Curly

Graham has pretty curly hair. We normally brush his hair after his bath which straightens a lot of the curls, except for the ones in the back. However if we let him go with his hair all curly here is what he looks like. After sleeping on it, it's back to 'normal'...which is straight on top and curly behind. We're not sure if the curls will stick around or if after a few hair cuts they'll go away, but they sure are cute right now!

Awkward Sleep

One day last week, Graham had gone down for his nap, however I needed to get him up early as we needed to be somewhere. I went in to get him and this is how I found him asleep. I guess he was so wrapped up in his playing that he never laid down when he got tired and just fell asleep sitting up! I snapped a couple of pictures to show Eric later, here they are:

Our Little Walker!

Graham Walking from Willa Armstrong on Vimeo.

Sleepy Boy

Here are a couple of recent pictures of Graham fallen asleep after busy days. The first one is after coming home from church. Being in the nursery for about 3 hours on a Sunday morning wears him out. He usually falls asleep on the ride home (less than 5 minutes). Usually we wake him up, feed him lunch and then he goes down for his nap. The other pictures were from a day where Graham decided a second nap wasn't something he wanted to take. However, we had some errands to run later and he fell asleep during the ride. He then transferred to the living room floor where he slept for an additional 40 minutes or so!

Farming

One of Graham's birthday presents was this Little People Barn from his Grandpa Armstrong. This toy has proved to be a great present as Graham plays with it nonstop throughout the day. He loves all the animal sounds that it makes as well as putting the animals and any other small toys that he has into the barn. It's one of the first toys he races to in the morning and the last one he touches in the evening! Thanks Grandpa Armstrong for such a fun present!

This picture is a little blurry, however I love the cheesy smile he's giving!

Pillow Piles

Graham has discovered a new toy, our pillows. He loves to pull them down off of the couch and then use them to fall into. He also loves it when I make a big pile for him to climb and roll around on. You have to watch him pretty carefully though, as he gets so used to throwing his body onto a pillow that sometimes he gets a little careless and throws himself unto our hard wood floors....ouch! Here are a couple of picture of Graham and his cat, Stuffed Sam, playing in the pillows!

Clean Teeth!

Right around the same time that Graham turned 1, we started having him brush his teeth every night. We thought that he was not going to like this experience at all, however we were very wrong! He loves to brush his teeth! So much so that if he sees his toothbrush earlier in the day he wants to brush them then as well. Here's a few pictures of one afternoon when Eric went to brush his teeth and Graham needed to do so as well.

Here's what happens when tooth brushing time is over and you take the toothbrush away!! Poor guy...he just likes having super clean teeth! :)

Surprise!!!

We're pregnant!!! :) We are currently expecting baby number 2, due May 21, 2011! We are thrilled and cannot wait to meet our new little bundle of joy.

I found out on Sept. 9 that I was pregnant. I wanted to surprise Eric when he came home from work...so Graham & I planned out a fun way to tell him. We went and bought a Big Brother t-shirt for Graham to wear and a package of pink balloons and one of blue balloons. During the day, at a couple different times as not to get too winded, I blew up all 24 balloons. We were all ready for our surprise...we just had to wait for Eric to get home! Thankfully he called on his way home from work so we could get all ready. I pulled all the balloons out into the living room and dressed Graham into his shirt. When Eric arrived home Graham was playing with all the balloons. Needless to say, Eric didn't have a clue what I was trying to tell him!! He was rather confused. I finally asked if he saw the shirt Graham was wearing...he said that he did, however he didn't recognize it! I had to tell him to go read it!!! :) Then he figured it out! He told me later that he was trying to think of what was going on....and thought that maybe I had been cleaning and found the balloons and decided to blow them up for Graham to play with...yes, 24 of them! :) Here are a few pictures of the surprise:

Graham ready to surprise Daddy!

Sammy not so sure what is going on.

The pack-n-play...our storage place for the balloons. Made for some fun playtime for Graham!

Birthday Presents

Here are a few more pictures from Graham's birthday party. He received several very nice presents which he has had a lot of fun with since then. He loves having trucks & tractors to play with now!! Also, he really likes sporting his Ohio State outfit on gameday! :)