Grant is POTTY TRAINED!!!

What we thought was going to be impossible has happened!  Grant is potty trained!  The reason that we thought this was next to impossible was past experiences with him.  We tried about a month ago to work on potty training and Grant was having none of it!  He would scream and throw the biggest fit when it was time to go potty.  He even held it for 22 hours before having an accident!  So we gave up after that and claimed he wasn’t ready.

Then Friday before last Grant told me that “he would like to wear big boy under-roo today”.  Honestly I thought to myself “oh great, do I really want to do this today”  But then I realized that I need to be excited about this.  So I put Grant in “big boy under-roo” and he rocked it!  He went in the potty every time we asked him if he need to go.  We gave lots of hugs, candy and high-fives!  He also loves to “go tell everybody” that he went to the potty!  Matt took him to go pick out big boy underwear at Target and he loved it!

It has been a little over a week and he has only had 2 accidents and both of those were in a pull-up at night, so we don’t count those as accidents.  We are so proud of him!

Grant’s a big kid now!!

Charlotte is 3 months old!

A friend once told me that once you get through the first three months with a newborn baby it gets a lot easier.  Honestly, this time around with Charlotte the first 3 months were a lot easier than with Grant.  Maybe it was because I was more calm being she is our second child and I felt like I knew what I was doing more.  These first 3 months seemed to have flown by and I tried very hard to treasure each moment.  She is so wonderful and I cannot believe that 3 months has gone by already!  Here is what she has done this month:

• you are still sleeping in our room (only because I cannot seem to bear the thought of moving you to your own room) and going to bed every night between 8:00 and 9:00pm.  You are sleeping great!  And giving us about 6 to 7 hours of straight sleep a night!
• you love to look at faces and coo and smile back at them.  You are quite the talker!
• you are almost starting to giggle and laugh…you are squealing and getting very close.
• you can lift your head completely and hold it up when doing tummy time.
• you are now strictly bottle fed and loving it.  You are eating about 4 ounces every 2-3 hours.
• you love to sleep in the car…put you into the car and you are out like a light!
• you celebrated your first Christmas this month and met lots of new family.
• you still love to be held and rocked, and we love it too.

Sittin’ with Santa 2009!

This year was the first year that Grant was excited about going to see “Sana” and “sitting on his wap”!

Mommy: “Grant, what do you want Santa to bring you for Christmas?”

Grant: “Presents..”

Mommy: “What kind of presents, Grant?”

Grant: “Toys!”

Mommy: “Do you want girl toys or boy toys?”

Grant: “Mama, me want boy toys, me not girl…Tatoe (Charlotte) a girl!”

Charlotte: “snore…snore..”

Hahaha!  And that is how the conversation went in the line to meet Santa.  We were in line for around one hour but Grant made friends with the cutest little 5 year old girl in front of us that read books to him and played with him.  Luckily for us, Charlotte decided that she would sleep peacefully in her stroller until it was time to meet Santa.

No crying from the Crump kids this year!  Grant ran right up to Santa and practically jumped in his lap!  He got a little nervous when we (mommy and daddy) walked away from them to get out of the way of the picture and didn’t want us to leave him.  Charlotte was still half asleep so didn’t care much one way or the other.

And just for reminiscence purposes…

Sittin’ with Santa 2007

 

Sittin’ (screaming) with Santa 2008

Christmas Card 2009

One of my favorite things about Christmas time is receiving Christmas cards in the mail from our friends and family.  It is so great to hear from friends that we haven’t seen in a while and even hear from the ones we talk to often.

I always enjoy getting our family Christmas cards together every year and picking the cutest pictures of the kids.  This year we were so pleased with the ones that we got from http://www.krisevans.com/.  She captured the sweet nature of both of the kiddos.

So with further ado…Merry Christmas from the Crump Family!

Just for fun let’s see how to cards have changed over the years!

Christmas 2006

Christmas 2007

Christmas 2008

Wow how things have changed over 4 years…we are so blessed!

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…

One of Santa’s helpers stopped by to say “let’s get this show on the road, it’s almost Christmas time!”

Let it snow, let it snow….

Yes, you read that correctly!  It actually snowed here in Houston this year!  Although it was not enough to really stick Grant still had fun going outside and running around in the falling snowflakes!

He kept asking me when we could make a snowman.  So cute, but unfortunately there was not near enough snow for that.  Oh well, here in Houston we take what we can get!

Thanksgiving 2009

I have a really bad habit of taking pictures during family get together such as Thanksgiving holidays.  And this year was no exception, especially with a brand to baby to tend to. 

We enjoyed Thanksgiving this year with Matt’s family at their house.  As usual, the food and the company we great and we all had a great time!  Maybe next year I will take more pictures of all the festivities!