Muscle Man

I love, love, love this picture! This is Grady with all his boy cousins, minus 2. These boys love showing off their muscles. Grady absolutely adores his cousins and they are SO good with him. Little Studs.

Little Sicky

A few weeks ago Grady got really sick. It was miserable. He wouldn't eat or drink anything for 2 days. I had never seen him so sick. On the 2nd evening that he was sick he started to perk up and wanted to eat. He was so happy to be eating food. He was so hungry! He about 4 slices of watermelon and was cracking us up. It was one of the best things I have seen, it warmed my heart right up to see him feeling better and eating.

Recent Happenings

Wow, a lot has been going on around here. We sure have been busy. Regan is busy with work and his LAST semester of school! Whoo hoo! I am so excited for him. I can't believe we will both have graduated. It has been a long road. I am busy teaching dance 2 nights a week and taking care of Grady man. Grady is a cute and busy as ever! There is so much about him that I just love. I really love being his mom. Here are few tidbits about him:

-He LOVES to play outside, be outside, run outside, etc. I don't know how it will be during the winter months but I guess we'll just be playing in the snow.

-He absolutely loves his Grandma's and Grandpa's. He gets so excited when we go to their house and he thinks he is the boss when he is there.

-He love all of cousins and my parents dogs. They are his buddies.

-His favorite foods are, anything pasta, eggs, crackers and fruit.

-His favorite book is "Nightime Sounds", a pop up book that makes animal noises.

-He loves cuddling his stuffed animals and blanket.

-His favorite toys are his Buzz and Woody, cars, balls and little people animals.

-He is climbing on everything now and thinks he is so big.

-He says Mom, Grandma, Grandpa, ball, car, truck, home, yes, this, and he knows a ton of sign language, too much to write.

-He loves his baths, loves to dance, watch Baby Signing Time and Super Reader and help mom with the laundry.

-He is one of the most loving and sweet little boys I have ever known. He has a real talent for making people feel loved.

(notice all the side walk chalk drawings. This is one of Grady's MOST favorite things to do. We have to hide the chalk.)

(Love this face)

(Our DVD player broke so Grady was so excited to watch Baby Signing Time on our portable DVD player.)

(Coloring with markers)

Yes we are having a little baby GIRL! She is due February 22nd. We are so excited and I know Grady is going to be the best big brother. I am doing great just getting huge. :)

Little Boys

Regan took Grady for a boys night out when I went to the Relief Society Broadcast. Regan has a bunch of guy cousins his age and they all have little boys so it was an ALL boys night out. They had so much fun playing together and eating their mac and cheese. I am so glad Grady has so many cousins to play with!

(notice what a good Dad Reg is-he tied a towel around Grady for a bib. I was so proud.)

(Grady, Clay, Brett, and Cannon)

Liberty Park

A couple days ago Grady and I went to Liberty park with my Mom, Aunt Jill, Emily and Harrison. What a fun day! There is so much to do there. We went to the Tracy Aviary and the bird show, fed the ducks, ate lunch by the lake, rode the merry go round, and played in the water fountains. I think I was more tired than Grady when the day was done. Too bad I was feeling really crummy. Luckily I had lots of helpers and Grady had such a fun time. It makes me sad that this is our first post of summer because we have had such a fun summer! We have almost hit everything on our summer to do list.

We played in the water fountains. Grady loves anything to do with water.

We went to the Tracy Aviary and Grady got to hold a ladybug! He loves animals and bugs. Nothing seems to scare him.

Cousin Harrison and Emily. Thank heavens for these two. They take such good care of Grady.

Oh and did I mention he is FAST!

Goodbye Elder Dangerfield!

My brother Jared left on his mission last Wednesday! I can't believe it. I am so proud of him and the man he has become. He is in the South Africa MTC for 3 weeks and then he is going to Uganda. Grady sure is going to miss his Uncle Jerry! I am sure the next two year will fly by.

(This picture was taken the night that Jared was set apart. THe night before he left.)

Funny Happenings

These are just some of the funny things that Grady has been doing. I just wanted to document them. I can't keep up with all the funny/cute things that he does. Life is constantly changing.

Grady loves my parents house! He walks up and down the hallway. He has to go into the bathroom and grab "his" rubber duckies. It is so funny that he knows right where they are at.

I don't know why but this made me laugh so hard. I think it is one of those things that only I think is funny. I gave Grady a piece of bread to eat because he needed a quick snack. He walked all over the house taking bites out of it. He thought he was so cool.
He is just like his Dad. Regan loves to eat just a plan piece of bread. To me that just does not sound good!
I put on a Baby Einstein (Old MacDonald is his favorite) for Grady and just got done changing his diaper. He seriously did not move from this position for like 10 minutes! Which is pretty funny because he really isn't that into TV so I couldn't believe he was so into it.