Catch Up!

It seems like as soon as Halloween ends the subsequent holidays sneak up on us so quickly. I can't believe Christmas is less than two weeks away.

We had a great Thanksgiving. We invited some friends over for the feast, but we were so busy with everything that we didn't take pictures of the event, :( just good memories. :) So this is a random sampler post. Enjoy!

Grant is trying to change his own diaper. I would rather he learned how to use the potty over changing his own diaper.

For Thanksgiving my family has a traditional 14 layer jello dish. This was Grant's first encounter with jello and he kept slapping and punching it.


Our friend Julie made these super cute Turkey hats.

Grant always asks me to put my socks on his feet.

We got snow a week or two ago and so I thought Grant might like to play in it. He was having fun until he got snow on his face and then he freaked out and wanted to come back inside. Maybe next time it will be more fun.

We hope everyone has a Happy Holiday Season!

A Man or Woman?

No, we're not pregnant. But evidently, this blog is 82% likely to be written by a woman. That's probably mostly accurate, since I think KaraLee does most of the posts. Care to check on your blog? Supposedly this website uses some artificial intelligence to determine whether your blog is written by a man or woman. Try it and post the results in our comments!

http://genderanalyzer.com/

Socks (Puppets), Bread, and Dancing

So, by popular demand (okay, because families have been requesting politely), this post is dedicated to recent videos of Baby Grant. Grant's at a fun age (isn't every age a fun age?!) and seems to be learning and developing in leaps and bounds. Needless to say, he keeps us on our toes and our house is constantly filled with laughter.

We hope you enjoy these videos. Just for the record, we DO regularly dress our child, but in the evenings going with just the diaper just seems so much easier. :)

Grant has really seemed enthralled with sock puppets and animals recently. Interestingly, he seems more inclined to listen to requests from the puppet, even though he KNOWS where the voice of the puppet is coming from!

Our little dough boy. He just likes to "help" in the kitchen. His helping has evolved from insisting that KaraLee hold him while she's cooking to standing on a chair next to her while she's cooking.



Lord of the Dance. 'Nuff said.

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).