Mother's Day ~ Mommy & Grayson

My first Mother's Day.  What an amazing thing to say.  I have waited such a long time for this day and feel so blessed to be Grayson's momma.  From the moment I found out I was pregnant I knew this baby was going to be special.  What I didn't know was how much I was going to love this baby and what a perfect son he was going to be.  He is such a happy baby with the best personality.  There really are no words to express how much I love him.  All I can say is I feel like the luckiest person ever and can't wait to watch him grow.

A mother and son bond was something I had always heard how about, but never understood it until I had Grayson.  The way he looks at me melts my heart.  His smile and eyes say it all when I come into the room.  He definitely loves his momma.

We went to David Burke's Primehouse for Mother's Day brunch.  The menu included scones, petite pastries, tart flambé, french toast, fruit salad, fried chicken thigh with with spiced mandarin (Craig), filet mignon, mashed potatoes, asparagus and for dessert mixed berry crisp and chocolate raspberry truffle cake.  The food was delicious!  My mom and I also had mimosas.

Grayson's Mother's Day card was the sweetest card and it made me cry all three times I read it.  He also got me a David Yurman bracelet that is absolutely beautiful!  Daddy did a great job helping him pick it out.  I'm so lucky to have such a wonderful husband, son and mother.  My mom has been such a tremendous help with Grayson.  She stayed with me the first ten weeks after Grayson was born and has helped me so much since then.  Grayson also adores his Oma.  She makes him laugh so hard it makes me so happy to see the special bond he shares with her.

Grayson's Mother's Day card:

 

Grayson and Mommy Pictures

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Grayson - Baby Swing, Grass & Photo Shoot with Daddy

My mom and I took Grayson to the park to go on the baby swing and he loved it.  He kept checking out the girls in the park so I had a hard time getting pictures at first.  He is so curious about everything as you can see in the first picture.  He likes to check everything out.  It was such a beautiful day so later Daddy and Grayson played in the grass outside our place.  It was Grayson's first time in the grass and he kept lifting up his left foot.  We were laughing so hard and couldn't figure out why he was doing that.  Craig even moved him on the concrete and he put both feet down, but as soon as he moved him back to the grass he lifted up his left foot.  I took a quick photo shoot of Daddy and Grayson and got some cute pictures.

Grayson Can't Sit Still

Grayson can't sit still which makes changing his diaper impossible.  When I lay him on the changing table he immediately flips over on his belly and scoots over to his diaper caddy and gets into everything.  I was trying to put his diaper on backwards which is not easy and then I remembered my VBFF Allison told me about little movers slip-on diapers.  These are the best invention for babies on the move.  They slip on for easy changing, but you are able to pull the sides open for poppy diapers.  I was using Honest diapers by Jessica Alba, which I love, but for now I will be using the little movers.

Grayson Playing the Piano and Sucking his Toes

Grayson loves playing the piano with Daddy.  In this video he plays the piano and then starts sucking his toes around the .44 second mark.  (For the Grandparents that watch the videos :)

Grayson ~ 8 Months

Grayson Christian is 8 months old!  He is army crawling, eating some people food, pushing himself up onto his toys that are stationary on the floor, making wet, sloppy raspberry sounds with his mouth, swinging in the baby swing at the park and getting into everything.  He is still the biggest flirt and loves to put on a show.  He weighs 20 pounds 10 1/2 ounces and is thinning out a little because he is moving around so much.  He is still our little chuncky monkey with the cutest rolls, but they are definitely getting smaller.  His hair is growing a lot and his swirl is still very prevalent, which we love, but not sure he will.  He is our perfect little baby and we love watching him grow.  It's hard to believe he will be one year old in four months.  We love our little guy so much!

Grayson is wearing size 9 months and some 12 month clothes.  We are starting to put the 9 month clothing away as it becomes too small.  He is still wearing size 3 diapers for the daytime, but we will be switching to size 4 very soon and size 4 for nighttime.  He is wearing size 2 shoes, but we will be switching to size 3 very soon.  He is wearing medium and large sleep sacks, which is so hard to believe because it feels like yesterday he was in a size small.

We are just starting to add breakfast to his routine.  We are trying to do yogurt for breakfast, 1-2 packets of stage 2 baby food for lunch and 1-2 packets of baby food and rice cereal mixed in for dinner.  He just learned how to suck the food out of the packet, but makes the biggest mess so this is definitely a work in progress.  He also has 5 bottles per day of formula with 4-6 ounces and 7 ounces before bed.  I hope to get rid of one of those bottles soon.  On April 18th he tried yogurt for the first time and ate every last bite and wanted more.  When we went to visit Allison, Cora, Elin and Gabe on April 24th he tried avocados, raspberries and organic gouda chicken sausage and he loved all of it.  Also that day he got in the baby swing at the park for the first time and had a blast.  He has also tried bananas, chocolate ice cream bar (a tiny bit of my sample at Costco), cupcake from Holly after his baptism, ice cream and hamburger at his baptism and fruit and spinach smoothies we make at home.  So far he has liked everything he has tried of people food.  We hope to keep introducing new foods to him and hope that he is a good eater, but we will see as I know a lot of kids are picky eaters.

He has recently started getting up once at night, but we let him cry it out because he just wants us to come get him.  Also, he has been getting up around 5 or 5:30am and has not been going back down.  This has made his nap schedule a little more difficult because he wants to take his first nap at 8am, but that throws off his nap schedule for the day so we try to push him a little.  He can normally go 3-4 hour stretches of staying up, but normally in the morning it's more like 2-3 hours.  He wakes up between 5-6:30am and has a bottle, takes a nap around 8:30/9:15am, has lunch around 11, then another bottle around 12, takes a nap around 1:30, another bottle around 3, dinner around 5 and his last bottle around 6:45pm.    

We now have a crawler, actually he's army crawling, but very fast so I'm not sure he is in a hurry to crawl on all fours.  He first crawled on April 30th in front of his momma, Oma and Julia.  We were so excited and shocked and knew it was all about to change.  Our little guy was entering a whole new stage.  Daddy was a little bummed because he was in Detroit for work and missed it, but he saw it the next day and was so happy.  He is now into everything so we had to baby proof the family room and will be doing the rest of the house now.  He likes to remove the outside piece of the soft floor in the family room and tries to chew it so we had to remove this piece from the whole floor.  He is also trying to open the cabinet doors under our television.  We had to move our wine rack because he kept crawling over to it and trying to get the wine bottles out.  I'm not sure what we are going to do about the puppy pad that we leave in the bathroom for Bella as he is now crawling over to the bathroom.

Notes on pictures below

Grayson ate gouda chicken sausage for the first time at the Ohlanders and loved it.