The Hamper

Grayson loves small places -- just like his daddy. He'll climb behind chairs, under tables, etc -- anywhere he thinks he'll fit. This is how Steve found him the other night:

fast asleep all curled up inside his clothes hamper. First he put all his stuffed animals and blankets inside (even his giant elephant pillow), then climbed in on top of them all and went to sleep. That boy makes me laugh :)

Update 12/26: Grayson plays in his hamper every day now. The other night he fell asleep in his hamper yet again. This time sitting straight up.

Oh goodness I love this boy!

For Daddy




Gray's new favorite place to take his books to read. On top of his changing table.

This is how I just found Gray when I checked on him tonight.

Two funny things about this picture: 1. He's totally buried under his big elephant pillow.  

2. For some reason Gray has had something against wearing pants lately. Puts up a HUGE fight every time I put pants on him. And when I DO manage to get pants on him, the moment I leave him alone, he takes them right off. Silly pants-less boy.

At the Treehouse Museum's annual Milk and Cookies with Santa party -- my mom and dad took Gray so I could rest.
Gray's favorite place at the Treehouse is the train tables.  P.S. It's time to give in and take Gray to get a a hair cut. He's looking WAY too Justin Bieber-ish lately....

 

He loves the tunnels at the Treehouse, too. (Thanks, Mom for taking some pictures)

Gray also likes to get inside the dog kennel at my parents' house. Eww. 

Since his daddy hasn't seen him for weeks, I thought I'd load some pics of what Grayson has been up to lately so he can see :) I'm trying to upload a video, too, but it's not working for some reason. I'll keep trying, Steve-o!

Japan

More Japan...

Preggo Update

So I'm nearly 32 weeks now (HOORAY!), and just had my latest check-up! Baby Thatcher is growing great, and I'm still not gaining any weight. Weird.  My doctor gave me 'carte blanche' to eat whatever I wanted, and told me to 'fatten up' at Thanksgiving :)   I'm dilated to 1 cm, which is no big deal, but they did a FFN test just to make sure everything is okay. I got the results back today, and the FFN was positive. Ugh. That means I'm at a higher risk for delivering prematurely. So I got to go into L&D for a little while and get monitored (everything's great), and get a betamethazone shot -- have to go get another one tomorrow. Those things HURT! That's a steroid they give to 'boost' the baby's lung development, just in case he's delievered early.  Dr. Seale doesn't think I need to be on strict bed rest YET, and told me just to 'limit' my activity -- "if you don't have to be up, don't be up". Not sure exactly what that means, but I'll do my best!  Everyone keeps saying that since I delivered Gray at term, I have a better chance of hanging on til term this time, too.  I gave Thatcher a long lecture about not coming for at LEAST another 4 weeks. Let's hope he complies! 

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