Sunday, July 28, 2013

Random Pictures

Just some random pictures from this week.

 Grant got a new car accessory.  A seat belt pet and he had to have the ladybug.  He first saw this on an infomercial and talked about it all the time.  I saw them at Toys R Us and got him one. 

A rare happy moment in her carseat 

 She loves sunglasses!


She has some funny looks and this is definitely one that we get a lot 

We caught her picking her nose....she was thrilled and confused when she actually got something out, ha ha.  Gross right! 

Both wearing TuTus and loving it! 


Thursday, July 25, 2013

Fabricated Stories, Swimming and New phrases!

Grant can tell a great story these days!  When I dropped him off at preschool one day this week, a teacher stopped me and said "I have a quick question for you.  "Are you an astronaut?".  I wasn't sure if she was being serious or just plain ridiculous so I laughed and said "No of course not, why?".  She preceded to tell me that Grant told multiple teachers that his mommy was an astronaut and went into elaborate details about it....even including the names of some astronauts.  I was shocked and told them I guess he got this from TV or my iPad.  He never ceases to surprise me!  The teachers got a huge laugh out of this one and they really believed him.  I guess it's better than him telling them that I sell drugs, ha ha.

Grant is improving every week in swim class.  He went down the slide without any float on.  He went under water, came back up and swam a couple of feet to the instructor.  It was impressive to see how fast he is picking it up.

Sloan now has a new phrase when she is eating.  She will say "I don't like it, spit it out" and then lean forward and wait for you to hold your hand out or a wipe so she can spit it out. 

Sloan likes to get in everyone's lap, especially Grants


Sloan now thinks it is so funny to go down the steps on her bottom and she says "ready, set, go" and then plops to the next step 

One of Grant's favorite foods....CORN!

She loves to walk Mason and now she tells him in a VERY southern accent, "Come owwwn Mason!" 


Thursday, July 18, 2013

Writing his Name, Swimming, Jokes, the Potty and more new words

I was out of town this week for a few days with work but now I am back and have some funny stuff to share.  I had to go to a meeting from Monday to Wednesday and I got my first "I missed you mommy" from Grant when I walked in the door last night.  But it was promptly followed by "can I watch Disney Junior on your iPad?"......not sure if he missed me or my iPad more!

Grant can now write his name!  We were at a restaurant with chalk tables and he wrote his name without us even asking him to do it.  I took a picture of course.  It still needs a little work but we were very impressed!

Grant has also started telling jokes or what he thinks are jokes.  He must have learned this from someone in his summer camp classes.  This is how it goes.....he will say "How do you drive a car without a steering wheel?" and then he says "that's silly" and laughs so hard.  Like I said, not real jokes but he sure thinks they are and we have to laugh. 

Swim lessons are going great for Grant.  He is now holding his breath and going a couple of feet down to retrieve rings.  He is swimming a little further now without any floats but I am not ready to say he knows how to swim yet.

Sloan is cutting 2 more teeth now on the top so she has been a bit grumpy this week.  Advil has been our friend a few times I must say.  She continues to want to do everything that Grant does and copies him too.  I always forget what I have written about the phrases she says so I may repeat some.  Some that she says a lot now are:  "what's that noise?", "Thunder goes boom boom", "I want a sucker please", "I want to see that", What's that?", "Have it please", "I want cheese" and there are so many more I am not remembering.

Sloan's latest obsession is the potty.  She is very interested in sitting on the potty.  And she wants her "diaper off" as she says.  So I take off her shoes, shorts, and diaper and sit her up there......but she has yet to produce anything.  I just bought her a little potty to practice with before her baths since the big potty is huge for her right now.  She continues to tell us when she poops and will even go get the diapers and diaper cream and lay down to be changed.  She is still a little young to go cold turkey but we are going to start getting her ready.  She has also started waking up dry a lot more lately.  The thought of being done with diapers is really exciting though!

We went to Lowe's this past weekend to look at a bunch of stuff and the kids loved it!  However, Sloan refused to sit in the cart and refused to be held and refused to hold our hand!  She would only hold Grant's hand!  How funny is that.....crazy girl.  He had to hold her hand all over the store.


Grant's name in chalk!

Grant and Sloan in Lowe's 

Sloan on the big potty 

Sloan trying out the carpet!

She still loves to hand feed Mason 

Coloring at the Vet office 

Grocery Store fun! 

Another one of him with his name 

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

4th of July Fun at the Lake!

We all went to the lake for the 4th of July!  We had a lot of fun visiting with everyone.  Grant got to fish, ride in a canoe, ride in the boat, swim in the lake and feed the ducks.  He is already asking when he can go back again. 

I bought Grant the game, Candy Land.  He loves to play but HATES to lose!  He legitimately beat me the first 3 times we played but got really upset whenever I got in front of him.  I had forgotten how simple the game is to play so it is perfect for his age.






Wednesday, July 3, 2013

New Hairstyles and more pictures

Girls hair is definitely more difficult than boys!  Sloan's hair is always in her face unless she has a bow and she actually likes her bows now and understands the purpose of them.  I have been trying out new stuff lately, particularly ponytails.  Most of them pull her hair so I have been buying all different kinds and haven't found the perfect one yet.  She screams "ouch" when it hurts.  She also has a cow lick on the back of her head that swirls.  So getting her hair to part in the middle is next to impossible.  But her hair is not long enough yet to just have a back ponytail, lol.  I have tried to braid her hair but she doesn't have the patience to sit still yet.  I got one braid in there but haven't been able to repeat that again.

Grant demanded to have ponytails too.  So you will see a picture of his below. 

New phrase for Sloan: "Bad brother".  She says this whenever Grant gets in trouble.  She also says "have it please" whens he wants something.




The braid 

Building blocks and she is getting pretty good at it even if they are crooked 


Grant with ponytails...a little hard to see