grayson's future dentist is going to love us...

it would appear grayson has a sweet tooth! it's becoming a regular habit for him to spit his meats and veggies at me. he prefers fruit, which he gets for breakfast. 

the only way i can get him to eat anything other then fruit without spitting it at me is to give him a couple spoonfuls of the yummies then to sneak some of the other stuff in there. sometimes it works, sometimes it results in gaging and funny faces. 

lets hope his sweet tooth sticks with craving fruits rather then candy in the future! 


ps. i know i've been lazy about blogging lately. i promise i have some really good things coming though- so stay tuned!

under the sea

we try and get out of the house as much as we can with grayson so we all took a trip to the aquarium! we actually ended up buying a year pass because if we go even just twice it will have paid for itself. so here is to lots of future trips to see the fishies. 


i wasn't sure if he would be too young to enjoy it or not. he definitely was not. he loved looking at the fish. it was pretty awesome. 


these were all taken from my cell phone because my camera battery was dead. oops

he loved it! they just added lots of really awesome touch tanks to our aquarium, hopefully by the end of the year he will be able to enjoy those more. 


it was a good day. 




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antsy

our dining room has been a work in progress for the last three years. we've recently replaced most of the items and i'm starting to think it's time to swap out the color as well. i go back and forth about ten times a day. i think the biggest problem is that i am undecided about what color to change it to.


after taping up a ridiculous amount of paint samples i came to the conclusion a beige is really the only color that worked. if you know me though beige is not a color i do. all the rooms in my house a vibrant shades of blue, yellow, purple, chocolate brown...no beige. it's so not me. but i sort of like the way it looks in this room. i'm on the fence. 


the green is what it is right now. 

thoughts....? keep the green, go with the beige OR do i go totally nuts and do something like this..

probably not, but i do love that color. 


i'm starting to think i have too much time on my hands. 

Grayson says pretty please

We entered Grayson in Parent's Magazine Toy Model Photo Contest and we just got an email saying his is a finalist. Please help us out and vote as many times as you can until 2/20 by going here 

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airplanes

I brought my camera to chicago but was really lazy and did not take a single picture. I did however snap a bunch from my cellphone on the plane. 


We left early Saturday morning. Fortunatly we flew southwest so we were able to check our ridiculously packed bags, plus grayson's carseat. I used the moby to carry him around the airport, he is simply way too heavy to carry in the carseat now. 

* snowy chicago

Even though we did not beep security pulled us aside, put us in a glass box and patted BOTH of us down, because a mother and infant are so scary looking that they warrant such a search. His diaper bag was full of baby food and bottles filled with water. They went through and tested each one which took some time but was no big deal. 


Security on the way home though was horrible. They made me take off the moby and pull grayson out so we could both again be put in a glass box and patted down. I explained that i would need someone to hold him while i took it off and put it back on- apparently they are not allowed to hold children. Yet they insisted that i had to take off the moby, i kept explaining that i would need help. It was such an issue and ridiculously obnoxious. Finally someone held grayson while i unwrapped, then rewrapped the moby. They proceeded to tell me they could get fired for holding him -well then don't make me take the moby off! It really annoyed me. I understand being safe but common! 


Grayson was so good while we waiting for the plane to board. He played with his toys on my lap. I did think it was crap that we were almost the last ones to board the plane. They seat all the priority people first (which apparently was 90% of the plane), then families with small children, then the rest of the plane. We were lucky enough to get the first row though which is nice because it has so much more leg room. 

*it was really awesome seeing the ice over lake michigan. 

I was told i should give him a bottle on takeoff and landing to help with any pressure problems. He didn't seem at all bothered by the plane at all. I was hoping he would sleep but he just kind of hung out, played with his toys and looked out the window. 


He did however fall asleep just before we landed, both trips. I loved having the moby with me because even though he was not strapped into a seat he was strapped to me so i knew he was secure if we hit any bumps. 

*We did have a little incident where we needed an outfit change. Poop up the back! Yuck. 

Fortunately there was no one in the seat next to us.

Security was nuts and slightly out of hand but overall traveling with a baby was not so bad (especially for someone who needed a sedative to just step on the plane- i don't fly well). I was able to bring everything we needed in my diaper bag with no problems and even with the fight being two hours grayson kept himself entertained and was good. 


Chicago was fun! Grayson is a jet-setter now! Sorry i didn't take more pictures while we were there. 

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time to lower the crib

Yesterday i put grayson down to take a nap. I sat on the floor next to his crib because he kept sitting up and i didn't want him to see me while i waited for him to fall asleep. Stinker found me...

He thought we were playing some kind of game. 

Clearly him hanging over the crib was a sign that we needed to lower it. 

leavin on a jetplane

we will be quiet the next few days. grayson and i leave for chicago in the morning. we are super excited. i'm a little nervous about traveling alone with an infant though. i am sure it will be fine (and if not i have some relaxers to make it fine- did i mention i have a fear of flying!?)


we will take lots of pictures and be back next week. 


happy weekend!

another great deal

i know this is the third post in a row here about money saving but i like to share..


now that i am no longer breastfeeding grayson is going through formula like crazy! it can get expensive so i like to keep an eye out for deals. here is a great one. last time this was around we got around 50 bottles!

on the move!

since the beginning of january grayson has been getting around really well. he mostly army crawls and moves around but he can get up on all fours and rock himself. the last week or so though he's getting really good at actually crawling. tonight he went a few feet. he can also go from lying down to sitting up all on his own. i discovered this was a problem tonight when i put him to bed and he sat up and tried to stand up by grabbing onto the side of the crib and pulling himself! 


looks like we will be lowering the crib tomorrow.