Gavin's First Day of First Grade

On August 19th, Gavin started his first day of first Grade, Dual Immersion. And the fun thing about that, is that Mike gets to take him to school and I get to pick him up and take him home. It has been a lot of fun doing that with him. He has already learned so much in Spanish and is loving his school and all the new friends he is making.

First day of First Grade

Our time together!

Playing with Friends

The last week I have had the feeling more than ever that we need to have friends.  I need friends and the boys need friends.  How do we get new friends?  How about playing with friends we already have?  So I sent my friend Rachel, who just moved from Eagle Mountain to Pleasant Grove, a text asking her if we could see her new house and play?  The boys were so excited to go play.  

Garett's First time Swing

Fun with Friends

We are so thankful for good Friends!

Hair Cut

On Saturday, the 7th, we FINALLY got Garett's haircut.  It needed to be done.  And he hated it, the whole thing.  At least he looks super cute now, and can see out his eyes without hair in the way.  Cute kid.

First Lost Tooth

After everything I have blogged about so far this month, all the sickness and sickness and working and such, the last thing I ever thought I would be blogging about would be a lost tooth.  But, it has happened.  On Sunday, Greyson and Garett just went down for a nap and Gavin and I had just finished eating Lunch.  Gavin laid down for quiet time and he said to me, "I have a loose tooth." I thought he was crazy.  We have been talking about loose teeth and he has friends that have lost teeth, but I didn't think he knew what he was talking about.  I felt his tooth and sure enough it was loose.  After much convincing, and freaking out, and not being about to get a firm grip on it, I did get a good grip and pulled it right out.  He didn't freak out or bleed and was so excited to have lost his first tooth.  The tooth fairy came a left him a dollar and we was more excited about that.  Here is to a first tooth lost and many more to come!

Santa 2014

Of course we took the boys to see Santa this year, and just like in years past, we went to Walmart.  Because it is free!  Gavin loved seeing Santa and Greyson and Garett were a little scared, but did so good.  I am glad I got a good picture this year, which reminds me that I need to go to Walmart and see if they still have the picture they took :)

Crawling Garett

I don't know if I blogged about this or not, but Garett has been my early crawler.  He wanted to crawl so bad between 7 and 8 months and worked so hard to try to get it but just before he turned 9 months, he finally got it down.

Gavin Kindergarten

On Tuesday, August 26th, Gavin started Kindergarten.  That was a little bit harder for me.  But, he is doing so great.  He has the same teacher he had for preschool and we Love Ashley so it is great.  He has a lot of friends and is learning so much.  He can read so well.  We are so proud of him!

Greyson Preschool

On August 25th, Greyson started Preschool.  He was kind of excited to go, but now loves going.  He goes to Jenny Penny Preschool in the neighborhood next to us.  He has learned so much and prays often about the letters he will learn the next day at school.  He goes Monday and Wednesday from 9:15 to 11:15.

Gavin & Preschool

Gavin's first day of Preschool!  I texted his teacher after work and she said he did good and was impressed with his writing skills.  His homework tonight was to work on his form of holding a pencil.  He has done really good with it so far:)  Love this kid!

Greyson's First "Official" Haircut

We took Greyson to get his Haircut last night because he NEEDED IT! What a little cutie. He sat so good the whole haircut and didn't cry once. Now he looks like a little boy!

Starting him out early

Gavin loves to help us with anything he can. It is the same when the Vacuum comes out. Mike decided to let him try it out. Sorry for the blurry pictures and the naked baby in the background but it was to cute to pass up!

Christmas

We had a great Christmas this year. Gavin was the same as last year, he only wanted to play with the present he had just unwrapped, and we gave him a gift to unwrap first that he wanted, so all he wanted to do was play with that toy. Greyson wasn't in to it at all, he just like to put everything you handed him into his mouth. Our favorite gifts this year were:

Mike - His new HP Laptop
Alicia - My Cricut/Gypsy Bundle
Gavin - His Bigfoot Monster & Laptop
Greyson - The light up bouncy ball

Another First!

Greyson in his Jumperoo! Finally, we brought is upstairs and set it up for him to play in! This should now make making dinner easier for me with something to entertain him!

Cute Boys

Greyson's first time in the cart! With his brother! Cute Brothers!

High Chair

Greyson's first time in the high chair!

Halloween

This year for Halloween we had a "Odie" Puppy Doggie and a cute as can be Elephant! At first Greyson was going to be a Bumble Bee, but we put the costume on him over a month ago & it didn't fit him very well, so we gave that costume to my niece to wear!

Now, let me tell you a little story about a 2 year old who did not want to wear his costume. He fought, and screamed, and cried at even the mear mention of said costume. Finally at about 4:30 Halloween night when some trick-or-treaters come to get some candy, he saw how fun it might be. We later put the costume on him to go trick-or-treating and come to find out there were some pokies on the leg of his costume that we think made it so he didn't want to wear it before. We quickly fixed that problem and off we went to collect candy!

Guess who has his First 2 Teeth?

This Cute Boy!

His first botton tooth popped up on Saturday the 29th and the second bottom tooth popped up yesterday the 30th. If you remember this post, you would remember that 2 years ago on the 29th that is when Gavin got his first 2 teeth. I don't know what it is about my kids and Halloween that brings out their teeth, but...Mike says it is because they need to have teeth to eat all the Halloween Candy! My baby is sure growing up!

Playing at the Park

For probably the last time this year:(. Last Saturday was a BEAUTIFUL day, so we went to our favorite park with some friends for a great time. Gavin loves it at the park. He really loved the Swings. This was his first time EVER on the swings, he laughed and laughed and laughed the whole time! He loves to slide down the slide too! We had a fun time!

Greyson Starts Solids

For the last couple weeks, (okay, Months) I would give Greyson icecream on a spoon to see how he would do with it. Up until last week he would still "spit" it back out with this tounge. On Wednesday after we went to see the "Cars" cars, we went to Sonic for dinner and I got an icecream. I decided to try again & he did so good with it, I decided it was finally time to start him on solids.

So Yesterday that is what we did. I mixed some Oatmeal with some Milk (don't worry, it was the breast kind, and it's not like he hasn't had enough dairy!) and he ate it right up. I don't think I made enough for him, he wanted more. So tonight when I mix him some, I will double it and see how he does. Then tomorrow, I am planning on starting some veggies to see how he does with that! My little guy is growing up!

Look who is starting to sit!

Look at my big boy learn to sit!