Sunday, June 27, 2010

Griffith loves...

Being outside and going for walks in the stroller. He loves to look at the ground and watch it pass under his feet. He gets so excited when he hears the dogs barking on the other side of the fence. He loves the wind in his face. He loves to swing.

Reading stories. His favorite books are Moo, Baa, La La La and Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You? He gets a big smile on his face and listens intently every time I read them to him. He tries to make his own funny sounds along with Mr. Brown's sounds. He has recently started making a sound like a pigeon. It's pretty cute. He also loves Llama Llama Red Pajama. He likes to stare at the pictures while I read it to him.

Snuggling with anything that has any kind of string coming out of it. He wraps the strands around his thumb and inserts his thumb and hopefully some of the strands into his mouth. Including mommy's hair, mommy's pajama pants and sweatshirts, straps on his stroller, yarn on a blanket, laces on daddy's shoes, and much, much more. When it's time, I think he'll love spaghetti!

(He probably has a piece of my hair wrapped around his thumb in this picture. Gross, I know. But so cute too!)

Crawling around and around our recliner chasing Joel or being chased by him. He also loves to crawl through my legs to try and get my face. He also loves being carried upside down.

Swimming with mommy and daddy. He loves the water and tries to drink it.


Teeth. He likes to feel his own teeth and mommy and daddy's teeth as well.

The sound of coughing. Whether it's him or me, it really amuses him. Sometimes he will bust up laughing and other times he just gets a look of wonderment on his face.

Food. He prefers it cold no matter what it is. Makes life easy for me.

Chewing on cardboard. He has lots of access to it since we are using it as makeshift furniture in our temporary apartment. We finally resorted to wrapping our cardboard furniture in blankets to keep him from eating it.

Crawling and pulling himself up. He crawls everywhere and he is very fast. He is getting so brave pulling himself up and letting go with one hand. He's learned how to land more softly by squatting on the way to the floor.

Carrying things around in his mouth. In another life he may have been a puppy. His frog is his absolute favorite, but he'll bite onto anything and carry it around.

Taking his medicine. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but as soon as he sees that Tylenol bottle he opens his mouth right up in anticipation. He remembers how much he likes it even if he hasn't had it in a few weeks. He also loves his teething tablets. Just wait till the kid tastes candy...

Posing for the camera. He will sit up and get a cute grin on his face as soon as he hears the camera click. The only problem is that he also anticipates the flash. We get a lot of pictures that would have been cute if his eyes weren't closed!

Life. He is very curious and always has a look on his face like he is really thinking about something.

And we love him and everything about him!

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Kissin' Cousins


Since we are living in Texas we got to drive to Dallas to see my cousin Abby and her family. It was so nice to be able to visit her. We hadn't seen each other in over a year. That may not sound like a long time for cousins to go without seeing each other, but we grew up down the street from each other and we used to be able to count on seeing each other at most family/holiday gatherings. But, since we've both moved away from Idaho that's been harder to do. Anyway, it was fun to see her and stay in her cute house. Griffith got to meet some of his cousins for the first time there too. Ava (almost 3) and Charlotte (4 moths). Ava loved to "help" take care of Griffith and liked to call him the baby. She was very good at sharing with him. Charlotte is adorable and seemed so small next to Griffith, but I know only a few months ago he was her size. Griffith liked to look at her and grab her toes. I didn't get as many pictures as I planned on getting. Seems like it always works out that way, but here are the few that I did take.

I think this one is so sweet.