Boys Will Be Boys: March 2011

Friday, March 25, 2011

Spicy Brycie

Hard to believe our little man was just over the size of a pop bottle at birth

and at a year and a half he's 25 lbs! He's in the 75-90% range for everything

and a very healthy little boy! His red hair has brought on quite a temper lately

but his big brown eyes and constant smile make it pretty easy to forgive!!

Bryce is talking more and more each week. This week he's began saying 'baby' and 'ga-dee' for Grady. A few weeks ago he said 'By--ice' for Bryce. It's so awesome to see him flourishing in the talking world, we've waited so long to hear his little voice. This week he went round the table at supper pointing to each of us saying 'mama', 'daddy', and 'ga-dee' and Grady can get him to say 'Uh oh' and 'Bye Bye' consistently! It's so cute. The video is a glimpse in to his talking world until he wanted the camera...

Friday, March 18, 2011

Our Evening

Grandma Cyndy and her boys

Hay bale jumping that brought back many

memories for each of us as kids

Grady, Daddy, and Grandpa walking across the creek plank

I wanted a sunset picture

The Damage of Bryce

He came out of the bathroom walking up to me blowing his nose

I thought, how cute he got his own kleenex!

I then walked in to the bathroom to find this mess...

Why the dish cloth in the bathroom, I'm not sure either it WAS in the kitchen

He leaves piles of kitty food just like this all over our bathroom

Friday, March 11, 2011

Benefit

I helped out with a benefit a month or so ago for a lady's husband who was suddenly ill and slipped in to a coma. The lady, Judy, is our village clerk and I work with her on our town board. At the benefit they had a bunch of silent auction items and the one below that the boys are playing with was one of the items. Grady wanted it that night so we put a bid down, as soon as we walked away another little boy went up to the toy wrote his name down and his daddy helped him write the dollar amount one dollar higher than our bid. As I walked back by the set of toys I realized that little boy had wrote his name down after every bidders bid and was sitting next to the toys so he could continue to out bid everyone. We explained the situation to Grady and he was ok with not getting the toys but asked if the boys could play with them. Since the evening was coming to an end we let them and the other little boy, Nathan got the bid! The next day we were back in the same building after church and Grady said "I'm going to go play with the cows and fence with Nathan mom" I had to explain again that the little boy got to take them home and that maybe Grady could ask for some for his birthday. He never mentioned the cows and fence again until...Judy came to our house about a week after the benefit to collect some money from me for some auction items I had delivered. She had a bag in hand and asked to talk to Grady. Guess what was in the bag!! His very own fence, feeder bunk, and a set of cows. Judy's sister Jenny fell in love with Grady and thought he was such a good boy that she bought him his own set to say thank you for all of my help and for having such a sweet little boy! The Lord truly works in amazing ways through each of us!

Say thanks daily for what you have instead of using up prayers on what you want or don't really need.

Grady Lee and his cows

Bryce likes to corral himself with the fence and place the cows on his lap!

Oh, and I LOVE little wrangler butts!!

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Teeth

I had all four of my wisdom teeth removed yesterday. I loved hearing all the stories of...oh, you'll be fine...I was eating a big mac the next day...I wasn't sore or swollen at all...blah, blah, blah. For those of you that this happened to, I secretly am cursing you. My face is swollen, my lower lip, chin, and right side of my face are numb. I can feel bone sticking out on both of my top teeth that are cutting into my cheek. It hurts to talk let alone try to eat anything, even jello was too much to chew and I about started crying with the pain. The oral surgeon said it would take 15 minutes and it ended up taking just shy of 2 hours, WHAT!!! No wonder I feel like my jaw is broken it was propped open WIDE for 2 freaking hours! I'm one of the people that is obviously having a bad experience and won't be afraid to tell anyone about it. I once thought I was going to be one of the lucky ones who would never have to get my wisdom teeth out. Not True. Then my dear neighbor friend tells me she doesn't even have wisdom teeth...Cassie dear, I love you but I hate you for that ;-)

To make it better though...My sweet baby boy Grady came up to me this morning, lightly touched my face, and asked "Mom how are your teeth feeling" I smiled and told him Okay even though I wanted to say horrible. He then asked if he could get me anything that would make me feel better! I just told him to snuggle with me that, that would make me feel just fine and of course if one is snuggling the other has to be in on it too. So I had two wonderful little boys on my lap this morning that made all my pain and discomfort go away for those moments!