October

This month is flying by!! I can't believe that it is already the end of October... Christmas is right around the corner and I am sooo excited! :)

Looking back Grayson is just growing like crazy, I can't seem to get him to SLOW DOWN! He has been on solid foods now for almost 2 months. He's eaten green beans, peas, carrots, squash, avocados, prunes, bananas, peaches, pears, apples and oatmeal.  He really likes yogurt and bananas and prunes (thank God he likes prunes for as much as he needs to eat them, poor baby). He loves to gnaw on and share bananas and watermelon with you, and he is getting the hang of the Gerber puffs! We are about to try mangos, apricots, mashed potatoes, zucchini, blueberries and turkey. He is sitting up and rolling all over the place, he scoots and crawls backwards, but we're not quite to crawling yet.  We will probably be needing to move his crib down a notch soon - scared to walk in and him be sitting up on his own in the morning! ;)

We have had a lot of firsts this month! I left Tony and Grayson overnight for the first time to go to the Women's Retreat... and they did AWESOME!  Tony ran his first 5K, Grayson went to the park and on the swings for the first time, Grayson had his first sleepover buddy this last weekend, first pumpkin patch and first movie going experience!

Tony's 5K and Grayson and I cheering him on!

He LOVES playing at the park!

Grayson had his first buddy stay overnight....

... and we got to practice having 2 kids :)

First (of many) Pumpkin Patch!

 

First Drive-In Movies

I have to share how awesome Tony is.  He has Fridays off (since he works Sundays), and every Friday (and sometimes Saturdays) he lets me sleep in while he gets up with Grayson between 6:30/7 and feeds him his first bottle and plays with him and usually they go get Bro-Nuts (donuts for bros).  And usually when I wake up I walk in during Grayson's morning nap... on daddy. That boy loves his daddy and cuddling for nap time and it melts my heart!

Make him stop growing!

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This coming weekend we will be going to the Middle School Retreat! Should be fun with Grayson, all the students love him :)  For Halloween we will be at our church for First Fest and he will be a skeleton (above picture of his skeleton sleeper). As much as I want time to slow down and for him to stop growing up, I'm ready for November to zoom by so we can get to December! We LOVE Christmas, and I'm fairly certain my son is a Christmas elf with as much Christmas music he listened to in my tummy and how much he kicked last year. So excited to have our first Christmas as a family of 3 and to go to Illinois to see family and hopefully Grayson can experience snow!  December Grayson will be 9 months old and will have his 9 month Dr appt. Time is flying... Catch it and make it stop! ;)

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We're back with some Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes!

The blog is back!! I know there hasn't been a post in 5 months and so much has happened and changed in that time! It took 7 months, but I am finally to the point in figuring out mommy-hood enough to find time to blog again! So sorry that it has taken sooo long, but I'm going to catch ya'll up to date real quick and try very hard to post regularly again. ;)

SO, the last time Tony blogged he was graduating from SWBTS and announced our exciting new adventure in Houston.  So, 5 months later we are here and settled in a rental house here in Houston.  Tony is serving as the Middle School Minister at Houston's First Baptist Church. Grayson will be 7 months old next week (WHAT!?). It has been an awesome journey already!  This summer we were able to take a quick trip home to Illinois before we moved to Houston; Grayson and I went with Tony and the youth group to RUSH week in Branson, MO; the Bianco family were able to visit us in Branson and my mom came for a visit here in Houston. It's already October and I am counting down the days to Christmas in Illinois (and hopefully Grayson's first snow!).

We are so very blessed here and have no doubt that this is right where God wants us serving.  We are absolutely in love with our church - the students, the staff, the pastor and his preaching, the people... Amazing church, amazing people, God is blessing! Tony feels so blessed by this job.  I feel very blessed here in so many ways. I have a group of 7th grade girls for Life Bible Study who are precious and blessing me immensely! It feels so good to be with students again! I am making friends with other staff wives and youth leaders in the church. Grayson is so very loved by nursery workers and our friends here and he is making friends himself. And I've begun working part-time in the church nursery 2-3 days a week with 2 year olds.  I have days where I struggle still transitioning and figuring out the whole "stay-at-home mom" thing... but I know this is what God wants for me and my son right now and he is and will bless me.

Grayson is growing!! Oh my word he is growing!! I cannot believe that my little baby boy is 7 months old next week!! Some of the days are slow going, but the months are flying by me.  Wish I could freeze time... It won't be long before he'll be so wiggly and full of energy he won't want to cuddle with his momma. :(  But he does right now! He is a momma's boy through and through; Lord I pray for his future wife! ;)  He LOVES his daddy, though! Every night when Tony comes home from work and Grayson hears his daddy's voice and sees him walk in he gets the biggest smile!  Grayson is now sitting and rolling all over the place and scooting like an inch worm. It won't be long til he is crawling. He has such a personality, it is awesome to watch.

So I will leave you with some pictures of the last few months to catch you up and the promise that I will try to blog weekly, if not every other week. ;)

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And if you need even more pics, I am constantly adding pics to my facebook page (by month)!