Just how much is a sock monkey hat worth????

Well when it looks this cute on a lot. You can have your very own for the low price of 28 bucks...:) yep you read that right.. Is that not the most outrageous price for a stupid hat you have ever heard of. Seth just insisted (i kinda did to) that G have it. Granted he will be wearing it for at least the next 4-5 years cause its big on him. But its stinking cute!!!

I dont know what he was doing in that last pic. He was crying though because he wanted to go bye bye..lol

On another note...
Im not sure if many of you who read this blog are aware that for the last 2 months I have been working out at the gym 4-5x per week and counting calories in an effort to loose about 45lbs. Well my hard work is paying off :) Here are some mini victory pictures of me in a size 12 jean. I started in a size 16 ( i cant beleive I wrote that there) because I am an apple shape. They didnt fit my bottom half but had to be that size to button. I have lost a total of 15lbs to date. So even though its kinda weird to put these on here, I am because im so happy to be seeing progress ..lol
Have fun looking at my butt :)

And the tree is FINALLY up :)

Normally our tree goes up the weekend after thanksgiving. This year well we are running a little late because Seth got sick last weekend after our visit to Hutch. He still has whatever it is but its going away. Of course he passed it to Greyson and then me.

Greyson is starting to talk up a storm! He has learned to say a lot of new words in the last week alone. 2 days ago he started saying beep-beep because we were in the store and I was playing around with him saying it. Tonight after I got the tree up, i turned off the lights and said look at the Christmas tree and he said Christmas tree and pointed to it.. cute is all I have to say. Oh and I have been trying for at least a month now to get him to say more please when he would like more food or milk and 2 days ago he finally did it! He doesn't say please yet but he will say more. Were still working on please.

Oh and we have finally got him to drink from a hard spout cup!! WOOHOOO

Tell me how 4 gifts what I said I was getting for Greyson ahem turned into about 15 or so? I didnt take count but you can see in the pictures above its more than 4. In my defense most of them are books and I wrapped each one so he can open more. I have a feeling he is going to like to unwrap this year. And that 15 or so doesn't include his stocking and ahem 2 good size gift bags full of loot :)

Enjoy :) Here is our tree, Greysons first christmas ornament (were going tomorrow to get this years), and some random pics of Greyson.

Whew its been a LONG time......

We have just been super busy. Greyson and I have been doing lots of playdates and seems like we are never home. He is getting so big and starting to talk up a storm! I am amazed at all the words he can say now. He is just a little person now. Boy does he have a temper though when he doesnt get what he wants. I guess he gets that honest though :)

Right now were trying to get ready for the upcoming holidays. Were going down to Hutchinson (KS) to be with Seth's parents for Thanksgiving. Christmas we are staying home, but hoping we will get visitors. We are staying in Hutch until Saturday and coming back to get the tree set up. I still have yet to do much shopping so hopefully in the next few weeks (cause thats all I have) I will get everything done. Not sure what to get Greyson because he is still young yet. We did get him a new chair and ottoman set. Ill post pictures of that later im sure.

For now.. Today we decided to go to the zoo! It was basically half price admission and it was a little chilly this morning but warmed up. Greyson was a bit more interested this time around. Last trip he could care less. So here are some pictures from today!

Enjoy

Popcorn and puzzles whats better???????

A few from last night... Popcorn with daddy.. Who says you cant give toddlers popcorn? I read that somewhere in a some book.. :) He likes his popcorn from the bag. Doesnt care much for it unless you let him get it out for himself. I love the first one of his face and mouth full of popcorn.. its totally cute :)







Long time post due.. Greyson is cute as always. He has started talking up a storm and loves to talk on the pretend cellphone. Either the fake nemo one we bought him or ours which we have to lock otherwise he calls China. Even still its cute. He has started so many words and at times im amazed at what comes out of his mouth. His latest favorite is yep you guessed it NO ! He says it plan as day. Its cute but wont be in another few months.

