Grady- 11 Months

Grady is 11 months.  He is one busy bee.  He loves to wave.  He loves puffs.  He still likes to put his head on our shoulders which we love.  He is starting to resist rocking at night.  He prefers to be put in his crib.  What?!?  Hopefully the rocking returns.  I personally love, love, love a sleeping baby in my arms.  Happy 11 months to our sweet Grady.

Grady at 11 months: 

Weight: Weighed in at 23lb 8oz right around 3 weeks ago

Height: 28 inches last I measured...I will measure again and update. 

Clothes: 12 month clothes are getting tight.  18 month clothes fit him pretty well.

Diapers: Mix of cloth and disposable.  I have found that cloth has gotten even easier as Grady gets older.    He is in a 5 disposable at night.

Sleep:  Two new teeth popped through this week so sleep was a bit sketchy but nights are still a mix of good and not so good.  Typically, Grady will go down to sleep around 7:30.  On a good night, he just gets up around 5:00 a.m. to eat.  Grady will typically go back down until 7:30-8 in the morning.  On not so great nights, Grady is up often.  After rough nights, I am lucky enough to nap when the kids take their afternoon naps (quiet time for Layla).  During the day, Grady takes two naps.  His first nap is about two hours after he wakes for the day.  He sleeps for 1-2 hours and then is up for about 3 hours playing and eating.  Grady then typically sleeps for 2 hours in the afternoon and then is up until bedtime.


Eating: Grady is still nursing (about 4 times a day) and eats solids for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks.  Currently he is loving macaroni and cheese, peas, baked potato, sweet potato, avocado, cheese, puffs, cheerios, yogurt and applesauce.

Likes: Getting into his high chair, following Layla around, flipping Howie's water bowl, taking the carbon monoxide detector out of the wall, music, his blue lovie, balls, loving his pacifier more by the day, pulling the toilet paper off the roll, playing peek-a-book and seeing Ryan when he gets home from work

Dislikes: Baths (not loving these lately!), being read to (how can this be?!?  I have to read to him across the room!) and standing on his own

New tricks: clapping, hugging, dancing, standing for brief periods on his own

Someone does not like standing on his own!!

Grady loves walking with the chairs

Layla and Grady having a snack together

Grady loves to do whatever Layla does.  Well, kind of.  Layla loves to color.  Grady is quickly becoming a crayon eater.

Spring Sing

Layla had her "Spring Sing" this week at preschool.  One of my favorite aspects of Layla's preschool is that they have a music class with a music teacher each time they meet.  Layla looks forward to music time each day and always reports what instrument she played and what songs they sang.  All of their hard work in music class paid off and it was a cute night.  Layla did great although her performance was a very toned down version of what we see at home! 

  

Layla and Grady before the "Spring Sing"

 

Layla and her sweet buddy Levi at preschool

Nothing better than a good twirling dress.  This was Layla's Easter dress from last year.  I love that dresses can typcially be stretched over two years!

Ryan and Grady.  Although the picture appears differently, Grady actually liked the night and danced on Papa Pete's lap during the songs.  I am a sucker for seersucker on little boys.  Grady's little pants can no longer be buttoned but he has a couple pairs of seersucker bibs awaiting him :)

Practicing the moves for the "Hoochie Coochie" dance

And now ina very anti-climatic ending....I have no pictures from the sing.  I was in a bad position for pictures but I should have some pictures and videos rounded up soon!

Thanks to the grandparents for joining us!  Layla felt very special!!

Easter 2012

Grady seemed to enjoy his first Easter basket!

Layla loves a chocolate bunny.  She has really hoped for the past two years that the Easter Bunny would bring her one.  She was so excited for the bunny this year.  Layla was up at 6:15 (unheard of time for Layla) saying she heard him outside and absolutely could not go back sleep. 

Grady loves Shea.  I think the feeling is mutual!

Egg hunt!  I love Liam with the golf club at the bottom.  He is never without some kind of club/bat and ball.

Oh my goodness, Grady looks like such a big boy here!

Happy Easter!

Easter Fun

 Time to hunt for your lunch!  This was a hit.  I saw it online, very fun!  A must do for next year with Grady too.

I swear this is Layla's favorite activity of the year.  She loves dyeing eggs.  I bought two boxes of egg dye and let Layla have all creative control (she apparently is a fan of green right now!).  The clear glasses were great for Layla to see the colors and figure out what different combinations could be made with different colors.

We tried to let Grady join in, but he just threw the eggs a lot.  Really, that is all he did :)

Taking this task very seriously!

Grady loves to be near Layla and see what she is doing at all times.  She is being a good big sister about it....so far!

Layla was getting ready for a community egg hunt.  Grady was getting ready for his morning nap!

Next we were off to the nearby miniature train, it was a special bunny day with the Easter Bunny.  Here Layla and sweet Ryker are saying "Choo choo!!!"

Grady looking very serious on the train!

Ready to take a ride!! 

Chef Mickey

On our last full day of our vacation, we headed to Chef Mickey at the Contemporary Resort for breakfast.  It was a fun breakfast with Mickey, Minnie, Pluto, Goofy and Donald Duck.  We had a really good time.  Layla was so excited and did a lot of dancing in her seat with the songs and Grady loved all of the characters.  It was a very nice way to end our trip.

  

The whole group!

Dancing in our seats!