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.

Disneyland

On the 26th we headed to Disneyland! We had so much fun.  Graham did awesome! He loved the rides we went on, which included Dumbo,  the carousel, small world, casey's train and the storybook boat. It was so fun watching him look around and be so excited and happy.  Loved it.  Most of the really cute pictures are on Josh's phone so I'll have to add those later. Fun day.

Christmas Eve

A tradition of the Gillette family is to walk around the LA temple on Christmas Eve then have treats and hot chocolate.  I love it.  The temple is so pretty.  

Christmas Morning

I just can't stop taking pictures.  It's so fun to get the camera out and capture Graham's little smiles and laughs.  These aren't perfect but they help to capture Graham's first Christmas.  It was so fun watching him get excited about each toy.  I've never seen him crawl so fast to get a new toy! It was so fun. 

Manhattan Beach love

I miss living near the beach.  It is absolutely beautiful.  Although I am glad that Graham does not get the opportunity to eat sand everyday, because apparently he thinks it is worth more than one handful...

I love that Katelyn enjoys Graham.  She loves when he is in the same room and she is so cute with him! She is always making sure he is okay.  So cute! I hope they can always be good friends.

 Love them.