Today, Grayson and I had one big adventurous day! We went to the airport to photograph one of my friends and her family as her husband left for awhile. After we got through security and all of that fun jazz (not), Grayson and my friend's little boys just HAD to try out the flat escalator thing lol! We got to where everyone was boarding and had to wait a little while. Grayson met TONS of nice people (and when I say nice, I mean, they didn't mind letting Grayson high five them, tag them, hug and kiss them.....wait for it....SPANK THEIR BUTTS! Most Embarrassing Child Reward goes to....*drum roll please* Mariah Wallace! Lol! Seriously my kid is a trip! Good thing he's so cute though right? Haha no seriously the people who he did this to were very understanding and very entertained while they waited so patiently to board their airplanes....good thing these people knew my friend a little bit. Lol! One of the ladies gave Grayson a lollipop and she became his best friend of course haha! And then Grayson saw one mommy nursing her baby and oh dear Jesus, Grayson wanted to join the fun! He was a breastfed baby up until he was 18 months old when he weaned himself so in other words, Grayson loves boobs just to throw that out there! Haha!
ANYWAY! After my friend's husband boarded the plane, we got to see all of the airplanes take off. Grayson LOVED that! The look on his face was just priceless and he was so happy! He's never seen an airplane take off before so it was all new and exciting for him. Pictures of him to follow.
We got home and made dinner, but once Daddy got home, all of us were invited to go to Shoney's for dinner. So dinner went in the fridge for tomorrow's Valentine's Day dinner :) (pssst it's meatball sub casserole) :)
Shoney's, oh Shoney's! The high fives, tags, hugs and kisses AND butt spankings continued! Dinner and a show anyone? I don't know how many times I heard, "he's too cute!" or "oh, he's to precious!" Grayson can't stay still for very long after he eats. We usually always have to rush to eat because Grayson will hurry up and eat and want to play ASAP! Well I ran around Shoney's with him and everyone was so inviting of him and even played with him by tickling him every time he rounded their table.....except one woman! With Grayson's SPD (Sensory Processing Disorder), he can't wear shoes for very long. He loves to put on shoes and run around in them, but the minute he sits down where he notices that he has shoes on, he'll seriously put himself in a panic attack when he tries to get them off. So in other words, he didn't have any shoes on running around the carpeted restaurant. Every time we rounded this one lady's table, she had to say something each time about him not wearing shoes. She did the same thing to TC every time TC got up and went to the buffet. I finally said something to her nicely and she hushed up about it. People who just don't have a clue just really irritate me. But I kindly said something to her and let it go. I wasn't going to let one person out of all of these people who were inviting of Grayson, get to me. Anyway, Grayson had to high five, hug and kiss everyone who he passed. And then we he circled the buffet table, he spanked people's butts and ran away lol I don't know how many times I had to apologize to people lol. We tried to maintain him in our little area but all he was doing was screaming. So instead of getting nasty ugly looks, I let Grayson run a muck pretty much. He was very quiet as he ran around and no one (besides that one woman) had a problem with it. They joined in and Grayson loved it! He always has to be the center of attention and always has to bring entertainment to people. It's a curse and a gift all in one lol. He's definitely going to be the class clown when he gets in school and I guarantee I'll be making plenty of trips to the principal's office ha!
Now everyone is going to think I let my child run a muck haha no! He never asks like this so I was just as surprised as everyone else. This week he has been VERY full of himself and I think it has a lot to do with his confidence boost. I know that sounds silly but I'm serious! When we sat down and decided what we needed to change when it came to mine and TC's actions and our choices we've made and went through with those changes, we seriously have this whole different child. Not saying Grayson was some kind of mopey kid who never smiled because we were mean to him. Oh heck no! Grayson has ALWAYS been happy. He's always had a smile on his face and he's always had such confidence. Some will say he's too young to have confidence and that may be true because he is a toddler and some toddlers are very friendly and happy go lucky where they don't hesitate when it comes to strangers. But I have just seen a dramatic change to Grayson's behavior now that we're more calm with him and spending more time with him rather than worrying about the house being spotless, being on our computers and phones like we were, and running around like a chicken with its head cut off. He's listened better than he ever has and he doesn't throw near as many tantrums. He's also gotten a better grasp on learning new things. I'm just so proud of him and I'm really proud of ourselves for changing things. We're still working on it of course. It takes longer than a week. We're going to have to work on it every day like we would anything....but we're making progress and that's what matters. And if people think I let my child run a muck where he's spanking butts, high fiving people, hugging and kissing them...then so be it. He's exploring. Now no, when he was spanking people's butts, I was correcting him and he stopped doing it of course. But I don't see anything wrong with high fiving people and it's not like we were running around for an hour doing this. 10 minutes and he was done lol but I have just seen so much change in him and I'm loving it. I'm loving that he's exploring and I'm loving that he's interacting with people more. He's always interacted with people, always! He's never been shy what so ever (unless they have beards. He used to be terrified of anyone with beards but not anymore lol). I know about stranger danger, trust me no one lets me forget that one when Grayson is asking total strangers to get him out the buggy at the grocery store. I will teach him that when it's time because he's still too innocent to really grasp that yet. That and he's never not with me ya know? When he starts school, that's when the time will be. Anyway! Moving on! Lol
We ended blue week this week and I'm not sure which color we'll be starting on next week. Grayson can't tell me what's blue and he can't say the color blue, but this is just attempting to learn colors. I'm not going to hound him every second of the day and shove colors down his throat lol. It's going to take time and he'll learn them on his own time and at his own pace. I just can't wait until March 11th when he goes to BabyNet. We've been waiting six long months for this and now it's here. I've been praying so hard and now one of my prayers have been answered. I now just pray they can give me the tools to help Grayson, to teach me how to teach him if that makes any sense lol. I just pray that they can help Grayson overcome most of this stuff so he can focus on learning and where he can most definitely focus on sleeping instead of worrying about if he's going to miss something. He just never wants to sleep. When he was 14 months old, he went 2 days straight without sleep, which caused him to have what I thought was a seizure. But after testing and seeing a neurologist and all of that crazy mess, we figured out it was mimicking seizures due to migraines. It's sort of what I have but what I have isn't genetic. I have a conversion disorder that causes mimicking seizures due to stress. A conversion disorder can't be passed down like epilepsy or some other condition or disorder can be because a conversion disorder is pretty much the same thing as PTSD. Long story short, that's where Grayson's sleeping problems really started and I'm just praying that either BabyNet or even his regular pediatrician can help me with that. I'm scheduling an appointment with his regular pediatrician this week to see if he could give me any insight or advice about it.
I get off topic very quickly if you can't tell. TC and I call it "squirrel disorder" lol kind of like ADD....but you're talking about something and then OH LOOK A SQUIRREL haha! Ok so here are some pictures from yesterday and today. I'll be making a new post that has recipes on it :)
Grayson having fun with the dog. Bacon loves with Grayson chases him with things so Bacon can "charge" at it in a playful manner lol
Like father, like son lol
BLUE CUPCAKES! :)
This was Grayson's FAVORITE thing about blue week along with the blue bath :) The kid should have been a fish. He loves water!
I bought this little whisk looking thing a while back from Books A Million. It's a head scratcher and it feels amazing! Grayson snuck behind Daddy and did it to his head and TC got the heebie-geebies lol
Grayson loves to wear Daddy's military hat :)
At the airport. He had tons of fun :)
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