July was certainly an exciting month! We kicked it off with a trip to Houston to celebrate the fourth. Grayson took his first swim and did really well. He was a bit confused at first and held a straight face for most of the time, but by the end he started splashing around and may have even cracked a smile. In mid-July my brother, sister-in-law and niece came in town from Boston as well as Grammy and PawPaw from Houston and cousin Carrie from Indiana. Whoa...I don't think our house had ever seen that kind of action. Sylvia, Grayson's cousin, provided us with some valuable insight into the next year and a half. She is 20 months old and is a mover and a shaker. However hard it seems right now to have an infant, I can definitely see that toddler mobility = parental exhaustion. Sylvia never quite adjusted to the time change and was up and at 'em by 4:30 each morning. Holy smokes! She was very, very sweet with Grayson. In particular, she loved to touch his feet and pat his head. With the blistering heat, trips to the neighborhood pool were essential. Sylvia loved shoveling water into her bucket and, of course, running around and making her daddy chase her. Grayson was content with people watching and lounging poolside. It was such a fun visit! We finished up July and started off August with a trip to visit Erik's family in Colorado. More pictures and details to come in a separate post...
Grayson doing what he does best.
Sylvia snoozing on PawPaw.
Running from daddy! So much fun.
