Gray! @ 6 months

His check up started out quite interesting.  This is the order that it went in,

1. pooped as we were weighing him (on the lay down one)
2. pee'd all over the patient table in our room.
3. then pee'd some more. When I thought he was done, I took the yucky diaper off of him to check and he started up and pee'd all over his face! oh, goodness.... the only other times he has pee'd outside the diaper is in the bath tub and on our friends, the Hellenga's couch.

Other than that, he is still healthy, just a sensitive little man. He still has the acid reflux so we still need to be on the prevacid.

We are also going to continue his special formula until a couple weeks before his 9 month check up. I am going to give him a bottle of similac sensitive formula and see how he does. If he reacts the same or normal, then continue to gradually add more bottles of similac sensitive, but if not then we are staying on the expensive stuff. And he might be lactose intolerant, I believe anyways.

Some fun facts:
~ no teeth yet, but drools an amazing amount
~ giggles when you talk in a low voice
~ loves water and swimming!
~ so close to getting up on his back legs for crawling
~ absolutely loves prunes, doesn't like bananas
~ talks with his sister and adores her
~ stares at you and your food if you eat in front of him


His stats:
Height: 26", 50% but his head wasn't directly up against the edge, so I think that is even a little high.
Weight: 16.2 lbs, 45% so he has not gained as much weight as he's supposed to. He was %50 for his 4th,    but 5% is not anything to worry about the doc said.
Head: 75%, still big.

Splish Splash... i'm having some fun!

This post is dedicated to my Grandma Pals. You will see why further down the post.

Hello all!

This summer we have spent a lot of time in the water! With two other boys I watch during the day, we can't get to the splash park as much as I want, so Grandma Val gave us this fun pool! It has been a wonderful addition to the TONS of toys in the back yard. 

Enjoy the pictures! 

ps- for those of you wondering... Grayson is doing much better! He is eating baby foods now and isn't having many allergic reactions. I think he just needed more time before eating baby food. His sleep has improved soo much too, only waking once around 4:30 every night now. Please pray though, that he doesn't get sick. Nathan, one of the boys I watch, had a double ear infection and a bad cough and knowing Gray and his streak, if he gets sick, his sleep would be completely thrown off. And we would be back to the beginning of teaching him to sleep through the night again. 

His cute swimming outfit. But now it doesn't really fit over his head anymore... remember he has a big head!! 

 Lets slide!! 

 His first time in the water and he is definitely a water baby like his sister! I think we might have some swimmer in our household.

 The splash park is almost within walking distance from our house, except for this extremely large hill, I would consider walking there.

This is Gray's first time at the park too and he wants to go run and play so bad. 

Check that mohawk out! It is all natural and still going strong! Even at the length is it, it still stick straight up. We were trying to call him Mo for for his nick name but it never stuck. 

Nevaeh asks to hold Gray everyday, this is just a couple of pics I have of this. 

 She finally has this cute smile down! 

 One of our life group ladies found out that Jordan Creek has 1$ movies on tuesday mornings, so a couple of us all went to the Vegetales movie. Nevaeh did WONDERFUL!! She sat and ate her popcorn the whole time with no trouble. I thought we were going to have a melt down because she would have to sit without getting up for a while, but nope. She surprised me! She actually had a meltdown leaving the movies. When your kids sits in the middle of the mall and won't listen, its kinda embarrassing! 

Just a cute pic......

 My grandma died a year ago on Easter and I got her sewing machine. We finally got it down here and I have started sewing! I'm dedicating this post to her... we miss her but she fought and beat cancer many times during her lifetime. The last time, it beat her, and I'm soooo proud to have her sewing machine because she sewed some beautiful quilts with this machine. 

 I started with a onesie made from one of Jason's old t-shirts. It kinda looks like a potato sack right now, but hopefully it will look better on him. 

I tried putting the videos on but it literally was taking 45 minutes. So i gave up. I hope everyone is having a great summer and a great end of the summer. 

God Bless!

July 4th 2011 photo frenzie!

Ok, prepare yourself for the most fun 4th of July ever... and a lot of photos!

This year was soo much fun with both Nevaeh and Grayson. Nevaeh is at the perfect age where the parade isn't boring and EVERYTHING is really neat. Plus, she loved getting the candy too! She filled her little backpack full of it and I'm thinking we will have it until next year. The parade was actually pretty fun this year. The past couple of years the Urbandale parade has been a bit of a disappointment, with little candy and boring floats. But they seemed to knock it up a notch and it wasn't too bad.

Fun memory: I told Nevaeh we were celebrating the United State's birthday and she immediately starting singing happy birthday to the U.S. So cute!

Also, our church's old fashioned fun BBQ shin dig they put on every year was a lot of fun too. Jason won the homerun durby, nevaeh won a cupcake, the talent show was great and the food was delish! Unfortunately we didn't make it through to the fireworks and I wish we would have stuck it out because I heard they were great. Fireworks are my favorite part of this whole celebration!

Well, enough talking and onto the million pics! I hope you had a great 4th and please pray (or continue to do so) for our country, that it would go back to the foundations it was built upon! The founding fathers would probably be very sad at what they see today.

PS- we have soo much more to share, from another trip to the zoo to fun videos of each wonderful child of mine! but since there are so many photos from the fourth, I won't torture you too much... they will come soon though!

Getting ready for the parade, look at the excitement in his eyes! 

 Eating breakfast while waiting! 

 too cute!!!!!!!!!!

 My wonderful family! Every year one of our family members (use to be my grandpa but he says he's retired from it) goes up really early and gets the same spot every year! its a little tradition of ours. Thanks to my brother, zach, for doing it this year! 

 He's such a handsome little man!

 Aunt Kenna!

 Putting candy in her backpack 

 watching the amazing people who keep giving her candy :)

 She got her own flag!

 every year toyota of des moines gives out these little footballs and every year Jason gets one. He was determined this year! so we have 3 from the past 3 years!

Aunt Kas

 At Jordan Park now for our BBQ shin dig, swinging. She has gotten really good at swinging and loves it, that is all she does now when we are outside.

 Jason in that homerun durby, look at that form! :) like i know what i'm talkin about ;)

 Showing me her tatoo

 playing with her "best friends", as she calls them.

 A shout out to Kear Rude, have you asked your hubby to make some of these for us yet?? ;) 

 Sparklers! I was a little, ok a lot, nervous for this part but she did absolutely wonderful! until.... it was time to pick up and she wanted to help and she happened to pick up the one that was just lit. she burned her thumb pretty good, but she was a trooper! I felt like a bad mom, but after talking to other moms, I didn't feel like such a failure after all. A tip to all moms who like sparklers as much as I do, put them into a cup of water RIGHT AWAY after use!

 She has been sooo snuggly with me lately! always wanting me to hold her and give her hugs and kisses! i love it! 

 My baby girl is getting so big! she will not let me call her anything but a big girl now! kinda sad, but so excited to see how God uses her as she grows!