Puppets, Carving a Pumpkin, and Roaring

Lately Grant has been really interested in hand puppets. He usually asks Chris or I to put a sock on our hand and talk. And then he will want us to put the sock on his hand and he talks to us- very cute! So I decided to go to the craft store and buy some eyeballs that we could glue on to some socks. While I was there I saw a simple "Puppet Making" kit, so for the rest of the afternoon Grant helped me make some puppets.

Grant is squinting at the eyeball.

Tada! We made a giraffe and an elephant.

Ever since the stores started selling pumpkins, Grant has been calling them... You guessed right- a Ball. So we thought it would be fun when we could finally bring a pumpkin home. He tried picking it up.

And then decided it was easier just to whack it with a spoon.

And easiest of all just to watch dad carve it.

It is an emoticon winking. Basically, the easist thing we could carve with a kitchen knife.

This is at our Church's fall party. Grant dressed up like a Lion-and cried for the first 10 min. He was scared of himself. But we did get at least one roar out of him.

Ok, I am happy now!

Grant with a fellow lion(ess).

Crayons, Berries, and Squinting

We have had so much fun with Grant lately. It is fun to watch his little world open up as he explores new activities and learns more words. A couple of days ago he picked up a pencil and started drawing on the wall- so I decided it was time to break out the crayons and contain his exploration and fun to paper as he is strapped in the high chair. Now every morning before he eats he wants to color.

Last week a friend of mine invited Grant and I to join her and her son to pick some berries. I was really excited to go- I love doing that kind of stuff and I love raspberries. Even though it was cold and there were a lot of gross bugs, the boys had a lot of fun eating and squishing berries as well as chasing some "Mows" (Grant's Meow and word for cat). You can't really see it, but Grant is holding a stick- so I had to keep my eye on him, because he doesn't know that kitties can't play baseball. Oh and I am happy to annouce that I made Freezer jam with the berries- my first time!

This was a super gross spider that we saw among the delicious berries. The body was probably 2 inches long. After seeing this, I was a lot more cautious where I picked.

Lately, Grant has been doing little tricks for us. One that just cracks me up is squinting on demand.

Happy Birthday, Sweet KaraLee

So KaraLee is __ years old today! (Intentionally left blank, because she doesn't really like birthdays) I'm so lucky and blessed to have married such a wonderful girl. I really can't imagine life without her. KaraLee, I love you more each day, and me and Grant are so lucky to have you. Enjoy your birthday, sweet pea!

Here a couple of pics of her that I like (please note, there was no doctoring of these photos - she really is just that cute):

Always willing to let her naughty baby help in the kitchen. :)

You can see where Grant gets his cuteness from.

My sweet wifey and me!

Yummy

Last week when I wasn't looking at Grant, he pulled an almost empty bag of cereal off of the table. When I found him, he was cooking with it (notice the whisk) and then...

Eating it.

Rubbing his hands in it.

Rubbing his hands on his face and eating it. Well, he was cute and happy- I just had a sticky mess to clean up.

And then I just wanted to post some pics of my two favorite guys.

Grant is our little book monster.

Just another side story... this morning I found Grant dipping my cell phone in the toilet. Luckily my phone still works, but I did have to dip it in another lysol bath.