Playdates Days

While Katy was out of town with the other 2 kiddos, Josiah spent the 2 afternoons with us.  What a great time the two boys had together.  Grayson has not had so much playtime with someone before!!  He was so excited I think he overwhelmed Josiah at times.  He wanted to show Josiah everything and play everything.  He had quite a list and didn't quite understand when Josiah wanted to do something different than him.  It was a great day of learning for Grayson as I am his only playmate and I am really flexible and do whatever Grayson wants to do.  He learned a lot about compromise, following through, not quitting, keeping his emotions at bay, etc.  It was hard for me downstairs or down the hall to not intervene, but the boys worked it out themselves, most of the time!!  It's funny to hear 2 firstborn children interact!! Grayson and I had some good discussions about appropriate behaviors and attitudes and what it means to have a guest over and be a friend and put someone else before yourself.  I am proud of my little guy as this is kinda new territory for him.  Here are some pictures from their day together...  And wouldn't you know, as soon as Josiah arrived a train decided to come barreling down the tracks right outside Grayson's room!!

Busy Saturday

So yes, they are still out of order, but here are the pictures of our lovely Saturday.  Trevor's parents stayed over from Grandparents Day so we were all busy.  Trevor surprised us by going to get a trampoline for Grayson and finally picked up our Christmas gifts to ourselves, our new bikes!!  We had a great time outside jumping, riding, and cleaning out the garage!!  What an unbelievable help they were to us.  As you can see, even Grandma was convinced to jump with Grayson for a little while.

And YES, mine's the one with the wire basket on the front!  Even a bell too!!!

Christmas in February

I knew that one of our favorite things about moving into the new house was Grayson getting to rediscover toys that we had had packed for about 2 months!!  Well, these were toys that he had gotten for Christmas and never got to experience.  He loves his Smart Cycle.  He loves to pedal to play games and collect letters and numbers, and he learning all about the joystick and is having fun with this.  Thanks Grandpa and Gran!!

Grayson also got this adventurers kit equipped with a tent, sleeping bag, and flashlight!  He loves camping out!  Now he's ready to camp again for real.  We have done everything from reading, playing games to having snack time in the tent.  Thanks Papa and Grandma!!

Sleepyhead

You know the phrase, "Never wake a sleeping baby!"  Well, in my opinion that applies to an almost 5-year old too.  This was the scene the morning after Daylight Spring forward.  A full weekend of 4 grandparents and beautiful weather.  What mother wouldn't let this precious thing sleep in?  After all it is just preschool!!  It was 8:00 when I took this picture and school is supposed to start at 8:30.  Trevor brought him in and they arrived at 9:45!  Nothing like making a grand appearance!!

Assembly

Yes, it took a little while, and I was definitely over going to the garage for the fridge, but I love my new fridge.  It was one of the "only me" decisions in the new place.  I love love my new fridge and it is finally starting to look full with several trips to the grocery store and left-over containers!  Trevor and Grayson assembled it on a Saturday morning as I prepared breakfast.

Dinner and Wii

Until I can get back to the Apple Store to get this laptop all figured out, my pictures will have to remain as they are put in.  Anyways, we had our first dinner guests this past week.  It was grandparents day at Grayson's school and so all 4 of them were here in town for the festivities.  Our dining table was all put together and 7 of the 8 chairs are here, so for the first time since Trevor and I have been married, we had that many people around one table with matching chairs!!  What a tremendous blessing!  As you probably see, we have no curtains, there is still moulding laying on the floor, and there is no chandelier to light our dinner.  Good thing we ate early!!  It was marvelous just the same.  

And what better way to end dinner than to pull out the Wii and burn some of it off.  My parents had already headed back to their hotel down at the Oceanfront, but Trevor's parents christened the Wii with us!!  I bought it for Trevor for Christmas, but with the move it was still in the original packaging.  As many of you know because you have one, this is an amazing way to be together and have fun!!  Puts a new spin on Game Night!!  

Chalk Art

Recently, we had some pretty cold days and we were going a little stir crazy!  It was just that, crazy, the idea that Grayson had.  He had found some sidewalk chalk amongst his newly found toys and wanted to go outside to color.  We bundled up as you can see and went out.  We didn't last long, but we had a blast together.  We created stick figures of ourselves, Grayson traced me and I traced him.  Grayson then informed we that we had to draw in our bones, as you can see in the one picture.  It was bitter cold and we didn't last long, but it was fun.  We were so dirty from laying down that our clothes and coats had to go right into the laundry, but of course, we did it right away upstairs, and they were all clean and ready for the next day!

FINALLY!!!!

So after 2 hours trying to figure it all out on this laptop, I am finally able to get some pictures off my new camera and "color" up some posts!  Yeah!!

This is one I took of Grayson before we moved into our new house, on a day that we stopped by so he could take his fire truck out for  a spin.