Expert spoon user...

Grant has figured out how to successfully use the spoon!! He gobbled up his cereal this morning!!! He is getting too big too fast!! His 4 month checkup with his eye doctor is this Friday. We'll be sure to update everybody. This is the same doctor that told us he needed glasses. (I just noticed that all the pictures of Grant on this blog show him without his glasses...he does wear them almost all day every day).

ICE CREAM!!!

So, we got this ice cream maker ball for Christmas. I opened it last night for the first time to use it...instead of having TWO lids, it only had one. Like every other good Southern knows to do, we brought out the ducktape and made our OWN lid!!

Step 1 - take ghetto rigged ice cream ball and roll and roll...etc.

Step 2 - remove ducktape to reveal ice cream

Step 3 - Serve with homemade apple pie

Step 4 - ENJOY!!

Dreamin' big...

That's what I think of when I see this picture...he loves being outside and he LOVES basketball. He'll get the ball in his hands and then back up to you so that you can pick him up to the rim and drop the ball in. I'm not tall enough, but Daddy is just right. He calls basketball...baball. It's so cute! He's also doing much better from last week. The blisters on his hands and in his mouth are gone...but the ones on his feet are still there. Surprisingly they don't seem to bother him.

poor sick little man...

this is what is called Hand, Foot and Mouth disease or more affectionately "Hoof and Mouth disease." Nice. It's highly contagious among children and takes about a week to go away. He hasn't had much of an appetite all week. Then on Thursday he had a fever of 105.0...it went away rather quickly so we thought we were in the clear. Well, Friday morning he woke up with a spot under his lip, and then Saturday morning there was another one. After doing more inspection we found his entire mouth, including his tongue was covered in these red raised spots. Last night spots started showing up on his hands and feet...needless to say he's not feeling his best, but he's doing good. The best part is there is absolutely nothing we can do other than give him Motrin and Maalox (gross, but it coats the spots in his mouth and throat to make them feel better). He's such a little trooper!

the night the sirens went off...

Benji and I were watching Dancing With The Stars Monday night and we kept seeing this severe weather warning at the top left of our screen. Since the weather seemed fine we really didn't pay it too much attention...THEN the tornado siren went off. I ran over to the computer to check weather.com and this is what I saw...

uh, yeah...scary! So, we got in the hallway, woke Grant up and put both Macy and Murphy in the crate and just waited for it to pass. We had strong wind and dime sized hail and that was it. Just a few miles down the road, the storm dropped golf ball and baseball sized hail. Thank goodness we missed that part. The last bad hail storm that came to town got our roof (had to have it replaced) and both of our cars (had to be fixed).