A Year of Pictures

2/23/12

2012-02-23T17:29:00.001-08:00

I can't believe he can push the buttons without standing on my foot now.

2/22/12

2012-02-23T17:28:00.001-08:00

Big boy!

2/21/12

2012-02-21T10:01:00.001-08:00

I know I owe a few days, but I'll catch those up when we get home.

Here is Grant with his "cowboy" gear on, waiting on the hotel shuttle I think the hat looks more like Michael Jackson, but he says it's a cowboy hat.

2/18/12

2012-02-19T11:28:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday!!

My friend, Sara, should have her own TV show. She makes some of the most amazing cakes. You can find her at:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Serendipity-Cakes. She also does great cupcake toppers and fondant figures that can be mailed anywhere.

The backside of the cake. Those rocks are made from chocolate.

Jonathan was making sure they didn't ruin the cake before everyone got there.

Sara (the cake Goddess) and one of her twins, Abby.

Grant wasn't in the best picture mood!

You can't have enough cake pictures.

The GREAT Aunt Judy and Jonathan

This is just because my husband looked cute!

And this one is just because Grant looked cute!

Olivia

My brother, Chad, and 3 of 4 of his kids.

Princess Abby and Princess Olivia

George and the boys

This was right before Grant had a meltdown

The singing overwhelmed Grant.

Cade didn't mind though!

We had candy filled balloons to pop, but they weren't popping!

Tyler had no luck either.

This is the only picture of my mom smiling!

Izzy

Not-so-fab picture of Delaney, my mom, and Sammy

Time for Presents!

Aunt Tina and Nanny

The big gift!

Cade approves!

Cade and Izzy

Grant had to fix something

giving Tyler a ride

2/17/12

2012-02-19T10:16:00.000-08:00

They love their birthday balloons!

2/16/12

2012-02-16T18:36:00.000-08:00

The boys got their "worker-man" vests made by Sarah Fields today, and they LOVE them!

2/15/12

2012-02-16T18:34:00.002-08:00

I told them to act like they loved each other.

2/14/12

2012-02-16T18:34:00.000-08:00

This is probably my favorite picture taken of Grant this year.

2/13/12

2012-02-16T18:33:00.000-08:00

Dylan donated his hair to Locks of Love again. (Thank goodness!!)

2/12/12

2012-02-16T18:32:00.000-08:00

This was from Homecoming this year. I swear they look like brother and sister!

2/11/12

2012-02-16T18:31:00.000-08:00

This kid can take some pretty bad pictures!

2/10/12

2012-02-11T10:20:00.000-08:00

Date night with my husband!

Solo picture because Delaney insisted.

2/9/12

2012-02-11T10:17:00.000-08:00

This was taken last week when we took my neice, Sammy, glasses shopping. This girl has no idea how beautiful she is. Look at those eyes and those lips!

2/8/12

2012-02-11T10:16:00.000-08:00

Delaney before getting her haircut. Ya think there would have been an after shot, but I forgot!

2/7/12

2012-02-11T10:15:00.000-08:00

Look who got into Sissy's makeup again!

2/6/12

2012-02-06T18:31:00.000-08:00

Look at that tongue! He's throwing bread to the ducks.

Cade, Grant, and their baby Autumn.

Since I am pretty sure not many people look at this...Judy, here are the cheap jeans that make me look like I have a butt.

2/5/12

2012-02-06T18:26:00.000-08:00

This is the face of someone who is guilty!

2/4/12

2012-02-04T19:49:00.000-08:00

This was Cade getting dressed all by himself! (I did NOT take him in public!)

2/3/12

2012-02-04T19:47:00.000-08:00

This was taken a few days ago, but I just got it downloaded.

2/2/12

2012-02-04T19:40:00.001-08:00

This is how I dress them!

2/1/12

2012-02-04T19:39:00.000-08:00

Daddy sent Cade to his room to get clothes and this was the result. George actually took him to the park looking like this.

1/31/12

2012-01-31T18:00:00.000-08:00

I don't think he has put down his "baby like him" since we operated on it.

