And a short photo shoot

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What can I say my child is cute and photogenic. So I am compelled a lot to snap random pictures of him doing whatever. lately this has been easier said than done as I think me taking his picture daily for the last 13 months (haven't been so good this last month) has made him run in the other direction when he sees the camera. Literally. So its been hard to take photos of him without taking 15 of his back to get one good front picture. But here are a few that I took just about 15 minutes ago..

One of his newly found obessions is taking the top of the maalox bottle. Yes its empty :) He loves to un-screw the top.. then the last 2 days he has had an obsession with moving things from one place to another and doing it at least 200 times before he gets done with it. This can be anything. At one point yesterday it was cars.. he would line them up, pack them one at a time to mine or Seth's hand, then take them back one and at time to the table. Then it turned into this barn with farm animals but again he placed them from the barn to my hand, then back to the barn. Not sure what he is learning but im sure its something..



Oh and he is starting to walk down the step instead of going down it belly first. He uses the dog food container to help him walk down. Otherwise he uses our hand, but lately has started reaching out and grabbing hold of the door.

Just in case any of you have wondered.......

What Greysons room or even or house looks like here are a few pictures.. Nothing fancy because well there is just no space. Everything has to be practical or it cant be in here. Well if only I stuck to that rule :)

The first is the outside of our RV. The rest are of the small area in the RV we have deemed Greyson's bedroom. As you can see there it not much to it.. just a crib and some storage.. The three baskets on the bottom are toy storage, the drawers hold his clothes, and the cube is for books and small toys. There are A LOT more toys in various places around the house... ill post another blog post on that later on. Because they are beginning to take over the whole place.


So in case you guys were curious there are some samples of the place we call home. 1`

Some more pictures!

For some reason I didnt take any pictures myself of Greyson while we were on vacation. So I am waiting to get my copies of all the ones my family took. I did record a video and ill try to upload it in the next few days if I can figure how :)

Here are a few pictures of Greyson that I have taken in the last few days. If you look really close in the first one you can see his bottom molar teeth. Im not sure if his teeth have been making him cranky or what but the last 2 days he has not been a nice camper while on outings. The second picture is him not very happy because I was on the cell phone with my friend Nicole and he wanted the phone to play with. He LOVES playing with our cell phones.

Our trip to KY went smoother than I thought it would. Greyson did better with everyone than I expected because other than the few times he has gotten to see his Nona and Pa and the people we have seen at playgroup he is not around people. I expected him to be shy and not want to be around anyone. He was like this for about 10mintues at everyone's house then he just went about doing whatever.

I was happy to see him getting along with everyone and I think with the exception of Shane (my brother in law) everyone got to hold him at least a few minutes. I cant remember if Shane did or not... hmm if they read this I guess they will tell me :) He enjoyed being around everyone.

Today we celebrated Zach's birthday. We got him his mini cake, lite his candles and Greyson, Seth and I blew them out. Then me and Greyson ate birthday cake for Zach. Greyson of course kept coming back for more and i had to stop feeding it to him as he was getting ready to go to bed.

Not much else is going on at our house or with Greyson. He is still amazing us everyday with all the things he can do. Oh I almost forgot yesterday he did drink out of a straw for the very first time. Of course it was something worth working at.... his dads chocolate milkshake :)

We are on vacation!

I had been meaning to write on G's blog that we would be on vacation until the 30th of August. Right now we are in Kentucky visiting my family. I hope to be able to post some new pictures of Greyson when we return home. For now ill just tell you some things that have been going on with G.

He is getting all four of his one year molars (teeth). The bottom two and for sure left top right are pretty well out. Its like Fort Knox getting him to open his mouth to give me a look at the other top one right now so im guessing it has at least made it all the way through the skin by now. Some how he has pretty much been okay with it,with only a few crying spells. Nothing that Tylenol hasnt been able to help thankfully.

He actually has been doing quite a few new things! He is changing and learning so much from day to day its quite interesting to watch.

He loves it when his daddy reads him books. And his latest favorite is Barnyard Dance by Sandra Boynton. While Seth reads this book to him he slaps his leg and now as he is getting this book read to him he slaps his little leg. Hopefully someday soon we can get him to do it on video and ill upload it. Tonight he sat on the floor by himself and was babbling holding this book and was slapping his leg :) It was like he was reading it to himself.

He has also started giving kisses! Its so darn cute. He will just walk up and kiss you somewhere. Sometimes its your arm, leg, or even the top of your foot and he loves to kiss Sebastian (dog). He calls him dog dog and has been saying it a few times while we have been out of town. I think he misses the dog.

and last but not least he has started to sing or mimic you singing basically. Its so cute when he does this.. you can sing a song and he will go gaa gaa gaaa in the same rhythm that you are singing in. Seth got to see/hear him do this a few days ago and now anytime one of us sings he will sing also.

This is all I can think of right now!

Look who turned ONE

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These are some pictures that we had taken of Greyson by a fantastic lady here in KC. You can visit her website here www.candischastain.com to see more about her or her work.

But here are a few of G's photos! I hope everyone loves them as much as we do. I love how they came out. There are 40 pictures total but I of course can not upload every single one of them. So these are a few of my favs. Enjoy :)

Greysons first haircut!!!!

Well the time had finally come that we could no longer pretend we were hippies. Our child had started to look like a long hair hippy boy :) So for two weeks now I have been saying we need to take G to get his hair cut. Of course I wanted to take him to some special shop with cool little cars and such for him to sit upon thinking it would make the task a little easier.

Seth on the other hand thought the local Wal-mart would suffice. So im sure you can guess who won out.

Nope not me. We went to the local Wal-mart. The girl didnt do a bad job im happy to say. She did cut a little more off than I would have liked but I guess in the end it really is just hair and it will grow back. I was hoping for less of a "big" boy haircut to hold onto some of the babyness if that is a word.

G did rather well. There was no crying on his part and thank god for cheerios and puffs! As they kept him busy worrying about sticking them in his mouth instead of what was happening on his head :) So it went off without a hitch.

He does however look like a big boy to me now which makes me kinda sad. The haircut is cute none the less.


Here are some before pics:



And the big boy after:

Welcome to our blog!

I decided to start this blog so that everyone can just come here instead of having to go and log in just to see pictures of Greyson. I thought this way you can read as well as see what is going on with all of us. Expect to see quite a few posts in the next day or two so keep checking back as im going to try to "catch" up with all the happenings at our house and with Greyson.