Maine Pictures

Fun day!

Today we took a drive to Granville, the home of Daddy's alma mater, Denison University. We met our good friends Keith, Hilary, and baby Avery for a lunch date. We went to a place that Pat and Keith have fond memories of from their college days. Quite a different visit with babies in tow! We had a great lunch, and decided that one year we should have a joint birthday party for Graham and Avery, as Avery and her sweet twin, Zane, were born on the same day, one year later. That would be so fun!


Check out Graham on the way home. No, he didn't pass out and get pimped at Denison (like his Daddy used to do!) We have discovered Graham can be entertained for a long time with stickers! He spent half of our lunch sitting nicely in the booth sticking stickers on us, and obviously himself! What a tired boy. He slept for the 30 minute car ride, then continued his nap until 4:45...the nap began in the car at 1! College wore him out!

Another tree!

Last fall, during the huge wind storm we had, we lost a big tree in our backyard. The other morning, after absolutely no wind or rain, I woke up to this in my way on the driveway. How I didn't hear it fall, I am not sure. Graham was a big help picking up sticks, and was in awe of the tree on the driveway.

Molly Update...

There was a request for an update as to Pat's reaction to Graham's love of Molly the doll. He took it quite well...though he is not sure in his son's taste...he thinks Julie is much cuter:)
Oh, and now Molly's picture is admired at the table as he eats his meals:)

Molly!

So for some reason I get the American Girl catalog. I must admit, I love it! I wish I had been a little girl in the 90's so I could have had one! I was looking at it today, and Graham was so intrigued! He was saying "that?" to each of the different girls. Which is what he says when he wants to know what something is, so I proceeded to tell him each doll's name. He wanted to see each page...we looked at it for at least 15 minutes. Then, the funniest thing happened, he kept flipping to the Molly McIntyre page and saying "more Molly"! It was too cute. Seems like someone has a little crush....then he proceeded to kiss her over and over. I'm thinking maybe it's like the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition for toddlers??? Daddy is going to love this one...oh my!

Discovering Molly...she is the one with braids and glasses:)
Getting ready to point out Molly...I missed the actual pointing...


Giving Molly kisses...

4th of July Fun

18 Month Stats

4th of July pictures to come later...Just a quick post to tell you about Graham's 18 month well baby visit today. Graham is 23 pounds (15th percentile) and get this, 33 inches (70th percentile!!!)! Suddenly we have a tall little guy! Everyone has been saying he looks tall, and I have thought maybe he seemed a bit bigger lately, so it wasn't a complete surprise, but still, he has never been above the 4oth, and that was just the last visit, before that he was consistently 10th-20th. He got the last of his vaccines until age 5, and did not enjoy those one bit. The doctor was quite impressed with Graham's vocabulary. When he got to the developmental questions, he didn't even ask about how many words he had, he simply said, "well, if you ever have another baby that follows the normal develepmental pattern for speech, the 10 to 15 words they should have by now will seem strange to you! Little dude can chat! He also imformed me that we are in the so called "terrible twos"..yes, I could easily confirm that.