Monday, October 26, 2015

Graydon- 5 Year Old Survey

So once again, I am still working on Graydon's 5 Year post and pictures, but in the meantime, here is his interview! These are the same questions we asked him last year.

1. What is your name? Graydon 

2. How old are you?  Five

3. Do you know your Birth date? Uhhh I don't know. ( haha!!)

4. What is your favorite color?  Light blue. Actually I like all the colors in the world. I really like all of them. 

5. What is your favorite breakfast?  Gogurt, cereal bar and fruit  (he wants this EVERY day!!) 
     Lunch?   Mac n Cheese, broccoli and ummm a hot dog. Vegetables, and mac n cheese and a hot dog. And that's all.  ( He just kept talking..lol) 
     Dinner?  Mac N Cheese and um hot dogs
     Snack?  Uhhh..ummm...fruit snacks when I got to school 
     Drink? I really like umm blue gatorade. 
     Fruit?   purple strawberries 
     Vegetable?  peas

6. What is your favorite toy?  My captain america shield. It's so hard. 

7. What is your favorite thing to do?  Watch super hero videos on the phone

8. What is your favorite television show?  Sophia the First, especially the new ones
     Second favorite?  Curious George 
     Movie?  Super Hero movies

9. What is your favorite shirt?  my Avengers shirt
     Hoodie?  my Batman hoodie
     Shoes? my black and blue tennis shoes (carters)

10. What is your favorite book?  I really like my Underwater  creatures book.

11. What is your favorite farm animal?  Horse
      Wild animal?  Bear
      Insect/Bug? I like uhh not the ugly ones. I really like the giraffe beetle right now. It has a neck that looks like a giraffe and it can fly. 

 12. Who is your favorite/best friend?   Sammy and Camden. And Dylan. And Eli and Ezra. And Andrew and Elliot.

13. Where is your favorite place to go?  I am really excited to go to Chicago. I really like to go to Sammy's house! And Camden's. 

14. What is your favorite thing to do outside?  I really like to play baseball and play on the playground. 
       At the park?  The monkey bars! I'm good at the monkey bars now. 
  
15. What is your favorite holiday?  Christmas!

16. What is your favorite animal that you sleep with?  My angry bird 
      Are you afraid of the dark?  Noooo ( yes he totally is, LOL) 
      Favorite thing to do before bed?  Watch TV

17. What do you want to be when you grow up?  a Policeman 
      Where do you want to live?  In a house. 

18.  What does Daddy do?  He works 
19.  What does Mommy do?  You pick me up from school. 

20.  What makes you happy?   Going to Chicago.

21.  What makes you sad?   When I actually sometimes fight with people at school. And I'm trying not to. I'm concentrating not to try to not fight. 

22.  Do you want more brothers and/or sisters? More brothers (again!!) Not going to happen..lol

23. Favorite thing to do with Mommy?  Playing outside  
      Daddy?  Play baseball with him
      Nora?  We sometimes play kitchen and we play nicely. 
    Colin?  When I go woooo and then he laughs. 

24. Favorite thing to say?   YAY

25. Favorite Letter?   B - because that goes with bear, and that's my favorite animal 
     Number?  100

New Questions added this year!

What's your favorite song? ABC's
What's your favorite thing about school?  Playing on the playground
What's the most important thing you've learned this year so far?  Not fighting
What is the kindest thing you've done for one of your friends? I sometimes help them not to get from the other kids who like to fight.
What's your favorite part of your day? Playing outside
What's your favorite part of classtime? Playing during playtime and doing stations.
What's your favorite thing about your teacher? When she tests us

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Colin-11 Months Old

I cannot believe we are only ONE month away (tomorrow) from Colin's FIRST birthday!!! Holy smokes, where did the past year go?!?!  Ahhh! And we are so not prepared!!!

Well this little guy has quite the personality. He LOVES attention, and seems like a little spitfire sometimes. He loves to bang his hands down on his highchair right now, and when you are holding him if you are not paying attention to him, he will hit at you with his hands. When you smile at him, he flashes a big one right back at you...he has a way of captivating your attention!!

Colin is getting so big. He weighs around 21 lbs. and fits best in 12 month clothes. My favorite outfits of his right now are his blue and gray striped pjs with the rocket on them, the red and blue striped pjs with the racoon, and his little light teal shirt with the moose on it, along with the Trail shirt, with gray sleeves, all Carters. Love that brand. He is fitting into size 4 shoes, and size 4 diapers, which are still just a tiny bit too big.

He is ALMOST walking, and can really truck along when he's pushing a walker toy. He is getting fast! Just not daring enough yet to take any steps on his own, but is also walking along furniture with no problem. He crawls super fast now too.

He is eating pretty well. He is mainly eating food and only really takes a bottle before bed, usually one in the night still, and then sometimes one in the morning, but sometimes he won't drink it.  He is still eating baby food but doing pretty good with table food. Some things he eats better than others. He loves bananas, but not too many other fruits yet.  He does well with carbs, and chicken. And we are getting there with like peas and carrots.

Colin still has two teeth on the bottom, and two that are just now breaking through on the top. That has made for some rough nights lately!

I can't really think of any favorite toys that he has. He really just crawls around everything and plays with toys that the kids already have out and about.

He LOVES his pacis still.
He does great in the van and when we are traveling.

He still takes two naps a day, although the morning one is typically short since we are busy running errands or whatever and then he will take a longer one in the afternoon. He is usually sleeping by around 7:30-8 pm and wakes up anytime between 5:30-6:30 am. Sometimes he will drink that bottle and get back to sleep, and other times he cries so I will let him play in the jumpy while I'm working out and getting the kids ready to head to Gray's school.

He is super ticklish and likes to be played with while diaper changes and getting dressed. He kicks his feet a lot though and tries to roll over which makes this a huge feat to do sometimes. He like's to throw these little fits. He's a stinker!! :)

So far he is saying mama, dada and last week I taught him to say Uh-Oh so he keeps trying to sound that out, and it is really cute!

He really loves Gray and Nora, and just lights up when they come into the room, especially if they acknowledge him! Although Nora likes to pull him down from things onto his butt, which he really dislikes.

He loves going into the bathroom, and tries to play in Nora's potty, so we keep him out of there. He loooooves his bath time though and sits up independently in the tub now, with the kids, which he's been doing for a couple months.

Colin also does amazing anytime that I drop him off at MOPS or the nursery at church, and the helpers always tell me the same thing-- that he was a super happy boy the entire time and just played contently! I am thankful for the easiness that he brings in that, because it would be hard if he cried when I dropped him off.

That is all I can think of for now! Here are some fun things we have done in the past month:

Joined Stroller Strides for the month- and Colin and Nora both do great! They love to watch the mommas workout, eat snacks and enjoy the ride when I walk or run with the stroller. Colin also takes a good nap occassionally!
Had a playdate at Jamie's house with Dexter and Isla
Gone to the dentist a couple times for Gray's and mommy's cleanings, and he does great.
MOPS started
He comes with us to Nora's dance class and gets into all sorts of mischief there.
Got to have fun with his Uncle Joe when he visited for a couple of days.  We went to Schwailler's orchard while he was here (along with two other times since then.)
Celebrated Graydon's 5th Birthday
Had a great together with at Paul and Naomi's with Jon and Shelly as well. All the kids love to play together! He also had his first pumpkin pie that day and LOVED it. Yelled for more!!
Had a playdate at Kerri's house with Ava, Maelyn and Aubrey, and tried to eat a Barbie shoe!