Playtime at the Park

We took advantage of the nice weather this weekend with a trip to the park. Griffin is becoming fearless and wants to do everything by himself. He climbs up the stairs and goes down the slide by himself. We're excited he's growing so fast but it makes mom a little nervous.

Museum Fun

Griffin loves the Museum of Life & Science and we made a trip there this weekend to let him play and see the animals. There are so many things to see and do we know we will spend several hours there walking around.

1st day of Pre-School

The first day of pre-school is here. Everyone was up bright and early this morning ready for a new school year to begin. Griffin shed a few tears, but had a great day overall.

Just woke up and not ready for pictures yet

Getting ready to go to school!

Fun with Family

This weekend Griffin got to play with his cousins. We met at the mall for a lunch date and shopping trip. 

Bring on the Pink

Finding out the sex of our baby is obviously one of the most exciting parts of pregnancy. The baby was moving for most of the scan, but managed to slow down briefly enough to pose for a few pictures and most importantly to settle the debate - boy or girl. And just like that - we knew. We both thought it was a boy and to hear the doctor tell us it's a girl was a huge, exciting shock! We can't wait to welcome our daughter in February and we know Griffin will make a great big brother.

17 months

Griffin is 17 months old today ... we can't believe it. That just sounds so old! Our sweet boy is very talkative these days, energetic and full of life.

Griffin is saying so many new words like mama, dada, truck (duck), NO (which I hear a little too often), up, down, bye and hi. He also started telling Scott "bye dada" when he leaves the room. It's amazing how many phrases he understands and how much he is learning everyday.

We've been working on learning our body parts. He's learned nose, ears, teeth, toes, belly button and eyes. Griffin likes to point them out and then find them on mama and dada too. He also likes to find the body parts on his stuffed animals.

Griffin really started becoming interested in his stuffed animals. He takes them with him everywhere he goes, even just walking through the house. He loves sleeping with them at night and if he spots one in the store - watch out - we will be going home with it.

He claps when he does something he likes and on the other hand will have a tantrum if he doesn't get his way. This is an interesting stage as we try to help him work through his frustration.

Griffin still loves being outside and he prefers to run instead of walk. He takes lots of mini steps at record speed.

So busy he rarely has time to look at the camera

Ignoring the camera on purpose :)

Celebrating Daddy's birthday

His new favorite food - deviled eggs

Proud of himself for climbing in the chair

Having fun at school

13 weeks

The first trimester is coming to an end and the baby is growing as expected. I had an ultrasound today and it was wonderful to see the baby moving around. Here are a few pictures of our sweet baby.