7 Months Old!

Chris and I cannot believe that our little man is already seven months old. It has gone by so fast. It seems like just yesterday we were bringing him home from the hospital and everything was so crazy. Now we are kind of getting the hang of things and really enjoying our sweet boy! He has changed so much and each day I am amazed at the new things he has learned. I am so grateful that God has blessed us and trusted us to take care of this sweet angel boy! I know how much I love Grant and I am sure Chris loves him just as much as I do, so I can not even begin to fathom how much God loves us. I am so thankful for the people in our lives who have helped us to get this far in raising this sweet boy! I have posted some pictures from Grant's birthday all the way up until today! I can't believe how much he has changed.

Not even 2 hours old!

2 weeks old!

1 month old and already so big!

2 months!

3 months!

4 months and loving his first taste of baby food!

5 months old! Looking back through all these pictures, I can't believe how much he has grown!

1/2 a year old!

Grant is discovering and learning new things everyday! For the majority of the time he is such a happy baby. He has his moments, but who doesn't?!

Some things about Grant at 7 months:
-He can sit up on his bottom totally unsupported
-He has two teeth on the bottom and the two on the top will be pushing through any day now
-He can roll over both ways-back to tummy and then tummy to back
-He has started to wave bye (he just started this in the last couple of days)
-He almost can pull himself all the way up to a sitting position from laying on his back
-He can push up on his knees into the tabletop position, and when he lays on his belly he will scoot around to when he wants to go

He loves to play peek-a-boo. If we put something over his face, he will pull it off and wait for us to say BOO and then he will laugh so hard! It is too cute!

7 months old! Sucking on his lip because those top teeth are causing him some real pain!

Hope everyone has a happy New Year!

Grant's First Christmas!

We had so much fun this year celebrating the little man's first Christmas. I can only imagine how much fun it will be next year when he is a little bigger. Grandma Karen and Aunt Deanna came in town for the week. We spent Christmas morning at our house opening gifts, and then went to see Marley and Me. Then Christmas night we all went over to Grandma Ann and Big E's house and had dinner with them and Uncle Tate and Uncle Matt (sorry I don't have any picutres from that, I forgot my camera). Grant had a blast opening all his gifts and I think he now has double the stuff he had before Christmas. Santa was VERY good to him this year!

opening some of my presents with Aunt Deanna's help

the toy box/bookshelf that Grandma Karen and Grandpa Bob had made for me

so excited about his new gift!


helping mommy open my gift


playing with his new monkey gym!

my first fishing pole from daddy!

And We're Back...

I set this blog up at the beginning to keep everyone updated on how Grant is and to post new pictures, but I obviously have been slacking BIG time. So my new year's resolution is to update our blog at least once a week! Let's see how good I am at keeping my resolution! :)

On another note, we got our first TWO teeth! Hopefully he will start staying asleep the whole night, and not waking up every 4 hours because he is in pain.

Sorry It's Been So Long!

Sorry it has taken me so long to update. I am so busy during the day, and by the time I get home and put Grant to bed I am ready to go to bed myself! Chris is working 24 hours again so its hard not having him here during the day or at night! Grant is doing great! He found his hands and now plays with them more than ever! It is so fascinating to me to watch him play with them for hours at a time! He likes to suck his thumb, but wants to have his blue lovey in his mouth at the same time as his thumb. It's actually pretty cute! Aunt Ruth came in town last week to spend some time with us and that was really fun! And last Monday, Chris and I got engaged! I'm so excited and we are going to get married on March 28, 2009! Here is some pictures that I have taken recently! I will promise to try and update soon!!

Busy Weekend!

working on making those neck muscles so strong!

the sweet ladies from the shower!
hanging out with his E!
watching baseball with Uncle Tate!
I LOVE those cheeks!
naptime with Uncle Matt (and yes Matt got him to sleep all on his own!)

This weekend was very busy, but very fun! It started on Saturday with a shower for me and Grant with some of the older ladies from my church. It was a last minute thing, but it was very sweet! It is so nice that we have so many people that love us and do these sweet things for us! I know things could be totally different, and it makes me feel good to have so much support. Then all three of us went to my mom's house and went to dinner with Uncle Matt. We stayed at my mom's house because Chris was supposed to get up very early in the morning to go fishing with David, but David got food poisioning the night before so they didn't end up going fishing offshore. Chris came back home today and went fishing at the lake with his buddy, while Grant and I stayed at my mom's and celebrated my cousin Caleb's birthday! But now we are all back home and ready to start another busy week! I am going to go to work in the afternoon and Chris is taking his test to be an in-charge paramedic at work! So if I dont update often this week, you will know where I am. Have a good week everyone!

