Boys Boys Boys

Grady is building the roster for a great soccer/football/baseball/swim/whatever team.  We spent part of our weekend with Hudson (2), Wyatt (6 months), and Benedict (2 months).  Boys seems to be prevalent among our friends and I have no doubt that we'll be cleaning up lots of grass stained pants and skinned knees in a matter of years.  

Love these cute boys together. 

I FINALLY met Benedict.  I told Artesia that I had to meet him while Pope Benedict was still the Pope and at least I made that happen (barely).  This little guy is a ball of love.  He behaved himself so well at lunch just sitting in his little seat smiling up at us.  Meanwhile, Grady tried to pull every napkin, fork, plate, and water-glass within his reach off the table while squawking in a not so restaurant appropriate voice as I power shoveled my pasta looking like I hadn't eaten in days. I'd told Artesia that I could just leave Grady at home so that I could actually carry on a conversation, but she said it was OK if we were "those people" and insisted that I bring him.   At the end of lunch she sweetly remarked, "maybe it is a boy thing because our girls were never really like that."  She said it so nicely and it totally validated that Grady really is not the easiest of babies!  I don't know if it is a boy thing or just a Grady thing, but our kid is into everything and won't sit still for the life of him. He refuses to sit politely in our laps and instead insists on standing and marching to the beat of his own drum (quite literally) and he has been like this since he was just about two months old.  We've come to realize that we're going to have our hands really full with this one!  But our hands will be full with love as we chase our boy around who is so full with life.  I just hope he is not that kid in Kindergarden who needs a seatbelt on his chair at school, but if he is, we'll love him just the same :) 

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