Grady's thoughts on the New York Yankees

Grady with Great Grandma

I love it when Grady gets to see his grandparents and great grandparents.  i hope he gets to know all of them for a very long time.  they all love Grady so much.

Grady meets his Grandpa Harold

he liked his beard

What a difference 6 months makes!

Happy 1st St. Patrick's Day

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six months

Today Grady is six months old!  Momma and Dadda are so proud of the little man and we love him more and more everyday.  Grady has his check up with the doctor in a couple of days so we will be able to see how big he is and how much he weighs officially.  He is doing new things all the time.  His oldest trick is growing, he seems to still be bigger everyday when i get home from work than he was when i left in the morning.  He will roll over every now and then but he doesn't really like to be put on his belly to play or practice rolling around.  just as well if you ask me, he will be mobile and presenting all new types of challenges for momma and dadda soon enough. when we lie him on his back he likes to push himself forward with his legs and if we let him go he'd probably end up with a friction burn on the back of his head.  i still think he will skip over crawling or only use it for a short time until he can walk.  he really likes to spend time standing up either with one of us holding him up or in his jumparoo.  he does sleep very well for us at night by now and has been for quite some time.

i don't know if this next story is going to be impressive to anyone else or not but i was impressed by this story and its my blog so i am going to write about it.

a couple of days ago i was putting batteries into a new flashlight i had bought and Grady was watching me.  once the batteries were in, i clicked the button to make sure the light came on and as soon as i did; Grady looked up at the ceiling and spotted the little dot of light.  i was so impressed and made the light go in circles and lines and shapes and he watched and watched and then as soon as i turned off the light he looked right back down at the flashlight.  i know it may have been luck that he saw it on the ceiling at first but when i turned it off and he looked right back at the flashlight i could tell the little man knew exactly where that dot of light was coming from.  we play with the flashlight from time to time still and click the light goes on and he looks right at the ceiling until he finds it and as soon as i click it off he looks right back down at the flashlight every time.  like i said i don't know if this is normal for a six month old baby but i sure didn't expect that from him.  i may be biased, but i think it means he has inherited my superior intellect. (there's the funny part)  actually, i assume he will be more smarter than i ever was or ever will become. 

in closing i say happy six months to Grady.  Thank God for the single greatest blessing of our lives.  Thank you to all of the family who has shown so much love to Grady. 

P.S.  a VERY VERY special one happy 1 month to baby Benjamin Joseph!  we love you soooooooo much too! 

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circa 1995

here's a picture that Josh emailed me today.  we are pretty sure it was the 1995 season.  it's so strange to look at a picture like this one and feel like it happened last week and also feel like it was forever ago.  we had so much fun going to indians games together back then.  we had so few responsibilities i think i spent every dollar i had every time i went to one of those games.  i would have to go the next week with no money for gas or anything but it was worth it.  Josh just spent money up there like it was going out of style.  he probably bought me as many beers as i ever bought for myself up there.  thanks again brother.  thanks again for getting the tickets.  those games we would sit in the sun or under the lights and drink overpriced beer and cheer for the Indians like they were the only thing that mattered in our lives, what a simple and fun time.  i would like to thank God that nothing bad ever happened due to a few of the more careless decisions we may have made back then.  speaking of which, that box which appears to be a 12 pack of beer in Rod's hand is actually full of peanuts to sneak into the park.  we would never think of breaking any laws by drinking and driving.

p.s. the can in Rod's other hand which appears to be a beer also is full of more peanuts.  i challenge anyone to prove me wrong!  don't ask me why we filled boxes and cans with peanuts.   like i said we were careless.

the dogs

Melissa and i have figured out that Grady knows which dog is which now.  i am very impressed that he knows this at such a young age.  Grady recognizes the white dog as Kosmo-no and the black dog as dammit-buddy.  when Grady is a little older we will tell him that really their names are just kosmo and buddy, but for the time being its just fine.