Three Months of Loving Grant

Our little Grant is 3 months old today! He has already been such a blessing to us and has made our family and our lives more complete. We have loved watching this baby boy change and grow every day.
Some of his skills he has mastered in his 3 months include: lifting his head, sleeping through the night, sitting up with support, smiling LOTS, giggling and cooing, recognizing familiar faces, and most recently he found his two little hands (that is one of my favorite little milestones - I think it is so cute)! We love Grant's BIG full face smile that lights up a room, his calmness, and his fun little baby sounds he often makes!

That full face smile...

I have 2 little hands...

Welcome, Welcome Snowy Sabbath Morning...

"Welcome, welcome Sabbath morning. Now we rest from every care." I'm not really sure when the last Sunday that I rested from every care was! Brandon has been in the bishopric for about a year, so that has left me with 2 little boys and myself to get ready for church, and keep quiet in Sacrament Meeting. Generally, it's not a very restful process. Thankfully our church is at 12:30, and thankfully Brandon can usually come help the last 1/2 hour, and thankfully there are plenty of people who love to hold babies so I can pass Grant off to someone and contain Lincoln myself! We make it work and the boys sure look cute in their Sunday best...whoever said dressing boys isn't fun?
And this last Sunday morning we woke up to SNOW!!! Exciting, yes. However, it's mid-October. That means it's been less than 6 months since the last snow fall. :( I could have waited a little longer.

Handsome Lincoln and Grant, my little men...

Our Little Pumpkins

Saturday we were able to have a little family time and decided to go searching for the perfect pumpkins. To our surprise, we couldn't find a pumpkin patch close...we only could find them sold at stores and we didn't think searching through a bin sounded like fun. So we took a little Saturday morning drive and ended up in a pumpkin patch about 30 minutes away. Lincoln wanted to put just about every pumpkin there into the wagon, but we convinced him that 5 were plenty. If it looks like Lincoln was cold, he probably was. It was FREEZING and snowing! We were thinking we were a little crazy to be at a pumpkin patch in the snow, but it was fun, Lincoln loved it and Grant stayed all bundled and warm (that's why there's only an indoor picture of Grant.)

Oh my sweet, silly Lincoln

The other morning when Lincoln came to me carrying this cute sign (I told Brandon about it and he found it for me on Etsy) that I have yet to get in a frame, I thought it was going to be one of those days!
It actually was a day not much different than any other day with a 2 year old, a newborn and a husband working so hard on his PhD. But on any given day, I often think of these words (Keep calm & Carry on) along with Pres. Monson's counsel in Gen. Conf. to, "not let problems to be solved become more important than people to be loved." With these quotes/sayings in mind, when Lincoln is exploring his independence and is trying to pour himself a bowl of cereal which of course ends up all over the floor, forgets about his water/milk and flings his arms around out of excitement which of course sends the water/milk on the floor, or has to get out every single toy and book he owns all out at the same time, or tries to pick up Grant (but so far Grant hasn't ended up on the floor, thank goodness), or many other of Lincoln's little 2 yr. oldness, it's really quite alright. It makes me think of a song my mom use to sing...

"Hold him a little longer

Rock him a little more
Tell him another story
You've only told him four.
Let him lay on your shoulder
Rejoice in his happy smile
He'll only be (insert age)
For just a little while."

So there's a mess here and there, when I step back for a second it's actually quite funny and I am happy to know that he is just a normal 2 year old, he's my 2 year old! And he's really just my sweet, silly Lincoln.

I wanted to try on some boots we got him to make sure they fit...wouldn't take them off all morning. He just wanted the boots and his blankie. He never carries his blankie around!!?

His little imaginagtion is growing. Each of his stuffed animals have personalities, some are naughty and some are nice. He loves to play with all of them. Lately he's wanted them in shorts, diapers, bandaids (if they fell out of the crib), and he thinks they need snacks and water too.

Still thinks Grant is the greatest. Loves to give him kisses, "share" with him, and like in this picture, blow on his head or cheek. Grant is such a calm baby and is so good to let Lincoln do what he does.

When I went looking for him the other morning after changing Grant, Lincoln was running around with Grant's little baby hat on. Lincoln was laughing and thinking he was the funniest ever. Yes, he knows he's funny.

Seriously, with a face like this, what's not to love?!!

Weekend In Utah

This last weekend Brandon had a conference in Colorado. Wish we could have gone with him, but since he flew out of SLC, we drove down with him and then stayed the weekend at my parents house. The boys and I had so much fun visiting with Gramma and Pop Watts, Darren, Cindy and boys and some friends. Thanks agian for all the "num-ney" meals, movie night, and lots of TLC. We loved it and hope we can see you again soon.

Grant hanging out with his cousin Robbie

The babies found the most comfortable seat in the house!

Little monkey Lincoln

Watching General Conf. with Grandpa

At a garden park with Gramma

Showing off those smiles for Gramma

What a sweet little face

Mom and her boys at the Church Museum

Lincoln with cousins Michael and Jacob

Lincoln absolutely LOVES the temple right now. We had to go walk around and see the temple and Angel Moroni!

the Wilde brothers

Comparison pictures were requested of Lincoln and Grant...so here you go...the first picture is Lincoln at 12 weeks and the second picture is Grant at 12 weeks. They each have their own cute looks but they are definitely the Wilde brothers!

Lincoln Judd

Grant Perry

the Wilde brothers

Giant Grant and Little Lincoln

I took the boys to get their check-ups yesterday to a doctor that had not seen Lincoln before. As they were going over the weight, height, etc. She said Grant is in the 90% and Lincoln is in the 10%. Does that concern you, or does it sound about right? Of course I wasn't concerned... for Lincoln that sounded right. He's always been on the little side and Grant's trying to catch up to him quickly.

Giant Grant

2 months
13.8 lbs
23 inches

Little Lincoln
2 years
25 lbs
33 inches