23 Months

I. can. not. be. lieve. this.

Seriously.  How did I get such a cute kid?!  And how did he get to be SOOO big!!??

My baby is 23 months old.  I cannot believe it - and at the same time I can.  He is totally a two year old.  I say this everytime, but Griffin is understanding so much and putting so much together.  It is so amazing to watch.

Since I wrote the last post so late, there’s not much that is really new.  Griffin wakes up and talks about his Lala (Yogi) most mornings these days.  When he sees a quarter, he puts it in his ear.  Thanks, Yogi. ;)

No, really.  Griffin dropped one of his quarters for Jesus at church a few weeks ago and went looking for it not on the floor, but in his ear.  Too, too cute.

Griffin has a love hate relationship with Ollee.  He tells her to “go home” but he is trying to play with her. In the evening when he watches TV, he tries to go sit by her and pet her.  She’s a little leery of him, but getting better.

Griffin loves to dot dot (draw on paper), look a books, play trains and trucks, loves animals, loves to ride on the lawn mower with Chris, loves to play hide and seek or “sneak up.”  He loves to help, too.  If I just at the word help to something, he usually will come do it when he wouldn’t before.  He has recently fallen in love with our neighbor's blue heeler, Nick, and 104 (okay, 8 years old.  but he moves like he is soooo old!) year old black lab, Bart.  He talks about them all the time and runs across our yard to go pet them when he sees them.  It's really sweet.

He puts two and three words together and occassionally says a whole sentence like “I want shirt off.”  He loves for me to roll the windows and sunroof down in the car.

Oh! and the deer.  We have few deer in our back yard, oh, ya know - every day.  And by few, I mean sever, eight, eleven.  Ha!  Griffin LOVES to go look at them.  We tell him “shhhh” and he says “shhhh” back and we go outside get a closer look.  Then Griffin takes off running and screaming “aaaaaaghhhhh.”  It’s so funny.  I think he must feel powerful that he can scare them all away.

Griffin says "hi" and waves "bye" to everyone and everyTHING.  It’s really sweet.  He sounds so Texan when he says “bye byeeeee.”

Griffin dear:  We love you so much and feel so blessed that you are the way we get to experience parenthood.  We would never trade you and we can’t wait to see what God has in store for your active, sweet, strong little personality. 

I know this pic looks like it's of me, but it's the only one of us together this month.

Mom.  Seriously.  This phone call is private.  (He is really talking to Chris on the phone there.)

He is trying to squish a grasshopper with his Hi-ya

"Bird"

Can you tell we had fun outside this day?  I took a ton of pics... sorry.

right before he fell....

I just think this picture is funny because my feet are in it. Ha!

My child will not be one of those kids who watches a movie with his mouth open. (?!)

This was taken on our first cool fall morning this season.

oreos?

Can you see the deer way back there to the left?

Chris sharing the oreos...

the goodbye kiss. (they'll hate this one day!)

By the way, he make sit to the top all. by. him. self.  It scares me so!!

I remember this day well.  We tried to play outside several times and he got bitten by aunts, fell and scraped his knee, and was sweating to death.  We finally took comfort in Winnie the Pooh.

His train at Yogi and BooBoo's.  I used to play with this toy!