We visited the Fire Station today. Cade has his baby too.

Then came haircuts. Cade looks like such a big boy. His eyes are crazy though. They seem to rotate between green, blue, and gray.

Grant almost looks like a big boy!

Here's a rare picture of Cade and I. While I think it's a pretty good picture of me, Cade looks like a total cheeseball. His teeth really aren't that jacked up. He was in the middle of eating.

He looks better here.

1/30/12

2012-01-30T17:37:00.000-08:00

Cade has been very interested in Grant's buttons for a few weeks . Grant refuses to let Cade get near him, so I decided to make both of the boys "babies" with tubes. Cade was very interested in his baby until Grant picked his up and was very excited saying that now his baby looked just like him. Cade got sad and said that he didn't have a button and his baby didn't look like him anymore, so I took the button out of Cade's baby. Now everyone is happy!

1/29/12

2012-01-30T17:33:00.000-08:00

One minute before I took this picture, Grant was arguing that he wasn't sleepy. I looked over and saw him like this. He is actually asleep with his knee locked to keep him upright.

Here he is after I transferred him to the couch.

1/28/12

2012-01-28T17:43:00.000-08:00

Do you have any idea how much noise 3 pots, 2 bowls, 4 lids, 1 strainer, 2 toddler boys, and 4 drumsticks can make? I promise you don't want to know!

1/27/12

2012-01-28T17:41:00.000-08:00

I put the bows on my Dad's birthday present! Happy Birthday Gramps!

1/26/12

2012-01-28T17:39:00.000-08:00

I bought these reading glasses in the dollar spot at Target several months ago. Cade still wears them at least once a week.

1/25/12

2012-01-26T17:09:00.001-08:00

Cade blowing his whistle that he found in Sissy's room. Look closely!

1/24/12

2012-01-24T17:55:00.000-08:00

Grant looking goofy!

Shiny lips

1/23/12

2012-01-24T17:53:00.000-08:00

Daddy took this. (btw, what does the ice cream scoop in the background look like?)

1/22/12

2012-01-24T17:50:00.000-08:00

Playdoh time

1/21/12

2012-01-24T17:49:00.000-08:00

I have no idea!

Grant's new backpack

1/20/12

2012-01-20T21:25:00.000-08:00

Cade is seriously dramatic. He said, "My balloon broken. It not my party anymore." He then was able to cry for about 30 minutes about his balloon. (bad pics from my phone)

Grant's pretty capable of drama too!

1/19/12

2012-01-20T21:22:00.000-08:00

Pretty girls!

Dirty Boy!

1/18/12

2012-01-18T18:53:00.000-08:00

Bikers

Musician

"worker" as they call it

1/17/12

2012-01-18T06:56:00.000-08:00

Since Grant has been sick for the most part of the last few months, we thought we would try to work on getting him to wear a mask, though I can't imagine he's actually going to wear it when he isn't playing doctor.

Dr. Grant

The sad part is that Cade actually likes to wear it.

1/16/12

2012-01-16T17:21:00.000-08:00

A rare picture of Cade and me

such concentration

He's ready to go!

Sometimes you just have to laugh at this kid. He did all of this by himself, and then got very upset that I wouldn't lock it. At my mom's insistence, I am now going to drill holes in the lid since I have a feeling Grant will be locked in here against his will.

Here's the side view.

1/15/12

2012-01-15T16:56:00.000-08:00

Like father, like son. (I have no idea what is up with George's eyes though.)

1/14/12

2012-01-15T16:55:00.000-08:00

I love this video from a few weeks ago. I won't name the featured adult since she would kill me!

1/13/12

2012-01-13T18:21:00.000-08:00

I got stuck on a long phone call. This is Cade's cue to come up with anything he can to make a huge mess.

This is a box of Carpet Fresh and a huge glass of Diet Coke. I asked him what he happened and he said, "I don't know. I was playing with my fire house".

As I was cleaning up the carpet mess, he got into the chalkboard paint and hit Grant in the head with the paintbrush. Grant freaked, so I had most of it cleaned up before I could snap a picture. It's a really good thing Cade is so cute!

