Diamond Dung

So have I told you the story of how I lost one of my wedding rings?  Well let me start from the beginning.

My sweet husband bought me two wedding rings, one to go on either side of the engagement ring.  Why?  because I was a little brat and wanted them.  And he says he got a good dea.  I've loved them.  I think they are perfect.

In August, we went to Fossil Rim with BooBoo.  I knew I would be up close with giraffes and deer eating out of my hands, so I took off my rings and placed them safely in the cup holder of Griffin's car seat.  Why there?  Because if I had put them in my pocket, they may have slid out of it as I was moving across the seat from side to side to feed the animals as they came to the car.

Well, we got to a particularly popular spot for the animals and Griffin was fearless in sticking his hand out and feeding them.  I sat near the door, the food was in the middle seat, and Griffin's car seat sat empty on the other side.  See, in a drive through safari park, children do not have to ride in their carseats because the speed limit is ummm, 2 miles an hour, I think.  Griffin was sitting in my lap to feed the animals. He would get down, go to the feet bag in the middle seat and hop back up into my lap.

On one instance of him hopping back up into my lap, I noticed some quite beautiful feed in his hands headed for the window: My engagement ring (with Nana's diamond), and one of my wedding rings.   Aaaagh!  At some poing, Griffin had decided go all the way across the seat to his carseat cupholder for food. I jumped over to the seat to retrieve the other ring out of the cupholder and found nothing.  I searched the car, Griffin's hands and pockets....I was left believing Griffin must have fed my ring to:

Oh well, I guess.  There some diamond studded dung out there somewhere.....We did have fun and a ring is just a thing....

Thanks, BooBoo, for sharing your Fossil Rim pass with us!  We can't wait to go again!!

Griffin is 2 Years Old

My sweet boy is two.  Yep - I guess he might as well be in college.  Haha.  I know.  Just kidding.

I feel like he's doing so much now so I'll just point out the highlights:

- 37 inches tall, 98th percentile

- 31 pounds, 75th percentile

- if forgot his head circumference but it was in the 80th or so percentile

- diapers are size 4 and 5

- shoe size is 9.  That't right people.  9.

- clothes are 2T, except some pants are kinda short.

- Griffin loves to tell everyone and everything, "bye bye."  He sounds so twangy when he says it and he'll get right in your face.  He's in the habit of telling the door, the rocks, the grass, the car, everything "bye bye."

- Griffin can tell me pretty much whatever he needs.  It's really difficult for most other people to understand, but I know most of his words.

- Griffin is really funny about picking his clothes and his pajamas.  He's got quite the sense of style and will tell me, "I want shirt off/on." Or, "woo woo (firetruck) shirt, mommy, " etc.

- Griffin loves his shoes and boots, too.

- Griffin points out trees as "hi-ya biiiig"(big stick) often.  It's pretty funny.

- He knows most of his colors and gets them right most of the time.  He has absolutely no interest in numbers, still.

- He loves animals, too.  He can name all kinds of animals and their sounds.

- Griffin still likes to read.

- Griffin answers "two" when asked how old he is.

- He makes the biggest splashes in the bathtub.

- Griffin is an expert sneaker-upper.   He loves to tap someone and then run and hide.  It's really cute.

- Griffin likes to wash his hands

- Griffin can master most playground equipment independently.  He really has been able to for a while, I just couldn't back away.  So really, this is a mommy milestone. I've backed away, folks. :)

- Griffin is a very generous kisser. ;)

- Griffin said "love you mommy!"

- He still loves to color, play trains and or trucks, he's gotten in to play-doh thanks to my friend, Jamie's, suggestion, still like Pooh, Muppets, Backyardigans - oh - and the opening scene of The Lion King.

Hard at work in the car...

Eating a favorite snack of ice

If you look closely, you'll see the deer he's yelling at. :)

oh the trains....

play doh!

These next few are from his super cute Pooh birthday party that we had at my parents' house.  They have a spectacular yard with a great play set.  It was the Hundred Acre Woods. :)

climbing up all by himself!

BooBoo pushing and Yogi watching

You can't tell, but there's a mad game of Hundred Acre Woods poke going on at that table.  Complete with Orange Crush. :)

My mom ordered these super cute cupcakes and cake!  Aren't they great?

Griffin ate the ears off of Pooh first, then took the 2 and chowed down. :)

I think we have already read this book Big Green Monster, 50 times in the last week and a half. Thanks Wells Family!

another book!

The big surprise:  a Thomas train table from Nana and Papa, Yogi and BooBoo and Mommy and Daddy!  He. has. not. stopped. playing. with. it.

Griffin, we love you so much and think you have such a fun loving and rambunctious personality.  You are keenly observant both in sight and sound for a little guy and we can't wait to see how God will use you!

just me

So, is it okay to write a post with no pictures?  Just to log some feelings? Anyone?

Okay - here goes.

Whew!!  So, we moved.  If you don't know the whole story - that was sort of kept under wraps for a while, here goes:

Chris got a new job - a great, wonderful, exciting new job - that is part time.  Yep.  All the things that go along with part time work.  The good news is, he loves it, they love him, and we are praying (join us, won't you?) that this will be made into full time work (and pay) soon.

So - We loved our house in Cresson.  Love the house.  The location?  Well, we drove.  A lot.  And having an almost two year old, we learned that spending entire afternoons in the car just to run a few errands is not that fun.  So, we decided it couldn't hurt to put our house on the market, right?  Just to see what would happen?

In the mean time, a dear friend introduced us to a new little neighborhood in Fort Worth where we would be about as close to my work as we could be and NOT be in FWISD.  It is new homes, ONE-stories available (which I love) and in our price range.

This is getting crazy, right?  So, we gave it to God.  Chris and I held hands and prayed the night before we decided to put our house on the market and said, God if you want us to make this move, our house will sell for at least this ** amount.  If not, we'll walk away from this opportunity and keep our lovely home in Cresson.  And God, so we don't go crazy, if you want this to happen, sell it quick.

Next Day:  Sign goes up.  Family comes and looks.  Family makes an offer.  Three more families come and look in the next three days.  Two more offers.  Bidding war.  First family offers $1000 more than we were asking.  Wham Bam.  House under contract in FOUR days.

Whoa.  Got it, God.  You want us gone. :)

So, we were thinking about building, right?  So no house to live in once said house is sold...where will we live?  After apartment hunting and wondering and a few gray hairs, we were made an offer in Burleson.  We decided to live in a trailer there - the one my sister lived in for a while with great landlords.  It's awesome to be so close to Rachel and family - and Jodi and family.   There's still a creek, there are still lots of bugs, it's really not too bad.   We are projected a move again to our new home in January or February.

My sweet Griffin is finally getting adjusted to his new home.  Rachel so wisely said, "Now he'll be an ol' pro when it's time for you to move again!"  Ha, we can hope!

I turned 30.  Thirty.  I have so much to be thankful for as a thirty year old and I'm trying to dwell in that gratefulness.  There are some empty holes in my heart that continue to try and rain on my grateful places, but I mostly dwell in sunny, dry gratefulness.  Praise God.

Oh - and Chris kept a secret from me on my birthday!  He had a surprise gathering of my family - including his parents! - at BJ's on Saturday night.  It was a lovely end to a trying day with my little almost two year old.  Thanks everyone!

In other news, Griffin is a delight.  He's starting a new school again in a couple of weeks but this is the one right across the street from Cook's and I think it's gonna be great.  Hopefully no more jumping around for this little guy.

That's about all I can handle for now.  But these are all important life events that should be logged it this thing is gonna continue to be called a blog. :)