Other Beach Pictures

Whew, I am playing major catch up now on this blog!  It has been a couple of months but I am going through pictures and will start where I left off....the beach trip.  Here are some pictures of all the fun things we did at the beach this year....

Everyone got a water gun!

Taking turns jumping in and making big splashes

Playing with Grant's goggles

Sloan was obsessed with the phone since we don't have one.  She kept dialing real numbers though so we ended up having to disconnect it. 

They loved the golf cart!  We were not directly on the beach this year so it came in handy to have it!

4th of July Pictures

Here are the professional pictures we had done at the beach over the 4th of July. The photographer was fantastic and we got some really good shots! I will post more about our trip later.

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!