10 months!

Saturday our littlest man turned 10 months! Just 2 more until the big 0-1! He is really pulling up a lot now and is thinking about starting to cruise around. I think he may be giving up the army crawl soon and going to hands and knees finally - he can do it, he just prefers dragging himself around, lol. I got some great outdoor snapshots this time. Thanks Laura Beth for helping me and volunteering to take one of us together - I love it!

A Day at the Lake

We went out on the pontoon this week with Mom and Jerry and Brent (nephew) and had a great time. The boys always have a blast swimming and jumping off the boat. I took some video with my new flip video camera (I am loving this thing!) and tried to condense it down but still came up with almost 8 minutes of video! Sorry if it gets boring! After the lake we stopped in at a little "hole-in-the-wall" pizza place that has a karaoke stage and the boys all gave us a perfomance (after the only other people in the restaurant left). I'll warn you, Grant gets obnoxious, but... welcome to our world, lol. This is late in the day after tiresome activities and NO NAP. Hope you enjoy our goofy little boys. Can you see the stark contrast between Clayton and Grant, lol? And little Evan seems to do whatever Grant does - oh, brother! (Pun intended, lol.)

In case a little translation is needed, when it gets to the part where I ask Grant to sing a song from Sunday School he says, "At Sunday School, someone makes a mess, HEY!"

Graduating preschool...

...for the last time.

3 years of preschool have gone by quickly, although, I have to admit there were many times when I thought I would never make it through these years of Clayton's! Thankfully, at our public preschool there is a wonderful and caring preschool staff and I have leaned on Mrs. Lee's advice and many years of experience time and again. She has always been more than willing to listen to my list of complaints/challenges with such a strong-willed child and has helped me to cope while working together to figure out what works and what doesn't. Her level of service goes beyond the classroom and she epitomizes what the intentions of the public preschool program are all about. Clayton is such a differnt kid today than he was on day 1! I am so proud of him! I cannot thank Mrs. Lee, Ms. Carolyn, Ms. Bobbi, & Ms. Tina enough for their dedication to teaching and the love they show for their students.

It is so sad to say goodbye, but mostly because it means my little boy has to continue to grow up and move on to the next stage: kindergarten!

Preschool Graduate

We love you Mrs. Lee - thank you for all of your support and encouragement during these years!