Grant: 2 MONTHS

Time is flying by and Grant is already 2 months old! 

 

He is SUCH a good baby! 

 

He has gotten SO much bigger in just the last month.  He has lost the newborn look and looks much more...baby to me.  I am not sure of a better way to describe it. 

I love all his little expressions.

Whoa, mom!  How many times are you going to flash that thing in my face?

 

I just love little baby toes.  We made an ornament for Grant's first Christmas with an imprint of his foot that Aunt Jenny gave him for Christmas.  I love it!  

 

We are getting these big grins quite often these days and I could not love them more!

 

Grant is still eating great.  We go to the doctor next week to get an update on his weight.  He is still nursing exclusively and I hope to continue to provide all his food even when I start to slowly ease back into a work schedule early/mid February. 

 

Sleep is going well too.  Six hours has become much more the norm at night and I think we will be at 7-8 hours in the coming weeks.  I told you he was a good baby!  (Knock on wood). 

 

Other activities that Grant enjoys include laying on his play mat while looking at the flashing lights and mirror that are attached.  He loves to watch his brothers play and have people talk to him.  He also LOVES to stand, meaning he puts weight on his legs.  Yikes!  Nathan loved to do the same thing and he was taking his first steps at 7.5 months.  I am still hoping Grant is going to be more...chill.  We shall see!  

How could you not love this sweet face? 



Christmas 2013: Part 3

I know I am STILL posting about Christmas!  It is obviously a BIG holiday for our family!

 

Part 3 of Christmas took place at my Grandma and Grandpa Wood's house.

 

I will let the multiple photos tell the story. 

 

Nathan immediately got a muffin when we arrived.  He didn't even bother to take off the paper.  After I took this photo, I did remove the paper for him.

 

The front room at GGs is FULL! 

Nathan was ready to rip open some presents. 

A new book!  Thanks, Aunt Patty. We have read this one several times already. 

I love this smile. 

Nathan wanted this tractor out of the box immediately! 

Why do they make toys so difficult to get out of box?  You have to have three tools with you at all times on Christmas morning just to get things out of the box.  Sorry, end rant!

More of the Wood family Christmas chaos.  Grandpa is always in charge of the trash bag.  Maggie was trying diligently to keep Hadley's Christmas bow in her hair. 

Krista looks a bit overwhelmed by the whole process. 

Megan's boyfriend, Lewis, experienced his first Wood Family Christmas.  He was a trooper.  He, Megan and Kasey also babysat all three boys the following Saturday for us while Jeff and I got to attend a wedding reception.  Thanks, guys!

Finally able to play with the new tractor!

Tyler opened a new book too!

Kasey and Megan

Notice Steve in the background.  My caption for him is "Dang, this beer is gone already!"

Maggie is still working on Hadley's bow, minutes later! ;)  

A new bowling set from GG.  Thankful for our rule that it gets to stay at her house!  Tyler was VERY excited and last week it kept him very busy at GGs when he visited on Tuesday with Aunt Sandy.

This head massager went around the room and was quite a hit!

Tyler wanted to help Hadley open her presents and she wanted nothing to do with it.  I don't blame you, Hadley. 

 

Nathan was very tickled by the head massager. 

I am not sure if Nathan is yawning or licking his zipper.  Nathan loves the texture of zippers so I often find him licking his coat zippers - gross!

Hadley appears to be practicing her big sister techniques on her baby doll.  Maggie appears concerned.  :)

I don't think Steve is really eating paper in this photo.  I believe it is paper flying from across the room in an attempt to make it in the trash bag.  Poor Maggie, I am sure got pelted a few times.  

Dad excited about new books while my mom has another drink from her beer.  Did I mention this "event" starts at 11 AM? ;)

This family reads a LOT!

Bow still in tact.

 

Kasey and the gift of the day, the head massager!  I really need to remember to pick one up next time I am at Bed Bath and Beyond.  Maybe I can get Tyler and/or Nathan to give me a massage every once in awhile. ;)

Anna reading to Nathan.  My boys love family events because they can ALWAYS find someone to read to them. 

Grant was a bit hot when I changed his diaper from all the activity so I left his pants off.  Hey, it's family!

Nathan making up some words to one of his new books.  Anna has the look that she doesn't quite understand. 

 

If you are still reading/looking, kudos to you for hanging in there through ALL those photos.  Thanks to Jeanne for grabbing my camera and taking most of them.  I love it when people take my camera.  It is always such a fun surprise for me when I upload photos.   Christmas 2013: Part 4 (of 5) coming soon! :)



Church Christmas Program

Sunday, December 22, was the Children's Christmas program at church.

Tyler was pretty excited and didn't mind wearing his sheep hat at all. 

 

We had been taking Tyler to church 1 hour early several weeks prior to his performance to practice with the Rainbow Bells.  Each child gets two bells and when Pastor Leah holds up their color card they ring their bell.  They played two songs and were pretty impressive.   

Tyler really got into playing the bells and thinks he can now play with Grandma, GG, Aunt Susan and Aunt Patty on the big bells.  I am not so sure they are ready for Tyler in the big bell choir yet but he sure has fun with his Rainbow Bell group.

 

Thanks to Aunt Jeanne for several of the photos!  

 

Next it was onto the Christmas story.

 

Tyler took his little friend, Miles, under his wing during the performance.  They were hamming it up!

I think this one is pretty cute.

Yep, you might have noticed in the earlier photos that Grant got to play the starring role of Baby Jesus.  That meant I was first pick for the role of Mary - lucky me!  Jeff elected NOT to play Joseph so Dr. Sincox filled in the role.  Jeff was not concerned about my fill in husband at all since Dr. Sincox is bit older that I am.  ;)  He was the doctor that helped deliver both Kyle and I into the world.

 

GG was the director of the Christmas program again this year and it was a great success! 

Tyler had a HUGE crowd of family in attendance!  Thanks, everyone!

Jeff was able to get another photo from the balcony as the sheep and shepherds exited church (meaning Nathan was sitting still!). 

 

We love that our church encourages children participation so much and the kids did a wonderful job of reminding us of the true reason for the season!