Seven Years!

Today Carl and I are celebrating our 7 year anniversary! I am so thankful for my sweet husband...he is my best friend, my protector, my love. The past seven years have flown by, they've been full of ups and downs, but through it all we've stood side by side while we celebrated or cried. There is no one I'd rather do this life with; I am eternally greatful that God gave me Carl. As we celebrate today we look back at where we thought we'd be today, where we are now, and where we think we'll be in another seven years.

We watched our wedding video tonight, which we haven't watched since shortly after the wedding...wow, it was fun to watch and think back on that amazing day! It was so great to see all of the special people in our lives and to see everyone so happy! It was the start of us and a day I will never forget! Thank you to all of you that were there with us that day, we look back fondly on those memories and cherish them forever!

Happy Anniversary Baby...here's to many more!

BIG Day!

Today is a big day here at our house...Isaac wore underwear all day, for the first time, and stayed dry all day! I'm so proud of my big guy! He was thrilled to wear his underwear instead of a diaper, and he did great!

Thanksgiving

Dinner!

Our first Turkey!

He loves his Tante Soo Jin!

just finished his Thanksgiving dinner

My Turkey Boys

Gumby with his big boy.

Isaac taking a very short break to watch some football with Daddy.

Sweet Kacy

HAPPY THANKSGIVING to you all! This year we celebrated differently than we ever have, but it was so special! We actually hosted a dinner over here, for Carl's parents, his brother and girlfriend, and my sister. We split the cooking duties, which was a huge help for us, besides this way we had delicious food (if I had made it all we might have ended up eating Mac and Cheese or something...heehee). I am so thankful for Soo Jin and Catherine cooking so much to make the meal so yummy! Carl and I were in charge of the turkey, which made me a bit nervous...I've only cooked one before, in college and it wasn't anything to brag about. Carl and I worked together and the turkey was great! We didn't burn it, it wasn't frozen, and it was actually good!

We had a nice meal together and then we had a quick birthday celebration for me. Catherine made me a cake, so they sang to me and I got to blow out the candles. It was a special time. After the birthday celebration it was football time...UT versus A&M...thankfully for me the Aggies came out with the win this year! The Hendersons came over to watch the game with us, and the kids all had a great time together; they played hard! Isaac finally crashed at 10:00! (On a side note, Luke slept through most of the festivities...the meal and the game.)

I am so very thankful for my Lord, my precious family, sweet friends, and all of the many blessings in my life. I pray that you and yours had as great a Thanksgiving as we did!

6 months

6 month picture with the Cowboy Bear

Brothers (holding hands)

His first taste of vegetables (sweet potato)

My baby is 6 months old, half a year, really!?! Each month seems to go by faster than the last. He is really growing and changing, learning new things everyday, and very observant. He wants to be involved in everything going on around him, it seems to bother him that he can't play with the other kids he sees and that he can't eat the things we are eating. But he is trying his best to get himself involved in everything! Just today (11-12) he has started kind of crawling, an army type crawl. He made a few good attempts today that really got him moving. He is beginning to sit on his own now, too. You can kind of see that in his 6 month bear picture, he wouldn't lean back against the bed, he wanted to sit unassisted...like a big boy.

He has started eating solid foods, too. We began with sweet potatoes, which he thought were okay, but seemed to get better everyday we tried them. Then this week we added Butternut Squash, which he hated the first couple of days, he would barely open his mouth for it! Silly boy! He has started drinking water, and apparently he's been watching his big brother drink because he knew exactly what to do with the cup when we gave it to him.

He talks a lot, but is also very quiet and observant. My boy can giggle when tickled, gosh is he ticklish! I love tickling him and hearing that belly laugh! He is still a mama's boy, but is getting better at letting other people hold him. Luke really enjoys his exersaucer and hangs out in it during mealtimes, and many other times throughout the day. When he gets upset, he likes for me to sing to him, and it seems his favorite song is Wheels on the Bus. Isaac will sometimes sing to him, too, when he is crying.

He sleeps on his tummy, as soon as I lay him down (on his back) he immediately rolls to his belly. He still prefers to nap in his swing, although there have been some naps in his bed. His hair is starting to stand up straight, just like Isaac's did at this age...it is precious! Luke enjoys shopping with me, if I carry him in the Bjorn, not in the stroller. The boys have a lot of fun at the grocery store when I carry Luke and Isaac sits in the cart, they talk to each other, pull on each other, and Isaac tries to share his snacks with him. Eeek. They are happy while I shop, but I'm usually pretty worn out by the time we're done. Luke is following suit with the Griffin boys, he prefers to be outside! He rarely cries outside, and laughs so hard when he sees Isaac swing or jump on the trampoline. When I let him stand on my lap, he bounces and bounces and smiles and smiles. It is priceless!
He is growing, as I mentioned, but he is still my peanut. At his appointment he weighed in at 14.5 lbs and 26 inches. His weight is in the 5th percentile and height in the 35th!

