Easter Fun

We pulled out the Easter baskets and eggs.  Sloan immediately wanted to get inside of it and then Grant wanted to do the same thing.  He said "Sloanie was a baby last time she was in here".  I had to stop him from getting in his basket since he would have broken it for sure.  We haven't been to see the Easter Bunny at the mall yet and I honestly don't know if it will happen at this point.  All of this house stuff has taken a lot of my time lately but I am still trying to come up with a way to make it happen.

We have been boxing up the house so we can move in a little over a week.....to a rental temporarily.  This is going to be an interesting few months for sure. 

Sloan is walking all over the place now.  She actually gets going pretty fast too.  She will still drop and crawl sometimes though.  She still looks like a little drunk girl walking around.

 

 Having fun with the basket "grass"

Neighborhood egg hunt with Juliet

Easter bunny fun!



Walking More and STranger Danger!

Sloan is walking more and more by herself and we are loving it!  Grant's favorite thing right now is Transformers.  Luke has him watching the old school Transformer cartoons that Comcast offers On Demand.  He will ask for the "old transformer" shows, pretty funny.

I have been trying to talk to Grant about strangers lately.  He will talk to and go with anyone so I want to make sure he is aware of what to do if someone strange approaches him.  The conversation took an odd twist though.  I told him that strangers are people that we don't know and they could try to hurt him.  And he should never go with anyone even if they offered him fun things like candy, animals, toys, etc.  He looked at me and said "but you are a stranger too because some people don't know you".  His little mind is always working.  I agreed but told him that I didn't try to get other kids to come with me anywhere.  He never ceases to amaze me.

Walking!



Sloan is WALKING!

Sloan is now walking!  She will be 17 months old tomorrow and finally decided that she was going to take some big steps on her own!  She started walking between Luke and I a few days ago and now she will let go of a chair and take a few steps to get to what she wants.  She will still drop and crawl a lot since it is much faster that way.  However, she is walking more and more each day.  I will say that her confidence is off the charts and she tries to run but then falls. Sloan has also had an ear infection (only in one ear) and she is on antibiotics.  Grant has brought home numerous colds this winter from preschool and she seems to catch most of them unfortunately.

Grant has a new bed mate these days!  He has been begging me to let Mason sleep in his bed and I have been saying no for a while.  I wasn't sure that he would actually go to sleep if Mason was in his bed and I also had concerns if Mason would want to do it.  Well, I finally gave in and they are both in heaven now!  It is very funny and sweet.  Mason absolutely loves to sleep in Grant's bed.  And Grant is over the moon excited to have him in his bed.  Now that the time has changed and it is dark in the morning, I am having to wake Grant up for school sometimes.  When I go into his room, they are both sound asleep.

We are closing on our house next week and will most likely be moving to a rental for a little while....until we figure out where our final destination will be.  I have been very behind on blogging for this reason so I apologize.  I have every intention of getting back on track with pictures soon too.

House hunting, Walking Some and SNOW

We have been busy trying to figure out where we are going to move.  We can only see about 3-4 houses at a time since we have the kids with us.....patience is gone after that!  Grant had a meltdown at one house.  The people had children around his age and when we went to the basement...it was full of toys.  He thought he had hit the house jackpot!  He said "I want to live at this house!".  Then I told him he couldn't touch any of the toys and that they don't come with the house.  He did not understand at all.  He continues to tell us that we ARE going to move to that house with the toys.  Funny but not a fun experience!  We are probably going to be renting for a little while until we find exactly what we want.

Funny Grant story:  The bible verse for February was "Love is patient, love is kind..." Each child had a laminated heart that said "Love is ____" and they had to fill in the blank.  When he brought his home, it said "Love is Mama".  I was happy to see this of course and told him how much I loved it.  He gave me a big hug and looked up at me and said, "Now, will you buy me a new toy?".  What a little manipulator, lol!

Sloan is getting more and more interested in walking but she is still not there yet.  She will barely hold one of our hands now....but if you let go, she takes a couple of steps and then drops to crawl.  Her favorite words now include: flower, dog, kitty, blanket, hairbow, juice, apple, fish, puffs, book, elmo, ear, shoes, and many more I can't remember at the moment.  She continues to be very head strong.  Watch out if she doesn't get something she wants.  She wants everything Grant has and he is pretty good about sharing most of the time.  He knows to hide things that he doesn't want her to get to.  She can do an awesome tiger growl now when you ask her what a tiger says....clemson fans would be proud.

It snowed today in Atlanta!  Huge flakes but nothing stuck.  Grant loved it!  His first question though was "Where is Santa Claus?"....I laughed and explained that snow doesn't mean Santa is coming.  I guess that is what happens when you live somewhere it NEVER snows, ha!  He had a great time trying to catch the snow on his tongue.  And Sloan kept trying to catch the flakes.  The sun actually came out when it was still snowing so it was a little warmer.

We finally got Grant's new Powerwheels Jeep.  Santa brought the Dune Buggy and it was broken.  Grant's reaction to the dune buggy was not as exciting as we thought it would be.  So, we swapped it for a Jeep this time but it took forever to come in.  He is over the top excited about this jeep!  It has a shovel on the hood that he can take off and dig with.  It has a tail gate in the back that opens and closes too.  These things are fancy now...it goes in reverse and moves through grass so easy!

Sloan playing happily

 And there's what happens when she wants to hold the camera and I say "no"

 Grant in his jeep

Riding his jeep in the snow flakes

 Grant eating snow flakes

 Trying to catch a snow flake