Another Summer baby!

Now that I'm 12 weeks pregnant... I feel like I can finally announce it!  Grant has waited a long time for his "baby."  He already (pretends) to take the baby out of my stomach and carefully hold him in one hand.  Then he feeds him and plays with him and last night he accidently left him on the floor and stepped on him.  But after that, he lovingly put him back to "finish cooking."  I am saying "HE" because that is my assumption.  75% of all Monahan's born are boys and I'm just not sure how to picture a girl.  But next month we'll know if I'm wrong or right.  Grant's birthday is June 18th.  I'm due sometime between the 20th and 24th.  But...  I have been known grow them big, so this time I may ask to be induced.  Sorry, Grant.  You may end up sharing your 3rd birthday!

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Thanksgiving pictures for all to enjoy...

Hello, Woody!

This is how our Halloween started... Grant took a late nap and we had to wake him up to get ready and go get candy!! He was crying about getting ready, and we said, "Don't you want to get dressed up as Woody??" "No!" "Well, too bad!" We basically made him get dressed and then posed him for some photos.

There's the Woody we want to see!

We took Grant to a few neighbors and he was in heaven. He kept trading his candy... he thought he had to give a piece to get a piece. That's what we get for teaching him about fairness and sharing. He ate a piece of candy between each stop.

Our neighbors put on a fun party for their daughter's birthday. Grant loved it. We hit a party, a trunk or treat and trick or treating. What a fun night!

Lake Powell Triathlon

Will competed in his first Olympic distance Triathlon 2 weeks ago. 1 mile swim- 24 mile bike ride- 6mile run. He did amazing and met his goal time: 2:44! And he did all that as it was pouring down rain in Page, AZ. He's pretty hard core like that; just look at the group of swimmers in the 30-34 age category. He's one of 3 guys without a wet suit.

Transition to bike...

Will's second lap. Much of the course was uphill!

Still smiling as he started his run. At that point, I put the camera in my pocket and ran with him. No one kicked me off the course, so I stayed with him the whole time and made sure he didn't slack.

Here's the our group of friends who all finished. We had a blast and stayed on a house boat together. Most of them were first-timers and some are going to do another one. Will just signed up to do a half-ironman in March!

We took a boat ride through the canyons of Lake Powell. It was gorgeous, but the pictures don't quite do it justice.

The Science Museum

Last month, the AZ Science Center was offering free admission to the first 25 guests. Free? Of course we went. We showed up early and stayed until Grant had all the free fun he could have. This first picture didn't catch him smiling, but he loved being able to fly the air plane.

This is a giant stomach, in the exhibit "All About My Body." After learning how babies were made ;) I brought Grant over to this stomach and then died laughing when it let out a huge, frightening gurgle as soon as we stepped inside! I have never seen Grant run so fast! After I calmed down, I tried to make him go back in, promising the sounds were over. I saw this huge slide (the start of the colon...) and thought he would love it. So, he cautiously went back inside and as soon as he climbed the stairs to the slide, it made a giant fart sound! Well, I must be a bad mom cause I laughed even harder as Grant ran for his life. That exhibit ended in tears. But the fun part was to hide behind the wall and watch other kids getting scared out of their pants.

The vegetable garden was Grant's favorite exhibit. Who's kid is he anyway? He planted, harvested and even sold some of his veggies to other kids.

Since everything else was a little too much for Grant, he spent the rest of his time at the lego exhibit...

Just Grant

This guy is getting so big! I decided to take some amateur models photos of him while we were waiting to get into the Science Museum a few weeks ago. He was a good sport.