Fun Filled Weekend

We have had a really fun weekend! Some of my girlfriends threw me a great little shower and gave me some cute girl stuff. So many new options for dressing a little girl...I may go broke before she makes it to age 2, lol!
Grant got to go to a friend's (Carson) birthday party. He got to meet a clown and get his face painted. He also got to meet Mickey and Minnie Mouse! We weren't sure how he would do since Santa was such a traumatic experience last year.....but he was in total awe! He loved it! I am hoping that means that he will love Santa this year too.

Grant loves to get in bed with Mason. He is getting a little too big for it now though.

Meeting Mickey and Minnie Mouse

Waving at them

Hanging out with the mouse!

Sitting very patiently while getting his face painted. He got to pick what he wanted...

Balloons!

Grant and Sadie

A balloon sword from the clown

Grant telling the clown he wanted a blue sword

All the kids got Mickey hats with their initials on them, very cute!

New Toy and New Sentences

Grant is really starting to use more and more words together and it is so funny sometimes. He will say "Grant do that" and then say "Yeh?" like he is asking if he can. If he sees something on TV or in a book that he likes, he will say "Grant want that, get at store?". He also says "mama make that" and "mama buy that". He loves to announce when anyone gets home too....he says "mama at home" or "dada at home".

All the new consignment sales are beginning for this season so I went to the first one and came home with this...chalk board on one side and dry erase on the other as well as a roll of paper that comes down for other drawing. Grant loves it! Our house is starting to look like a kids paradise though and it is only going to get worse when all the baby stuff comes back out.

Babies and Friends

Elizabeth brought her 2 week old, William, over for a visit and Grant would not leave his carrier alone. He was dying to sit in it and rock.....sooooo I had to go ahead and pull out his old carrier. He LOVED it! He wanted to be strapped in too. Needless to say, he is way too big for it but we were able to get him strapped in amazingly. He may not want the new baby to get in it though, ha ha!

Juliet came to visit. Grant loves playing with her!

Baby Girl Update and New Pics of Grant

I went for my 30 week appointment this week and all is well. Her heart rate is 145 and 10 more weeks to go! This heat is killing me and I am really hoping this little girl decides to come at least on time or maybe even a few days early! Grant felt her move when I was reading to him one night this week and now he constantly asks "baby move?" and then says "baby out". He may be saying to put her back in after she arrives, ha ha! Potty training is still going great. He only slips up every now and then when he gets busy and doesn't want to stop what he is doing. I think he would prefer to tee-tee outside all the time if we would let him. He is starting to put 3 words together too. Now, when we sing "Wheels on the Bus" he says "all through town" at the end of each phrase. Constant chatter at our house!

Loving the mini ice cream sandwich he got after dinner one night!

He loves the rain and wants to play in it so we gave in this time

Baby Girl Johnson Update

I am now almost 28 weeks along and can't wait for it to be over! We went to the doctor today and I did my Glucose test (I did the fruit punch flavor this time and it was much, much better than lemon lime). I also got my Rhogam shot. Her little heart was beating at 145 and everything looks perfect. We actually got the chance to see her in 3D which was kind of neat. Although she kept her hands in front of her face for most of the time. We will get one more ultrasound at 34 weeks.

Here is her face with a hand on her left side

Her foot

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!