Work Week

Last week I worked again, thats why I haven't updated until now! It was a very busy week! I took Grant with me every single day, so it was a little bit of extra work, but I am not complaining because I love spending as much time with him as I can. He loves going to work with me! He also loves Lauren, the little girl that I babysit for. I think he knows her voice and KJ's because I was with them the majority of the time that I was pregnant. Even the first day that he met her and KJ he felt at ease with them. Chris was going to watch him one of the days that I went to work, but then he thought twice about it because I was going to be gone for 12 hours. So this week he is going to start watching him while I run errands, so that he can get used to it! Here are some pics I took this week while I was at work:

hanging out with Lauren!

sweet boy!

still so long!

loves to stand up and smile!

bed time after a long day at work!

Still Growing...

Grant doing great! He is still sleeping through the night and is very happy during the day. He really only fusses when he is hungry, has a dirty diaper, or is tired! He is smiling so much now! I could sit and stare at him all day and most days I do :)! He has also learned the pouty face and he now uses that whenever he is not getting what he wants! It is so cute, but it also breaks our hearts whenever he does it. I'm sure he will be using that more and more as he gets older to get what he wants. On Thursday night he slept in his crib for the first time. He stayed in there until about 3am but then he wanted to go back into his swing! Last night we tried it again and he stayed in there only until about 11pm and then he wanted to sleep in his swing. Each night we will keep trying and hopefully eventually he will sleep in there the whole night. He loves to stand up on our legs and still LOVES his exersaucer! Here are some pics I took this week:

still loves to take a bath too!

chimpmunk cheeks
can pretty much hold his head up on his own!

loves to stand up on daddy's lap!

still trying to get that hand in his mouth!

smiling more than ever!

so happy in his exersaucer!

Nap Time...

Today is a good day! It is naptime at our house and has been for about the last two hours...which is very rare! I am trying to finish up this entry before he wakes up which I know will be soon! He is still sleeping all night every night, but I was up all night last night with a fever of 102 and really bad chills. I think I have just been going non-stop and not taking enough time for myself and it finally caught up with me! But today I feel better, and I am really glad that he is napping, so I can have some down time for myself! On Sunday I put him in his exersaucer just to see how he would like it because he doesn't like being held like a newborn anymore and just wants to stand on my legs, and he LOVED it! He is still a little to small for the seat so I put a rolled up towel in there with him. He can hold his head up all by himself while he is in there and Chris said he saw him today try to grab for one of the toys on there. Also as you can see in one of the pictures below he has learned how to suck his thumb. He still likes his passy, but at night when he is going to sleep he usually spits out the passy and sucks on his fist/thumb while falling asleep! Here are some pics of him in his exersaucer and sucking his thumb:

so precious!

learned that from his mom! :)

such a happy boy!

still loves his passy during the day!

very interested in those toys!

ps. happy birthday aunt deanna!

Back to Work!

I know I said I was going to try hard to keep this blog updated and I really had good intentions of doing so but this week I went back to work watching KJ and Lauren so I have been a little busy! I have been very blessed because I am able to take Grant with me to work so I don't have to leave him for the day and anyone who knows me knows that I do not like the idea of that! Grant is still doing really well! I made his urologist appt for September 17th, so I will let you all know how that goes. He is still sleeping about 10 hours a night ( I know we are VERY lucky), but he is not taking as many naps during the day so that makes him grumpy sometimes and harder to get to sleep at night! His personality is coming out more and more everyday! I am excited for the months to come to see how much he changes because even in just 10 weeks he already looks like a different baby. He is smiling so much now and he smiles really big when you look him in the eyes and say "Hey" in a deep voice...he loves that...sometimes he even starts laughing. Here are a few pictures I took this week:

Hanging out with his daddy!

Such a happy boy after his bath!

He loves this position on the couch!

I can't believe he is already 10 weeks old!

I think he is still a little young to be sitting in this seat, but since he is so strong I decided to give it a try!