12 Days of Christmas countdown cont...

On the tenth day of Christmas, Grady received an Elmo pop-up book.

On the ninth day of Christmas, Grady received a green tractor with logs.

On the eighth day of Christmas, Grady recieved a horse.

On the seventh day of Christmas, Grady received a pig.

On the sixth day of Christmas, Grady received an animal puzzle.

On the fifth day of Christmas, Grady received a toy zebra.

Merry Christmas!

Happy Birthday...

HAPPY 21 months, GRADY!

What are you up to these days?

You weigh 33 pounds

You wear a size 2 in most clothes

You wear a size 8 shoe

You love pickles.

You love to turn on the Christmas tree.

You have really started liking horses.

You can sing your ABC's...although not all the way through, yet.

You sing Barney's I Love You song.

ELMO continues to be your favorite!

You can say I uggh you (I love you) and it melts our hearts!

You have started waking up in the middle of the night and crying out because you know we will come get you and bring you to bed with us. (bad habit, I know)

In three short months, you will turn 2!

It's still hard to believe our little baby isn't so little anymore.

We love you so much, monkey!

12 Days of Christmas...

Sorry it's been so long. But, I had to wrap up all the loose ends in order to graduate with my Ed.S. I am happy to say...I AM DONE!!! So thankful that I can truly enjoy these holidays and not have any worries about completing shool work to submit.

We started a new tradition yesterday with Grady. To celebrate the 12 days of Christmas, we will be surprising Grady with a small unwrapped gift under the tree each morning. He goes in, pushes the "on" button and looks for his present.

On the twelth day of Christmas, Grady received an Elmo dump truck!

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On the eleventh day of Christmas, Grady received a plastic alligator!

Right when he gets up, we go in so he can turn the tree on and see what he'll find.

He got a little too excited tonight. We caught him trying to open up his wrapped ELMO live! I would have been so upset had he seen it.

We had broccoli casserole for dinner tonight. It sounded so good, but I felt like I couldn't just make a casserole and eat it as the main course. Is this ok to do? We all enjoyed it anyway!

3 1/2 days until Christmas break! So excited to spend time with my little monkey for 17 days. Josh is also coming in for a while...so we are looking foward to having him here. Grady loves his uncle "Osh!"

We got a wonderful surprise snow a week and a half ago. Grady loved looking at it, but not so much playing in it. I have been making ornaments to give as gifts this year. Here are a few I made a couple weeks ago.

20 months...

Happy Birthday, Little Man! You are 20 months old today!

What have you been up to these past 20 months?

• You weigh around 31 pounds

• You now wear a size 6 diaper (target)

• You wear only 24 month or 2T...no more 18 months

• You grow more curious with each passing day.

• You love to talk.
• You wake up one time between 12:00-3:00 every night for a snack of milk.
• You LOVE ELMO...We are taking you to When ELMO Grows Up in January and we can't wait!
• You really like tractors!
• You wear a size 8 shoe.
• You LOVE Nemo Fruit Snacks and eat them for desert most nights!
• You nap from 12:00-2:00 on most days.
• You know what no means and now tell mommy and daddy no!
• I love you and am so proud to be called your mommy!

Roar...

Roar!!!...Grady was a stegasoarus this year for Halloween. We taught him how to say "Rooooaar" because we knew he wouldn't be able to say trick or treat. He really enjoyed the candy this year.

He loved the candy bucket!

Opening presents from his grandparents and great-grandparents. This is a bowling set Pop and Rose got him! :)

We went to the Chickamauga Battlefield for some pictures today. He didn't want to sit still.

My Brother's Wedding...

My older brother, Will got married last Saturday. We were ALL in it! Friday night my parents had the rehearsal dinner. Here are my grandparents with all three of us and Grady!

Asten got Grady ready on Saturday so that I could get ready with all the girls. Here he is playing before the ceremony.

All of the wedding party. Grady didn't want to participate in this photo. :)
Grady with his Gigi.
Me and my little monkey after the ceremony. Waiting for pictures to be made.
Today is Halloween! Our families are coming over at 4:00 for dinner. Then we will take G trick-or-treating afterwards!

Have a wonderful and safe Halloween!

Happy Birthday Grady!

You are 19 months old today! You are growing into such a hansome, funny, little man!

What are you up to these days???

• You weigh 30.4 lbs (95%).
• You are in the 100% for height.
• You still wear a size 5 diaper.
• You are wearing 24 month pants.
• You love reading books! This makes mommy so happy!

• Some 18 month onesies still fit. (I love how cute you look in a onesie!)

• You LOVE pears!
• ELMO is still your very favorite.
• You also love playing with trucks and tractors.
• You really like riding your horsey. You have two different ones and love them both!


• Bathtime is still so much fun for you.
• You love pushing the jets button on and off.
• You can point to the correct part when I say eyes, nose, mouth, hair, foot, ear, hand, and belly button.
• You love to give knuckle (fist to fist with daddy).
• You can say mama, dada, byebye, baby, melmo, papaw, nana, eye, nose, doggie, poppy, gigi, and beep beep.
• You just recently started saying bye bye mama!
• You usually sleep from 9:00-8:00!
• You take a nap around 11:30-2:00.
• You can hop from one foot to the other. :) (...or try so hard to)
• You can eat with a spoon and fork all by yourself and refuse to let anyone help you out!
• You love to kiss things! Here you are kissing your horsey.

Happy birthday baby boy! I love you more than you will ever know. You make my life so complete. I leave tomorrow for my conference in Atlanta and will miss you oh so much! Take care of daddy and I will see you on Wednesday night!

Busy Month...

Grady is at the best stage right now! He is so funny and laughs at everything!

I had Cindy's (my brother's fiance) Bachelorette Party last Thursday night. Here are the girls!

I made these cupcakes for it.

Our dear friends Bryan and Brittney had their wedding this weekend. Friday night we had rehearsal and dinner. Saturday was the wedding and it was absolutly gorgeous! The rain held off and it was such an intimate, beautiful wedding.

Isn't she beautiful?

They had the cutest candy station set up. Everyone got to fill buckets with candy for their wedding favor! Such a great idea!

I was off Friday, today, and tomorrow for our Fall Break. I took Grady to the doctor today. He has been congested and it was also time for his shots, so we took care of both of these today. He just has a cold, no infection. So thats great!

He weighed 30. 4 lbs. (95%)

He was in the 100 percentile for height and for his head.

His doctor said he was the size of a 28 month old! She isn't concerned because all of his "stats" are together. He is perfect to us! We know he's going to be a big boy!

Grady's new trick is climbing on the couch to sit next to me. We bring all his toys up so he can play with them. He loves sitting up here beside me!

I leave this coming Sunday afternoon for a conference in Atlanta. I will return on Wednesday. It is really hard to say yes to go when I can't bring Grady with me. I couldn't do it if I didn't have Asten. I have complete faith in him taking care of our little monkey. Even if he can't do the laundry. :)

When I get home from my conference we are going to Nemo on Ice. Then the wedding festivities for Will and Cindy's wedding will begin. This is what Grady will be wearing!