New Skills

Here are some new pictures of Grant conquering new skills! One other funny thing he does now is skipping all over the house instead of walking. He wants us to skip with him too.

Swim Lessons....

Grant can now swim on his own for a couple of feet. It is interesting to see how fast he has learned.
These are the new noodles. They teach them to kick but is easier to balance than a kickboard at this age. Of course, we had to buy one before we left. Grant loves the duck on the front!

He can actually ride his scooter now!

He has mastered the Sit N Spin too!

Two Words is better than One

Grant is now talking in two word sentences. It kind of happened overnight but a couple of days ago he started putting his words together. Almost everything he says is two words now. His speech is getting more and more clear too. He also repeats everything you say so we are watching our language for sure! He woke up yesterday morning saying "Elmo down" because his little Elmo was leaning over and he wanted us to come and sit him back up. For some reason he didn't want to do it himself. Luke is very proud that he can identify and say "gamecock" now too.

Potty training is still going great! It has been over a week now and he has only had a few poop accidents and 1 pee accident. I must say it is really nice to not have diapers. Grant's favorite thing to do now is wash his hands after he goes to the bathroom. However, he sometimes wants to go potty just so he can wash his hands. He has favorite underwear already too. They are striped and he gets upset if they are dirty. We only have a few pair of the striped ones so I guess I need to go buy some more.

His attention span is getting greater too. He has several DVDs but would only sit for 5 minutes to watch them. In the past week, he will bring you the one he wants to watch and sit for 10-15 minutes and watch it. He really likes the ones with music so he can dance, too funny!

We have swim lessons again tomorrow so I will take some more pictures to post.

Potty Training Success

Grant is officially potty trained! He has not had an accident in a few days now and he is even pooping in the potty. It has been easier than we expected overall. He has taken it very seriously I must say. When we were at swim lessons, he climbed out of the pool and demanded to go tee-tee in the potty. Then, we were at the park and turned around to find him with his pants down peeing on the playground, lol! We are still putting him in diapers for naps and bedtime but he has been waking up dry from both for several days now. No more diapers is awesome!

Sta-cation! Fun at Home

We decided this year to have a "sta-cation" at home instead of a vacation away. Primarily so we can potty train Grant. But there are also some activities here in Atlanta that we wanted to take him. We started the week out with some fun stuff (GA Aquarium, Atlanta Children's Museum, the pool, etc.) and then mid-week began potty training.

Grant and his new baby. He loves to feed the baby and she makes a sucking noise when he does it. She also laughs and cries.

At the pool by 9am, wow!
Children's Museum

Children's Museum playing in the sand

Children's Museum, painting

Children's Museum, milking a cow but it was water that came out, lol!

Children's Museum, a real John Deere

Aquarium

Touching the sting rays

A penguin that Grant loved! He called it a duck at first though

He was more interested in the scuba divers cleaning the tank than he was with the fish. He waved at them until they finally waved back!

4th of July

We went to Lake Keowee for the 4th of July and had a great time! Grant go to try out some new activities too....here are some pictures!

Uncle Rhett and Grant hanging out

Aunt Brittani's dog, Bailey, was so much fun to play with! And he was very patient with Grant!

Grant caught his first fish, with Papa Bill and Luke's help of course
Pulling the fish in with Grant's fishing rod

Touching the fish's mouth

Enjoying some of the toys at the lake

Hanging out on the float inside before we head outside

Checking out the pool table

Feeding the ducks and fish some bread

4th of July outfit!

Golfing in my 4th of July outfit

On the dock

Luke and Grant floating

Riding in the boat!

New Nursery.....Grant takes over!

Now that I am finally starting to feel a little human again, we have been working on the new baby's nursery. Since we decided NOT to take Grant out of his crib, we borrowed a neighbor's crib. This means that baby girl Johnson has a little bit of a cramped nursery since there is a queen size bed in the room. We painted the walls gray and I bought some pink bumpers. I also bought some pink curtain panels but haven't gotten those hung up yet. So for now, the room is painted and the crib is all set. Guess who is LOVES the new crib! This crib has a drawer at the bottom so Grant can climb all the way in the crib on his own using the drawer as a step. He immediately climbed in and said "high!" since the mattress is all the way up. He thought that was the best thing in the world. He started jumping up and down saying "high, high". He has officially taken over the pink blanket that I bought too. Then, I got the mobile out and he was amazed. It is really funny to see how much he loved that now because he was never really interested in it when he was little. He just wants to have anything new for himself so it is going to be very interesting when this baby arrives!

