some things I want to remember about the cutest baby in the WORLD!!!

Grant is so much fun lately. He does things every day that I tell myself I need to write down so here I am. He is snugged in his bed and I have some free time.

Since Grant is now able to crawl, it's always a question as to where he is and what he is into. One particular day we were at my parents and I didn't have any idea where he was. We were all in the same room together and one second I saw him and the next he was gone. Where we found him? Oh you know, right in my arms having an afternoon snack. I was feeding him and totally forgot.

A couple days after that happened, I was at my parents babysitting my niece and Grant crawled over to the bin where we keep the diapers. I looked over at him and noticed that he was poopy and needed a change. How smart he was to go to the diapers. That very night, Eric and I were sitting watching TV and Grant was playing when he kept grabbing a diaper and practically waving it in our faces. We thought nothing of it until I remembered earlier that day and sure enough, when we checked him, he was poopy. So smart that boy!

Lastly, I have no doubt that Grant is my child. We went over to a friends house the other day and when I knocked on the door, her dog came running to the glass door and was barking at us. Grant straight up FREAKED OUT! He was screaming like I have never heard him scream before and holding on tightly to me. They put the dog out back and Grant was fine, but it was so weird to see him react to an animal like that at such a young age. I love this baby of mine!!

8 months

Our little boy is 8 months old already. He is so big and such a great friend to everyone. Here is his latest update:
Loves making music. Anything becomes an instrument. Especially the kitchen floor which is unfortunate for our downstairs neighbor.
Loves to be chased. Will head in a direction that he knows he isn't supposed to be going and will turn around and look at us until we chase after him in which he turns and dashes.
Has the cutest fast crawl ever.
Started climbing up the stairs and is really good at it, we just need to work on the down part.
Mastered the "fake cry."
Has one little tooth coming through, FINALLY.
Still loves bath time!! Anytime the bathroom door is open, he will fast crawl into the bathroom and start pounding on the tub.
Loves to try to stand and balance himself. My mom thinks that he took his "first step" the other day, which resulted in him landing face first on the carpet, but he was okay.
Since he's been crawling and pulling himself up on things for about a month now, Grant is getting good at it, which also means that he has some tumbles. He is a pretty tough guy though and so interested in everything.
Grant is really good at pickpocketing phones since he knows he isn't supposed to have them.
Diaper changes have become nearly impossible since he is such a mover and wiggler.
Grant loves music and singing and is already getting his Christmas music in (since FM100.3 offers Christmas cash, mommy has been trying to win some.)
Grant says "dada" all the time and "mama" comes out occasionally, but usually when he's crying from his crib in the middle of the night. Tears at my heartstrings.
We found out this month that Grant loves lemon pie. For my birthday, I gave him a taste of my pie and he couldn't get enough of it and fast enough. The next day, my dad gave him a taste of his piece and Grant smacked his lips trying to get more the whole way home.
This little boy LOVES to be outside. It still calms him right down when he is crying, or hurt.
He will drum on anything and his favorite right now is to crawl under out kitchen table and pound on the chairs.
He has fed himself a couple little snacks by himself, but still has a hard time getting food into his mouth. (Which I don't really have a problem with because I know that once he gets the hang of it, that is when we have to worry about choking. Which I am TERRIFIED of.)
Grant is so smart and Eric and I are so blessed to be his parents. We love him so much and love how much he is learning now!

Grant with cousin Sophie when we went to St. George.

At one of Grandpas softball games. He loved being outside all day.

Trying on Halloween Costumes at Grandmas.

In the hat that mommy made

With Tacy and Grandpa after trick-or-treating at Aunt Kimber's work.

Matching daddy.

A true giraffe, trying to eat leaves.

Halloween. All dressed up for our Boo-ritos from Chipolte!

Grant and all his cousin's on the Bitton side.

Sitting like a big boy at the counter.

Loves bath time.

Grant's first snow. (Or first documented snow, I'm pretty sure it snowed after he was born, but I didn't document that. Too little!)

Sledding down daddy's make shift hill.

Such a big boy at 8 months.

Playin' around with daddy.

Eric is the Greatest!

