Grant 5 Year stats, Moving Time, Veggie Garden, Turtles and Girly stuff

Busy, Busy, Busy!  That is what we are around here!

We have finally found a house to buy!  After backing out of one contract, we found an even better option.  The schools, location and house are all great!  We will be moving again in July!  This means boxing up everything again and the kids are loving it....unfortunately.  Grant wants to draw on every box and they both want to climb in all of them too, ugh!  It is going to be a slower process this time so we are starting earlier, lol.

Grant's chin is healing nicely.  He may end up with a scar but we are trying to keep sunscreen on it to make it better.  The picture below is before we got the stitches out. 

Grant went for his 5 year check up and he is 43 3/4 inches tall (75%) and weighs 40lbs (40%).  His vision and hearing were perfect too.  We are all set for Kindergarten now!

Grant got a Veggie Garden for his birthday (Thanks Keri and Ross) and he loves it!  I honestly didn't think it would grow that well but it is doing so great.  We had to replant them in bigger pots. He has watermelon, cucumbers, green beans, squash and radishes.  I think we may need even bigger pots soon.  He goes out every morning and waters them and sees how much they have grown.  The squash have blooms now so he is really hoping to get a vegetable soon.

I rescued another turtle on the side of the road and brought it home for the kids.  They both loved it as expected.  They both wanted to keep it but we made them release it after a few hours.  It was a very lively turtle....not scared of anything and hardly ever when in its shell....unless they picked it up.

Grant continues to do great in swim lessons and Sloan loves to watch him.  I will be starting some group lessons with her in the next month or so.  We have her blowing bubbles in the bathtub water now so that is a start.  She is a little more testy than Grant at most things so it should be interesting.

Sloan loves to do hair now.  She will do her Barbie head's hair or tell me to sit down so she can brush mine.  She is not super gentle though, lol.  She also likes to put on her heels and walk around.  I never thought I would produce such a girly girl.   



We are headed to the beach soon for family vacation!  Grant is counting down the days until we leave and they are both talking about finding shells and playing in the sand. 

Grant's stitches

Riding in the boat

Sloan feeding fish and Grant in the background with his water gun!

Turtle Time!

Watching Grant swim

She likes the hot wheel

Sloan in heels

Doing some hair! 

The Veggie Garden 

Fun on the inflatable water slide at a birthday party

Grant with SuperWhy at a birthday party 

Spider face paint

Splash Park fun! 



Grant is 5!

Grant had a great 5th birthday party at a local stable.  Almost his entire class showed up and family and friends.....we had a great turnout!  All of the kids got to ride ponies and then we all had pizza and cake.  Grant loved riding the ponies but Sloan was not so sure.  I did get her to sit on a pony a couple of times but that was about it.

Grant is going for his 5 year check up next week so I will post stats then. 

We went to the lake for memorial day and Grant took a spill and ended up in the emergency room.  He busted his chin open and had to get 5 stitches.  He did so great in the ER and didn't cry at all until Luke walked in at the end.  They put a big needle straight in his chin around 7 times to numb it before it was stitched.  I was honestly shocked.....I would have been crying lol.  It took all I had to sit and watch.  I was squeezing his wrist really hard while they were giving him the shots to try and put his focus on that.....not sure that helped at all but it made me feel better.  We go to get the stitches out tomorrow hopefully.  He is our accident prone child for sure.

A few Sloan updates.....she is a blanket girl.  She has 2 blankets that she calls her "soft blankets" and she LOVES them.  She has to have them at night to sleep.  I actually forgot them when I dropped the kids off at my parents when we went out of town.  I had to get our pet sitter to over night them to her.  She was much happier after they got there, ha.  She is now pooping in the potty consistently so we are now potty trained.  Our only hurdle is that she still wears a diaper for naps and nights.  Hoping to resolve that soon.  She weighs 22lbs now!  She wants to actually walk up and down the stairs by herself.  She can do it too!  A little scary but we just stay right there with her.  She can be so brave with some things yet so terrified of other things.  Her determination to get what she wants is well represented in a picture below.  Grant got Starbursts and she really wanted them.  I really didn't want her to have them since they are so chewy (I was worried she would choke on them)....so I put them up high in the pantry.  She saw me do it and when I turned around, she was climbing the shelves to get one.  I ended up giving her one after that, crazy girl!
 

Our nanny, Penni, came to Grant's party

Grant, Sloan and Jon Walter

Sloan's face says it all!

Grant with some of his classmates getting ready to ride

Grant with Reece and Campbell

 Grant loves his new Big Wheel....glad they still make them!

Sloan trying to reach the candy I had put up high....she was pretty determined! 



