Everybody Get in the Pool

It has been beautiful this weekend and Aunt Kathy has been talking about taking him swimming so we decided to take the G-Man to the pool for the first time today.

He thinks his sunscreen tastes good. Yum.

He loved watching all of the kids playing in the water.

Here he is chillin', eatin' some Goldfish.

It was the perfect day for a swim. I love weekends.

Grayson's First Birthday

Hello All! Sorry, I am a little bit behind. Here are pics from Grayson's first birthday party. A good time was had by all.

Grayson didn't want to be messy when eating his cake. He doesn't like to waste food :).

Papa Pat showed him how it was done, to all of our amusement.

Thank you to every one who attended, and we missed all of you who couldn't.

Here's to another year of fun!

It's a Big World Out There

Just a reminder to all...Nature is out there, proceed at your own risk.

10 Month Update

Hello all! Long time, no post. Things are pretty nuts in the O'Kane household with tax season and the usual rigmarole. You all don't want to hear about any of that you just want to know what the G-man, or as we call him "Agent Gray Baby," is up to. Well, he is currently working on the walking. He can do 2-3 steps in succession, which is fun and terrifying all at the same time. Oh, the havoc that will ensue. Other than the walking he has pretty much decided that table food is WAY better than baby food. Not that we can blame him, his favorite is cheese. He IS his mommy's baby...I was starting to wonder :). As for verbally he has added "mama" and "babapffffffttba" to his repertoire. We will get a sign out of him every once in awhile, either "please" or "milk," but pretty much he is not seeing any need to communicate further. He generally gets what he needs by grunting and being cute. We are working on it, he is male after all. His most favorite games to play are "So Big" and chase. He just loves to crawl as fast as he can while somebody chases him. He will stop and laugh and then continue as fast as he can. Here is a pic of the little man recking havoc and being a ham at the same time. (I might have helped a little ;).

Back From the Dead... Tired

So the five of you out there that regularly monitor this blog, and the random others of you, you all know who you are, may have noticed a bit of a dry spell in blog posting lately. Well there are many contributing factors to this, exhaustion from Grayson teething, pure laziness or dogs nagging for walks. The truth is perhaps far more simple. You see, my last blog post, the one about the Department of the Grandparent, well it was pretty awesome. And how do you follow up a blog post like that? Good question, as you can tell, my choice was a 3 month sabbatical followed by a simple text only post. Not perhaps as entertaining to the masses, but it is the path I chose. So please look forward to more updates. I will try to reign in my creativity to prevent anymore... hiatuses.

The Department of the Grandparent (D.O.T.G.) has just declassified the following document.


EYES ONLY:

On November 29th, 2008 Special Grandparent Codename Patty (other A.K.A.s known but not declassified) tasked Secret Agent "Gray Baby" with a nefarious mission. Secret Agent "Gray Baby" was to accomplish at all costs the feeding of "human food" to the civilian canine know as Tonka.

On December 21st, 2008 Agent Gray Baby was pleased to report a successful mission with multiple chunks of banana fed to the canine.

Unfortunately the agents secret identity was compromised as enemies of the D.O.T.G., codename Parents, witnessed the act taking place. Agent Gray Baby is confident that despite "losing his cover" he will continue to be able to undertake special operations for the D.O.T.G. in the years to come.

This document is a confidential memo of the Department of the Grandparent.

Look Ma, No Hands

Since crawling was so easy, Grayson has decided to move on (or up) to standing. Watch out world, here he comes...