15 MONTHS (1/15/12)

Sorry folks.  All the pictures are first in this post.  I'm desperate to get it posted.  The facts are down at the bottom, and as always, already completely dated.  I WILL get the next one posted on time!!!!

Here's my 15 month old baby:

"Griffin, sit here and smile!"  (See above)  Story. of. my. life.  Right here.

Oh!  There it is !

We pull out pillows and my old home health blow up trampoline one night and G had a blast roughing around with his daddy!

Mickey Mouse is a good chillin' pal

This picture is symbolic.  We put our goldfish in a tank outside and put tropical fish  in G's tank.  He LOVES them.  And crazily enough, the goldfish are both still living in the tank outside, freezes and all.  Way to go, Howard and Leonard!

Isn't he a cutie!!  

Boo Boo loving having her two youngest babies in her lap...with a book....all is well

"You can't catch me!"

Griffin and Bonnie at their first stay - just the two of them - at Yogi and BooBoo's.  I think Griffin played the older cousin roll well, from what I hear. ;)

Griffin and Lucas - wishing they hadn't begged so much to go outside!  It was cold!

Mmmmm...Yogurt and bananas!

Griffin and Lucas on the morning Lucas flew back to Scotland

Isn't this hillarious!?  This is Griffin on the way home from church one Sunday.   Church completely wears him out .  It was like he was too tired to even close his eyes!

Cool dude with spiked hair....

Don't they look thrilled to be taking a picture? ;)

"eeeeeeeeesh!"

15 months:

STATS:
Size 7 shoe
size 4 diaper
18-24 month clothes
26.2 pounds - 50th percentile
33 1/8 inches tall - 95th percentile
head circumference - 90th percentile


--LOVES to play...Griffin is so active.  I know everyone says this about their little toddlers, but it is certainly true of mine.

--Griffin puts his face down in the water in the bathtub and blows bubbles

--He also likes to play the mommy-turns-the-drain-to-let-the-water-out-but-I’m-gonna-turn-it-back-game....It’s loads of fun. :)

--Griffin says: tch (touch), shoe, dog, duck, uh-oh, eeeesh (cheese), eeeeese (please), mamma, dada, fsh (fish).  I think he’s saying cat and juice, but not sure.  It’s not a lot of words, but he can identify TONS of stuff.  He has many, many different stuffed animals.  I play games with him and tell him the name of a stuffed animal.  Then hours later I say, “Go get Panda.” - and he does!  I love it!

--Griffin LOVES to play rough.  He loves to go fast.  He loves it when Chris wrestles with him and throws him around (on pillows, of course!)  Loves to turn himself upside down.

--He’s a climbing dude!

--Griffin has developed the skill of squeezing himself in to tiny places.  He loves to go sit in Ollee’s bed or get inside cooking pots and boxes.

--Griffin went to see ICE with his Nana and Papa and his cousin.  We had a really good time.  Griffin - we still cannot go anywhere without someone stopping and commenting on how completely beautiful you are.  It’s “those eyes” they say!

--Griffin had a lovely Christmas.  He got a roller coaster, a rock’n’roll Elmo, books, puzzles, movies, stuffed animals, and loads more.  What a blessed little guy!

--Griffin has perfected up and down the stairs on his FEET, with NO hands at Yogi and BooBoo’s house. 

--Griffin has graduated to a booster chair.  He completely looses it and throws fits when we sit him in his high chair.  He wants to be big and eat at the table with the rest of us instead of from a silly ol’ tray, I guess.  Anyway, life is getting much better with this dude in a booster chair instead of screaming in his high chair!

--Griffin has started wanting bigger pieces of things when he eats now, too.  He realizes that he’s got quite a good set of teeth and likes to bite off of large pieces instead of me cutting up smaller pieces....we’ll see how that goes....

--Griffin is still going to the library with Aunt Rachel and Jojo.  She says he loves it there and he’s starting to participate in the music parade they do after the puppet show each week!

--Griffin has started waving more often and blowing kisses.  He is still very picky about who receives them and often he will wave as soon as we turn around to go instead of waving at the person.  He’s quite the stinker.  (I wrote this in the middle of the month.  Just last Sunday he was waving to EVERYONE all during the sermon.  It was so funny.  We had people laughing at him all over!)

--It’s funny, because it seems he waves the most to strangers.  He will even wave and say “hi!” to a stranger, but hardly anyone we ask him to say hi to....

--Griffin understands SO MUCH of what we say.  A good friend of mine started saying that her little one started understanding so much about this age.  It’s really amazing!  We call Griffin’s blanket Bear and he will go get Bear when we ask him to.  He can go get cars when we ask him.  He can go sit in his chair when we ask...  He will give an item back to us if we ask.....most of the time. ;)

We love you G and treasure away all these special moments in our hearts!