I'm 2

I'm 2 and I have lots of favorites already.  I love to get behind a wheel and drive.  I point out tractors, trucks, jeeps and garbage trucks all day long.  The bigger the better I guess.  When I'm not driving I enjoy playing in the sand at the beach, eating ice cream on a hot day, climbing at the park, chasing my kitty, and acting silly. I'd rather be outside than anywhere and I love making friends. I'm a little ball of energy and I love to be chased, play hide and seek, peek a boo, and jump all over my parents like a wild animal.  Curious George is my favorite cartoon.  So much my favorite its the only cartoon I will watch.  It has lots of animals and puppies are my favorite. Mommy says I give the best hugs ever but what she doesn't know is I give them when I've done something I shouldn't be doing and it somehow makes it all better :) I'm a healthy eater, love broccoli and picking the cranberries out of mommies salads. I can drink smoothies and eat yogurt all day long if my parents would let me. I don't like my clothes messed with and I'll run from you if you try. If I'm wearing clothes leave me alone and if I'm not leave me alone, I don't want to be changed. I'm a pretty happy guy, very curious and I ask what everything is at this stage. 

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Picking cranberries out of mommys salad

My favorite hat

Talking to my friend Christian from my bedroom window and his bedroom window

October

Grants 2nd birthday
Blowing out candles, playing with his new tractor and garbage truck, and reading a book.  We had planned to go to Disneyland for the 1st time and found out I think the day before that the government shut down puting a stop to that and both of Dave's jobs. Thankfully he is working again so Disneyland is back on the table for December.

A Fall list of things to do from Pinterest. Framed and checked off with a dry erase marker

BaNilla's
 Spread peanut butter on each mini Nilla wafer, place a slice of banana in between and roll in sprinkles. Sweet snack with protein and potassium.

Chef Grant taking the broken eggs and throwing them into my pie mixture.  He was also playing with the measuring cups and sink water and poured some in the mixture. Pie's came out ok, must of needed his secret ingredients.

First time on a pony, not exactly thrilled but not terrified. He loves horses from a safe distance

Started painting Frankenstein but more interested in playing with the kids so I finished it.  But he did the cotton ball ghost all by himself.

Playing in the corn box with his friend Caleb who just turned 1 years old. The kids loved this, pouring it down their shirts and making corn angels and burying themselves.

Carved our pumpkins with a drill.  1st one went bad in a couple of weeks so we made another.  For those of you who watch the Mentalist its Red John.  Grant is stamping all the pumpkin guts and making a mess with the seeds flying all over but he's having fun.

Last minute decision to dress up using only the things we had in our closet. Dave is a dark Elmer Fudd hunting bunny rabbits.

Using only what we had in our closet this year since Grant isn't old enough to know super heros yet or understand wearing costumes we dressed him punk rock.  Sprayed his hair blue, tore his jeans and used safety pins and a skull T-shirt.  I was 80's from the Valley like totally. Went to an event in Mission Viejo with our friends where you can see booths were set up to trick o treat.  Grant did great saying Trick o Treat and thank you. 

The kids watched this black cat rise out of a pumpkin for a while.  It was so cute to see their reactions.  Grant was unsure about it at first and then loved it and giggled and didn't want to leave.

More DIY

A couple of weeks us ago the girls got together and made homemade salts and sugar scrubs with coconut oil  and essential scented oils and its amazing! I'll never buy salt scrub again now that I can create it for almost nothing.  So put in your xmas requests :)  Also, I ran across a recipe for DIY laundry detergent.  I tested it out with Grants clothes first because there is always a crusty food stain and it came out clean and smelling fresh.  Its suppose to be a years supply and it cost me $17.00 thanks to the commissary which is unfortunately closed now due to the government shutdown. I decided on the dry version of laundry detergent so that I wouldn't have to shake numerous bottles with sediment. Here's the link I used:

 http://www.onegoodthingbyjillee.com/2012/08/make-a-years-worth-of-laundry-soap.html

Brown sugar and also a salt and white sugar scrub. Eucalyptus and linen, I like a clean spa scent

 

My helper puting it in the food processor 

Made 3 of these containers and you use 2 tablespoons in each load.