First Easter Egg Hunt

Grayson went on his first Easter egg hunt today, kind of :)  My mom is visiting right now and we stopped by the Brentwood library for storytime.  The craft after the songs and book was to make an Easter basket.  Then the kids got to stop by a few places in the library and get Easter eggs.  Grayson held tight to his pipe cleaner handle the whole time!

Ignore Grayson's missing pants - he'd pooped out the back of his diaper again (he's almost done with the antibiotic) and when I changed his clothes in the car, I decided it was warm enough to not stain another pair of pants since he'd have another blowout soon (which he did).

Report Card

Carter got his report card for the third quarter last week.  Again, he's been doing great!  I'm so impressed with how much Carter has learned this year.  I'm most impressed with how well he's reading.  We weren't getting anywhere when working on it this summer and now Carter will sit down on the couch with books I've checked out from the library for him and just read to himself.  The books are short, but he'll read 5 or more at a time.

Here is a look at his report card:

Game Ball

Look who got a game ball tonight!!!

Carter's coach bought really awesome game balls this season for the players!

Jeff (the head coach) wasn't at the game though and one of the assistants picked Carter to receive the game ball.  He got it because he hit 2 doubles!  At this age, the boys can only get doubles if the ball reaches the outfield without being touched by any of the fielders.

I actually got videos of both of Carter's doubles ...

Carter loves his very cool game ball!  Here he is with Jeff's twin boys (Christopher and Jack Henry) ...

Carter - Baseball

Carter had his first two baseball games this weekend (the Sunday game was a make-up for his Thursday game that got rained out).  Carter is with the same kids and coaches as last season with the Brentwood Baseball Club.  This year they are the Angels.

Unfortunately I missed Carter's first game because it was at the same time as Rylan's and at a different ball park.  Brian said he did great though!  Good hits and 4 or 5 outs at first base.  Coach Jeff is generally playing Carter at first for the 1st and 3rd innings (if a 3rd is played) because he feels Carter is one of his few players that can catch.  Carter loves getting to play there too.

Sunday's game was much more uneventful.  Carter got to play first base again in the 1st and 3rd innings.  Unfortunately no one was throwing the ball to him quickly or anywhere near him.  He may have gotten just one out.

The rules are generally the same for Carter this year.  Each inning both teams bat through their entire lineup no matter how many outs there are.  A coach pitches each batter 5 balls and then the tee is used if the player hasn't gotten a hit.

Carter is doing great so far and loving it, of course.  Our coach is so great that he even did a practice with just Carter for 45 minutes one day when no one else showed up because it was sprinkling.  All the hard work has really been paying off and Carter is definitely improving.

Another Tooth

Over the weekend Grayson's other center lower tooth broke through his gum.  He now officially has 2 teeth coming in!

Grayson is still running the low grade fever but it seems to be jumping around a lot more now (occasionally it's closer to 99F).  So now I'm not sure if the fever is from the pre-existing illness or from teething.  I may take him back to the pediatrician tomorrow to have his ear checked but we'll see what his temperature is in the morning.

Grayson slept in his crib in his room for the first time last night.  It was only until 11:30 pm but it's a start.  Grayson started sleeping horrible when the fever and respiratory illness started about a month ago (before that he slept through the night more often than not).  We were keeping him in the bouncer to help his breathing but it's time to start getting him to sleep in his crib even if he's still somewhat sick.  So far it's not going so well tonight :)  I need to go back up and try to settle down a screaming baby :)

St. Patrick's Day

Every St. Patrick's Day, a leprechaun visits our house.  We always try to build a trap for him and he ends up doing something mischievous.

This year Carter decided to build a trap on his own.  He spent almost a week building it and it took up a lot of our open space between the family room and kitchen.

The box is the trap.  I didn't really get to look inside but there was supposedly a frog dressed like a leprechaun to attract him, a jail, and lots of tape for the leprechaun to get stuck to.  Carter also set up carnival type games outside the trap so the leprechaun could have some fun.

Carter also set up scenes with some toys for the leprechaun to enjoy.

Carter wrote out two sets of questions for the leprechaun to answer.

The "leprechaun" was very tired this year and ended up not doing much mischief.  Instead of leaving any of his gold, he left this telescope from this toy stash :)

He did answer all of Carter's questions.

And left green footprints all along Carter's trap.

He also made the dinosaurs attack each other, turned around all the Star Wars characters, and moved trees on top of the mountains.

Maybe next year the leprechaun won't be so tired and do some fun things like he has the last couple of years (2013 and 2014).

Babies and Books

I took Grayson to his very own storytime today (he's been to others with the big boys but this is the first time he went to one on his own).  We went to the Nashville Library for a program designed for ages 0 to 2 called Babies and Books.  We got there just as it was starting but ended up being a few minutes late as Grayson had blown out of his diaper, again.

Grayson LOVED the class.  It was nothing special - some songs, books, and music - but he was all smiles.  I'll probably try to take him to the Brentwood storytime next week since it's closer.

 

On a side note, Grayson is still running a fever - 100.2F when I got him ready for bed!

Fever

Grayson is still running a low grade fever (it was 100.6F when I took it this evening)!  I took him back to the pediatrician yesterday and Dr. Huss said Grayson still has an ear infection in his right ear (he mentioned things like bubbling which didn't sound good to me!).  Grayson had been on amoxicillan for a week so Dr. Huss decided to try another antibiotic to see if that would clear it up.  So now Grayson is taking an amoxicillin and clavulanate mix.  As Dr. Huss warned me, it tastes a lot worse and Grayson does not like it but he's getting it down.

We are really hoping this helps because Grayson has had a fever for 24 days now!  Plus, I can't handle Grayson being on medicine much longer - he his blowing out the top of his diapers several times a day!!!

First Tooth!

Grayson's first tooth is coming in!  It's his bottom right center tooth.  I checked back and he's almost the exact same age as Carter and Rylan when they got their first teeth (within a week).

It's been a big day for the little man - he also started using the jumperoo!

Zoo

Carter and Rylan had spring break last week.  We ended up staying in town but stayed busy.  On Monday we met friends at the zoo (something Carter doesn't get to do very often now that he's in school five days a week).  I think about half of Franklin and Brentwood was there with us (I have never seen the zoo so crowded) but it was still fun.  We saw tons of people we know and spent about four hours there.

I tried to get a couple of group shots of all the boys at the playground ...