Home Sweet

the boxes have been unpacked, pictures hung on the wall and the apartment is set up (as much as its going to be) so without further ado... here is 708 in its full glory!
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Grant meet Thomas; Thomas, Grant

We had a special treat yesterday, Thomas the Train Engine was in Oklahoma!

so we found ourselves at the Oklahoma Railway Museum along with everyother 2-7year old boy in the state (can't you tell that Geoff was THRILLED with that part) and went and met Thomas. There was lots of choo-choo-ing, one exploded diaper, much frustrationg over not being able to get the toy train engines to go on the track, two "this wasn't worth it" parents and one happy train-loving boy!

Our New PAY-GOWN!

I'm the first to admit that our new town of Lawton Oklahoma doesn't have a ton to offer~ I mean its one of those "everything you could need but nothing that you want" kind of towns. While theres no playground (i.e. Target) for mommy, we did discover one heck of a "paygown" for Grant! He LOVES it, and since the apartment complex doesn't have any kind of playground, we've found ourselves at Kid'sZone fairly regularly. Now that Grant has gotten over his fear of the swinging brindge, thats his favorite place to play. He hasn't been a big fan of the slides which is funny to me because that was his favorite part of the Fort Hood parks. To be honest he doesn't "do" much of anything there because he is still WAY over stimulated when we go so he spends the whole time running around saying "oh wow" to everything and moving on to see what else there is to discover instead of actually doing the activity! Oh well, doing laps tuckers him out just as fast...

Boys And Toys

Part of Geoff's dreams for his son have come true... he has a train set... and he LOVES it!

Grant has been not-so-patiently awaiting his train set ever since we got it over leave and it has been just sitting there in the box until we moved to Oklahoma and got halfway settled.

*Note: since putting the train set together 30 minutes ago Grant has said "choochoo chugga chugga" approximately 159,937,648 times!

Things That Make Us Happy

For Geoff it is the new big @*$ TV with football on all day everyday...
For me its the new pretty furniture that holds it mounted so Grant can't knock it over and we don't put gianormus holes in the wall...
For Grant its the simple entertainment from a "frashlight"!

Things That Make Us Not-so-Happy

Heres a look at what we've been dealing with for the past week...

...it starts so young...

just too precious not to share...

Little Miss Dagny meet the Wonderful World of Burberry!

$50 oops

Grant took advantage of Mommy this morning. He decided to wait until I was on the phone with Sears trying to figure out why our dryer won't connect in the new apartment to do some experimenting...

Aleene's OK to Was-it (i.e. waterproof glue) ALL over the brand new apartment living room carpets and himself. Its a $50 oops because he was in a BRAND NEW fall outfit at the time and of course they got the brunt of it.

P.S. my arm hairs are all glued down to my skin after trying to clean both the boy and the floor up. Its going to be a great day!

What Grants Been Up To

I bet you have been wondering what we're up to since theres been no "chats" recently

Well, we're still living out of the hotel so we're having to create our own entertainment

but I have started "school" which is really fun!

I take my naps on a fun mat of the floor and don't want to leave at the end of the day

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Fortune Teller (T-14years)

Welcome to the World Dagny!

Dagny Arlene Richardson (a.k.a. Grant's fiance) was born about an hour ago to Rory and Joe!

back to {hotel} life

back to {not-so-great} reality

so we're back in Lawton, Oklahoma after a great week of sleeping in actual houses. We had a fun but fast visit to the east coast where we visited frends and family, got a dose of Vesuvio's pizza and even caught a movie in a theater! Geoff is perfecting his manual skills and the drive back went really well.

Since we've been back we've learned
-Grant can take off one-piece footed PJs by himself in the crib when hes suppose to be sleeping
-Its hard to eat healthy (and cheap) when you're living out of a hotel, thought they did wheel in a MicroFridge when we asked
-I'm not ready for Grant to go to day care! He's going to start going to preschool 2 mornings a week so he can learn to interact with other kids and give me time to (eventually) unpack/run errands. We went by yesterday to get our supply list and learn our way around and luckily he loved the toys so much he didn't want to leave~
(I had grand plans for all of his supplies to be themed, you know backpack, lunchbox, sleep mat and his hygene supply box all to be choo-choo trains or trucks or even monkeys... I'm in a slight bit of mourning that the combination of 2 days notice and Lawton's limited shopping possibilites won't let that happen)

The guy who lived in our apartment before us moves out today. We were told we could move in on the 11th but we're hoping and praying that he didn't trash the place in the 6 months he was here so that it doesn't take a whole week to clean and turn over!