Pretty much Eric is the coolest dad ever! He is the best husband and Grant has so much fun with him. The other day, Grant was getting sad so Eric started this wrestling match between two of Grant's stuffed animals and Grant thought it was the funniest thing ever. He loves when daddy comes home and hates to be away from him. I love Eric and think he is so funny. (Slash we were making banana bread on Sunday and I had him pour the vanilla and when he was done, he licked the tsp. He was totally disgusted and thought that it was going to be good. So funny.)

After picking out Grant's first pumpkin.

Matchy matchy with Daddy.

Daddy letting Grant the Giraffe eat some leaves. (Not really.)

Sitting like a big boy at the counter with Daddy.

7 months

I know this is beyond late, but as the saying goes, "better late than never." So here is some info, but more importantly, pictures of the cutest baby in the whole entire world! At three days shy of seven months, Grant decided that he wanted to crawl. His ball got away from him and he finally figured out that he can go and get it. His first crawls were short ones, but he has since caught on and is everywhere. He loves to pull himself up onto all of the furniture and drums like you wouldn't believe. He is constantly making music whether he is banging his favorite toys (measuring cups) on our kitchen floor or his hands on the TV stand, he loves to be loud. Grant loves it when mommy sings to him. This little boy is still continuously eating. He loves any type of food but is still getting used to the puffs or meltaways that we give him. Ever since he started crawling, he has become a master roller and I realized that the cowboys who do the calf wrestling in rodeos must've changed a lot of diapers because when I am changing Grant's diaper, I feel like I would do really well in rodeos. Grant loves all of his cousins and can't get enough of his grandmas and grandpas. He recently found the doorstop in the bathroom and loves to play with that to make noise. We started trying to sleep train him around 6 months and since then, he hasn't really taken his binky anymore. Instead, he likes to shove Raffie's horns into his mouth to calm him. We think he is teething right now, but it also could just be a nasty cold. When he wants to, Grant will wave and it is the cutest thing ever. We were at the grocery store the other day and I saw this young boy waving at Grant. I thought that was kinda silly until I turned around and saw Grant waving back. Too smart this little boy is. If we'd let him, he would spend everyday outside. Ever since Grant first sat on grass, he loves to pull it. I have noticed that he is really intuitive before putting something in his mouth so I think that he is a thinker. Grant is the light of our life and we cannot get enough of his hugs and kisses.

 Playing with cousin Porter. Grant is a beast, Porter is 5 months older than him.

Sometimes, when we put him down for naps, instead of crying, he is silent then we hear him in there talking and playing. This particular day we walked into this and knew that our lives were over since he can now pull himself up on basically anything.

Instead of Raffie's horns during this nap, he decided to suck on the blanket.

We've had a lot of blow outs this month which result in the baby getting to take a bath. I think he blows out on purpose because he loves the tub so much!

This picture kills me. I asked Eric to take a picture of me with Grant since I am usually the one taking the pictures and Grant was smiling at daddy until he finally took it and then he photobombed with a juicy kiss.

Happy boy in his cute alligator shoes! 

Playing with the doorstop in the bathroom.

I love this round face more than words can say!

So big, pounding on the table.

half a year

It's kinda cray to look back at the past six months of my life and realize how much my baby has grown. He no longer is a tiny helpless newborn who just needs to eat, sleep, and have an occasional diaper change. My little baby who once threw his hands up in the air when he was startled is using those same hands to play with toys. The baby who hated tummy time is now so close to crawling. My child who was light as a feather now requires two hands when being held. I can't believe how fast these six months have gone and how much Grant has grown, but I can believe how much I love this little turkey.

Here are the 6 month pictures I attempted to get. Now that he's mobile, this is virtually impossible to get him to pose with the label. Oh well, he's pretty darn cute!

Done with pictures, just showing me the sign.

