Daily Dimples

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Art Appreciation Month

January was Art Appreciation month at Ryan's school. I loved walking though the hall to see everyone's work! Ryan's class did activities influenced by Pollock, Picasso, Seurat and Van Gogh.

They did Jackson Pollock inspired splatter painting:

I guess Ryan was done with his a little earlier than the rest...

This little guy ended up with paint on his nose! Looks a little suspicious....

And his final masterpiece...

Monday, February 3, 2014

Grayson (17 months)

So little G is 17 months now - woah!
He is so much fun and full of the best expressions! When he smiles, his entire face lights up. He has started to make these silly faces when he is upset and they just make me laugh. He is such a ham and I am constantly getting comments on how darn cute he is! Here is a little bit of what we have been up to the past couple of months.

Was pleased as a peach when he discovered apples. He thought they were balls....and then found out you could eat them! Two of his favorite things!!!

This little man loves The Little Gym! His favorite things are the uneven bars and the balance beam. He loves doing it all by himself too - it's so darn cute to see him so pleased with himself!

Always a big fan of meal time - loves to use utensils as well.

He loves to hang out with his older brother and his friends. He wants to do whatever they are doing. Everything.

Love to throw trash away and so dedicated to it. In fact, the other morning we were still all upstairs in our bedroom and I asked him to throw his diaper away in the trash can - thinking he would just throw it away in the bathroom trash that was the closest. However, he had different plans. He jetted out of the room and down the long hallway. I found him at the gate (thank goodness we finally got those installed). He was ready to make the long journey downstairs to the kitchen trash! That man loves to throw things away...I know its only a matter of time before I find non trash items in there.

He had been known to bite and hit...mainly just his brother. In fact, poor Ryan tells me that he wants a baby sister because his baby brother bites just like his dog. oh dear.

Grayson has learned his body parts and is as pleased as punch when he can show them off to you...especially his belly button. He can also identify animals and make some animal noises...

One of the biggest changes that we have seen is his new LOVE for books. I am not kidding...I have never seen a kid (mind you I only have one other) go from absolutely no interest in sitting down to read a book to being obsessed with them. It's kinda crazy! I love it though...now he will actually let me read and he checks out the pages so carefully. His favorite books are the superman and batman books that we have. He also loves the very hungry caterpillar. I love reading it to him because when we get to the pages with food he pretends to take big bites out of them! Ugh, his sound effects are so adorable - I can't get enough!

Over the past couple of months (December & January) all four of his molars came in. We definitely knew they were coming as we had a handful of sleepless nights - poor little guy! I think he is now working on his pointy teeth...not nearly as bad as his molars but something is def not quite normal with him.

Words:
Mama
Dada
Ball
Bubbles
Up
Milk
Ba - paci? Not sure why
Duck
Back pack

There really are new words everyday...and I am sure a bunch that I am forgetting. Love this little bug to pieces!

Sunday, February 2, 2014

#dailydimples2014 Week 5

Day 26: Woody helped mommy make eggs for breakfast!

Day 27: Working on some Valentine's Cards

Day 28: After music Grayson and I made a quick trip to PBK to pick up some carts that I had ordered. We arrived just in time for story time so we hung out for one....

Day 29: Smoothies for breakfast - this little man always joins me on the steps!

Day 30: Making silly faces with oranges!

Day 31: After dinner with friends we headed over to Wilshire for Preschool Family game night! Face painting too! Ryan was deciding between a butterfly and a dog...Kevin made that decision for him :)

Day 32: Just chillin' in his baby sunglasses! I am pretty sure he keeps his eyes closed when he has them on...goof ball!

Saturday, February 1, 2014

It's February!

So long January! January is my least favorite month (sorry January lovers)...it's just so darn long and cold! I do love me some February - Valentine's Day is always fun plus it's extra short and sweet...which just means we are that much closer to warmer weather! Wohoo!

I busted out my "real" camera today to snap some cute Valentine pics of the boys. I am hoping to make some cute Valentine's cards for them to give to their friends...but just incase it doesn't happen Ryan has some Dusty Crophopper cards he picked out at Target :) He is so darn excited about them I will probably just let him give those as well. Anyhow, I got a few cute pictures but Ryan was so cold he looks like a frozen snowman in most of them...we will try again another day.

This is a short and sweet post but I am hoping to blog a lot more this month...so I am just trying to get in the groove. We are excited for February - the Superbowl (well the social aspect and of course the commercials!), the Olympics, Valentine's Day, my girls Vegas trip, AND lots of family fun!!!

Saturday, January 25, 2014

Date with Ryan

Last Sunday I took Ryan out for a little mommy and me time - a little date if you will! We headed to North Park to see Frozen and then grabbed some lunch before heading home!

We loved Frozen - well I sure did. Ryan enjoyed it - his favorite character was Olaf (the snowman) but he calls him Frosty the Snowman. He loved eating popcorn and drinking a slushy - at 10am no less. He did pretty good watching the movie - got a little antsy at times but was able to refocus. At one point when the movie got quiet he loudly asked me, "Where is Mickey?". Oh dear - wrong movie. lol. He didn't seem to mind when I told him that it wasn't a Mickey movie so we were all good.

After the movie Ryan wanted a grilled cheese - his favorite of the moment. We tried to go to Breadwinners but there was a 20 min wait. I decided that we could wait for a little bit since the library was right there and we could kill some time in there...they had a little MLK day craft so Ryan worked on that.

lovely.

After about 25 minutes of waiting we went to check on the line/list and the hostess told me it would be another 20/30 minutes - wha?? Yeah so we left and just headed upstairs to the food court. Made no difference to Ryan...he still got his grilled cheese :)

Such a sweetie!

#dailydimples2014 - Week 4

Day 19: Silly boys!

Day 20: Lunch with cousins

Day 21: Ryan has been having "nightmares" and started sneaking into our room. I found him here when I was about to get in bed....sweet little boy!

Day 22: Spent nap time with my silhouette! Valentine's shirts for the boys :)

Day 23: Snuggles after nap

Day 24: Papa reading bedtime stories to a naked little Grayson

Day 25: Donuts with daddy at his office! (Not the best picture but this is all I got when I requested one)

#dailydimples2014 - Week 3

Day 12: Playing with glow sticks in the bathtub! All fun and games until you chew a hole in one and get that glowing goo all over yourself (and in your mouth) and freakout. I also freaked out since it was all over his mouth but I was able to wipe most of it out. I then gave him a cup of water to swish and spit out...but he drank it. hmmmm. Luckily according to poison control you are suppose to get them to drink water...