Standing up and jumping around!

He even laid down and said "night, night" one time, lol!
Figuring out the mobile

Loving the new pink blanket and his straw hat

Update on Baby Girl Johnson

I had my 24 week appointment today and her heart rate was 135 which is normal. Ironically, it is lower than Grant's was at this point but she is way less active than he was too. We are hoping for a calm little girl! My next appointment will be in 4 weeks to get my Rhogam shot and do the Glucose Tolerance Test (I chose the fruit punch flavor this time so let's hope it is better than the lemon lime was). We will also have our last ultrasound in 4 weeks too. I am feeling much better FINALLY! Still not as good as I did with Grant but the countdown is on. Being pregnant in the summer is just miserable too for anyone who wants a fall baby like I thought I did, lol!

Spaghetti, Watermelon and a pile of shredded cheese! What a mess but a ton of fun!

Left Handed Maybe and Another New Toy

We have been wondering if Grant will be left or right handed since both Luke and I are Lefties! It appears, at this point, that he is a little of both right now. He seems to be Right footed...he kicks everything with his right foot first. But.....he is Left handed in that he throws with his left hand. And we found out this weekend that he bats and golfs Left handed!

He makes us laugh lately with the phrase "Oh Wow" at random times when he hears or sees something new. He also put his shirt on almost all by himself this morning and was so excited! He ran around pointing to his shirt and saying "Gwant, Gwant" defining that he did it himself.

This weekend was our neighborhood garage sale. We spotted a train table and of course....we couldn't pass it up. It was a great deal ($30) considering how much they cost in the store! Grant loves it! We are running out of room with all these toys but it is fun to watch him get so excited.

Golfing Left handed

I think this hat is just a little big
The new train table

I even have an apron to hold the pieces

Grilling and Swim Lessons

We have been getting lots of use out of the grill these days.....and Grant has been using his a lot too! Corn is one of his favorite foods right now and he loves to eat it right off the cobb.

We went to swim lessons again today and Grant still loves it! Today, they learned how to blow bubbles in the water, use their arms to swim after ducks, dunk their heads under water without being scared and let go and swim to someone else. One little girl in his class cries the entire time so we are thankful that Grant is not like that. When the instructor asked Grant to swim towards him from Luke, he went for it and did great. Another kid cried when he got to the instructor but not Grant. I think he would go to anyone, ha! They said that it is important to get the kids used to being with other people in the water since the next class up has no parents in the water.

I don't think this is how you are supposed to eat the corn!

I can grill too!
He started eating it before it was even cooked!

Grant giving the instructor a high five with a duck!

Swimming after ducks to get the arm movements correct. Pretty creative way to teach them I thought.

He can get out of the pool now all by himself. He even says the instructions while he is doing it...so funny..."elbow, elbow, leg...."

Blowing bubbles

Weekend Fun

This weekend Grant had his first swim lesson. I lost points as a mom because I forgot my camera...oops. We will be back next week so I will get some good ones then. He really LOVES the water. At this age, he is learning to kick his legs when you hold him out on his belly and when you hold him on his back. They show them how to float on their backs. He learned how to get to the edge of the pool and put both elbows up on the edge and pull himself out of the pool. He also learned how to hold onto the side of the pool and move around the side safely. It is very basic stuff at this point. They had a slide that went into the pool that all the kids got to try at the end....he thought this was great too!
His new skill is being able to roll down the window in the car from his carseat. He loves to ride with it down all the time now and then he demands his sunglasses. It is so hot lately but he doesn't seem to care. He still wants to do everything himself and points to himself and says "gwant" and then whatever it is he wants to do. I may have already put this in the blog but it is a daily thing now. He loves the song "The wheels on the bus" and we need to get it on video because he can do all of the hand motions with the words now, very cute to watch.
Baby news....we have begun work on the nursery this weekend. We decided that Grant is going to keep his room. He knows it is his room and we feel guilty taking it from him. He also still loves his crib so we are leaving him in it until who knows when. I am borrowing my neighbors crib for the new baby until Grant decides to get out of his. We painted this baby's room gray and it will have pink accents. Those who know me well should know that the walls never had a chance of being pink! There is a queen bed in there so it now has a white quilt, pink bedskirt and pink and gray pillows. It is definitely looking feminine. She will probably have some simple pink bumpers, nothing fancy.....that is what happens when you are second I guess.