Grant Noises

Grant started making Indian pow-wow sounds this week. We tried to get a video of it and this is as close as we could get. They just don't want to preform when the camera is there.

Chess

In Which Grant Walks Into a Window

Jackson started a chore chart this week. We found a dog-shaped job chart at the store and he gets to put a sticker on it for each job. He did all of his chores for the whole week. Sometime this week he changed from calling it his “job chart” to his “dog chart.”

Yesterday, we went to dinner at Culver’s. While we were ordering our food, Grant took a little walk around. He headed for a full-length window. And he walked right into it. He was left with just a little bump on his head.

Our photo company got some business this week. Brian shot someone’s senior pictures. They turned out awesome; now we just have to narrow it down from 1100+ to 20.

Tonight Brian and I were on a dating panel for a fireside at church. They had us play the newlywed game; we came in second but still feel that our marriage is on very solid ground.

Jackson’s picked up a new habit. Every time I say something to him, he replies with, “huh?” There were a couple times when I got him to say, “Can you please repeat that?” but that only lasted for a few minutes.

Ocean Shores Volume 1

In Which We Return from Ocean Shores

After realizing that it would just be easier to write the update myself than to tell Brian what to write I have taken the responsibility over again. I guess I’m just a little controlling sometimes.

Sadly, our perfect vacation came to an end. But lucky for us, it wasn’t a calm ending. As we were driving the 2.5 hours to the Seattle Airport we got a flat tire on our rental car. Brian and his manly family collaborated and changed it in no time. But we still had at least an hour to go and therefore we couldn’t drive on the doughnut. So we headed to Les Schuab to have it repaired. The technician fixed it very, very quickly, but we still doubted we would make our flight. After cutting in line at security, and racing through the airport we made it with 7 minutes to spare.

Thursday, we attended the summer reading program ice cream social. We had the time wrong and missed the ice cream, which was dreadfully sad. But Jackson got to pick out a new book and we went to McDonald’s for sundaes after. In all Jackson read 266 books over the past two months. I think he came in third out of all the kids who participated.

Saturday morning, Brian and I carpooled to Green Bay where we caught a bus to Chicago in order to attend the temple. It was a wonderful few hours in the temple. I ran into some members of the ward I grew up in too. It’s always great to see familiar faces in the temple. The boys stayed home with a sitter and as far as we know behaved themselves.

Jackson has been throwing some serious tantrums lately, adding some spunk to our daily routine. He has also chosen not to potty train and is content wearing pull-ups forever.

Grant is cruising around the house with full toddler speed. We seem to lose him a lot, but his favorite spots are opening and closing the doors in the bathroom, getting into the pantry, or taking the shoes off the shoe rack, so we can usually find him fairly quickly. He is still eating whatever we give him and out eats Jackson on a regular basis.

Lower Harbor Park

Y.M.C.A. Tumble Gym