Grant’s Blessing

On October 13th 2013 we blessed Grant. Church was at 9:00 am and everyone that could come was here. I was so excited to see everyone and glad they all made an effort to come. I even had my uncle Dave and Cousin Cody come which was unexpected.

I should have done this sooner since I do not remember much. Thankfully Sister Thiel wrote down some stuff from the blessing and gave it to me because I do not remember anything.

Here are the items she wrote down that he would be blessed with:

• Grant will be blessed with a desire to follow and serve Heavenly father throughout his life. To server a mission and draw people to the church. To obey his parents.

After the blessing Jake sat down next to me, leaned over to me and said, I blessed him now you get to give your testimony. Which I was planning on giving my testimony even though there was a part of me that said “Do I really have to”. I am terrified of public speaking and usually have my mind go blank as I stand up to speak. I did get up and give my testimony. Thankfully I didn’t have a blank mind and thanked Heavenly Father for this blessing of raising a child. I also stated that I am grateful that I have a Heavenly Father who is willing to help me when I make mistakes and will pick up the slack as long as I believe and trust him.

Many other people went up and gave their testimony and made me tear up. I am very happy to be a part of both families.

After church we had a brunch at our house which was a little cramped, but worked out well. All the kids played downstairs and by the time they all left it looked like they had a food fight down there.

I forgot to get pictures after church, but here are a few before Church. Grant looking so handsome in his tux!

Grant is 3 Months!

Well he was actually 3 months on Saturday, but Saturday was a super busy day and I forgot to take the picture on Sunday and Monday so today I am writing about three month old Grant.

I cannot believe how much he is growing and learning. He loves attention! If you are holding him and/or talking to him he has the biggest smile. He is however, learning to entertain himself, as long as he has a toy. It doesn’t last long, but at least he doesn’t cry as soon as I put him down. He still loves to stand. I think if he can get to sitting up on his own he probably would stand up on his own. I do play with him and take him from the laying position to sitting to standing. Then I go backwards and sit him down then lay down. I hope he gets the idea. He still hates tummy time and has learned how to roll from tummy to back. He mainly uses gravity and pushes one hand on the floor and twists his head so the weight is on one side and lets gravity pull his head down and then his body follows. Now we need him to have incentive to want to be tummy to learn to crawl. If he has something behind him or the bumbo chair he can sit up and not tumble. He’ll sit on the couch with out things on the side without falling for a bit, but he still needs something behind his back. He doesn’t look much different this month, but it does show him being able to grasp the toy. I also have the video of him rolling over.