Summer is officially over and I have some favorite pictures of Griffin. Gotta put 'em somewhere where I'll find them!
Griffin also hit some major milestones this summer and our family did, too! We have been working really hard on the house. We moved Griffin's room to his "big boy" room as I showed in the last blog. Griffin is potty trained. We went on a lovely little family trip to San Antonio. And Griffin is really communicating with us well.
I'll put captions on the pics and then do other posts later:
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| A fun zoo trip with the cousins! |
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| We watered the flowers a lot! |
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| Dino World with BooBoo and guys! |
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| Play Doh! |
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| Fourth of July Parad with Daddy |
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| Griffin and his friend Charley... |
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| Getting brave and sliding down the BIG slide at the park |
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| Whoa.....black mail. |
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| Griffin and his girl friends at small group. He LOVED learning to play ring-around-the-rosie and still sings it all the time! |
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| Me and my G |
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| Saw the new baby at the zoo! |
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| "mommy! take aw pitt-yur." |
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| Making cookies for the girls at work... |
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| A poop train! Griffin started potty training on July 1st and pretty much had it down in 3 days, EXCEPT for the pooping. He got crazy poop anxiety and we could hardly get him to go in the potty! So...we literally potty TRAINED him. He started earining trains for pooping in the potty. Expensive, but it worked! |
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| Dino World with BooBoo |
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| Donuts, donuts, let's go get some donuts! |
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| Bathtime! |
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| Splash park with Charlotte |
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| I don't really know..... |
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| feeding the ducks |
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| My cutie patootie! |
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| Griffin and his daddy at the zoo |
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| Make believe....The Misty Island Tunnel.... |
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| BooBoo says griffin was standing there singing, "oh mc don-ahd have a fom, e-i-e-i-o." |
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| Griffin got to go eat lunch with DAddy at one of his work fund raisers and see the big trucks! |
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| Just thought this was funny. Griffin has started to want to take pictures of me. And most of the time when I go back and look on my phone to delete what he's taken, it's a bunch of pictures of concrete or grass. He actually got my face! We may have a photographer in training!! |
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| "coffee" and breakfast with Daddy at starbucks |
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| Butterfly garden at the San Antonio Zoo |
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| The biggest snake I've ever seen at the SA zoo.... |
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| my sweet little family of three |
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| the real us |
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| All of the above pics were in San Antonio. We had a fun little trip just taking Griffin to see things and trying to enjoy our time together. |
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| Griffin has become an expert climber. He can master all the ladders (even the not so ladderish ladders) at most parks. He climbs up this one at our park and it makes me crazy because it is so high! Chris is up there getting him down because I was panicking! |
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| Playing outside...playing with trains is about all we do... |
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| Oh. and play with bowls. |
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| Just because I hadn't taken a picture of my sleeping baby in a long, long, time.... |
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| Just a train ride with mommy in FW and Thomas came along. |
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| We played lots of roller coaster in the driveway this summer. Sometimes in our pajamas. Sometimes with "ear songs" on. |
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| Playing drums while daddy plays "antar" (guitar, just the "g" sound disappears somewhere...) |
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| Eating a delicious $4 cupcake that mommy's pregnant craving bought for both of us. Funny, how I haven't had that craving again.... |
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| Antoher poop train! |
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| and another! |
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| Does he get any cuter? |
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| yes. |
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| 28 ish week along...with proud big brother |
Sorry. Tons of pics. I just want this fun, fun summer with me working part time at least partially documented somewhere....
Griffin - You are worth making less money and staying home. You are worth me wanting to pull my hair out trying to figure out what works best to discipline you. You are worth every. single. grunt. your daddy has had to listen to for me to get in your forts and tunnels and chase you on the playground as my preggo-belly gets bigger. You are worth every single roll of paper towels I go through just cleaning your messes. You are worth the sun spots on my face spending time with you outside. You are worth all the books I'm reading trying to figure out how to - not tame, not control, not bridle, oh yes - positively direct your strong, strong, independent spirit. I have learned a TON from you this summer and enjoy listening every time I hear you sing Wheels on the Bus, Backyardigans, Jesus Loves Me, ABCs, and Shout Hallelujah. I love seeing your little hand raise up at church while we sing. I love how when you sing along to Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, you have a certain sound and hand motion for the background music throughout the song. (I have GOT to get a video of this.) I love how you have developed such compassion any time you hear me say "ow" or "ouch." I love how you pray for baby Asher to grow "bigga bigga." I love how much you love your trains. Each and every one is your little family of friends. I love how it takes us an entire 15 min to make a 5 min walk to the park because you look for a caterpillar and a bumble bee and a flower and the big dog and the little dog and the airplane and the helicopter and the moon that we sometimes see in the daytime and the tiny ants and the big rock and the "toe tweet" little bird....I love (though it makes me t-i-r-e-d) how you are constantly asking daddy or me to "chase me." I love YOU, Boogi. Thank you, God, for the gift of time to spend with this sweet one and a home to safely raise him in. And I pray the prayer that Griffin prays every night, for him grow strong and smart and brave - and to call his momma every day. :)
