our vacation!!

It's hard to believe our vacation is more than half over!! arghhh!!! We've been having a blast. Here's a few pictures of what we've been up to.



Here's grey riding on the plane for the first time. He was great, but ordered a ton of stuff from the skymall catalog! silly
Grey loves the water!!! here he is with me at a water park.


All's he needs is a bucket of water and he's happy. He kinda likes the taste of saltwater too :)goof

I warned everyone that a flea market wasn't the greatest idea...i still bought a $3 hat and pair of sunglasses for Grey.

Grey found an Easter egg Sunday morning!

The funniest thing...The first couple times we took G down to the ocean his eyes got really heavy and rested his head on my shoulder... I was wondering why is this kid tired now? Then I recalled his sound machine that he falls asleep to almost every night is the OCEAN!!! makes sense that he would get sleepy.






Grey and I boogie boarding!!!

We've been having a blast, wish it wouldn't end!

love to all,

the Gibbs'

Some pictures...

Grey and I have been LOVING the weather that we have had here this past week. We have been spending LOTS of time outside and he has been enjoying every second! Here are a few of the MANY pictures that I have taken. It's hard to resist a cute little boy with rosy cheeks!








Couldn't go without a few rounds of "peek-a-boo"








He hasn't used a pacifier since he was about 4 weeks old. I found one this week while I was unpacking the last of his room and he was very curious about it...

Springtime

Believe it or not the weather here in Michigan is finally beginning to look like spring. And to celebrate Grey's been playin. inside and out!




hahaha, Grey's trying to make the same face as his truck :)

So friday morning we are off to Florida!!!
SPRING BREAK BABY!!!

We are all looking forward to taking some time off and just relaxing...ahhhh I can picture the beach right now. Hope Grey likes the beach, oh and airplanes :)

We'll be sure to post plenty of pics while on vacation. check back to see how vacation goes.

love to all,

the Gibbs'

the move in

It's been a while since we've updated and a big reason for that is that we have been in the process of moving!!! Remember a few months back when we posted about how we incredibly sold our house in 4 days...we'll since then we found, closed and have moved into our new home!

Here's grey helping load things up.



We've been in our house for almost 2 weeks now and its starting to feel like home. At first we kinda felt like visitors in a new place. But as we started to unpack and get our own stuff in place, it quickly turned into home. :) We are very excited and blessed to have found such a perfect place for our family.

within A few days we had a swing up for Grey and he has been obsessed ever since. snow or sun, this kid loves to swing!!!




Grey has adjusted well to the new place. Here he is doing what he does...playing and stuff.



So things are going well at the Gibbs house (the new one) and we are all very excited for spring!
oh yeah, i had a birthday thrown in there too...29, here's to the last year of my twenties!!!

Grey and the Birthday boy.

love to all,

Andy, Leigh, Grey

revision free

The other day Leigh asked me what the date was (we both lose track of days amongst the chaos of our lives right now) and I glanced at my phone and said it was the 5th of March. She say's "wow it's been a year since Grey had his shunt surgery."

I responded by thinking the same thing...Wow it's been a year already. A year with no revisions, complications, or emergency visits to the doctor. Oh, make no mistake there were plenty of those "Do you think it's his shunt" moments sprinkled throughout the year, but thankfully it never was. I pray every day his shunt will keep working like it is.

I'm not much for taking stock in statistics, especially after Grey was that 1 baby out of 1,000 that is born with spina bifida. Nope, Grey's not a stat or a percentage. Anyway, I do remember our neurosurgeon say something like 50% of kids with shunts need a revisions the first year.

Thata Boy GREY!!!

Here's to many, many more revision-free years!

This is Grey looking and being smart. :)

love to all,

Andy

Dear (Jet's) Nina,

Thank you VERY much!! :)




Love,
Grey