3 Months Old!

Dear Grayson,

       Four months ago, I did not know a love like this.  I can not imagine our lives with out you now.  It is hard for me to remember what life was like before you came along.  You make me pray harder for all of my friends who are longing to be mothers.  I want everyone to be able to feel this painful, bone deep love.  Ok.  Enough with the gushy stuff.  What have you been into these days?

• You weigh 14 pounds!!  
• You sleep through the night now!  Let the hallelujah chorus sing.  
• You eat a lot.  In the morning you eat about 8 ounces and through out the day you eat 5 or 6 at each meal. 
• This month you got to visit your birth family and were such a happy baby. 
• You will not take a paci.  No matter how hard I try.  Even though, as I write this, you have had a paci in for about 30 min.  A RECORD!! 
• You went to your first funeral this month.  Daddy's Grandfather passed away but don't worry...you got to meet him.  
• You are in a size 1 diaper but are on the cusp of a 2.
• You can wear 3-6 months and 6-9 months clothes depending on the brand.  
• You are not much of a napper.  You will take a 20-30 min nap everyday. 
• Between the hours of 5 and 7 you hit angry baby mode.  You are so exhausted that you melt down completely.  Since you do not every really cry, it is kind of cute because you are just so pitiful. 
• You have started to jibber jabber all the time.  You have so much to say!  
• You love to watch Sesame Street during your bottle time.

The past 3 months have gone by in a blink of an eye.  I am so glad I get to spend everyday with you.  You are my pride and joy.  Mommy and Daddy love you so very much!

 On a side note- You are VERY hard to photograph these days!  You are so wiggly and do not sit still.  The following photos are the attempts at capturing the 2 photos from above.

Slumped over in the chair. 

Peeling the sticker off. 

So I move him to his crib...again with the sticker. 

Please?  

Ok.  You win.  

The poor sticker barely made it in the pictures! 

The Un-Birthday

Weekend=FUN! Monday=Boo.

I had this wonderful birthday post ready to go for Artie's birthday yesterday.  But then I woke up and Monday happened.

Don't you hate when a wonderful weekend is ruined by a Monday?  Yeah.  Me too.

Poor Artie spent his birthday worrying about my car.  The dealership called and I need another new transmission.  That would round out this car to having 3.  In 2 years.   Not a great track record in my books.  So we had to make the decision to either pay the $4000 for the new (refurbished) transmission or cut our losses and buy another car.  We decided to find another car.  Everything will be finalized tomorrow and I will no longer have to worry about my car anymore.   Praise the Lord.

Artie is getting a birthday re-do on Thursday haha!

I do have to say that this weekend was wonderful!  So I just keep thinking about it and forgetting about Monday ha!

Saturday the band had their last competition of the season and the majorettes did AWESOME!  I was so happy and proud of all their hard work.  There was not a majorette judge this time but they totally would have won!

Sunday was a blast as well.  Artie, Grayson and I went to visit his birth family!  It was so magical to see them together again.  They could not get over how big he was and that he will be 3 months old this week.  I am so glad we got to spend the day with them.  I took some wonderful pictures of them with Grayson that I will put in his book.  We hope to get together more than just once every 3 months.  I pray that other families of adoption are able to have this kind of relationship.   I am glad he was his giggly self haha.  Sometimes he has a bad day and just cries...but not Sunday!   I just cried and cried on the way home thinking of the sacrifice they made for our family.  I could not imagine one day with out his sweet smile and it just breaks my heart.  (for their privacy I have colored their faces)

Oh Dear week 2

It is that time of the week for Ashley and Heather's Oh Dear moment.

Back story for the video that follows:

Ashley and I were asked to help come up with a hip hop routine for the dance studio we work with.  So over the summer we got busy trying to come up with cute things.  Once we figured out a concept, we hit the ground running with it. The girls would dress like nerds and then shed that look for a cooler, hipper outfit.  Ashley and I were to choreograph the nerd part and someone else was choreographing the hip hop part of it.  (I am not a hip hop kinda girl)  It didn't hit me until now that they asked us to do the nerd part...haha.  Ahem.  Moving on.

This video is of Ashley and me in my living room working on the dance.  We managed to drag our husbands in to watch and this is what happened.  (the video is backwards because it is from photo booth)

I apologize in advance for the booty in the face move...on stage it is not so, well, in your face.

I hit the fan pull, it hits the light and scares the daylights out of us.  I thought the fan was going to fall on my head.   Our husbands just rolled their eyes.

Birthday Present

Today Gray and I went birthday present shopping for Artie.  It gave us the perfect excuse to get out of the house for a bit.  So I loaded him up and we went to the mall!  The first stop is always Gymboree and let me tell you how cute the holiday line is!  Yay!  I bought his outfit for our family Christmas picture and it is just precious.

*All photos are from gymboree.com

I just think that little panda hat is too cute for words.  I am still trying to decide what bottoms he will wear. I was not a fan of the jeans that matched. Now what will Artie and I wear? Meeeep!  

After Gymboree we were walking past Abercrombie (Grayson had just fallen asleep) and the loud music  woke him up.  We were not even in the store and it was that loud...not to mention the smell is so strong.  It will knock over a horse. I feel bad for their employees because they will have some serious hearing issues after working there!   

I finally found Artie's gift yay!  We are going to celebrate tomorrow at a local restaurant called The Butcher's Block YUM.  They have the best coke there...maybe because they put it in mason jars.  Shhhh...Don't tell anyone that we are missing the football game!   

It was a pretty good day. Oh and here is your daily dose of cuteness! 

I hope you have a wonderful day!  

Oh dear

A conversation between Ashley and myself:

Ashley: Can you show me how to work my sewing machine?

Me: Yes!  Do you have the manual?

Ashley: Well you have to pump it and spin the wheel. Is that a manual?

Me:  Huh?  No I asked if you had a manual!  Not if it was a manual!  Hahahahaha!

Random Post

Gray has slept all the way through the past 2 nights!  Wahoo!  I am so blessed to have an easy going baby.  I am sure if Artie and I had created a child together it would be heck on wheels.  Not kidding.  Evidently Artie was a screamer.

The only time he gets fussy is when has to put clothes on.  The child likes to be naked.  So if that's what it takes for him to be happy- done! This is the only time in his life when it is fully acceptable to be naked.

Ever since he had his 2 month shots, Gray has been spitting up more.  He never did that before that point...has anyone experienced that before?

I have a love/hate relationship with my car.  I love that I do not have a car payment and it is big enough for all of the dogs.  I hate that it does not work.  Ever.  The day after Gray came home from the hospital it went into the shop and did not return for a month.  It is back again in the shop.  Who knows when it will return at this point.  I am hoping it will last me a long while because as I said before...I love not having a car payment!

Life is so busy right now!  Artie, Gray and I are going to the beach next month and I am soooo ready.  We (I) have a lot going on right now and I am ready to just slow down to enjoy the holiday season.  My favorite time of year is Advent and it is quickly approaching.  

I am seriously so backed up on laundry that I can not even walk in my laundry room.  Gray is worth it through.  I am working on it little by little this week.

The band has a competition on Saturday and I am nervous/excited.  I LOVE band contests but hate that it will be cold on the girls.  Metal sticks are not too fun to catch when the temperature is low!  Was anyone else a majorette in high school out there?  I would love to see pictures!!

Artie's birthday is Monday and he will finally catch up to me in age yay!

I hope you are having a fabulous week!

11 weeks old

Guess what sweet face is 11 weeks old today?