5 and 7 celebrations

Star Wars is such a huge hit this year with both of our boys!!!! Combine it with the rage of legos, and it's a Star Wars legos infatuation! This year, with their birthdays just 3 weeks apart, and very similar friends, we combined their party in to one for a few close friends and then family.

Ta-Da! Their homemade cake. Instead of R2-D2.... I created a G7-K5... get it?

Cousin Morgan

Nana and Papa and their 5 grandsons

I love these next two photos...

The boys... turning around from the big slide. The girls.... ready to go!!!!!! :)

Grant is SEVEN

Reid and Grant smiled for the camera but their smiles were a bit different!

Reid is officially 3/4 of the way to his (gulp) first birthday! He is crawling everywhere, enjoys fussing when no one is playing with him, has started having separation fears (with me) when I walk out of the room, and has four teeth. His stats are below.
Another quick thing to mention regarding Reid is a little something we found today at our well-baby visit. As the doctor was checking him, he found a heart murmur. Mild but present. Say a prayer it heals itself!

Mr. Grant Jason Walker
How is it even possible that my oldest sweet boy can possibly be SEVEN years old? You know, because I am only 22, and my parents are still 35..... Ferris Bueller said it well when he said "if you don't stop to look around every once in a while, it will fly by".... okay, totally paraphrased! :) but, pretty close!
Happy Birthday, sweet Grant!
These pictures are so typical of life in this home. This was my third (and worst) cake in 3 weeks. Jason and Grant decided to have an icing dropping contest - most of the icing made it to his mouth.

Please note how p-r-e-c-i-o-u-s the upper left corner picture is. Aren't they all just darling in this picture?!?! (see how they are arranged pretty and the lighting is good?!? the photographer must have been great, compared to the upper left! :) and, yes, I know that Jason is way more photogenic than me and that fact contributes to the overall preciousness of that picture).

Not sure where the "Like Son" went but... I was laughing at their puckers. Weird but cute.

• Grant finally lost a top tooth! He's been wiggling that thing for months and it was just holding on. As I was picking up Kyle last week, Grant's class walks by to go to recess at the same time, and he ran in with a huge smile and Kleenex in his hand. He was so proud! He pulled it right before his seat-work time, and was able to get the prized plastic treasure chest to put it in. This was his over-the-top goofy proud face!


• Kyle "tests" everything. Everything. Whether it is looking at hinges to see how a door works to pulling Reid as far over while he's sitting to see how far he can lean before falling over, he is trying to figure out cause and effect. Which, in general, is a great life skill and will prove very helpful in high school and college science classes. But when he's "accidentally" knocking over Reid, it's not great. Story - Kyle hops in the car after school one day last week, and almost immediately Reid is crying. "What's up with Reid, Kyle?" "Well, Mom, he's crying." "yes, dear, but why?" (long pause) "well, Mom, you see, well, I kind of poked him in the eye." "you what? why?" "Well, Mom, it's just because I was just curious to see if his eye was hard or soft. And I found out it started out soft and then became hard." (Reid still crying). (me - thinking - DUH! It's hard because it's an eyeball and he only has two of them!). Reid finally settled down but he did have a red eye for a few hours! The next time I was loading Reid in his seat I noticed his baby mirror was broken.... Only to find out that Kyle wanted to know what it would take to break the mirror ... and he found out a simple kick would do the trick! :)


• My Public Service Announcement - Hobby Lobby carts to not safely hold an 8 month old sitting. The little boys and I went last week, and I took Reid's cart cover and put him in it. On one aisle, Kyle starts laughing (shocker!) and says "Mom, look at Reid." Well, truthfully, I hear stuff like that a lot and since Grant and I were very intently looking for something, I didn't really want to look. Then Kyle said it again and I glanced back. Literally - breath taken away - Reid was falling over the edge of the cart, aimed completely head-down for the brown stained concrete floor (hadn't really ever noticed them before!) with one foot caught on his cover, not even the cart. The other foot was dangling in the cart's seat. Now I know why they have those straps in the Walmart carts... this one did not have a strap, and it's more narrow so easier for a kid to fall over the side. When I grabbed Reid and propped him up, he was smiling and happy! He has no clue he was t-h-i-s close to heading to the hospital! eek.


• Volleyball has started up again! WHOO HOO! Santa brought me some knee pads, too, so hopefully my knees won't be so ugly this season. Also, for those who know or care,.... I got a pancake last game. :) it was fun!


• Jason is loving, loving, loving having a solo dental practice. He is a good busy and still has his time to chit chat with his patients! Yea, Jason!!!