Ami and Her Cleverness

Ami:  What's the biggest light?
Me:  I don't know.
Ami:  The sun!

Duh, mom!!  That is one bright kid I have.

Isaac @ 5 Months

I had this cute video where Isaac is laughing that I wanted to put up, but for whatever reason the audio isn't working.  Darn it!!  But here's a picture instead of him looking all grown up and this was a month ago!!  It's not the best quality since it is a phone pic.  

Last week I took Isaac to the doctor for his 4 month check up.  Yeah, yeah I'm only a month late.  He weighs 15lbs 4oz.   And is 26 inches long.  He is doing great and is overall a pretty happy baby.  Today has been a little trying.  Sundays always are with little ones.  Typically he is soooo sweet I just want to eat'em up.

Some Tidbits

I'm not sure how time passes by so quickly.  The saying that "the days are long but the weeks are short" holds true in our house.  

The picture on the left Isaac is 3 days old and on the right is about a week ago, so 4.5 months.  It's always fun to go back and look at what the kids use to look like.  At that moment in the pic you thought they were the most adorable creature and then later they sort of look a little goofy, still cute. : )

I can't believe he started rolling over 3-4 weeks ago.  Funny how for the first child you have a post specifically for such an event, you know the time, date, place.  The third, who pays attention to details.  As long as they eventually become a productive member of society who cares how they go there, right?  Really there is some guilt in me of not documenting my boys' milestones as well as I did Ami's.    

This is Spiderman, not Eli!  He loves this shirt and I can barely get it off long enough to wash it.  One of the older boys at church showed him how to use his web.  At first he wasn't coordinated enough to hold his middle fingers down with his thumb and would say, "help me."  And if you try to use your web and you don't have the Spiderman hat (he occasionally loans it out) on he tells you, "you aren't Spiderman."  You must have some Spiderman attire on!

Matchy Matchy Jammies

Ami is always wanting to help Isaac.  At first she would drag him around in his bouncer wherever she went.  One day I found her in the bathroom with him along side her.  She didn't want to take her eyes off him.   

The kids got a REAL treat this year.  They got to go to two trunk or treats and trick or treating.  Ami decided  she would be a witch this year and use the costume Grama made for her last year.  Luckily Ami's sunbeam teacher (pictured above) was gracious enough to help with the kids at our trunk or treat, since I was in charge of the food and kitchen clean up.  

3 Little Piggy Opera

Ok, so this is a proud moment for me for two reasons.  One Ami appeared in her first play ever.  She was the cutest piggy.  One of the ladies in our ward decided to put together this little show with the kids just because she wanted to.  It was really fun to see Ami "perform."  A lot of times she is really reserved when you catch her dancing around.

And the second reason I'm proud is I figured out how to make a movie, albeit not the greatest and post it on here all WITHOUT the help of Scott.

YAY, for first!

Two months later and I will pick up where Scott let off.  This time around it was all natural!!  We arrived at the hospital after a day of contractions.  We were there less than a hour and Isaac was born.  It was so quick there wasn't time for them to hook up an IV or any of the other crap they typically do.  It was AWESOME, I highly recommend it!!

Overall, he has been a good baby.  There were a couple weeks that his napping during the day was a little frustrating.  It went with a whole lot of rocking and short naps.  It seems like things have gotten better this week.  I'm not as frustrated and feel like I'm being productive in other ways besides meeting my kids needs.  Becky has gotten here groove back!

Lots of time has been spent with family this summer.  Grandmas came and went.  And then we had a mini Griffin Reunion with all Scotts' siblings and kids.  Shortly after Scott had a conference in SLC and the kids were able to hang with Grama, Grampa, and Ryan.  The summer has went by too fast.  Scott will be starting seminary next week and a new semester of school the following one.  He is half way done!!  He's hoping to take the kids camping next weekend.  The only chance this summer.

I'll post pictures later.

    

Isaac Ryan has Arrived

I'll let Becky post the whole story later, but it went very quickly. We were in the hospital less than an hour before he was born. Isaac arrived at 6:30, weighs 8 pounds 12 ounces, is 21.5 inches, and is doing fantastic.

It's Been Way Too Long

What has happened over the past four months?

Ami turned four!!  Her only request was a yellow cake and a party with her friends.

Ami is very excited about letters and is always asking how to spell words.  Below one of the words is "Expedition."  It's not perfect but it is fun to watch her learn to put things together.

Scott, the kids, and Grampa worked hard on the yard and it has paid off.  We now have grass to run and roll around on.  Luckily I just had to keep everybody fed and hydrated.  (One of the benefits of being pregnant or having an awesome husband and family!)

The kids love going to the park any chance they get.  On this day it was particularly fun to have Dad with us.  You can see that we have quite the monkeys.

Last but not least we are starting a business with Grama.  A lot of energy and time has been going to working on this.  We will soon be entering a beta phase with quilt designers and retail stores.  It's exciting to think where this might go.

Finally, we are in anticipation of our little Isaac Ryan arriving in the next couple weeks.  Last night I had a few hours of false labor.  It got me moving enough to pull out the stuff I need for my hospital bag.  With each child urgency has become less.  This is 38 weeks.

And that is all folks!!

It's a Boy!

We had an ultrasound yesterday and confirmed that we are having another little boy (I think we both suspected it would be a boy)! Ami was extremely disappointed as, "We already have a little brother." Then we told her that we are planning on naming him Isaac Ryan and she perked up, "We are going to have a Ryan?!?" So I think she will adjust. Eli on the other hand has no interest in having a younger sibling, regardless of the sex.  He enjoys his status as momma's little boy.

Isaac was extremely cooperative with the ultrasound tech. She was able to get pictures of everything relatively quickly. Posted below are the first head shots of our little boy:

Eli Turned Two!!

Eli turned two over a week ago. I think we are in trouble. I look back at videos of Ami and he is well past where she was at this age, because of watching her. He has his sweet side to. He comes up to me and hugs me and says "Wuve". If you can't tell from his pj shirt and train set he LOVES trains. Anytime he sees this shirt he wants to wear it, so on his birthday he wore it as a shirt. I love this guy!!

Quotations

I ran into a couple of quotations in an article by George F. Will that I thought were fantastic.

Hence our exceptional Constitution, which says not what government must do for Americans but what it cannot do to them. Americans are exceptionally committed to limited government because they are exceptionally confident of social mobility through personal striving.

Just thought I'd share.