April Attitude!

The last few weeks we've been lucky enough to partake in some very cool events, but we've also noticed the emergence of a bit of an attitude with our little guy. Maybe its the terrible 2's starting a little early, could be his red hair, or it might even be me because it has become very clear that he has a favorite parent (and its not dear old Dad), but there has been an occasional showing of some attitude from Grant. If he doesn't get his way he flops to the ground faster than a Duke basketball player attempting to take a charge. Usually he is great but when he gets really upset, you would think that he'd been dropped on his head. A simple example would be when he is starting to get fussy and we offer him something as a distraction or to possibly calm him down, like milk. He gets even more mad and cries harder, pushing the milk away. So you take the milk away and he wails even more (for milk that he didn't even want!). We are probably just spoiled because for the most part parenting has been not too bad up to this point but recently it has definitely been frustrating for us.

Anyway here is some of the fun things that we did recently:

In recognition of Earth Day, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science had a free day for all Colorado residents. We assumed that it would be packed, so we went early and made our way through most of the museum. The highlight for Grant was seeing the "dinosaur bones", which he talked about for days afterwards.

Surprisingly spectacular view of downtown from the atrium

April also brought the first time that we had to work on homework for Grant. During the "Week of the Young Child" at Grant's school, we had to cover a cut-out picture of a child with items that describe him. So Shannon and I went through magazines and found words and pictures that were all about Grant... the night before it was due naturally. I think that it turned out pretty well.



The Friday night of Easter weekend the whole family was lucky enough to attend a concert. There is a group called Yo' Mamas & Papas that rocks out to kid favorites. We met the March and the Gibbons families there and had a great time listening to songs and dancing around. Grant was all over the place breaking out every dance move that I've taught him. He also seemed to be mesmerized by the saxophone/keyboard player.

His version of the sprinkler?

If you're happy and you know it...

Grant and Andrew getting down

The band rockin' out

Since I had to work on Easter weekend, we had to be a little more creative with how we handled the big Easter egg "hunt" and Easter basket. Once I got home, I took Grant up to his room while Shannon "hid" his Easter basket in the kitchen. Then she put eggs (some sports themed!) from the kitchen, through the living room, and up the stairs leading to his room. Grant was a little confused on what he was supposed to do at first, but quickly caught on that the eggs were supposed to go into his basket. He made his way down the stairs and collected each one until he made it to his Easter basket.

Checking out his haul

With Easter "buddy" ears

Later that day, we were lucky enough to have our friends Erica and Darren, come over with their new little one, Lily, to have Easter dinner. It was a wonderful end to a fantastic weekend.