If you "follow" my facebook statuses, and even this blog, you may know that Grayson is my crazy, silly, loud, BIG personality child. Whereas Talan is my more reserved and quiet child. He likes to observe before he jumps into anything. He actually is very funny (in my opinion), but he's serious, so he doesn't WANT to be funny or for you to laugh. Everything he says or does is because he means it. Grayson LOVES getting a reaction and have you laugh at him. So funny how different they are.
With that being said, Grayson is going though a MAJOR stranger danger phase. I don't even know if you would call it stranger danger though. It's with almost everyone except Mom, Dad and Talan! Family he may see almost daily or weekly even! Talan went through the phase of only wanting Mama, but NOT to this extent! But remember, Grayson is dramatic. Ha! He will be eating breakfast in the morning, and "Gramps" walks in and he immediately covers his face and looks down. Won't look at him, won't talk to anyone, won't eat, nothing! He has actually stayed this way with people in the room for over an hour. He does NOT give in. When someone new walks up, he turns around and runs as fast as he can to me for me to pick him up, and if I dare try to put him down, he cries/screams for what seems like forever. I don't like to call it "time out", because I don't really think it's naughty behavior, but I do set him on the couch with his "kiki" and tell him he needs to calm down. It works MOST of the time, but he still won't uncover his face. I'm seriously at a loss. It would be different if it were just for strangers or someone he doesn't see as often, but it is a little frustrating with it happening with people he sees daily!
Today was the first time I had to bring him to one of my Dr. appointments. Because of this new "phase", I wasn't worried about him being his loud, busy, silly, self. He acts like a completely different kid in a matter of a second. Not lying.
Today was the first time I had to bring him to one of my Dr. appointments. Because of this new "phase", I wasn't worried about him being his loud, busy, silly, self. He acts like a completely different kid in a matter of a second. Not lying.
Notice the one on the left, he's peeking a little to see if anyone can see him. Then he covered his face completely. Then we got home for lunch, "Gramps" (who he knows very well and even asked where he was) walks in and we get this...
I mean seriously. And of course, as parents, we don't see it as a "phase", but worried he's going to be like this FOREVER! LOL! I swore he was just going to crawl forever because he didn't walk until he was 13 months (Talan walked at 10.5 months), I swore he was just going to babble forever because he didn't have "20 words" at 18 months. Now he says something new every day and people can't believe how much he is actually able to say already. And now this. How long will THIS last??
As for Talan, he had his first day of Pre-K on Wednesday! And boy has he come out of his shell and become a little more confident and outgoing over the summer! It was no more needing his 3 different hugs, 3 different kisses and about 4 goodbyes when I dropped him off. He barely even said goodbye! Ha! Oh how they are always changing. Right when you think you know exactly how they'll act/behave, they have to change it up on you!
I was so excited to go pick him up, I could hardly stand it! Yes, he went to preschool last year, but it was only 2 days a week for 2.5 hours. This year he's going 3 days a week for 6.5 hours! That's a big deal, I think! I can't wait to watch him grow throughout the year!
It's also neat to watch the boys miss each other. Grayson was watching Elmo, after a very busy day he had with Mama and Gamma Nell, and I just said "Time to go get Talan!" He was so excited, he jumped up, said "OK!! Bye Bye Elmo!" And headed upstairs before I could even get the TV turned off! When we picked Talan up, he got in the car and right away walks to Grayson's side and says, "Hi Grayson! Remember me?! I'm your brother Talan!" It still makes me laugh a few days later. Grayson just giggled at him.
On the way home, I was asking him how his day was. Now remember, this is my serious child. He responds in a sad voice, "I didn't do good in school." I asked him why and he says, "I didn't remember everything, and I didn't do everything right." My heart sank. I told him that's why he's going to school; to learn! No one expects him to do everything right! And his teacher had just got done telling me that he had a great first day! I don't doubt what she told me was true. It's just surprising to see how kids can already be so hard on themselves at such a young age.
If you saw a status I put up on facebook about him wanting a lunchbox with a green superhero and yellow flames, notice in the pictures...he settled for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles lunchbox (green guys), and his shoes actually have yellow flames on the side! Ha! He saw them and he said "This is just what I was looking for!" Seriously. At 4yrs old, you can already be "looking" for something THAT specific??
I can't wait to hear how his 2nd day went in just an hour! Here are his first day of school pictures!
As for an update on the hubby and I. We have had a most wonderful summer, but I am glad to see summer go too. Is that a bit contradictory? Probably. We have many family members with birthdays in August (and now a wedding anniversary :)), so I don't want to take that away from them, but August is my least favorite month of the year! I LOVE Fall and getting into the Holiday season, and by August, I'm ALWAYS ready for summer to go away. This summer I went to Hawaii and Indianapolis, our family went to Chicago and up north to Duluth, Trav and I went to New York City, had our 7 year Anniversary in the beginning of September...and this weekend Travis leaves for Arizona to go visit his brothers family and meet our new nephew, Maverick! Can't wait to hear all about it!
In the midst of all the travels, we started an online course called Peace University with Dave Ramsey. (It's a financial course on dumping debt and living a debt free life, giving, saving, building wealth, etc..."living like no one else, so in the future you can live like no one else" :)) Many of you have probably heard of him before, but oh my goodness! Oh how I wish we took this YEARS ago! I'm not going to go into "preach mode" here, but no matter how young or old you are, I would HIGHLY recommend it! Anyways, today I thought I would look online for a clear "Give, Save, Spend" piggy bank for the boys that he talks about. I was expecting to be brought to Amazon or something, but I ended up finding a blog with free printables and I made my own! I had small rope that I had saved from another project, and some good 'ol mason jars, and voila! I have to give a HUGE shout out to my Grandma too! This summer, some family members (I won't say "we", because I was not able to help), cleaned out their house to get ready to sell because my Grandparent's moved into an apartment. Well, before I headed off to Hawaii, I stopped over to say hi to my aunt and cousin who were over there. They had me go through the garage to see if there was anything I wanted, and I grabbed a ton of mason jars. I always see projects on Pinterest with mason jars, and thought I would take them thinking I could find SOMETHING I'll want to do with them some day. Today was the day! I went out to the garage to see what I had even grabbed, and noticed not many of them had lids on them, but I took 3 small ones that had a different lid system, 2 big ones WITH lids, and one without a lid. I'm on the hunt now for either 1 old looking lid, or 3 new looking lids to fit on these mason jars! (Or even more lids so I can use all big jars) But THANK YOU GRANDMA!! Here's what I did with some of your mason jars :)
I know my boys are only 4 and 22 months, but I can't wait to start using these with them!
I better stop babbling and go pick up Talan from school! Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend!
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