Toddler tenderness

As Windy said in her post, these 2 love to fight...constantly. But, they're like a little married couple. They will be fighting one minute- screaming at the top of their little lungletts. Then all of a sudden, they are best friends again...

THE BEACH

We recently went on a little family vacation at the beach. While there, we visited the coolest State Park ever. After we survived the tropical storm, it was some serious fun. It was GORGEOUS. Just look at the stormy sky. Made for great photos...






Can you tell there was a GINORMOUS man in the left side of the photo? No? Good. He was surely cramping my style and I didn't know what I could do photoshop wise. Seriously, he was huge. Thank goodness for photoshop.


Grayson being "strong"


We took way more pics, but they were with the iPhone and I only brought the "big" camera for a couple shots cause sand in a $1000 camera is not something I was willing to risk.

Grayson's Birthday Part 1

Happy birthday Grayson!!!!!
Well, as Bradley said Tuesday night, "Can you believe this time 3 years ago, you were pushing Grayson out?" No I couldn't believe it and it kinda brought up some memories I have since suppressed. Like the whole giving birth in a teaching hospital room full of about 40 teachers, doctors, residents, and students...*shudder*...Anyhow, Tuesday Grayson turned the big 03 and had a super fun get-to-do-what-i-want-cause-it's-my-birthday day. He chose the splash pad, which I did not know about until a few days ago, ice cream and after all that, Maamaw, TT and josh came with PRESENTS!

The birthday boy himself...


I told Brad there was no wet t-shirt contest...







By the end, Hartley was done. It wasn't really his cup of tea...

And since mommy left the splash pad to get drinks JUST as the ice cream man was coming, we had to get ice cream afterward.


part 2 coming soon...

My baby can write!!!

We were all outside the other day drawing with sidewalk chalk when Grayson calls my name and says "look at my 'A'"

He wrote an a, c, and d, and o. Who taught him this??? Certainly not me! He has been spending a lot of time with his little learning laptop. In fact, he told me I HAD to get him some batteries for it because the batteries died. I told him after his nap we would go to target and get him some batteries, and the first thing he asked for when he woke up was the batteries. So, we got the batteries and also got some Kumon workbooks. He completed 5 pages just tonight and actually liked it!

More brags...
He can almost do a cartwheel!! AND can do a HANDSTAND!!!! He kicked all the way up last Sunday, and fell to his back. It kind of scared him, but he was pretty proud and so was his gymnast mom :)

Hartley has been getting the shaft lately on the blog posts, but he is still here and is saying all kinds of things. He can be the SWEETEST or the most rotten. He fights Grayson like a maniac, and still loves to eat and dance. Whenever he hears music, no matter where we are, he gets the most attention by tapping the nearest person and dancing for them. It is so funny.