Pictures!

On Saturday, September 27, 2008, Matt, Grant, Sasha, and I all headed to the park where we met Brianna, a friend from work who also happens to be a great photographer. Grant wasn't in the best mood, but you wouldn't know it from the shots she got. You can check out her blog at http://briannagrayphotography.blogspot.com/ She has a few pictures of Grant posted, but of course I want to post a few too. We have lots of beautiful pictures, so I had a hard time choosing which ones to post! I decided to more or less randomly pick a few (I tried not to pick any that Brianna has on her site- you'll have to go there to see more) and here is what I got-

That "white thing" in the corner is our dog. Sasha was very useful during the shoot. She can almost always get a smile out of Grant!

A picture of the whole family. Sasha was helpful in this picture as well. We got Grant to walk by telling him to follow her.

Is it just me, or does he look like he's planning something devious in this picture? Or at the least about to say a bad word?

This is one of my favorite pictures. The car was a gift from Gama and he loves it! You can see it in almost every picture. You can also see the three teeth he had when the picture was taken. Now, less than two weeks later he has 5-6 teeth (I know he's gotten at least two more, possibly three, but I'm not putting my finger in there to confirm that last one). Perhaps that had something to do with his bad mood?

That's my boy!

It's too bad Grant isn't looking at the camera in this one, but I still really like it.

Another good picture of the family (or at least the human members of the family).

I might post some more pictures later, but since it's the middle of a work day I should probably get back to work.

A Golden Day!

Happy Birthday Grant!!!!

Today was Grant's birthday, which also happens to be his golden birthday- this being the first of the month and his first birthday. I know it's a cliche, but I have to say it: where does the time go?!? How did the tiny baby I was so carefully holding just yesterday turn into the rambunctious toddler who fearlessly took a nose-dive off my bed today? (Don't worry, he's fine- my nerves, however, are another story.)

To celebrate this golden event, I took the day off to be with Grant. Matt ended up taking a half day as well, and we all headed to the Minnesota Zoo. It was a perfect fall day, warm and sunny enough to enjoy being outside, but cool enough to justify putting Grant in the new sweater and hat I got him a couple of weeks ago. Here are a few of the pictures from today:

Matt took this one as we were leaving the zoo. Even after a couple of hours there Grant was still in a great mood! If you scroll down to the other pictures, you'll see how much he loved it all.

As you can see by the huge grin on his face, Grant loved the salmon. Well, that or he just really liked being allowed to hit the glass. Either way, he was one happy boy, as you can see:

You can see the brown bears in the upper part of the picture. This part of the new Russia's Grizzly Coast exhibit, which wasn't yet open when we went in May.

Another picture of Grant watching the bears. He seemed a little in awe of them.

This was Grant's expression as he watched the prairie dogs. When one disappeared back in its hole Grant chirped "Uh-oh!" and then giggled when it popped back up a second later.

Grant pointing out the prairie dogs to his daddy.

All in all, it was a great day (well, except for the swan dive off of the bed, but I'm trying to forget about that as Grant has already done so). The birthday party will be this Saturday, and I'm sure we'll have lots more fun pictures to post then.