Here is how the McGraw boys spend most of their time. Feel free to share a smile!
Video from various months
Friday, September 18, 2009
How They Do...
Here is how the McGraw boys spend most of their time. Feel free to share a smile!
Video from various months
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Family Time
The McGraws enjoy some quality moments with dinner-picnic and play time on a Friday evening.
Pictures from 09.11.09 - Jameson in green, Joseph in orange
Friday, September 11, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
G-parents, Germs, and Wii
I really wish they would have called it "The SuperCity." Why my affection for the five cities labeled "Quad Cities?" The people! Specifically, our amazing families! Katie and I had a wonderful visit this past Labor Day weekend with our families. We arrived Saturday and enjoyed some Hungry Hobo while admiring Dave's new Nintendo Wii. After a late-night schooling by Dave in a "skins" match on Tiger Woods 10, I headed off to bed for a full Sunday. The next morning came with a beautiful morning run, and then the McGraws enjoyed some time at the Rock Island Postal Worker's picnic. The boys each got a prize (a Mr. Potato head and some classical singing character) and were able to crawl around during the beautiful day. Next, we spent some fantastic time at the Hughes' playing games and enjoying company. The boys enjoyed some more fresh air while cousin Kevin did a fantastic time watching over them, pulling them up and down the driveway, giving them leaves to play with, and picking up the items they would consistently throw out of the wagon (a never ending game - as you can imagine).
The only downfall? A nasty head cold that successfully moved from Jameson to Joseph over the course of the three days. Curses!
None the less, we can't thank everyone enough - we are truly blessed beyond our means for those in our lives. We miss and love you all!
The only downfall? A nasty head cold that successfully moved from Jameson to Joseph over the course of the three days. Curses!
None the less, we can't thank everyone enough - we are truly blessed beyond our means for those in our lives. We miss and love you all!
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
A McGraw Boy's First
...and not a fun "first." The boys love to get up on two legs now and explore their surroundings. They will hold on to your leg, hand, the coffee table, chairs, walls, each other, and examine everything around them. Their curiosity is only natural, but sometimes it can become stressful for Katie and I because they begin exploring areas that are not suited for their 14-month old bodies.
Enter the fireplace.
Katie, in her ingenuity and foresight, created a "safety pad" to cover our fireplace hearth - which is made of bricks and a stone ledge. The padding provided the boys some safety from crawling, falling, and rolling into the hearth. That is, until they began to stand against it and pull it down.
Enter our scene: Last Saturday evening.
Joseph and Jameson, having come home from Mass, enjoy some playtime in the basement. Katie, in her infinite kindness, offers to get dinner for the two of us. Daddy notices that the boys have pulled themselves up on the hearth's pad. Being such a good Daddy, he says, "No." to which the boys stare at him - Joseph might have smiled. Fast forward a couple of minutes...
The boys are back at the hearth and Joseph has managed to pull the pad up a little bit. Daddy removes Joseph from the hearth, not realizing that the safety pad is no longer sitting securely on it. Jameson, who is now standing against the hearth, begins waddling down the side of it. Jameson then proceeds to put his hand on part of the pad - that does not have the hearth underneath it, providing it support. Safety pad slides out, stone edge exposed, baby falls down. Daddy just catches out of the corner of his eye Jameson turning in mid-fall landing on the carpet. Daddy: "Oh, crap."
Daddy runs over to a crying Jameson and notices red on his lip. Daddy is no dummy. Jameson has split his lip open. Daddy, with a bleeding baby in his arms, gets some towels to stop the bleeding, which amazingly calms down the once bleeding baby. Joseph, who has witnessed a bleeding brother and a frantic Daddy running up and down the stairs, is now very upset. This upsets Jameson, too. Daddy needs to call Mommy.
Daddy doesn't want to alarm Mommy, so he talks calmly into the phone. All Mommy hears are screaming babies. Daddy: "Oh, crud." Mommy gets home, and the McGraw family packs into the car and heads to the ER. Both babies act like perfect angels while we wait there for over TWO and a HALF hours (WELL past their bedtime)! Jameson is being his regular old self, which relieves a still shaken Daddy, who still has to help hold James down for the stitches. Isn't it great that through all of this trauma, Jameson will remember seeing Daddy's smiling, reassuring mug looking down at him the entire time!?
Scene: 10:00pm, McGraw household.
