Grayson & Liam ~ February Photos

Grayson and Liam ~ February Photos and Sayings

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Liam was running around at bedtime saying, "I am Superman!" and pretending to fly around the bedroom.  He also said I'll huff and puff and then would blow at daddy to make him fall over (like the big bad wolf).  We have no idea where he saw this, but it's the cutest thing.  

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Grayson said he wanted to watch a princess movie with the prettiest girl!  He is obsessed with pretty girls (his daddy was girl crazy from a young age and mommy was boy crazy from a young age).

Liam loved spending time with Oma while she was in town.  It was nice to see them spend one-on-one time together and bond.  They had so much fun together.

Liam - 2 1/2 year doctor visit

Liam had his 2 1/2 year doctor visit.  Luckily he did not need any new shots.  He weighed 26 pounds 6.4 ounces (12th percentile), which is up from his last visit when he only was in the 2nd percentile (yippee!).  He is 35 inches (26th percentile) and his head circumference is 50.2 cm (19.75") (72nd percentile) while his BMI is 15.15 (16th percentile).   We definitely have a little peanut, but I'm ecstatic that he went from the 2nd percentile to the 12th percentile in weight.  We try so hard to make him eat more, but that's not alway feasible.  He is definitely doing much better, but we still have a long way to go to reach the higher percentiles.  He did such a great job at the doctor and luckily did not have to get any new shots.  Yippee!

Skiing in Beaver Creek

We had our first ski vacation as a family in Beaver Creek, Colorado.  We spent 5 nights at the Westin from Feb 14-19th with the Ross Family from Michigan and had such a nice time.  We signed Mommy, Juju and Grayson up for ski school for 3 days, but unfortunately Julia broke her tail bone on New Year's Eve and was not able to ski.  She offered to help us with Liam so this was a huge help. 

 We didn't get into Beaver Creek until late on the 14th so I think Grayson was overtired for his first ski day.  He ended up leaving ski school early and was not excited to go back.  The next day Daddy convinced him to go again and told him he would be watching with Juju and Liam.  This was the only way to get Grayson to go to ski school.  He actually had a great time and spent some time on the green hill where Mommy was taking ski lessons.  At the end of his lesson he went down the big green hill and had a blast.  We were so impressed with how much he improved.  At one point he told Daddy and Mommy that he loved skiing and was so excited to be there.  The final day he did not want to go back to ski school so Mommy, Juju, Grayson and Liam spent the day going on the Gondola and hanging out in Beaver Creek while Daddy skied with Phil, Kat, Logan and Paxton Ross as well as Ethan.  

The first night we both grabbed dinner on our way from Denver to Beaver Creek.  Craig is obsessed with Blue Bonnet in Denver for Mexican food so we had to stop there on our way to Beaver Creek.  The second night we enjoyed dinner at Northside Cafe, which was a casual, but delicious restaurant with everyone from the Ross family as well as the Braham family.  The third night Mommy, Daddy, Phil and Kat went to Game Creek Restaurant for dinner which required us to drive to Vail, take a gondola to the top of the mountain and then take the snow cat to the bottom of the hill where the restaurant was located.  They had a prix fixed menu that was delicious.  We had such a fun time experiencing this amazing place.  How nice that Julia, Ethan and Logan watched the younger boys to make this happen.  The next night we ordered Italian food and enjoyed it in the lobby of the hotel.  The boys had fun making smores outside the hotel.  We were sad to leave, but had such a fun time and can't wait until our next ski vacation.  Hopefully next year Grayson and Liam will take ski lessons and love to ski as much as Daddy and Mommy.  Of course Mommy still needs a lot of lessons, but had a great time moving up to level 4 for ski lessons.