He likes to "do" his puzzle as you can see from the pic below. I love the look on his face as if he is concentrating really hard. Look at the one 2nd down. His tongue is sticking out..lol

BUSY BUSY BUSY!!!!!

Greyson and daddy :)







We have been going like the energizer bunny the last few weeks. We made a trip down to Hutchinson so Greyson got to see his dads' side of the family. He did great and was okay with everything including the 3.5 hour drive down. We went to his cousins soccer games on Saturday morning. I didnt take the camera down with us! So we have no photos..

Saturday we went to the Renaissance festival of Kansas City. Greyson seemed to have a good time but got wore out from skipping a nap the day before and of course we were out the next day but as you will see below he conked out in the stroller for about 45minutes.






Greyson rode an elephant!! There is a first time for everything I guess and Seth thought it would be fun to have Greyson ride an elephant.. Mind you it cost 8 freaking dollars for an elephant to take him and G around 4 trees but hey its an elephant ride :) Im not sure how he did when they first started walking because I couldn't see his face but on the last leg of the short short walk he was scared...lol it was kinda cute and funny.

He also got to go inside a little place to pet and feed goats and such he wasnt really that interested in the animals more of walking around! We got a cone of food to feed them and he still didnt care to much. But it was a place for him to run around after being in a stroller for most of the day.
Then today we went to a birthday party for a friend of ours.. here are some pictures from that also. I tried feeding Greyson some birthday cake with no luck, he reached for animal crackers and I thought okay thats kinda weird. Well I just had the cake sittting there on the plate and Seth wanted it and cut off a piece (he was sitting closer to G) and Greyson reached out and grabbed it, then precided to eat the whole piece of cake but apparently he wanted to feed it to himself. He got to go outside and play in a ball pit and looked like surfer boy at one point!





As you can see we have been very very very very busy and running almost non-stop the last few weeks so this week im hoping to stay in as much as I can without losing it.. after a few days we have to get out because by then both of us need some fresh air

The Monkey Thing

Remember that monkey thing I talked about in our last post? Well here are some more pics.. If you say to him Greyson where is George? He will walk over and pick up this George no matter where he is. And if you say to him Greyson where is Monkey? He will get the sock monkey :) Its the cutest thing!!!! Still cant figure out what his lovey is though.. guess in time we will know

And Im Behind.......

I meant to update last weekend and forgot. So im behind a post as I wanted to update this blog weekly. So from here on out ill make sure to update it weekly :)

A series of smiles and laughs......




































Lovey's:
We have wondered what would turn out to be Greyson's Lovey.. we have tried giving him a few different things hoping it would be his lovey as we bought 2 or sometimes 3.. to no avail. He never seemed to catch onto anything. For months and I do mean months now I have put this Curious George in pajamas in his crib, with a blankie from Old Navy and now if you ask him if he wants to go shushie (shush e what we call going to bed) he will go and get his old navy blankie from his crib if he can reach it..

But while we were in KY on our vacation Seth found a sock monkey and we have a monkey thing in this house so we got it and started giving it to him in his crib also. Well he cuddles the sock monkey now.. here is a picture..so im wondering still which is his lovey or if its all of them?


















And last but not least.. a new skill
Taking his diaper and putting it in the trash.. I have been very very very lazy using my cloth so we have been using disposables lately and for some reason Yesterday morning Seth got up with him, changed his diaper like we always do first thing and Greyson grabbed the diaper and took it right to the trash can! He has never done this before nor have we ever told him to do this.. Did it all day yesterday and then did it this morning with me when I got him up and changed him. I thought yesterday was a fluke but nope did it this morning also. So Greyson knows to take this diaper and put it in the trash :)

He has learned to do Eskimo kisses!!!! Its the cutest thing.. I give them to him and he started giving them to the dog :) Its so so freaking cute. Has yet to do them to either me or Seth but its cute he gives them to the dog.

He still has not learned to use his ride on toy. He can go backwards but not forwards. but he thinks he is hot stuff when he goes backwards. It's funny to watch him do new stuff as he gets this look of hey look at me im a big boy on his face each time. He is proud of him self.