Grady's First Birthday Party in Spartanburg

This past weekend we met both of our families at Nana and Papa's house for Grady's first birthday party. It was a week early, but it was what worked for most everyone to be there. We will have another celebration this Friday on his real birthday and I'll post those later. We had a great time in the pool with all his cousins, grilled out and my Mama made an adorable train cake and yummy carmel train petit fours. Mama and Grady waiting for our guests to arrive!

Dad and Grady

Playing with Dad. All five Wilson cousins! Anna, Troy, Grady, Kate and Asher!

Sisters and kids!

Lots of fun in the pool . . .

Giving Kate a kiss.

Kate was able to dive off the diving board and swim to the steps without coming up! We were all impressed!

Asher has no fear in the water! He had just gone off the slide here!

Anna laughing at everyone and wanting to go off the diving board too and she did!

Bonnie and Troy

Neely and Josh drove all the way up from Charleston just for the party and went straight back! They are too sweet!

Aunt Neely and Grady

Opening gifts!

Great-Grandparents!

He loved the Blue's Clues book from Aunt Bonnie, Uncle David and Troy.

You can tell all the kids loved the laugh and learn Farmhouse from Meme and Ditdough!

He did not love his birthday hat. It lasted a few seconds.

All the kids wanted some cake right away!

It began with a small taste and later . . .

he ate it by the fistfuls!

He did not disappoint for his first cake eating!

Got to have some milk with all that cake!

Slowing down

Very tired and time for a bath and bed.

After his nap he had a ball playing with all his new toys! He loved them all, but especially the light switch on the farmhouse.

Tired again and resting with Dad.

Having fun with Papa and his new Megablocks from Aunt Beth, Uncle John, Kate, Asher and Anna. Snuggling with his bear from Aunt Irene.

Playing with his bubble maker machine from Nana and Papa.

Time for bed after a fun-filled day!

Fun with 2nd cousins

Last weekend we went to Spartanburg to celebrate Grady's first birthday with our families. On the way there we went by my Aunt Kitty and Uncle Bruce's house because my cousin, Grace, was visiting from New Orleans with her four children. She has a new baby girl, Rollyn, that I was very excited to meet. Grady had fun playing with Bray, Meme and Aunt KiKi. Their coffee table has a large square hole in the middle and the boys found it very interesting! Grady trying to find Aunt Kiki

A few pics I got while under the table.

Grady and Bebop, one of his Great-Grandfathers.

Sweet Rollyn

Meme and Grady

Grady fell and busted his lip and so he got to have his first popsicle!

Happy Birthday Richard

Yesterday was Richard's birthday and we went to dinner at On the Border to celebrate. As you can see most of the Nettles clan was there (James is beside Jamie). It was delicous and I find I have to take more and more toys and food to entertain Grady during a full dinner. All he wants to do is get down and crawl around. Then we went back to the house for birthday cake. Grady loves playing with my old Razor phone.

Okay, you have to know the story to the next picture. Papa has two stitches on his forehead (moving their fridge and a ceramic pig fell on his head). Grady was all about the bandaid and kept trying to touch it. He touched it too hard once and Papa flinched a little. Well, Grady started crying and everytime he looked at Papa for the rest of the night he would look at the bandaid and cry. Grady already shows remorse and it's hilarious. He's been doing this already when he bites Richard or I and he cries and kisses us for about 10 minutes as if he feels really bad about it and is mad at himself. Hopefully he'll quit the biting altogether soon! Any advice on that is appreciated!

James got his dinner (bottle) too.

Weekend in Spartanburg

We went to Spartanburg this weekend so Richard could help his Dad remodel his parents' closet. They made it go from one shelf to two and added some shoe racks. Grady and I had fun hanging out with Nana and Aunt Irene. He loved swinging on the front porch swing, swimming in the pool and snuggling with Aunt Irene's stuffed animals. We also got to visit Poppy and Grandmother.

Not so sure he wants to sit alone while he swings.

Feeling safer in Nana's lap.

Snuggling with Aunt Irene's stuffed animals.

Having a blast swinging really fast with Aunt Irene!

You would have thought he was on a roller coaster!

Saying hello to Maggie.

Getting all lotioned up for a dip in the pool.

Blocking the sun.

A visit with Grandmother and Poppy.

Tired boy.

Babysitting James

Richard and I got to babysit James while Sarah and Jamie went out for their 5th Anniversary. We enjoyed it, but Grady was very jealous (especially when James got his bottle). James was wearing one of Grady's outfits and I had to post a picture of Grady and James in the same outfit.

This is Grady at 4 weeks old. Here is James at 6 weeks old. (Jamie put the sign on James to surprise Sarah.)

James was stretching . . .

and yawning. Sleepy baby!

Sarah wanted to get a picture like the one I took holding Grady in the same outfit.

Me and Grady (3 weeks old).

My cute little Linus (and we stopped the Beaver!)

Here is my cute little Linus! For the past week Grady is always holding whatever blanket is in the crib with him every single time we go to get him when he wakes up. I have been calling him Linus ever since he started it. He won't let go of it when we take him out of the crib and even carries it to the changing table with him (which helps him stay still during diaper changes, so fine by me). I think it's the cutest thing ever, but I am his Mama. Richard ordered Grady a "CribWrap" to help prevent our Beaver from chewing up his crib rail. He seems to love it! I highly recommend the CribWrap to anyone who has a crib with wide rails! It's also very easy to wash! Always so happy after a nap!

Right after the above picture I put the CribWrap on and he of course did this. (anything soft that he touches seems to make him do this).

Grady modeling his CribWrap.

He touched something soft!

Nope, your Beaver teeth will not get through!

Playdate with Andrew

Today Grady and I met Bridget and Andrew at the Joseph-Beth Bookstore to see Mr. Nigel. He was very entertaining and sang lots of fun songs with the kids. It was close to Grady's naptime, so he was really tired, but Andrew was smiling and laughing the whole time! He was so cute! Grady had fun crawling around and checking out all the other kids. Our day must have really worn him out because he feel asleep in the car on the way home around 12:45. I put him down in his crib as soon as I got home. It's nearly 5:00 pm and he is still asleep! I have gotten a lot done this afternoon! Bridget, we need to do this every Friday! Andrew and his adorable smile!

Mama and Grady

Grady loved to touch and kiss Andrew's head. We had lunch at the food court. I think Andrew wanted some of Grady's cheerios!