Happy Fall!

New words

Here is a list of words that Grant can say (with proper meaning most of the time):

Hi (Grant's first word was the same as Leah's)
Doggy (this word can mean almost any animal too, and most things)
Kitty (he says it "kiggy")
Daddy
Bath (more like a whispered "bahhh")
Uh-oh
GO-GO-GO (spoken whenever he sees a sports game on TV, or during the opening song of The Cat in the Hat)
Peekaboo ("pee-uh-oo")
Apple ("appo" or "appu")
All gone ("ah-gin", but you can tell what it means because he says it whenever something is all gone!)
Eye

And a lot of grunts and pointing fill in the rest.  It's amazing what you can understand from a grunt, a tone of voice, a point, and a specific facial expression!

Little walker

Here's our little Grant buddy!  About 2-3 weeks ago, he decided that 17 months was old enough, and he took his first step.  He had been standing up a lot on his own for a while, but just felt like crawling was easier and faster.  Little by little, though, he found out that walking was kinda fun!  He would just have this huge grin every time he took a step or two, even though he usually fell down pretty quick.  But, practice makes perfect, as they say.  And our little guy gets better every day.  Leah loves to hold his hands as he walks.  And Grant has figured out that it is sometimes faster to walk than to get down, crawl, and get back up.

I just love watching him walk.  It makes him so happy.  And he is the cutest thing ever!  (Sorry, but a mom can love her kid, right? :) )

Halloween, take two!

So I didn't have time to write anything when I posted the Halloween pictures, but now I do... so I'll tell y'all a little about what in the world you're looking at!

Saturday night (October 29) was our church's "trunk-or-treat", where everyone comes to the parking lot, opens up the trunks of their cars, and hands out candy to the kids.  Leah had decided to be a blue butterfly back in August I think, which was perfect because the dollar store had butterfly wings, and pipe cleaners are super cheap, too... Thanks, Leah!  Uh, back to Saturday.  Leah was adorable going from car to car, and sometimes, in all the confusion, going to the same one twice in a row.  Grant was a little overwhelmed by all the people, but was fine once we got him out of the stroller to carry him.  When we got home, Leah immediately wanted to share her candy with us.  What a sweetie :)

(Not Halloween-related)
Sunday, Leah got to say her little part in our church's Primary program (kind of a special meeting where the kids have little speaking parts and sing songs for everyone... it's awesome).  She did a great job with her part, but was too distracted and having too much fun to sing very much of the songs :)

(Back to Halloween-related)
The pumpkins!  Matthew's was the scary face (as usual), Leah wanted the robot, mine was Mike Wazowski (can you tell?  Leah wanted me to do a monster, so I tried to do Mike.), and we chose a doggy for Grant in honor of his most favorite word.  And oh, the pumpkin seeds!  I look forward to those every year.

Uh, we took Leah trick-or-treating around our apartments on Halloween.  Grant had fun pointing at the pumpkins everywhere and knocking on the doors as I held him up to them.  He got pretty heavy after a while though (strollers don't work very well with all the stairs to the apartments), so he got to hang out at home "helping" Matthew hand out candy.  Leah had so much fun.  My favorite part was when she saw (twice) a kid dressed up as something all white with a white mask covering his/her entire face, and she looked at him/her and said "Silly!!" (both times).

I think that about covers it.  Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!