Mother's Day and Week of the Young Child

A few weeks ago, the Goddard School celebrated the "week of the young child".  It was a pretty fun week, especially for Grant, because each day had a different theme like Pajama Day or Rockies Day.  It also made for a little bit of "homework" for mom and dad because we had to decorate a cut-out of a child with words, pictures, and stickers to describe our children, but we had fun making them.

Finished homework project describing our boys

Posing for Pajama Day

Showing off his "dinosaur spikes" for crazy hair day!

The school also had a Mother's Day celebration in Grant's class.  It included three songs for the moms.  Grant pretty much sang a solo during the Barney "I love you" song (I swear that he has never seen Barney), and then the kids decorated a picture frame for their moms.  The best part though was when Grant brought the frame home (that included a picture of him and Shannon), he had already figured out where he could put the picture... up on the bookshelf in his room.

Grant's class getting ready to serenade the Moms

Mother/child art project

Then during Mother's Day weekend, we had the pleasure of meeting the Rogers' for dinner and a trip to the aquarium.  We started off at Pasquini's, a pizza place with an awesome make-your-own pizza option on the kid's menu.  We will definitely make a return trip there.  Then we headed over to the aquarium where once again the tigers stole the show (yes, the tigers).

Grant making his pizza pie

Alex and Grant checking out the stingray

The new boys hangin' out

"I am Grant, hear me roar!"

Common theme of the night, running and laughing

And finally on the Reid front, last week we added a new item to his menu, and this time it was something other than cereal; butternut squash.  Even though he still doesn't have this eating thing down, I do feel that he likes the squash better than rice and oatmeal cereal, and it seems that each day he's eating a little more.  Next up will be carrots!

5 months

It is crazy to think that our little boy is 5 months old!  It is equally unbelievable that Grant is turning out to be quite the philosopher, at least that is what we assume... or it could just be that he is going through his "cause why?" phase.

A few weekends ago, Shannon went back to Tulsa with Reid for Valerie's bridal shower.  It was a very short trip, but along with the shower she was able to go through a trial wedding day hair run, see her good friends Sara and Megan, and pass Reid around for lots of snuggles.

Reid with Aunt Valerie - the bride-to-be

Mimi and Reid

While Reid was getting TLC in Tulsa, Grant and I were doing whatever we could to get out of the house.  On Saturday, we went to the Zoo where the highlight definitely was watching the gorilla chow down on some food very closely to the glass.  On Sunday, we met up with the March boys for donuts and then checked out the Wildlife Experience Museum in Parker.  Even though it isn't too far from us, it was our first time.  It was a nice mix of exhibits plus hands on activities.  Once the boys get a little older it will probably be a place we go more often.

"Whoa! Look at the gorilla!"

Checking out a penguin cave

"Hangin" out with Andrew

Last weekend we made a trip downtown to the Art Student League of Denver because Valerie had some ceramic pieces in their exhibit titled "delecTABLE: The Fine Art of Dining".  It was incredibly cool to see Val's amazing work.  It has been fun to watch her artistic style develop over the years.

The funniest thing happened when we first got there. Shannon went straight over to see the first table while I glanced around and nearly had a heart attack when I noticed how many breakable ceramics were there.  We both quickly turned to look for Grant, but lucky for us he wasn't getting into any trouble.  In fact he was sitting on the ground by the front door... taking his shoes off!  We raced over to tell him, before anyone noticed, that he didn't need to take off his shoes.  I'm not sure why he decided he needed his shoes off.  Maybe it was the grand staircase that made him think we were at someone's house, or maybe he just wanted to get comfortable, but whatever the reason it had me chuckling for a few days.

Afterwards we treated ourselves to some ice cream at Licks while we were still downtown.  Grant was in heaven eating his strawberry ice cream, seeing that he doesn't usually get dessert.  Yum!