The many faces of Grayson

Trains....... Things that move...... Garbage trucks. No really, if it goes down the street and makes noise he wants to see it.

He is a creative little toot for sure. But when he wants to relax and kick his feet up, he will find his own way to do it. 

We have never had a neurotypical kiddo, so my over active/ hypochondric self tends to freak out. Our awesome PA is always willing to listen. But this kid gets more than his fair share of "smart" app time on the Ipad. He eats rocks and sometimes, you just gotta LOVE that little cute face. I love that face! 

Our trips to Tori's "par ma see" is one of his favorite things. And usually a baby comes with him. Oh how Tori at the pharmacy loves his little face! 

Every morning he is in bed with me and he says " Mommy I need a cuddle." But he HAS to be in my bed. He never sleeps alone. Nothing we have tried works. I am his big fat security blanket. But his sleeping is my most favorite thing. He is so sweet. He has to be holding my hand, or hugging me or touching me. And just a hand on his sweet heart to know he is still with me, sure does heal a broken heart a little at a time.  ( Now if only he will sleep when we move to our NEW HOUSE!!) 

But his MOST favorite thing is to sleep in a sleep over with his brother. He wants to sleep in Tyler's bed every single night. He has even left my room and his room to go curl up with Tyler. Thankfully, Tyler sleeps through it all. 

And he always finds cool ways to be Grayson. 

He is a pretend play freak. Loves to make pizza's, fix cars, drive cars, and play in a kitchen and best of all, he takes GREAT selfies!

This little kiddo gave me has been so hard and so rewarding. I am pretty sure that it is just payback for all the things I did as a kid and all that Dallas did. But most of all, we wanted him so much. We did everything we could to have him. We had so may procedures, and so much heartache to get him here. We had more drama than we EVER wanted when we finally got pregnant with this sweet spirit. We were told we "ruined" someones life and ostracized and blamed for things that were just mean, mean.( which by the way, these same saints didn't exactly tell us in a way that allowed us to process the last 4 kids, because empathy is not their forte) But all we wanted was someone to love. Some sweet spirit to have for Tyler to have a sibling. He is the icing on the cake for us. He keeps us on our toes, he gives us no sleep. But he is the best and perfect brother for Tyler. And perfect sweetness for me and Dallas. 

* Disclaimer: While it has been brought to my attention that I am hurting someone's feelings by voicing my feelings that happened when we found out we were pregnant with Grayson. For writing in my blog, I am sorry that it hurt your feelings. My feelings were and still are hurt but my apologies.*

Oh Grayson!!!

Grayson is my little devil child that I couldn't live without. There is so many things that make me pull my hair out, and other things that I just can't imagine living one day without seeing or hearing. He is the perfect addition to our family and the best forever brother to Tyler.

Grayson is still connected to the umbilical cord. He spends all his waking time with me and MOST of his sleeping time with me too! I secrectly love my snuggles and waking up to him saying " Momma I need a cuddle." I never say no!!



Tyler AND Grayson spend an awful lot of time in my bed. I don't mind. But if they have to be in here because of a seizure, Grayson minds. He gets so worried about Tyler that he lays right on top of him.

Grayson LOVES babies. LOVES them. He carries around some sort of sock monkey with us and he is well taken care of.





Grays gets into the worst trouble. And he doesn't even know how much I want to spank him, but LOVE his cute face to much.


He is the most fabulous Artist. Never has a child ever been so GENIUS as this one!!




And the love of transportation is amazing!! We play trains, we watch trains, we scream at cars that go by!



And really, we just love that little smile to pieces.



When someone asks him what is wrong with Tyler he tells them that " Tyler has Cerebral palsy, but he can do it, just like us."

He is amazing! He is funny, He is sweet and cute and just right for us.

The little brother

Grayson adores Tyler.  He will follow him from here to anywhere. He knows when things are not going great and in true brother fashion, really rubs salt in the wounds! He is a terror when it comes to Tyler. He has a problem with leaving him alone, not biting, hitting or jumping on him, but most of all he has to do EVERYTHING that Tyler does.

From the time that Grayson was a month old he has attended Therapy with Tyler. We started in Utah and have just kept going. Here in Arizona we have 3 therapies and Grayson joins in often.

 After surgery, Tyler didn't really want to walk a whole lot so he crawled all over. Grayson followed. Tyler had casts on his feet, Grayson made sure his monkey had one too.

We went to the zoo right after surgery with Tyler's class, and sure enough Grayson wanted to go too.

He really is his best little friend.

Here is a little glimpse of our little brother.

We have a few things that we need to work on when it comes to Grayson. He had a well check ad follow up with a private agency and it seems as tough we need to Grayons some extra therapy. We are hoping it will help with a lot of his behavior at home. But really we love him to bits and pieces.