lights and ribbon are on, now time for the ornaments!

Merry Christmas!

Our 2010 Christmas Tree

We also did a little Christmas shopping in the rain

My sweet boy and I

Grant woke to Auntie Bev's Christmas presents under the tree and immediately ripped open his. At least, she was able to see his reaction to her sweet rudolph stuffed animal and book!

Of course, the few days they were here flew by. Thank you all for driving such a long distance to spend some quality time with us, we love you!

Thanksgiving

I've been a bad blogger again. Truth is, I haven't had anything to blog about. Ron took my baby boy to North Carolina for Thanksgiving and left me here all by myself. That sounds bad. Wait. I had to work. I was stuck here in pre-black Friday h-e-double-hockeysticks. I was glad that Ron was able to take Grant to see all of our family back home. They had a blast and of course, Grant had so much fun with his cousin George, he also loved meeting his cousin Betty for the first time. Lesley sent pictures out tonight from their time together so thank you so much for passing these along! I survived Black Friday and also being a part from my boys for five days. This was actually the first time I had EVER been away from Grant and it was extremely hard. In their absense, I decorated the house for Christmas, worked the entire time they were gone and enjoyed a lot of uninterrupted sofa and "Jena" time.

Mimi with her boys in their matching carhartt overalls.

Throwing rocks in the creek. Grant loves to throw everything...
Grant and Dada

Going down the slide

George will be three this month, Grant is 15 months.

Beautiful Betty

Matching pajamas

Swinging, sorry I don't have much narrative. I wasn't there!

Great Grandpa Wendt reading, "Go Dog Go!"

Cousins

Great Grandma and Grandpa Wendt with their three Great Grandchildren!

Great Grandma Yaeger she has a total of 13 Great Grandchildren, the other 10 reside in Illinois.

Grant also came back to Alabama with an expanded vocabulary. He now says, "Juice, no, shoes, stick and fish." My parents and sister, Beverly are now here for a visit and Beverly tried to take Grant from me today and he shook his head and said, "no!" :)

15 Months

I'm overdue to post some new photos of my toddler (tear, sniff, sniff, what happened to my baby?) I never did a 14 month post so now I'm posting a 15 month post a week early and trust me, a lot can happen in a week with one this age. Grant is surprising us daily with all of his accomplishments. He continues to build on his vocabulary and started saying "duck" this week. He also now points to himself and says, "gunt," basically pronouncing the "g" and the "t." This is after he points at himself and says, "Dada." and we say, "Nooo..."

Grant is now walking full speed ahead. It's amazing how quick he is and his new favorite thing is to grab one of his many balls around the house and try to go throw it in the toilet. Right now, keeping Grant out of the toilet is our biggest struggle. He also loves to grab the toilet bowl brush and walk around the house waving it like a sword. (Gross, I know.) Grant has a foam sword that his Dada bought for him on our trip to Beaufort and Grant loves to play with the sword slashing it through the air complete with the sound effects of swish, swish, swish.

Grant is still a wonderful eater, his favorite vegetable is broccoli and his favorite fruit is grapes. He also loves peas, carrots and bananas. Although he is a wonderful eater, mealtime is also a struggle because Grant loves to pick up his food and throw it on the floor. He laughs and thinks it's a game. He also punches holes with his fingers in his steamed veggies and crushes his cereal and crackers before he swipes his tray clean with his arm and hand making a HUGE mess. We are working on the whole disciplining thing and the word, "NO!"

Grant recently enjoyed 12 whole days with his Grandmama Tew, she came to visit from North Carolina and she continues to make him laugh like no one else can. Overall, Grant is growing up too fast, these are the times when I'm glad that I'm a blogger. Glad, that I can look back over the past 15 months when I wonder where in the world the time went? So... on with the pics.

Grant finally received his big boy chair his grandparents gave him for his first birthday 3 months later after it was sent to the incorrect address in New Hampshire. Thanks, Land of Nod.

Playing football with Dada
Down, Set, Hut

Playtime is so much fun!

Grant and Benton at Benton's first birthday party

Grant enjoying the bouncy house

Grant's buddy Luke trying to escape Grant's rath, he later tried desperately to put Luke's pacifier back in his mouth.

Grant loves to read! He takes every book off of his shelf daily. I have to supervise this of course because he has destroyed several of his books. He loves to shred the pop up books and tear out the pages of the remaining books.

" Who, me?"

Grant sporting Ron's overalls he had as a toddler. They fit Grant perfectly and look very current, how fitting that they have tools all over them? :)

Enjoying cuddling with Dada before bedtime. This was actually taken last night and my little pumpkin had a temp of 103! I took him to the doc today and he has an ear infection. He's now resting and on the mend, here's hoping for a speedy recovery and that his 15th month goes by in slow motion.

The Weekend in Mobile Uploads...

How convenient it is to always be able to snap photos or videos of the things we do and places we go on our phones. I find that my best pics are on my phone. I thought I would share a brief overview with you of our crazy busy weekend relived via cell phone uploads...

Grant fell asleep on the way to school Friday with the remnants of an ice cream cone in his mouth. I was desperate, he is teething and was cranky so I gave him an ice cream cone at 9am. Big deal, worked like magic!

Saturday night my very photogenic husband and I joined some friends for a night out in a limousine!
"Big Pimpin" as Laurie would say...

I worked like a dog all weekend making curtains for our family room, yes, I made them!

Grant went to a birthday party with Dada and loved playing with all the balls

and also going down the BIG slide!

There was also a little time for Grant and Dada to come by and see me at work...