A first

Both boys went to sleep around 12:15. Grant woke up about ten minutes ago (it's 3:20 now) and Drew is still asleep! I'm pretty sure that Drew has never taken a longer nap than Grant. But he's had croup for a couple of days and isn't feeling very well, so he definitely needs the sleep.

My post from last Friday seems too old to even post.....so I'll just have to start something else. The past couple of days I've been trying to order pictures from Kodak (I had a credit that had to be used by yesterday). And today I've been working on making a BookSmart book from some of our early blog posts. I got so much done during the past few hours! So I've been neglecting the blog....hopefully I'll get back on track next week.....

ah, man!!!

I was just about to finish a post I'd started on Friday.....Grant and Drew both took 3-hour naps on Saturday and Sunday (somewhat normal for Grant but not Drew), so I was hoping they'd do the same today. But Drew is crying right now....after sleeping for an hour. Boooo.....

Why is it that they both sleep so well for me when Dean is home to help out? Then when I'm here by myself, it's back to the one-hour naps?

Oh well.....maybe tomorrow......

Interesting.....

Recently I became curious and went on a search to find out more about blood types. You always hear about universal donors and universal recipients, but I can never remember the details. So I found these charts that I thought were interesting. Here's the breakdown of the U.S. population:

I always assumed that every blood type was just about as common as every other, but apparently the majority of people in the U.S. (over 70%) are either O positive or A positive. So then you can look at this next chart and see what types of blood you can receive for your blood type. I'm A negative.....so it's a little scary to think that if I ever need blood, I'd have to get it from a person who's either A negative or O negative (only 13% of the population, combined). It makes me want to go donate!!

If your blood type is:	You can receive:
	O-	O+	B-	B+	A-	A+	AB-	AB+
AB+	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
AB-	yes		yes		yes		yes
A+	yes	yes			yes	yes
A-	yes				yes
B+	yes	yes	yes	yes
B-	yes		yes
O+	yes	yes
O-	yes

Thirteen months

Drew is 13 months old today! He's got quite a little personality and tries very hard to be a big boy!

Some things about Drew at 13 months:

He pulls books off his bookshelf and likes to flip through them. His favorites are the books that have kitties in them. He screams/shreiks "TEEE!" when he sees a picture of a kitty. He doesn't really care about any other animals except the cats!

He's not a big fan of shoes right now.....he learned how to walk without them, so now he tries pulling them off as soon as I put them on.

He loves going outside, and he always makes a beeline for the pot full of dirt on our patio. The other night he started digging and make quite a mess before Dean noticed!

He also loves climbing up the ladder on the playground. There are some pieces of rotting wood at the top, and it grosses me out when he digs around in it. So I try keeping him off the playground at all, but he gets so angry when I don't let him go up there.

We play on the swings all the time.....probably every day. Lately, Grant will grab Drew's swing and they swing together. Drew gets such a kick out of this.

He'll make car noises with his mouth while he's playing with cars and trucks (something he definitely learned from big brother).

Drew eats a waffle every morning for breakfast. When he hears the toaster pop, he starts squealing and gets so excited!

Some other favorite foods: hot dogs/sausage, cereal bars, grapes, tortillas, goldfish, pineapples, pancakes, Pringles! And of course any bites of cookies/sweets we give him. Unfortunately, he refuses any veggies......of course I must admit that at this point I hardly even try. It's hard enough to just get something on the table, so most of the time even Dean and I don't eat vegetables!

He loves playing on top of beds....he always gets so excited when I'm holding him and I walk remotely close to our bed. He and Grant have a fun time wrestling up there, and on our guest bed. It's also an easy way for him to get into things on my bedside table!

When he sees a soccer ball (or any ball), he'll walk up to it and kick it along with him as he walks. He laughs and thinks this is so funny!

He loves waving to people.....I'll tell Grant to say hi to someone, and Drew starts waving at them too!

A few other pictures.......

Finally!

It was finally cool this weekend, after a warm early October. On Friday morning, the boys played outside in the sand and actually had to wear jackets! It's about time!!


Later that morning I took the boys up to Hermann Park.....we ate lunch near the reflecting pool and then rode the train. Grant had a good time waving to people as we rode along. And a couple of times he looked at me and said, "I love this train ride." Drew didn't enjoy it so much.....he kept wanting to climb into the seat in front of us, but there were people sitting there! I tried giving him his blanky at one point (usually it settles him down, especially when he's tired....which he was). But he immediately threw it to the side, and out the train it flew! Thankfully we were about 50 feet from one of the stops, so one of the workers ran back and got it for us.




Our friend the squirrel....he thoroughly enjoyed the bites of peanut butter sandwich that we shared with him.
For some reason, I remembered that I took Grant to Hermann Park in October when he was Drew's age. Sure enough, Grant and I were there exactly two years before, on October 16, 2007. Grant and I had a blast up in town that day (visiting a lot of my favorite Houston places), so I remember these pictures like I took them yesterday. It's amazing how fast two years goes by!