Trips, Juice, Mom, Pumpkins and ROAR!!!!

Since our last post, Grayden has taken another trip to Marblehead, met lots of new family, had his 6 month (even though he was 7 months) check up, started drinking out of a sippy cup, went to his first "sick" doctor visit", went to a pumpkin farm, learned to army crawl, and say MOM!

And it's only been 3 weeks since our last post??

Rob, Grayden, Riley, and I packed our bags two weeks ago for Marblehead to see Grandma, Uncle Brian, Uncle Jason, Aunt Mandy, and cousin Blair. But that wasn't all! My cousin Meagan is getting married December 6th, so we had a bit of a party (shower) for her, so Grayden got to see his great aunts Lori and Nina, and see all of his second girl cousins - some whom he had never met before! He was a real trooper, because he was the only boy at the girly girl shower.



Here's Grayden with Gr'ma. And here's the whole family for Meagan's shower.



And what's new with Grayden? Well, he went for his 6 (7) month check up, and he was 15 lbs, 6 oz, and only 24.5 inches long! He's a short little man. His cousin Blair (only 4 1/2 months) is actually taller than him. His check up went well, he hated his shots, but can you blame him? We got the go ahead from the doctor to introduce the sippy cup and some juice! So, we've started him on some prune juice! Okay- I've had enough of the "PRUNE JUICE??" response. Yes, we started with prune juice. He's had some issues with constipation- and besides he likes it, okay?


Solid food update: he's tolerating the oatmeal well *he actually likes it mixed with prune juice*, we've also started pears and bananas. Although everytime we give him bananas, he coughs- I'm not so sure he likes them. His new favorite vegetable is squash. YUM!


So- other news with Grayden. He's crawling! Okay- not on your hands and knees crawl, it's more like an army crawl, where he pulls with his arms, BUT it works. AND my favorite news of all!!!!! He's saying Momma and Mom! I'm not sure he knows what it means, but when he says it I yell "That's me! I'm mom!", and I point to myself. So I think he's getting the point! He also says "bababahaha". I don't know what that is supposed to mean.

And Grayden went to the pumpkin farm last night for the children's ministry. He loved all the animals and he looked SUPER cute in his halloween costume: Okay here's the pictures!!






He's a dragon! ROAR! He loved petting the goats and had a fun time in the corn maze too!His first trip to the Walden Pumpkin Farm: Success.


We'll try to do a better job at keeping you updated next time!