Grayson's latest tricks & other fun stuff

You may have noticed a recent sudden decrease in the amount of blog postings from me. This my friends is all due to our newest mobile Mann-Mr. Grayson that is. I didn't realize how significantly harder life would be with two little ones running a muck! Grayson is now fully mobile. The kid doesn't sit still and I'm not sure he realizes that he is only 8 months! He now is pulling himself up on things to a stand, but hasn't really learned how to fall. So, when he looses his balance instead of bending at the hips and pushing his butt backwards, he stays completely straight and stiff and falls over like a tree! And when he is standing, the kid is fearless. He was standing at the coffee table this evening and had one toy in each hand and was using his elbows to balance. Then he noticed I was still behind him and he dropped the toys, let go of the table completely and turned around to say "Hey mom!". So finally after one goose-egg after another to his noggin, we decided to set up the pack and play out here in the family room so he would have a slighlty more cushioned fall. But I must say, as if this teeny apartment wasn't already cramped enough, add a play pen to the center of the room and it looks like we're all doing the cha cha to walk around the dang apartment! So anyway, here are some fun shots of our little dare devil.

Take a look at this picture and the one below. Can you tell the difference?Again, same age, same picture. Who's who?I took this picture because I knew I had a similar one of Brady at this same age. When they were babies I think they were carbon copies of each other and thought they still were. But after taking this picture and comparing them side by side, they definitely are thier own person. Our kitchen is, as Tim calls it, a "one butt" kitchen, and for some reason everyone is always in there when my big butt is trying to cook-even the dog is in there! So one evening after me continually kicking people out of the kitchen Tim put the gate up for me. Ah-ha!Bed time ritual-bedtime stories. I read Grayson his two then hand him off to daddy to rock him and I read Brady his two and sing him songs then they are off to sleep.