1/12/12

2012-01-12T17:35:00.000-08:00

Delaney had a doctor's appointment today, so I enjoyed a much needed girls' day.

Grant didn't feel so hot...

so Cade destroyed his room without Mom to make him clean it up.

1/11/12

2012-01-11T18:12:00.000-08:00

Since today wasn't an "I'm so cute that you want to take pictures of me," and more of a "hey look, mommy is gonna lose it" type of day, here are a couple of old pics that I found on this computer.

This was one of Grant's favorite things to do in the hospital, play monkey.

Man, they have aged!

1/10/12

2012-01-10T18:01:00.000-08:00

Our day of appointments started with a chest x-ray. This was the first time we had no tears.

This is the fish tank in Dr. McElroy's office. Every fish has been assigned a member of our family. I'm trying not to be offended that tbe biggest ugliest fish in the tank is me.

I just thought he looked sweet here, though his hair is a mess.

Our favorite doctor, Dr. Osuntokun, is worth the drive to see, but it made for a long day.

1/9/12

2012-01-09T18:08:00.000-08:00

Cade really wanted me to take this picture.

I have no idea. George took this picture. For some reason, Cade is sitting in the sink with a golf club, wet pants, and a crown.

1/8/12

2012-01-08T17:09:00.000-08:00

The night isn't complete without a musical performance from Cade, usually in costume.

I think he's praying for another episode of Caillou.

1/7/12

2012-01-07T17:13:00.000-08:00

I guess this is the game of "I'll drive, you watch TV".

Tyler is so photogenic as long as he has no idea that you are taking a picture of him.

With Cade, you either get a totally cheesy smile or this look.

This would be that cheesy smile.

I wish she concentrated this hard on her schoolwork!

1/6/12

2012-01-06T18:03:00.000-08:00

This is some serious bedhead!

He wasn't feeling so hot today, but he sure looked sweet.

He must have found a helicopter.

Cade loved the warmer weather.

An iPhone and a candy cane, Cade was very still for awhile.

I'm not claiming this one. I think they favor their dad.

1/5/12

2012-01-05T17:48:00.000-08:00

Bubble time!

This is the only picture of Cade today, and probably the only time he smiled all day.

The boys love visits from Grant's OT, Amanda.

This one is more for my own reference. When things are "off" with Grant, we start to see dark circles around his eyes. They didn't get any darker than this today, so I'm hoping things are better tomorrow.

One of the sweetest things I see all day is Grant "kneading" his blanket as he is falling asleep.

1/4/12 (I wrote this on time, but didn't hit post)

2012-01-05T17:39:00.001-08:00

This is Cade's new trick. He is pretty proud of it, but you can see that Grant isn't very impressed.

George came around the corner and took this and said, "this will go on your blog tonight." So, here it is.

Tyler hates the camera!

1/3/12

2012-01-03T18:06:00.000-08:00

We have attempted taking down the Christmas a few times, and it caused a total meltdown for Cade. Instead of sucking it up and dealing with it, I decided to be a coward. We now have a Valentine's Day tree!

1/2/12

2012-01-02T19:02:00.000-08:00

All day, every day Cade carries around some sort of notebook and something to write with. He will walk up and drop everything to jot down a note. It's exactly what you don't appreciate him doing as you walk our of the bathroom.

A busy day at Grammy's wore him out. This is him taking a break. (Do NOT comment on the bottle!)

This is probably one of my favorite things Grant does. He watches the older boys on skateboards and works on perfecting his tricks on this water board that we bought on clearance. The only think the picture doesn't do is let you hear him say, "oh, dangit" every time he falls.

We use colored bath tints and Cade loves to take a bath.

......and, Grant does NOT!

1/1/12

2012-01-02T09:52:00.000-08:00

Silly Monkeys! This is one of the few pictures that shows Cade's real smile. He prefers to make faces at the camera.