Grant is so much fun right now. He laughs at Eric and I constantly and is always quick to smile when he wakes up in the morning. We've started giving him some food besides the rice cereal and we haven't really had anything that he doesn't like. He is such a good eater, and like I've said before, would eat 24/7 if I let him. When Grant is tired, he is a momma's boy and doesn't like it when I leave the room, but when he is happy and awake, he loves to play with his daddy. (Not to say he doesn't love snuggling with his daddy when he's tired, he just usually wants food when he's tired.) I'm almost positive that Grant knows how to wave. He's shy about it so he only usually does it to Eric or I, but he can. Grant loves to be outside, he loves sitting right on the grass and pulling it. The other day, my mom, Eric, and I were canning salsa and Grant was on a blanket on the grass. When I looked over at him, he had moved the blanket so he could reach the grass and had a huge handful headed straight to his mouth. He is still a huge flirt and loves to impress anyone that he comes in contact with. Grant is so close to crawling, it's scary. He can get to where he is going though by steamrolling his way around. Grant and I just started babysitting my niece during the weekdays and the other day I had her laying on the ground and Grant was playing with his toys. Next thing I knew, I looked up and he was right next to her. He rolls all over the place but will still only roll from his tummy to his back on his right side and from back to tummy on his left side. He's funny like that. He has also sort of began to pull himself up on things. He isn't strong enough to stand up just yet, but he loves to pull himself up on mommy's leg or on the diaper box that we let him play with. Grant is easily entertained but really doesn't like to be left alone. He is the sweetest little guy I know and I am grateful every day that Eric and I were blessed with this sweet little angel.

The Babe's First End of Summer

Grant as a 6 month old has been able to do some pretty fun things. Here are some activities that he's experienced as our summer vacay came to an end. 

Aunt Melissa got married to Uncle Barry and we couldn't be more happy for her. Sadly, I have no pictures of her, but just know she looked beautiful and so happy.

 Grant and Aunt Christine. He wasn't too much a fan of the tie.

GQ, looking off into the distance, baby. 

Playing at the reception

Monster Baby and Tacy Lou. One of Grant's two new cousins he got in August.

Around my dad's birthday we went crayfishing and camping up at Strawberry Reservoir. We were quite nervous about taking Grant overnight, in a tent, with cold temperatures, but he did great. He literally slept the best he ever has his whole life. We had his snuggled up in layers of jammies, and layers and layers of blankets on top of that. We put him in between Eric and I and he slept like a baby. ;) However, Eric and I were so nervous throughout the whole night that he was cold that we didn't sleep too well.

Sleeping in mommy's sleeping bag after his morning feeding.

Some of the blankets we buried him in.

With Grandpa Kirk. He absolutely loves his grandparents.

Scouting out the animals in Grandpa's hunting chair.

This face is called the Ninja Turtle face and Grant pulls it a lot. Ever since he was born he always has sucked on his bottom lip. I'm not sure if he does this for comfort or because he is thinking, but I sure think it's cute.

Just playing with some cousins 

"Oh Hey mom."

Every Labor Day, Eric's family has their condo up at Bear Lake. This year was so much fun but I definitely am not as daring as I was when I was younger due to the fact that I have a baby. We jet-skied, Eric and his brothers got the most air on a tube that I've ever seen in my life, Grant played with Grandma and we even had a jump roping tournament where we found out that most of the Bitton Boy's are better at jumproping than the girls, not to mention Grandpa is close with Emma at best.

Learning to drive at Bear Lake.

Bear Lake

We also went to Grant's first football game, BYU vs. Weber State and although the Wildcats lost, we still had so much fun. It really has been such a fun summer and we were so lucky to get to play with Eric as much as we did. We always love the weekends (except test weekends) because we can relax more with our daddy. 

5 months

When I look at my baby, I can't even imagine what Eric and I did without this little guy. He is so much fun and keeps us on our toes for sure! At 5 months Grant loves to put anything he can in his mouth. Some of his favorite toys are recycled items, leftover pringles cups, scrunched up water bottles, and empty diaper crinkles. Grant will wave every once in a while and it's the cutest thing ever. He gets really excited when mommy or daddy walk in the room. Grant loves to laugh and has a contagious smile. He loves to play with toys and is a great talker. Occasionally a toy will get away from him and he'll act like he is going to crawl but hasn't yet. I feel like he'll be crawling before Eric and I know it. Grant loves to flirt with any girl he sets his eyes on which causes him to talk a lot during church. He loves to be heard. Recently he's been feeling a little down due to teething pains and I cannot wait until he has all his teeth and doesn't have to deal with those pains anymore. It's too sad for me. Here are the pictures I took on his 5 month birthday. Obviously you can see that it is impossible to keep this sweet little boy sitting still. He definitely wanted the paper.

"Oh HI! I'm 5 months old!"

Showing off his rolling skills.

Smiling at Grandpa and Grandmas. Grant loves that little yellow bee thing in front of him in this picture. It plays music and he loves to make it light up.