Cheese!

Grant LOVES cheese....processed American cheese is his favorite. He perks up, smiles, and sometimes even starts bouncing in his highchair when he sees me get a piece out of the refrigerator for him. A couple weeks ago, we were grocery shopping and I got a package of it for him. He was getting hungry and a little fussy so I opened it while we were in the store and got a piece out. When he saw it, he stuck his tongue out and started bouncing and shreiking in the grocery cart! It was so funny....I love my silly little boy so much.

Last week, I took some cheese out of the refrigerator to make him a grilled cheese sandwich. He grabbed the slice and I let him hold it for a second while I got other things out that I needed. Well, he started trying to eat through the wrapping, so I took it from him after a few seconds. He threw the biggest fit! He has started to do this more often, where he'll get SO mad if you take something from him that he wants. He sat on the floor and cried for probably 30 seconds before crawling back over to me to pick him up. It was probably mean, but I took pictures of him while he was so upset....it was just too cute to pass up, even though it probably made him even more mad at me!

Halloween Pictures.....finally!

I have been so busy and haven't had a chance to do a lot of blogging lately. But here are a few pictures from Halloween. Grant dressed up as a cow; I found a costume at a resale shop a few days before Halloween, with the tags still on it! So I decided to use that one instead of the dragon costume we already had for him. He hadn't slept great that day so he wasn't in the best mood around dinnertime.....so he didn't really appreciate us putting the hoodie part of his costume on! He kept grabbing it and trying to pull it off, but he always tries to pull it forward, which doesn't work!

We had planned on staying here to watch the trick-or-treaters come to our door, but I decided at the last minute to take him up to our church for the fall festival. So we went there for about 45 minutes, then came home and watched a few more kids who came to the door. Grant had a good time at the fall festival, especially searching for duckies in the bathtub! He didn't really understand the point of the game, but he had fun anyway! And he liked looking at all the other kids, of course.

Get this thing off of me!
It's so hard to be a baby when things don't go exactly your way!

Taking a walk to get the mail before the trick-or-treaters started coming around:
Our neighbors had one of those inflatable Halloween balloons in their yard....it was a pumpkin with three ghosts sticking out of it. Grant LOVED that! He stared at it and made noises at it every time we walked next to it over those few weeks. He's going to love Christmas! Here we are standing in front of it for him to watch:

At the fall festival:Checking out the other kids:

Warning: these are my rambling thoughts about photos....very uninteresting, so you may want to skip this post!

I've been trying to get stuff ordered from the Kodak website this weekend, since they're having a 25% sale (including prints) that ends tomorrow. I always seem to do this.....wait and order 500 prints at a time. So now I'm going back to early June and trying to pick the best ones out. Of course I'd like to order all of them because they're so cute and most of them have stories behind them, but I think Dean sees it as a little bit ridiculous that I get so many!

On Saturday, I just finished Grant's photo album (a very large one!) from the first three months, ending in late February.....yikes! Dean cautiously asked me if I was going to keep using that many pictures for his entire first year. But now I need to work on his scrapbook....I'm going to scrapbook his first few months (I've set some pictures aside from the album), then use my scrapbooks as photo albums starting where I ended this last album. I figure I'll just add as many pictures to each page as I can, and basically just label the pictures, instead of doing a lot of fancy scrapbooking stuff. The one thing that I don't like about scrapbooking is that I love to have TONS of pictures. A lot of times with a scrapbook, you can only use a couple of pictures for each topic, because the rest of the page is filled with decorative things! That's why I started off using a photo album for Grant's early pictures....because I had SO many of them!

Anyway, that's what's been on my mind this weekend. We didn't do too much.....watched a lot of football on Saturday (A&M and Alabama both lost, but at least Alabama's was a good game!), and Grant and I both picked up colds. We also hung pictures in Grant's room yesterday....it looks so good! Now we just have the rest of the house to go!

Once I am done ordering pictures, I will post some of Halloween and other things we've been doing.

First Steps!

I don't have any pictures of it, but Grant took his first steps on Sunday night! I set him a couple feet away from me and held out my hands, which I've done a few times over the past couple weeks. He'd always stand and smile, but then reach out with his arms and try to grab my hands before taking any steps (or else he'd decide that crawling to me would be much easier!). But on Sunday night, he actually took two tiny steps before lunging towards me! He's done it a few times since then. He's barely bringing his feet off the floor, but I think it still counts! We've gotten a couple of his tries on video. He's still very apprehensive, but I think he's so proud of himself when he does it!

Here are a couple of very unrelated but funny pictures from the past few days:

Hanging by his legs while he plays with Daddy:
More pictures playing with Daddy:
Stuck between the couch and corner table!Pulling books off of his bookshelf; one of his favorite activities:

Window Pics

Grant has a really cute Alabama jersey we got for him while we were there visiting in April. He has SO many Alabama clothes, and no A&M clothes that fit him right now (hint, hint, Mom and Dad!). So every Saturday, he's decked out in some kind of Alabama outfit for the football games! He was standing by the window a couple weekends ago and I got some really good shots of him....it is definitely true that natural light makes pictures so much better! And this happened to be the day that Alabama beat Tennessee 41-17, so Dean said that Grant is going to be wearing that jersey for good luck until he's a teenager!