Trick-or-Treat!

Today was Halloween! Sabryn's first Halloween! We got all dressed up in our costumes!Mommy,Daddy, and Uncle Mitch took me trick-or-treating around our neighborhood. I got lots of candy and was excited to get home and spread it out all over the floor and figure out what all I had gotten. Nana and Papa stayed home with Sabryn so that she didn't have to go out into the cold. That was good idea!

Love,
Grayson and Sabryn

Uncle Mitch is here!

Uncle Mitchell came with Papa to pick up Nana! It was really great getting to see him! He was excited to meet Sabryn and play with me! Yes! I love it when Uncle Mitch is here!

Love,
Grayson and Sabryn

Bath time!

I am not all that sure that I like my bath time! It is a good thing that Mommy wraps me in a towel and puts me in the tub that way. It at least helps me stay a little warmer! I need heated towels.

Love,
Sabryn

What is all of that outside?

When I am on my changing table in my room, one of my favorite things to do is look out the window! I wonder what all of that stuff is outside!

Also, do you like my dress? It was a dress that my Mommy's aunt and uncle (Dunn) gave to Aunt Tiff when she was a baby!

Love,
Sabryn

Daycare Halloween

Today was my Kinderwold Daycare Halloween Party. I took treats and shared them with my friends. Then Mommy and Daddy came to daycare and we had a "Halloween Parade". This meant that all of my friends and I put on our costumes and we marched up and down the halls. It was a lot of fun to see everybody dressed up. There were lots of Spidermans, but I was the only Batman!


Me with Ms. Tamie and Ms. Alexis


Whoa! I have a spider on my finger! (Just kidding! It isn't real!)

Love,
Grayson

Daddy's Birthday

Today is Daddy's 37th birthday! Happy Birthday, Daddy!

Love, Grayson and Sabryn

I love my new sister

Love,
Grayson

All I want to do is sleep and eat

So I am now home and all comfy in my new house. I am sleeping for a couple hours and then I want to eat a couple of ounces of formula. Mommy tried to nurse and pump for a while, but it just wasn't working so they switched to formula. It will be ok as I will get my nutrients to grow big either way. I do think that both Mommy and Daddy are exhausted. Luckily, Nana is staying with us so that she can help out.

Love,
Sabryn

My gift from Sabryn

When Sabryn came home, she gave me an awesome present! It was the "Batman Batcave" that I have been wanting for a long time! I gave her a Ballerina Music Box. Thanks, Sabryn!

Love,
Grayson

Heading home to my new house

First visit from the grandparents

My grandparents got to see me at the hospital for the first time. They love me already!!!
Love,
Sabryn

New Baby Sister

I am so proud to announce the arrival of my new baby sister! She was born on October 18, 2010, at 11:56 pm. She weighed in at 6 lbs, and 10.4 oz and was 20 inches long. I am so happy that she is finally here. She is just beautiful! While she was being born and Mommy and Daddy were at the hospital, Nana and Papa Dunn and Namma Johnson came and stayed with me. It was good to have them here. They were excited to see her too.

Now this blog will have to change to make room for my baby sister. I changed the name and even added a little pink. I am going to be a great big brother.

Love,
Grayson

Wilson's Apple Orchard

We had a great time at the apple orchard this year! I picked and ate a dozen apples I think! Daddy even held me up to the tree so that I could reach the good apples way up top! Mommy was so excited to get some of the apples as she has been craving them all year. She is going to make some applesauce she said. Yummy!!

Hawkeye Game

Daddy took me to my first Hawkeye Football game. As a bonus, we rode the "Hawkeye Express" train to the game and it was a blast. It rained most of the game, but Daddy and I still had a good time. My favorite part was cheering for the Hawkeyes, only instead of saying "Go Hawks", I said "Go Big Red". Hopefully nobody noticed!

3rd Birthday

The weekend before my third birthday was spent in Des Moines, Iowa. We met Nana, Papa, Uncle Mitch, Namma, Grandpa and Sue, and Tierra and Zander at a hotel. We went swimming and had pizza. My friend Graham and his parents came over to the hotel and helped me celebrate too. I wanted some new Toy Story toys for my birthday and everybody blessed me with things that I wanted. Mommy's friend, Ginny, made me some awesome "Batman" cupcakes. I was so happy.

On my birthday, Mommy and Daddy both took the day off of work to share the day with me. We went to Chuckie Cheese for lunch. I got to ride on a bunch of rides and had pizza. We had a great day just hanging out!

Summer Update

This has been a busy summer. I played outside a lot this summer and also got to go on some fun trips. I also took my first set of swimming lessons. They were fun. I went to a big swimming pool and Daddy went with me. We traveled to St. Louis with our friends, the Walkers. While in St. Louis, I went swimming and we went to the zoo. We also went to Kansas City to see our friends, the Carters and the O'Hares. They both have new babies so I got a chance to get some practice in holding babies before my new sister comes. In August, we went back to Lincoln to watch Uncle Mitch in the State Special Olympics bowling. He did awesome! He got a silver (way to go, Mitch)!!

The rest of the summer was spent going to the park, playing in my back yard, learning to ride my bike (with training wheels), and swimming at Lake McBride. It was fun.

God Bless America!!!

