AND GRAY MADE FOUR

Two years ago this little man made our grandsons number four. He looks just like his Dad looked at 2.
WE celebrated his birthday last Sunday afternoon and the pictures will tell the story..Jack liked all of Gray’s loot.
He had a Mickey Mouse theme party.  I hope in the next year we can take him to meet the Mouse.
Jack and Gray will have a blast seeing Mickey together.
         



Grayson and his beautiful Mom








        COUSINS         





POP, GREG and MICAH




It’s hard to believe that Gray is already 2.  He was an answer to some long awaited prayers.  Happy Birthday Gray!

STAND OFF IN TARGET’S TOY AISLE

I promise a short post, but I don’t want to forget to document this.

This started off as a laid back Saturday.  Micah and Amanda were going to golf (crazy to me as it was 100 degrees), Parker was on his way home from the beach, so Jack, AKA Woody was going to hang with us today.  Easy…we have done it tons of times.
 
We ran errands, stopped and had a wonderful lunch at Macaroni Grill.
Jack charmed our server and the next table doing his “Howdy Partner” Woody imitations.  He loves that you can color on the table.
 


We had thought about going to see the new Cars movie but decided to wait on Parker and go next week.

Tomorrow is Grayson’s birthday party so we decided to stop at Target and let Jack pick out his gift.  What was I thinking?
 
I bought a few groceries and Jack (Pop) and Jack (Woody) met me in the toy department.  It will not come as a surprise to you that we “are easy” when it comes to little’s wants!

But we do not let them misbehave, they have to use their manners and they have to acknowledge someone when they are talking to them. And we do tell them no.

Well we met our match today.  Jack found something for Grayson and as we were leaving the area he spotted the new CARS toys. 

That was fine, he could pick out one little one.  Now remember that he has his Woody cowboy hat on and Woody speaks with authority, so Jack speaks in that same voice.
 
He did not want the little one…At the top of his lungs he tells us he only wants the BIG RED CAR. 
“No Jack, you can have a little one”!

I try to put him in the buggy….No way…he was not getting in the buggy.  I am losing control.
 
I saw the pre-stroke versus post- stroke Jack (Pop) today. Remember he is an old football coach.
Pre-stroke he would have taken him straight to the car and he would have gotten nothing but a good counseling session.  Today he looked and me and said “GET IT”!

Jack is so hard to discipline because he is so dang funny and has such a dry sense of humor, especially for a 3 year old. 

At this point I say, “No Jack, you are not having the big red car.  At this point he says, “Grammy, I do not want that little car, I ONLY want the BIG red car!

I feel like he was thinking , “I know Pop doesn’t hear good but do you have a hearing problem too?” I read his mind.


So the stand off comes to an end as he and Pop head to the check
out….red car in the buggy.


Today he WON!  This is a blurry picture, but you can see the look of victory in his face.



And that’s what Grandparents are for.
 
It’s 1 AM and he is still awake playing a Dora game on the IPAD.

I CONFESS

Confession is good for the soul…Right?


So hear goes…I confess
that I have been blogging for two and half years and I had never looked at the dashboard, really looked at it.
 
I had never looked to see who or how many people read my blog.

Had no idea that feature was on the dashboard. 
I accidently found it when I was trying to add a font (Vicki, I followed your instructions and I still could not do it) 
But I sure found lots of tabs I had never seen before.
I have no clue how bloggers do all the fancy things on their blogs.  I wish I did. 

I realized that many new people I don’t know, read this blog.


Since I am confessing…here are a few more


We have four grandsons, known as “the little's”!
If I am at home, they are welcome to be here anytime..translates to free babysitting, ANYTIME. All day, all night…They have their own room and when it is empty, I feel sad.
 

I love planning a vacation down to the smallest detail. My vacation of choice would always be The Mouse.



I love rainy days and cold weather.  Most people like just the opposite.


I hate for Parker to be out of town! (he is in Florida at the beach…this boy has a hard life) We text, but his texts are all two word answers. 

I love my IPAD and want to learn everything it will do.

I get up everyday with the goal of exercising and most days I don’t. So I go to bed sad that I failed. 

I hate paper work and will let it pile up until I feel overwhelmed.


Getting up early almost makes me SICK.  Those last three hours of sleep…6-9 or 7-10 are my favorite three hours. My kids are well aware of this and please do not ask me anything first thing in the morning.

This last year has been a hard year. Really hard. There are some things I really need to get a handle on.
 
We are almost to July 1 and that is always my signal to start thinking about tree season.


I was again reminded on Sunday that I have a husband, son and son-in-love that all consider DAD their TOP priority in life.  I am blessed.



It is hard to believe that Gray will be two this week.  He and Jack are becoming really good buddies.

This will not be a marathon post because I only have two pictures.
 
Both ones Amanda snapped this morning with her phone.



Jack’s new favorite pants, some pajama pants I
cut off yesterday….VERY STYLISH



Jack in another STYLISH outfit. Rain gear! It can be found in many different stores.


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