Hello there Sweet Boy!!
I suppose it has been a long time again since I have written to you. And to top it all off - this will be my last letter written only to you!! You are a big brother now so I will write to you and Callen together from now on, but I wanted to write one final letter just to you.
I was just reviewing the last letter I sent to you - and it is so funny that I was writing how many teeth you actually had - since you have a FULL mouth of teeth now:-) Let's see...you turned TWO on June 15, 2012 and the theme to your party was sesame street. I made Elmo, Oscar and Cookie Monster cupcakes for dessert and they came out kinda cute! You have been thoroughly obsessed with Elmo for the better part of this year! Every night before bed - I would waddle (since I was pregnant with Callen) into your bedroom and sing Snuggle Puppy, Peter Cottontail, Take Me Out to the Ballgame and Elmo's World to you - in no particular order - before you went to sleep. We set up your big boy bed sometime in March or April and we just would give you the choice of which bed you wanted to sleep in. Most of the time you chose your crib - but once you figured out that if you went to sleep in the big boy bed you could get up in the middle of the night and crawl into bed with us - the choice was made for you:-) And in true Grady fashion - the transition was made. (Just like switching to sippy cup from nursing bottles and no more binkys etc).You started gymnastics in March and LOVE it - and since you loved the trampoline so much Daddy went out and bought you one for the backyard! You were still learning how to pronounce some things so when you wanted to go out on the trampoline and Jump Jump you asked Daddy to go "Ging Ging" with you!!! haha
We worried that you were going to have a hard time transitioning into being a big brother and having to share Mommy and Daddy but from the moment you walked into the hospital to see Mommy and Baby you strutted right in and said "Hi Mommy" (not Mom Mom like you were calling me) and climed right up on the bed to look into the bassinet to see Callen...and proceeded to hold out your arms and asked us if you could "hold him"?? You have been a God send with the baby. You can't exactly say Callen yet - so you started calling him Nin and then it became Nin Nin - and that has kind of stuck!!! He wasn't the easiest of newborns and while Mommy and Daddy were in the other room begging for him to stop crying and wailing - you were as patient as ever with him and rocked him and shushed him and gave him his binky any time he needed/wanted it!!! You are constantly showering him with kisses and include him in everything that you do!
You also started going to Miss Lori's full time so Nan Nan could watch Callen for us. You are learning SO SO fast with all of the other kids there to learn from (Samantha, Missy, Matt, Jack and Max). You can count to almost 20!! And right now, you are loving the movies Hop (E.B.) and all of the IpMunks (Alvin & the Chipmunks) movies!!
You totally understand the Santa thing this year - but you do NOT want Santa to come to your house - only Nan Nan's house!! haha You already have that one figured out!! I am going to sign off on this for now but I will write to you next week and that will be your first letter that you get from me to both of you together!!
Grady, I love you to the moon and back!!!
Love you more than a sunny warm day in the middle of October!!
Mommy
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