We spent the 4th of July in Lincoln with Namma, Grandpa Johnson, Aunt Amber, and Cousins Skyler, Tierra, and Zander. Mommy and Daddy said that it was America's birthday!! It was a busy weekend. Namma had a get-together at her house and then we lit off fireworks in her front yard. Some of them were very loud. I had fun with the ones that you throw on the ground and they snap. The next day, we went to a parade in Seward and I also got to go to a carnival. Because it rained that day, the big fireworks were cancelled. It was a big day and I was very tired by the end of the weekend. Happy Birthday, America!

Big boy bed and bedroom

Mommy, Daddy, and Namma painted my room blue this weekend. They took out my toddler bed and now I have a big boy bed. It is a full-sized bed with Star Wars sheets (they are just like the sheets that Daddy had when he was little). I love my room. I have Star Wars pictures and decals on the wall too. It is way cool!

Uncle Rusty came to visit

Daddy and Uncle Rusty planned a big weekend in Chicago together and then Uncle Rusty came and stayed at our house for a few days. We had a really good time. We played alot at our house, went to the mall, rode on the carousel (but Uncle Rusty got sick and had to get off), and played some more. It was so much fun spending some time with him and we were very worn out by the end of the day. I miss him and wish that he lived closer.

Potty Trained

I am now all potty trained. Yeh for me! Mommy and Daddy are so proud of me. The only time that I wear a diaper now is when I go to bed at night. On many mornings I even wake up dry. I am really good about telling them when I have to go to the bathroom and I have only had one accident in the last month! Whoo Hoo!!!

Lawnmowers and more lawnmowers

I love lawnmowers. I can hear one from afar and I can spot one hiding in the back of people's open garage. I have the whole process down. I told Mommy and Daddy, "The grass grows. Daddy gets the lawnmower out and puts gas in it. Then he starts it and mows the grass down."

This summer I got to spend a long weekend at Nana and Papa Dunn's house. They had a house full, including Uncle Mitch, Aunt Tiff and Uncle Henry, and Caden and Carter. Papa got his lawnmower out and took me for a ride. I rode with him on it for almost an hour. That was one of the biggest highlights of the summer so far!!!

New baby sister is coming

I learned that I am going to be a big brother to a new baby sister. How exciting!! Mommy and Daddy said that she will be here around Halloween time. Mommy said that the baby is growing in her tummy. That is just weird to me. When she told me,at first, I thought that she was kidding. I really laughed hard. Then, she told me that I used to be in her tummy. Now that is even more weird. What is she talking about? Regardless, I am practicing on sharing so that I am ready for her to come. Mommy and Daddy said that I will be a great big brother. I hope they are right!!!

Elmo

Mommy and Daddy took me to see Elmo's Green Thumb at the Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids. It was so much fun. Elmo planted a flower and then all of Elmo's friends watched it grow. There were so many movie stars there, like Elmo, Telly, Bert, Ernie, Big Bird, Abby, Zoe, Oscar, and Grover. I wanted to give them a hug so bad, but they didn't have time. It was a great show. I wanted to go back again the next day too.

New Truck

One of my first new summer toys was my battery operated Ford F150 truck. It is an early birthday present from Mommy and Daddy. They thought they would give it to me now so that I had the summer to play with it. Luckily, we have a big field in our backyard so I can drive it back there and have all kinds of free space. It is pretty cool and even has a working radio that gets real radio stations.

Me being silly

Easter 2010

This Easter we spent in Iowa. It was just Mommy, Daddy, and me. We had a really good weekend. We dyed Easter eggs and then on Easter morning the Easter Bunny left me a fun basket full of Star Wars stuff and candy. Yey!! Star Wars is one of my favorite things right now. I am not sure if that is a hereditary trait or not, but if it is, I definitely got that one from my daddy!!! After I played with my new things, the Easter Bunny hid eggs outside and inside. I had a lot of fun finding them. Mommy and Daddy even hid them twice so that I could find them again. All and all, the weather was great and I spent a lot of time outside. I missed seeing my other family, but luckily Namma Johnson, Grandpa Johnson, and Nana and Papa Dunn have come to visit me in the last month. I had a lot of fun with each of them, but always wish we lived closer to them. Maybe someday.

Almost potty trained

Has it really been that long since my last post? Now I have been busy, but I didn't think I had been that busy. I guess the biggest thing that has happened in the last couple of months is that I am almost potty trained. I wear big boy underwear to daycare and have only had one accident in two months. I still don't want to poop on the toilet. I don't know why, but I just don't want to. The second Mommy puts a diaper on me in the evening before bed, I poop. It is just like clockwork. Mommy says that she can't understand how I do that all of the time since I used to poop two or three times during the day. Every night when I get home from daycare, Mommy makes me sit on the toilet hoping that I will go, but I will just wait.

Weekend at Aunt Tiff and Uncle Henry's house

Last weekend Mommy and I went and spent the weekend visiting Aunt Tiff and Uncle Henry's house. Daddy didn't go because he went to Arizona to celebrate Uncle Rusty's 30th birthday. I also got to spend some fun time with my cousins, Caden and Carter, Nana and Papa, and Uncle Mitch. We had a lot of fun watching movies, reading books, and playing with lot of different toys.