Camp Houston, Pre-K Graduation, and T-Ball

It has been a while since I have updated this so I am going to do a couple of posts to split it up a bit.  Grant and Sloan went to "Camp Houston" for a week while we went on our annual couples trip without kids.  We had a fantastic time and they had just as much fun!  They got to do all kinds of fun things....visited the kids museum, a real farm, made s'mores and cookies, went fishing at the lake, played with Jon Walter and much more.

Grant graduated from Pre-K!  His class put on a cute little program with singing and dancing.  Their finale was to the song, "What does the fox say" and it was so funny.  He loves school so much and hopefully that will continue.

Grant also finished up with T-Ball.  We had a ton of practices and a couple of games rained out so it was a shortened season.  He enjoyed it though and will do it again.

Making cookies

Making S'mores

Eating S'mores....she loves chocolate!

At the children's museum

I love Jon Walter's face in this picture....priceless!

 Luke was the Head Coach so we got a great picture of them!

Grant with his teachers, Ms. Dale and Ms. Catherine

 "What does the fox say"

Sloan loves bubbles! 

Easter Fun!

We had a great Easter this year! We died Easter eggs and did numerous egg hunts in the house to practice for the real deal, lol. We planned on going to a local egg hunt that drops 20,000 eggs from a helicopter but then it rained. So, the church moved the egg hunt inside. It was essentially thousands of eggs thrown onto the floor and the kids scooped up as many as the could. Grant got a TON of eggs this year! Sloan had to open every egg to see what was inside before she would pick up another one. I tried to get her to not open them but we all know how that went. My super strong willed girl! She ended up with like 10 eggs so that wasn't too bad.

We went to see the Easter Bunny and fully expected a scream fest out of Sloan. She was saying "no, no thank you" when she saw the bunny. And then we watched the little boy in from of us, who was around her age. He went right up there and sat in the bunny's lap and smiled. Then, he got a bunny mask afterwards. I talked it up that he did it and the bunny was sooo nice. I did my normal spill to the photographer, "just take the picture even if she is screaming". It was our turn.....Sloan had a very fearful look on her face and I know what was coming so I just put her right next to the bunny and walked away. She was borderline but then decided she wasn't scared and half smiled for the camera! Shocking and wonderful! My screaming pictures may be over now!

Grant had his Easter Preschool Party at a local park. They got to play games and do an egg hunt.

The Easter Bunny brought the kids some fun toys this year. Grant got tinker toys and a light saber that shoots out both sides. Sloan got some dollhouse furniture and a Barbie Head. She loves to brush her hair and pretend to paint her nails. They got a bubble machine and some other little stuff too.

Some stat updates.....we just got the kids some new shoes and Grant is now an 11.5 and Sloan is wearing a 5 finally! Sloan weighs around 21 lbs and Grant is 39 lbs.

Sloan has also started pooping in the potty this week finally. She has had the peeing down for a long time but the pooping has been harder for her to get down. I think she was just scared for some reason. We have seen a ton of progress this week though, yay! She is also a control freak (like mama) and has to do things "her way". Teenage years will be super fun! One of her favorite phrases these days is "That's not fair"....guess where she picked that up from...siblings! Second child vocabulary is totally different. She knows most of her colors and can count to 10 consistently. She will hold 2 fingers up and say she is 2 if you ask her how old she is. And she knows her first and last name....Grant gets credit for this one since he is learning his full name now.

T-Ball

Grant is getting really good at hitting the ball now....and I actually got to take a video this time. Sloan usually keeps me so busy that I don't get a chance to take videos. And it is not great quality since it was on my little camera. I will take the actual video camcorder next week.

Spring Break Fun

Grant had spring break last week but we aren't going to the beach until this summer.  So, Grant and I took a day to visit some fun places.  We went to the Aquarium and the Zoo.  He loves going anywhere but really enjoys these.  We are now members to both so that makes it even better.....getting our money's worth this year!

The kids also enjoyed decorating an Easter Gingerbread house.  Sloan just wanted to eat the entire house though.  She has a major sweet tooth!  I actually had to get rid of it after a few days because she wouldn't stop eating it.  It was destroyed anyway at that point, ha!

In order to cook dinner, I have to find something to keep Sloan busy.  She wants to be right up under me if not.  And Grant wants to "help" with everything.  It makes everything take twice as long and I have burned more things and messed up ingredient amounts more lately then I care to think about.  Grant loves corn on the cob so I decided to put them to work.  They were my little shuckers!  Sloan pulled all of the "hair" off and Grant ate some of his raw but it definitely kept them busy and happy, lol!

At the zoo

 Riding the train at the zoo!

 He loved watching the scuba diver feed the fish.  They guy even had a speaker so he could talk to the kids and tell them what he was doing.

 Sloan with her corn.  She is always talking so it's hard to get a smile these days!

Grant busy with his corn!

The Easter Gingerbread house.....see Sloan stuffing her face with sugar!  Grant was not happy that she was destroying the house he spent so much time decorating!