Pond Pics

We had pictures scheduled with a friend of ours who is a photographer but the appointment had to be rescheduled. Because we were all geared up to take pictures, we went ahead with an amateur photo shoot of our own.

One Week of Summer Vacation Down

I LOVE SUMMER BREAK!!! I have loved just staying home with Grady and being able to do whatever we want. We did some shopping, swimming, cleaning, and a lot of laying around this week. On Friday we made a trip to our local Walmart and picked up an inflatable baby pool. When we first filled it up it was pretty much ice-cold water and Grady wasn't too interested in spending any time in it (refer to Photo #1 above), but after several pots of hot water from the house we got it to a lukewarm temperature and he really liked it. Today we had the usual church experience--nursery for the first 2 hours and sacrament meeting spent in the hall. If anyone has any great ideas for getting a one year old boy to sit still and quiet in sacrament meeting we'd love to hear them. It doesn't help our problems either that our sacrament meeting is last so by then Grady is long overdue for a nap. My calling in Nursery has been going well, though. Grady is happy to play and run around--the other kids refer to him as "the baby" even though he is as big as (or bigger) than most of them. Today we had quite the scary experience after church. We were at a family friend's house for lunch. They have a rather large rottweiler (sp?) who was tied up. Grady, who loves dogs, kept trying to walk right up to it and was making barking noises at it--all of which really excited the dog (which is scary when it's a rottweiler). The dog got so wound up it broke it's metal chain and galloped toward Grady who was standing between my brother-in-law's legs. The dog charged into my brother-in-law knocking both he and Grady to the ground--but luckily, it was my brother-in-law who took the hit. It was the scariest thing I have ever witnessed in my life and to the say the least, I am not a rottweiler fan.

Summer Heat

Hours and hours of chasing Grady around at softball games finally paid off yesterday (well, sort of)...Todd's tournament team won the championship game at the Summer Heat Church Tournament in Moses Lake. It was a long, HOT day and we literally spent ALL day there, but it was fun to see them win. Todd, of course, named himself as one of the all-stars--I guess that's what you get to do when you put the team together and when the team is named "Gilbert Cabinets." He also gets to play the position he wants and gets to bat wherever he wants in the line-up. He actually did do really well--the whole team did. I have gone from full-time to half-time stat girl now that Grady is at the stage of never wanting to sit still. I have to hand off the book to chase him down at least 50 times a game. I've caught him trying to get into garbage cans, walking onto other fields as they call an emergency time-out in the middle of a play, picking up everything from food remnants to sunflower seed shells to cigarettes, and all of this when I really am trying to keep a good eye on him. It just takes the blink of an eye for him to get away and get into mischief. The other day I was out at my mom's house just relaxing and visiting when all of the sudden Grady walked by with a pair of his cousin's crusty undies in his mouth!!! No wonder the kid is constantly sick! It was not pretty...and I once again did a thorough wipe of his entire mouth with a wad of wipe ups. Probably leaving his mouth quite soapy tasting, but at least I felt like I was getting some of the germs and who knows what else out. School is finally out! I have had the best weekend just knowing that I don't have to go back to work on Monday, or Tuesday, or Wednesday, etc. Well, we are on our way to make the rounds to our dads' houses for Father's Day....Happy Father's Day to any and all dads out there who read this!!!

June 2, 2008

Cowboy Grady in front of our new fence.