We're back! Last year, I started this blog and did great for a few months. Then, my camera crapped out. My goals this year have changed a little bit to take the pressure off. I am now setting a goal to make a post daily. These will usually be a picture or two that was taken that day, but sometimes there just isn't anything picture worthy. I will add older pictures that haven't been posted here. So, those are the rules! Let's see if I can make it longer than I did before.

Catch Up

2011-07-16T19:15:00.000-07:00

This one gets a story. I was in my room with Grant. Cade keeps hollering for me, "Mama, Mama". He wasn't crying, so I told him that he needed to come to me. After another minute or so, I came to see what he wanted. Here is what I found. He said, "I stuck." The funniest part is that he really was stuck. The sunshade locks in the extended position, so he couldn't get out.

Cade is starting to dislike the camera some days. I asked him to say cheese, and this is what he did.

Playdoh with Corbin and Ms Lorie (ECI).

Yup, he didn't like the camera this day either.

They must be twins! It's so funny to me that they game me the exact same expression.

6/5/11

2011-06-05T18:17:00.000-07:00

This is how we save money on babysitters.

Cade's getting to smart for us!

5/16/11

2011-05-16T20:18:00.002-07:00

5/15/11

2011-05-16T20:18:00.000-07:00

He was wearing a donut bag on his head. I guess he couldn't find his hat. Excuse the drool! I think he has molars coming in.

5/10/11

2011-05-10T19:41:00.000-07:00

My friend, Sara, bought the boys tool sets. They played with the drills forever. My boys are truly domestic. Their favorite toys are their lawn mowers, their vacuums, and now, their drills.

Grant's turn!

5/9/11

2011-05-10T19:39:00.000-07:00

This is what heat intolerance looks like. This was after about 10 minutes outside. Yuck!

Poor baby just wants to play outside.

5/8/11

2011-05-08T09:54:00.000-07:00

Today is a day for underwear.

What better way to keep your underwear dry than to pee outside. Unfortunately, my husband still believes to too.

5/7/11

2011-05-07T18:24:00.000-07:00

I got a new lens!!

Cade has been asking to wear overalls lately. The hat just finishes the look.

The boys got a new table, and were so excited to "fix" it with screwdrivers.

5/5/11

2011-05-05T16:29:00.001-07:00

They say they are firemen and they need to get gas.

5/2/11

2011-05-02T14:04:00.000-07:00

I have no idea why he is sitting like this, but he's been that way for 15 minutes. BTW, the black shoes and no shorts were his idea. Oh, and the feed backpack, just dont ask.

Grant speaks Spanish at OneTrueMedia.com

2011-04-30T15:37:00.001-07:00

The video quality is pretty bad, but the sound is priceless!

Make photo slide shows at www.OneTrueMedia.com

2011-04-30T10:53:00.000-07:00

I really wish someone would invent a self-cocking Nerf gun.

4/30/11

2011-04-30T08:02:00.000-07:00

Tylers silver medal from today's meet. 12:45 for the 3000m.

4/28/11

2011-04-28T19:45:00.000-07:00

A great online friend of mine makes the greatest things for the boys. Here is the latest:

He insisted sleeping with his hat. I tried to take it off after he was asleep, and I was denied. He even adjusted it while still asleep.

Yes, I know it is a bottle, but it's only water.

She originally made these ties to make his Central Line more visible. I now use them to keep his tubes straight so he doesn't get all tangled in them. I love how cute these new ones are.

4/27/11

2011-04-27T06:27:00.000-07:00

Totally fuzzy picture, but still worth posting. He's pretending to use a leaf blower. The hanger at his waist is the machine, and the flyswatter is the hose.

4/25/11

2011-04-25T17:16:00.001-07:00

He says he's calling O-lee-ya.

4/21/11

2011-04-21T18:33:00.001-07:00

Do I look as pretty as my Sissy?

4/2/11

2011-04-21T17:47:00.000-07:00

Farmer's tan and a black eye

4/21/11

2011-04-21T17:06:00.001-07:00

All great artists need rain boots.

4/19/11

2011-04-19T06:43:00.001-07:00

Grant is sticking his tongue out at Aunt Judy. Nanananabooboo!

4/14/11

2011-04-14T15:48:00.001-07:00

Delaney strikes again!

