Happy First Birthday Grayson!!!

Great-Grandpa Warren!

Mee Maw!

Aunt Carrie

Great-Grandma Beryl

Taking after his parents he LOVED the ski ball game! He LOVED ducking down to see if there were any more balls in the little slot!
He started out liking this Bob the builder ride. (My sister made Grayson the sock monkey first birthday shirt!I found one online for 40 dollars that was the exact same and I sent it to my sister and she said she could make it for him! We love it Carrie thank you!)

When Daddy said "Hi" to me I lost it and got scared!!

Yum Strawberry Love cake from Sugar Mamas Bakeshop!

Hehe while we were singing Happy Birthday Grayson kept leaning over and trying to grab icing to put in his mouth. He was having problems (he couldn't quite get the strawberry cream cheese icing in his fingers) so I helped him eat some!

We got Grayson a cupcake too! He had a small piece of cake and ate the icing off the cupcake.
Oh dear did we pay for all that sugar! That night we slept at my parents house because we thought that would be easier to not have to drive back the next morning and spend Thanksgiving with the family. Well Grayson woke up at 1:15 WIDE awake and he woke up Corbin who was sleeping with us and at one point both the boys were hysterically laughing. So when he hadn't fallen asleep by 2:45 we headed home. He fell asleep in the car and slept till 9:00. I talked to my mom about it the next day and the same thing happened with my sister, Merritt when she was 6 months old and fussy on a vacation and the waiter brought her chocolate mousse. She was crawling around the hotel room wired in the middle of the night.
Even though it was a pain at the time it will be a memory we can always laugh about and tell him!

Yesterday was Grayson's first birthday! We went to Chuckie E Cheese. We usually go there when my sister and her nieces are in town. I think overall Grayson liked Chuckie E Cheese. Jason's mom and his grandparents came too as they were in town from St. Louis. It was nice to spend Grayson's birthday with so much family! I was so excited that I got have the day off and spend Grayson's first birthday as a family! We were also fortunate enough because Jason took that entire week off too so Daddy got to spend Grayson's first birthday with him too!

As of now Grayson can say about 10 or so words, ball (this is his favorite word he says it ALL day! He loves playing with balls and he even sleeps with a lot of his ball toys), dog, Mama, Dadda, no, bubble, choo-choo, car, wave hi and say hi and bye, uh-oh, Ohh li ( he does at my parents house, they have a large chandelier in their kitchen, he looks up says oohh and points to the lights!), he is now starting to do it at our house because we have our Christmas tree up! :)

We love you so much Grayson. We are so amazed at how quickly this year fly by! I kept teasing that it felt like I just had you! Wow people aren't kidding when they say once the second child comes house quickly life just zooms by!

You are the sweetest most lovable baby, who according to my babycenter development emails that used to say "my baby this week and their age" now says "my toddler this week", hehe I don't quite agree with the my toddler this week! HE IS STILL MY BABY! I guess I don't want you to grow up too fast! Grayson is moving up to the toddler room starting the first week back in January! I am worried what if he doesn't walk, will the other kids hurt him? He's tiny! When we took Corbin for a visit to the toddler room he was SOO small compared to the others. I seriously feel like a new parent with all these insecurities! Hes my baby!

We love you Grayson and can't wait to see what this year brings for you!

5 year anniversary

We only took two or three pictures on our anniversary!

He is just so handsome! I love you more each day Jason! :)

Our five year anniversary was on the 19th. Jason and I celebrated by going to San Antonio and stayed on the Riverwalk at the Hotel Contessa. We both took the day off and loved spending time together. My parents kept the boys for the night. It was amazing just to spend the day with Jason and not worry about kids and bedtimes!

We went to dinner on the Riverwalk, which was interesting! First of all the people sitting behind Jason kept making out the entire dinner! When Jason and I left I as teasing "hey you missed the show!" Then a Mariachi Band came and asked if we wanted them to sing, so we got serenaded. That was nice! The salmon I got was overcooked. :( We went and just walked around the Riverwalk and we got asked if we had money for a hamburger at McDonald's then the Riverwalk stopped at one point and we went to the street level and it was kinda shady so we hightailed it back to the Riverwalk! It was like 8:30 and we were tired! Parenthood wears you out!! We went back to the hotel and Jason ordered a few drinks and we just hung out with nothing to do, which was great!

The next day we went to see Daphne, Jason's sisters baby. We finally got to meet her after a month! We had been sick like every weekend. It was amazing to hold a little baby! Daphne is a cutie! We haven't been to their house since Jessica had her white coat ceremony a few years ago for medical school. They did a bunch of upgrades, like wood floors and granite countertops so it was nice to see how much they had improved it! Jessica and Ryan did an amazing job! Jessica and Ryan we love Daphne, she is precious!

