Grant is 2!

Our little Grant-man is now two!  He knows how to say Happy Birthday so between his birthday and then Kevin's a week later he has been saying that a lot!  There was supposed to be a swim meet the night of his birthday but it got cancelled at the last minute so we partied hard with dinner at Chick-fil-a!  It was perfect for him.  He could play in the play area and then get ice cream after dinner.  After we got home we gave him a few presents.  He got a mini-Keurig style coffee maker.  He loves making Kevin and I coffee in ours so I thought he might enjoy having his own.  He also got a little wagon because he loves to pull things around.  Finally he got 2 new "No David" books.

We haven't done anything to celebrate with family yet due to the condition of our kitchen.  Hopefully at some point we will get everyone together and celebrate with an actual cake!

The morning of his birthday I took him to the doctor for his 2-year checkup.  Poor kiddo, I made him get a shot on his birthday.  He didn't even wince though.  He is such a tough guy when it comes to shots.  The doctor said he looks good.  He is probably a little behind on speech, but he is saying new things all the time.  He has some short phrases too.  He is just the third boy and has a lot of his talking done for him.  He gets very shy and stoic around others though.  He won't necessarily cry or anything but he doesn't make a sound.  Once you get him going he can be very silly though.  He dances with his "chicken wing" out.  That is what we call the way he holds his arm.  He also has quite a temper.  If he doesn't get what he wants he will flail around.

Luckily he is still a pretty good sleeper.  Except for a few very brief cries at bedtime he goes down like a dream.  He did go through a period of time recently where he was waking up very early for the day.  It would take quite a while to get him to go back to sleep.  Luckily ::knock on wood:: that seems to have passed. 

I originally started this post weeks ago.  In the time since then he has started saying so many phrases.  He isn't quite as shy in new situations either.  He can say Henry...and says it a lot.  We try to get him to say Nolan or even No No but he doesn't.  He can say No No but he won't assign it to Nolan.  We do think he has finally started call him Bruba though (for brother).  He adores his brothers and copies everything they do.

He is fearless when it comes to the pool.  He wears the puddle jumper and does very well in it...maybe too well.  He thinks he can jump in wherever and whenever he wants.  He kicks his legs and gets where he needs to be.
 



 


Grant @2:
Weight:  29.4lbs (68%)
Height:  33 3/4" (34%)
Head 50cm (90%)

Nolan @2:
Weight:  27lbs (50%)
Height:  33 3/4" (45%)
Head 49.5cm (80%)

Henry @2:
Weight:  27.5lbs (58%)
Height:  33.75" (24%)
Head: 50cm (90%)

Remodel week 7

Lots of work done in the past two weeks:  We have beautiful new floors, crown molding, and all the cabinet work is done - including the cubby built-in for the utility room.  We have our washer and dryer so we can clean clothes, but no other water downstairs (no potty or sink!).

Currently waiting on granite installation and painting, which will allow for sinks and appliances, and then we're done!

Kitchen remodel - Into July

Some great progress in the past week or so.  On Thursday, Superior Exterior delivered the new cabinets. They spent Thursday unloading them from a trailer and putting them together in the kitchen.  And on Friday, they were installed!!!  When it was finished, we were mostly happy with what we saw, but a little nervous because the doors didn't all line up exactly even.  On Monday though Dan explained that was normal and they would be fixing all that over the course of the week.  (Some of which we've already seen).

On Monday, more cabinet work was done - and crown molding installed - and Dan said if we could live without the downstairs bathroom sink, they could get started on the vanity right away, as well as the cabinets in the utility room, on Tuesday 7/7.

Erin has already purchased the pulls and doorknobs for all the cabinets, so we can't wait to see the finished product.

There was one minor mishap.  It would appear somewhere along the way, the drain pipe from our upstairs bathroom tub to downstairs was connected (Dan says the builder never would've done this, so possibly a repair some time in the past).  As I was draining the tub from bathing the boys, Erin yelled up at me to plug the tub back up as the water was coming out of the open pipe left today for the plumber to tie in to our new sink.  As you can imagine, it created quite a mess but luckily not too bad.