Graidy Turns Two!

November 17, 2010 Graidy woke up and decided he was a 2 year old. He was super ornery and decided to get into everything and anything, not take a nap, and make is Mama cry at McDonald's when he wouldn't get in his car seat. You would think he didn't know it was his birthday! Since he didn't take a nap that day he almost fell asleep on his way to his own party (go figure) but by 6:00 he was running around the club house having a blast with his friends and cousins. I'm so blessed to have this little guy in my life and I can't believe how fast 2 years goes by. Believe it or not but his 2nd birthday wasn't all that emotional for me, I'm happy he is 2 and growing up :)

This year he had a carnival themed party and I think it turned out way cute!

My Mom made the banner and I have to say it is my favorite thing of the whole party!

For the food we did hot dogs, nochos, and all the fixins!

I made a photo booth but wasn't very proactive about getting everyones picture in it but here are a few that turned out way cute!

He got spoiled as usual:

The party was a blast I got from one of the kids "This is the best party ever!" and an other said "I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight!". I loved this party and I love even more that its all over! For the invite and most of the decorations I used a scrapbook kit by Jennifer Barrett and Shalin Studio you find it at Sweet Shoppe Studio. I got a lot of my ideas from Kara's Party Ideas, I visit this blog just about every day.

Couple of New Things:

He tells everyone whose things are whos "That's Brett's hat!" "That's Mama's drink!" "Mine, Graidy's!" For example yesterday my Aunt Sues was patting him on the bum and he yelled at her "Mine, Graidy's spank you!" and swatted her had away. Almost everything is Graidy's and he'll let you know it.

He only calls Brett "Dad or Daddy" on really rare occasions most of the time he is just Brett. Brett got him calling me Kiley yesterday so we'll see how this goes.

He likes to pretend he is a baby, and when we are out he will pass back and forth between us saying "Mama hold you." then to "Brett hold you."

He says "That's amazing" and "Excuse me" and he can form pretty much a whole sentence. He can count to 10 and sing his ABC's to about H. He also sings the "Clean Up" song when I clean the house. He's a pretty smart little bugger and I love him!

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We just got our family pictures done today and can't wait to start making the cards! Last time we got our pictures taken we couldn't keep Graidy out of the lake, this time we took them at the Harley Davidson shop and we couldn't keep the little guy away from the "cycles". As I've said before I love my photographer and I'm confident we got some good pictures! (even though we were freezing)

Lately I've been making my own announcements and greeting cards but this sounds like I'll have a break! I can't wait to pick out the card :)

lions, tigers, and dragons... oh my!

For the entire month of October and now November... My little almost 2 year old Gray thinks he is a dragon or a monster! He talks about it in the car, in stores, and apparently at daycare.

"Mom" -G

"Yes" -M

"I get him!" -G

"Who do you get?" -M

"Daddy" -G

"You get him?" -M

"Yeah, I scratch him!" -G

"You scratch him?" -M

"Yeah I scare him, I'm a dragon, roar!" -G

I couldn't stop laughing, and did I mention he does this in a scary voice? It's hilarious! It all started when I picked up his Halloween costume, he's still young enough to not pick it out himself. I figured he'd "perform" the best in dragon costume, because he likes to run around and say he is a monster all the time. I picked up the costume a bit to early I think because he would push his rocking chair over into his closet and get down the costume all the time and "I scare him" (even if its me). Almost 2 year olds are so much fun! He is just way to funny, and I love his personality right now, he reminds me so much of Brett and he is already teasing me and playing jokes on me every day. This morning he woke up came out of his room and said to me "What's up, Dude?"

For Halloween this year we did the usual, went to the pumpkin patch, got Krispy Kremes, carved pumpkins, went trick or treating, and had a Halloween party it was really fun!

Did you see the word daycare up at the top? Yep that is right I took my almost 2 year old to daycare for the first time 3 weeks ago. I was so worried about it, but the little guy loves it and I love it! Every time I walk into the place they are cleaning something and the are teaching them things and have a white board and the write down every time they change a diaper! What is best of all is they can get 15 2 year olds to all take a nap at the same time!! They are amazing over there at Lollipop Daycare and I'm really glad that I found such a great place :)

In other news: I keep saying almost 2 year old because G-Money is turning two next Wednesday! I hate that I'm such a baby about it but I seriously get anxiety over it! I feel like my life is going by way to fast! Last year I asked a co-worker that had a son about the same age if she did okay with him turning 1 and she said to me "stupid stuff like that doesn't bother me" I almost gasped! What? Stupid? My baby boy not being a baby isn't stupid, its nervous breakdown material!