It was fun while we were there we were looking through old pictures of Jessica and Jason and there was a picture you would have sworn was Corbin! It was amazing the resemblance! The genetics are strong in that one!:)

Jason I love you so much! I couldn't imagine my life without you. These past 5 years have been amazing! You are a truly amazing husband, father, and best friend.

Our little football star!

Can you tell I am trying to catch up on our blog? Three posts in one day!?! I guess thats what happens when you have a 102.5 fever! The boys are at school because even though I am sick I HAD to go to work to do an assessment with my students because its due Monday and I had to finish a part of it.

This picture is awesome! :) He looks all tough and ready to run on the field as a quaterback! :) That letter jacket couldn't be more perfect! My mom bought it for Grayson from Gap!

First haircut!

Grayson thought it would be fun to get in my purse!!!

Grayson got his first haircut the day before Halloween! We only got his "bangs" cut because Anet didn't want to cut the back until it fills in.

"Mommy what is Anet doing to me!?!"

ALL DONE! Handsome Gracie Grace!

Picture Day!

The boys had picture day at school last week.

I can't wait to get them back. I had the boys teachers have them take a picture together! :)

LOVE that sweet smile! :)

Our silly boy decided to lay on the floor!

My three handsome boys! :)

Corbin did not want to relinquish his lunchbox!

No More bottles!

For a few weeks now Grayson hasn't been drinking from a bottle or nursing for that matter he is completely weened much to my dismay (I wasn't ready to stop nursing, but I guess he was)! He loves trying to get Corbin's almond milk etc in sippy cups, we really have to watch and make sure he doesn't try to sneak Corbin's milk!

Our sweet Grayson is getting so big! He LOVES, LOVES, LOVES balls! We got some super cute pictures in his letter jacket with a holding a football and he looks like he is ready to run out on field as a quater back. He loves throwing the ball to Daddy and I think Jason truly cherishes these moments with his son! We keep teasing that Grayson is going to be the athlete of our family! He still isn't walking yet but pulls up on everything and can stand for almost a minute without holding onto anything and has excellent balance!

Grayson now has six teeth, four on top, two bottom. I was happy when his second front tooth came in because he got his right front tooth and and left incisior and just had those for awhile. Now he has both front teeth and the ones next to them on each side!

I love that Grayson goes to sleep right away. His older brother has never gotten the hang of that and he just recently started regressing and crying in front of his door again! So frustrating!

The Ziaja family is SICK!

Oh dear the whole family but me is SICK! Although I didn't get off the hook as I had the stomach flu on Saturday. Luckily Jason was home to watch the boys as I was useless and stayed in bed most of the day Saturday because I was up half the night sick.

Corbin started getting a fever/cough on Saturday so he stayed home with Daddy Monday and Tuesday. He also got to go to my mom's and Jason's mom's house part of those days too! :) So he stayed home until today and I got a call while my kids were at recess saying Corbin had a fever. (He didn't have one all day yesterday.) I had to split my class and leave. I immeditly made an appointment at our pediatricians office. Corbin and I went together and left Grayson at school so I could then come back and work in my classroom to get things ready for my class tomorrow since I wouldnt' be there. Corbin checked out fine at the doctor, just a virus. We bought a nebulizer even though he wasn't weezy, because the past two winters hes gotten weezy breathing and so we have it for backup.

So Corbin and I go back to my classroom and it took me twice as long to get things done because he DID NOT nap but like 5 minutes on the way to the doctors and so he basically didn't nap all day. So he was being obnoxious. Jason calls and says he is sick and feels nauseous and that he is home. Then like an hour later I get a call to pick up Grayson because he has a fever! :( Oh man when I picked him up I felt so bad I wanted to cry! He was crying hysterically in his crib!

We had all been off though because Sunday night I could NOT sleep all night! I was up every 30 minutes. Then Corbin woke up and slept in our bed so Jason told me to go to Corbin's bed because I was tired and upset. Then at 3 Grayson woke up and was WIDE awake for an hour! I tried nursing him, which isn't really working because he basically weaned himself a while ago. (He is now drinking formula from a straw cup at school! :) Weird night in the Ziaja household! I figured that I slept too long on Saturday and was off schedule! No idea still why Grayson was up!

I hated seeing Grayson so upset today not my spunky, sweet adorable baby! He has been talking much lately! He can say 'car' and 'dog' very clearly! He is being a stinker at school and isn't really eating food at all. We just started bringing him meals lately. I don't know what I was thinking and kept just bringing baby food until his teacher was like you used to bring food for Corbin! Whoops! I am still trying to figure this school year out and having two kids I guess! ( bad excuse since G-man is almost 1!)

I just want our family to get well!