15 months

I haven't been very good at blogging lately.  Life is just busy.

Graham is now 15 months old. He walks everywhere.  He screams really loud.  He throws tantrums.  He loves to eat grapes.  He likes the way his new top tooth feels.  He still takes 2 wonderful naps a day.  He is growing. He loves reading books, especially a pop-out type book titled Heads.  Minus the tantrum throwing that occurs way too many times a day he is still a great kid. It is so fun to see him growing and learning.  He is the cutest little walker around.

 There was nothing exciting he was looking at, just grass. 

 After 2 longs months of teething I'm sad/ excited to see this hill billy grin go away. 

This kid makes faces all day.  Love it. 

almost 14 months

Here are some cute pictures of Graham I've taken the past couple of days.  I was trying to capture his silly hill billy grin but it proved harder than I thought.  He has one top tooth which is cute but makes for a silly smile.

 This is a recently new face he has given us a lot.  It looks angry but it is his cheesy grin face.

This is the only one you can see his top tooth. Still waiting for those other teeth to come- they are having a hard time poking through the gums.

What we've been up to

Graham:

Graham has been busy crawling everywhere, eating lots of food, making messes everywhere he goes, and crying/ angry squealing anytime someone leaves the room or he is unhappy for some reason.  He seems to have no desire to walk on his own yet but he gets around plenty fast with crawling.  He likes to babble a lot. Anytime we start laughing he will laugh as well.  We have found this to be a great way to get him to stop crying.  He cries, we start to laugh and then he looks around confused wondering why we are laughing and then he starts fake laughing. He has finally gotten a new tooth, and I think that is the reason he has been so fussy.   he is also currently working on 3 more teeth. so fun.

Getting ready for the carousel.  He held on so tight. When the horse would get to the top his legs would tremble then he would relax again as the horse went down.  So funny.

Every once in a while he'll decide he can stand on his own.  He doesn't do it for long and he doesn't take any steps yet, but maybe someday he will.

Our picture with Mickey after a great day at Disneyland.

Hanging out at Universal Studios with aunt Mckay and aunt Maddy.

A favorite activity of ours- playing in the tub with water!  the soap bubbles was not a favorite part of this activity.

We had to go to the doctor for a weight check and they wanted to do some tests to make sure everything is okay since he is small. We were there for 2 1/2 hours waiting for him to pee and he didn't, so I had to take the bag home and wait for him there and then bring the sample back to the office to have it tested. While waiting the nurse let him play with blocks in the water.  He made a mess.

He likes to pretend he is big and use a spoon himself.

Josh:

Josh has been busy with work and church.  He works so hard and yet anytime I go somewhere and leave him home with Graham I come home to a clean house. He is awesome.  He organized our small pantry and cupboards because it was frustrating me.  Love him. He was able to take sometime off work so we could head to California for a few days.  We had a lot of fun spending time at Disneyland, Universal Studios, the park and the beach.

Josh looks a little too happy in this situation.

We like going to the park.

Alana:

I love staying home with Graham.  It has been a little more difficult these past couple of weeks since Graham has been not as happy, but I wouldn't change it for anything. I have been trying to work out more and strengthen my heart but I get bored working out at home by myself.  I feel pretty bad about that.  I studied exercise for 3 1/2 years and I can't even motivate myself to do it now.  Hopefully when it stops snowing I'll be able to get out more.

Graham helped me paint this frame.

ONE YEAR OLD

Happy happy birthday Graham!!!

I love my little boy.  He is so fun and I am so lucky he is my son.  It feels like he has been here with us forever and yet it seems like he was born yesterday.

At one year old Graham likes to walk around all the furniture, eat, pull out all the pots and pans and bang on them with spoons, pull out anything he finds in a drawer or on a book shelf, eat, take off his socks while in the car, put lids on containers, eat, wave at people, clap, play with cell phones, and crawl to other people and see if they have food he can eat.

He started off his birthday with falling at church and hitting his cheek on the metal part of the chair giving himself a bruise on the cheek.  It is so sad to look at but he is a boy and he is growing and learning and I know it is just a first of many he will have.  I am glad he is growing and learning and I can't wait to see what he'll learn this year.

March 10, 2012

March 10, 2013

We love you buddy!

ski week

This past week my sister Mckay came and stayed with us.  We sewed a lot, shopped, played ticket to ride multiple times and had fun.  She helped me take some pictures of Graham, but it was freezing so we didn't get many, and he wasn't too excited about it.  Overall it was a good week and I am glad she came and we had time to hang out and talk.

11 months

Time flies.  next time I do a Graham update he will be one! Here is what he is up to now as an 11 month old.

He loves to stand and walk with our help.  

 He LOVES to eat.  Some days he eats more than Josh and I do.  And yet he has yet to gain much weight.  It'll be interesting to see what he weighs in 1 month.  He is also not a quiet eater.  We get many comments during church because he "enjoys" his food very loudly and he lets everyone in Relief Society know that he is hungry. If anyone in the room pulls out food he starts screaming for some.  It is so fun... He is actually a relatively clean eater but one day i wanted too see how he would play with some yogurt.  It turned out he really just tried to eat it the entire time.

 He is trying to cut some new teeth.  This has resulted in lots of tears, drool, some sickness, and too much sleep lost.  I am hoping he soon returns to sleeping through the night, even though so far he has only done it for 2 weeks.  But I am hopeful he'll return soon.

 He is finally crawling on his hands and knees full time.  He is slow, but getting faster.

 This boy loves to be in the same room as me.  If I am ever in a different room he comes and finds me.  Seeing this cute little face appear on the side of the door just makes me smile.

Even though some of these pictures may make it look like Graham has red hair- I assure he does not.  It is just a result of bad lighting in our apt.  He is a a dark blonde.

10 months

I don't know what to write, but I feel I need to record this.  Graham is getting so old and I can't believe he is 10 months.  That sounds so much older than 9 months ever did.  Although Graham is tiny compared to others his age, he eats a lot.  People are usually amazed at how much he can eat.  He never really stops, he just slows down and doesn't open his mouth quite as wide for each bite.  I am hoping that one day soon he will be able to gain some weight from the food.  Until then I will enjoy holding him and laughing at him when he crawls out of his pants because they are too big around his waist. The doctor said he'll be what he'll be and I am happy with that answer.  I'm not worried because I believe he is healthy and I know we are doing what we can to help him get all the nutrients he needs.

This cute little boy makes me laugh everyday.  He struggles on Sundays because church is 3 hours and he wants to go to sleep.  He won't sleep in my arms though so we resort to standing the entire 3rd hour at the back of the room and this usually helps with the tears.  After church one day I was trying to capture his sad tired face, because it was so cute, but every time he noticed the camera he would smile.  He had been crying and screaming for the past hour, but he knows what do when a camera is involved.  He really is such a happy little boy in general.

We are trying to get him to crawl on his hands and knees but he is content with his army crawl.  Even if all the other kids crawl faster and get the toys first, it doesn't seem to bother him.

For Christmas he got his 2 front bottom teeth.  He did great getting them in.  Why do baby teeth have to be so sharp?  He only bit me once but that was enough.

I love this little boy.  I haven't taken my camera out a ton since we got home from our vacation but I'll post some pictures from my phone.  Not as good but they still record the time we spent.

Suprised face!

Sad tired face...

 i see a camera! I better smile!

 Enjoying our day out as a family at Garden of the Gods.