4/9/11

2011-04-09T16:52:00.000-07:00

I left the house for an hour and this is what I found. Good job, Daddy. ( I took about 10 pics to find one internet suitable.)

4/7/11

2011-04-07T12:32:00.000-07:00

Still loves the boots.

4/3/11

2011-04-03T15:28:00.000-07:00

Ya just never know when it's going to start raining while you are vacuuming. Grant's prepared!

4/2/11

2011-04-02T09:16:00.000-07:00

Cade likes to wear Grant's nose.

3/31/11

2011-03-31T17:41:00.001-07:00

Tyler's school program

3/29/11

2011-03-29T13:44:00.000-07:00

Cade's turn at the hospital. It's nothing serious. We just need to repeat some labs.

3/26/11

2011-03-27T07:44:00.001-07:00

Only in Texas is it too hot for Grant during the day, and too cold at night.

3/26/11

2011-03-27T07:43:00.001-07:00

3/25/11

2011-03-25T19:38:00.001-07:00

I could cry tears of relief. He is wearing his mask AND it is hooked up.

3/25/11

2011-03-25T13:57:00.000-07:00

Cheese!

3/25/11

2011-03-25T13:56:00.000-07:00

3/24/11

2011-03-25T13:16:00.000-07:00

Cade's ear hurts.

3/24/11

2011-03-25T13:13:00.001-07:00

Visit to the eye doctor.

3/23/11

2011-03-25T13:11:00.000-07:00

I wasn't kidding when I said it feels like we just joined a club. This is Grant's Mito Membership Card.

3/22/11

2011-03-25T13:09:00.000-07:00

For some reason, Grant's blood pressure rarely registers. This was his expression after about 5 tries.

3/21/11

2011-03-25T13:08:00.001-07:00

3/13/11

2011-03-13T20:34:00.000-07:00

Today, Darryl and Terri visited to help George fix the garbage disposal. It's amazing just how much help twin 2 year olds can be.

3/12/11

2011-03-13T20:32:00.000-07:00

One of the boys favorite things to do is to play in the "creek" next to our house. It was the perfect reason to buy some new rainboots.

3/11/11

2011-03-13T20:31:00.000-07:00

Cade loves this hat. He wears it most days.

3/9/11

2011-03-09T18:52:00.000-08:00

Both of the boys are sick, so there weren't any smiles to catch.

3/8/11

2011-03-09T18:50:00.000-08:00

There isn't anything quite as great as a Fire Truck in Cade's eyes. Today we went to visit.

3/7/11

2011-03-07T20:58:00.000-08:00

Grant likes the slide.

and Cade is a climber

Once again, the tongues have to be in the picture.

3/6/11

2011-03-07T20:56:00.000-08:00

My very favorite aunt and uncle visited today. The boys weren't in the greatest mood, but we had a good day. I wish they could come more often. Oh, and FYI, the new photo uploader does the captions at the bottom.

Cade still wants to hold "the baby."

This isn't the greatest picture, but they are looking in the same direction and still.

Rare moment. Too bad they couldn't smile.

Another one.

I LOVE this picture. Every time we are at Grammy and Gramp's house, sitting on the step is a must-do. Today, Jayden got in on the tradition.

Grant is always doing something crazy with his tongue.

A picture with Judy, and he is smiling!

3/5/11

2011-03-05T18:25:00.000-08:00

I love that they are starting to play indepently some. He is even making the car noises.

3/4/1

2011-03-05T18:24:00.000-08:00

Cade is finally getting some hair. It looks curly too. Notice the curls over the ears.

3/3/11

2011-03-05T18:23:00.000-08:00

Unfortunately, Grant has been having more breath holding spells lately. This is what usually happens afterwards.

3/2/11

2011-03-02T08:30:00.000-08:00

They really do have a Mommy!

They aren't the greatest pictures, but I have lost 42 pounds and am finally ready to start being in pictures some. I was looking for a before picture, and sadly, I don't have any pictures of myself anytime during the last 2 years. I'm hoping someone has one.