Be prepared for several photos in this blog. It's so hard for me to choose which pictures to post (especially when I wait so long to blog). But since we last met, Grayden has mastered walking and is working on the running part (which has resulted in several injuries.) We also moved. Easter fell in between there with a visit from Gr'ma. And we also took a trip to Dayton, Ohio to celebrate Rob's aunt Peggy's wedding. So we've been a little busy and that means a lot of pictures and updating to do.
So, shortly after Grayden turned 1, we went to Chattanooga for a little mini vacation. Rob had a TCWPA meeting there, and Grayden and I got to come along! It was a nice little get-a-way. I took Grayden to the Chattanooga Choo Choo. Here are the pictures from Chattanooga.
It seemed like we were home for a week after this trip and Grayden started stumbling around and walking! We are so proud of our little man. Here's a picture of his first walk down the hall.
March 26th. We closed on a house. For those of you, who don't know, Rob and I decided it was time to make a move. We had been looking at buying a foreclosed home that needed minimal work. We had been looking since last fall, and had placed a couple offers but had no luck. Well we found one! We are still living in La Vergne, but we found a much larger home in a very nice, smaller neighborhood. (New school district too, yay!) It was nasty. The house was/is nice but it was dirty and needed some TLC.
My mom (Gr'ma) came the first week of April to help with Grayden. This gave Rob time to give our new home the care it needed. It got new floors, new paint, and lots of bleach and cleaning spray.
Easter fell during my mom's visit. Grayden had a good second Easter (better than last year because we didn't even buy him an Easter basket last year, oops). Gr'ma spent the whole week preparing Grayden for his first Easter egg hunt. She bought him several plastic eggs to practice egg hunting. Grayden picked up on it very quickly, but soon tired of putting all 24 eggs in the basket before dumping them out. He learned that it is much more fun to dump eggs out than put them in. After 2 eggs in, it was basket and eggs in the air. Still we were very proud. He learned to say "egg" in the process.
Easter pics below!
Grayden was very unsure of the man dressed as the Easter Bunny.
Grayden looking at his Easter basket. He was a little excited.
Gr'ma bought him bunny ears.
Here we are on the deck of our new house!
And here we are on the front porch of the new house.
So, we moved into the house Wednesday, April 15th. We are still living out of boxes and still have painting and work to do. But we're taking it one weekend at a time. I'll try to post pictures of the inside/outside of the house soon. I found my camera yesterday, so I can take some now!
Went to Ohio last weekend for Rob's Aunt Peggy's wedding reception. We had a great time with the family. Would love to post pictures of our weekend, but since my camera was tucked away in boxes, I didn't take any. Oops.
One last update, Grayden has been advancing with his speech. He says ball, egg, Momma, Dadda, and Riley (or "ie"). He does say grass sometimes.
Love you all! Thanks for sticking with us, even when we go MIA for a while!!!