A weary Joseph is sound asleep in his crib. A fat-lipped, numbed, receiver of 4 new stitches Jameson sleeps soundly in his crib. A weary, numbed Mommy and Daddy look at each other...
Curtain closes.
Enter the fireplace.
Katie, in her ingenuity and foresight, created a "safety pad" to cover our fireplace hearth - which is made of bricks and a stone ledge. The padding provided the boys some safety from crawling, falling, and rolling into the hearth. That is, until they began to stand against it and pull it down.
Enter our scene: Last Saturday evening.
Joseph and Jameson, having come home from Mass, enjoy some playtime in the basement. Katie, in her infinite kindness, offers to get dinner for the two of us. Daddy notices that the boys have pulled themselves up on the hearth's pad. Being such a good Daddy, he says, "No." to which the boys stare at him - Joseph might have smiled. Fast forward a couple of minutes...
The boys are back at the hearth and Joseph has managed to pull the pad up a little bit. Daddy removes Joseph from the hearth, not realizing that the safety pad is no longer sitting securely on it. Jameson, who is now standing against the hearth, begins waddling down the side of it. Jameson then proceeds to put his hand on part of the pad - that does not have the hearth underneath it, providing it support. Safety pad slides out, stone edge exposed, baby falls down. Daddy just catches out of the corner of his eye Jameson turning in mid-fall landing on the carpet. Daddy: "Oh, crap."
Daddy runs over to a crying Jameson and notices red on his lip. Daddy is no dummy. Jameson has split his lip open. Daddy, with a bleeding baby in his arms, gets some towels to stop the bleeding, which amazingly calms down the once bleeding baby. Joseph, who has witnessed a bleeding brother and a frantic Daddy running up and down the stairs, is now very upset. This upsets Jameson, too. Daddy needs to call Mommy.
Daddy doesn't want to alarm Mommy, so he talks calmly into the phone. All Mommy hears are screaming babies. Daddy: "Oh, crud." Mommy gets home, and the McGraw family packs into the car and heads to the ER. Both babies act like perfect angels while we wait there for over TWO and a HALF hours (WELL past their bedtime)! Jameson is being his regular old self, which relieves a still shaken Daddy, who still has to help hold James down for the stitches. Isn't it great that through all of this trauma, Jameson will remember seeing Daddy's smiling, reassuring mug looking down at him the entire time!?
Scene: 10:00pm, McGraw household.
A weary Joseph is sound asleep in his crib. A fat-lipped, numbed, receiver of 4 new stitches Jameson sleeps soundly in his crib. A weary, numbed Mommy and Daddy look at each other...
Curtain closes.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Hey, Legs!
"These things could turn out to be useful someday..." Within the past month, Joseph and Jameson have made an amazing, life-changing discovery...their legs are not just good for putting on the table, splashing water, and drooling on - they are good for STANDING!
Jameson was the first to make this discovery by pushing off of Mommy's legs from a squatting position. Soon, he found that he didn't need a push, he could get up on his own! Joseph, in a clear fit of rage (kidding) then proceeded to push Jameson down each time James showed off his new found skill (not kidding).
Joseph recently realized that Jameson was not the only one blessed with this new amazing feat as he has begun pushing off of Mommy's legs (monkey see, monkey do) to try his luck at standing.
Obviously, Mommy and Daddy see the good/bad side of this. The good: watching the boys laugh and laugh as they stand, viewing the world on a whole new level and wavering back and forth from their new position. The bad: Standing = walking. Walking = faster mobility. Two faster, mobile babies + One Mommy = Look out, Daddy! Also on the bad side...(see next post)
Jameson was the first to make this discovery by pushing off of Mommy's legs from a squatting position. Soon, he found that he didn't need a push, he could get up on his own! Joseph, in a clear fit of rage (kidding) then proceeded to push Jameson down each time James showed off his new found skill (not kidding).
Joseph recently realized that Jameson was not the only one blessed with this new amazing feat as he has begun pushing off of Mommy's legs (monkey see, monkey do) to try his luck at standing.
Obviously, Mommy and Daddy see the good/bad side of this. The good: watching the boys laugh and laugh as they stand, viewing the world on a whole new level and wavering back and forth from their new position. The bad: Standing = walking. Walking = faster mobility. Two faster, mobile babies + One Mommy = Look out, Daddy! Also on the bad side...(see next post)
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