Some funny things...

Isaac's language skills are improving daily, his sentences are becoming more complete and his words are more clear. He has also starting picking up on the things we say and is saying them to us. Here are some of the recent funnies:

• One morning he was pushing my buttons over and over, he was wearing me out, so I asked him, "Isaac what's going on with you today?" He immediately responded, "Isaac is having a rough day."
• Carl has been traveling a lot lately, and Isaac misses him terribly when he's gone (as do I). The day after one of his recent trips the boys and I went to run some errands, on the way home I told Isaac we had to go home because daddy was going to be home. He said to me, "That makes Isaac happy." (My heart melted.)
• He still sleeps in a crib, mostly because he does not sleep during nap time, but does stay in his bed and talk. So I am hesistant to put him in a toddler bed, I don't want to lose that down time. He recently climbed up on his bed and sat on the side. I, of course, got on to him and told him how dangerous that was. So now, almost daily, when I get him after "nap" time he says, "Thank you for not getting on top of the bed." Ha ha!
• He has started using the potty, and when he first started doing it he sometimes would sit on it, but nothing would come, so he'd say to me "Mama help Isaac."
• On Sunday he was happily running to me, but he tripped and fell, hitting his face on my knee. Ouch! He now has a black eye, poor guy, but he was tough about it. He doesn't even remember what happened, I think he was so tired he just forgot. Carl tells him he has a shiner...so today while at the doctor for a check up for Luke, he told the doctor, "Isaac has a shiner." The doctor asked him what happened, but he couldn't answer.
• When lifting something heavy he always says, "This HEAvy!!!" Of course he strains while picking it up, too.
• He went with Carl and Gumby to the property this past weekend, but before going he told Carl that he was going to the country to look at trees. Not sure where that came from, he's never been there. He was right though, they did look at trees.
• Yesterday Carl and I were looking online at a ride on tractor toy for the boys for Christmas. Isaac saw the pictures and got really excited...he said, "Boy get off! Isaac drive tractor!!!"

I know there have been so many more things, but I can't remember them all, so that's just a few. I love listening to things he says because it gives me insight into what he is thinking...such a fun age and a great mind!

Victorious Day

Saturday (Oct. 30, 2010) was a big day here at the Griffin house...we celebrated 3 major victories.


1. A&M beat Texas Tech!

2. BAYLOR UNIVERSITY beat Texas! Sic 'em Bears!!!

3. Isaac pee peed on the potty for the first time! He's been trying for months, but has never been able to get any pee out. Well, Saturday night before bath time I put him on the potty becasue he'd been dry for a long time...and immediately he started! Yay!!! He was excited, and we were so proud of him! (And he did it for second time tonight, again before bath time...yay!)

Happy Halloween!

Daddy with Luke on his First Halloween!

My Sweet Boys

My Little Pumpkin

Playing on Daddy's Doo Wa Doo (aka Trailer).

Thankfully the Jeep got some use during the fun.

A special thanks to Gumby, he and Emmy stayed at the house to pass out candy.

All of the kids ready to trick or treat!

Cousins, plus Isaac's BFF

Me and my boys on the hayride (Daddy was driving)

Cameron, Leah, and Amber

Dana and Hudson on the hayride

Aw, sweet friends.

"Trick or Treat!"

Kristin, Taylor, me, and Isaac after trick or treating

Mama and Daddy with our UPS man and his special delivery package.

We had a super fun Halloween! I wasn't sure what to expect from Isaac...would he have fun, would he understand, would he care, would he be scared? These questions all ran through my head beforehand, while hoping for the best. I was pleasantly suprised, he really enjoyed it, and definitely got into it. He said, "Trick or Treat!" or "Happy Halloween!" at every house, and finished with, "Thank you!" (sometimes he had to be reminded, but he tried).

We really like Halloween in our neighborhood, everyone gets really into it, and the streets are packed with people...so we decided since we were staying here and we knew it would be fun, why not invite some friends over and have a hayride to trick or treat. Everyone came over early, we had some pizza, then let the kids play outside a while, and headed out just as it was getting dark (7:00ish). Isaac and Hudson, one of Isaac's friends, were very into the trailer, they enjoyed going to the door, but quickly asked to get back on the trailer, such boys! Luke went along for the hayride, and did awesome! It was way past his bedtime, but he didn't mind, he loved being outside and seeing all the people. One house had a haunted house set up, obviously I didn't go in it, but some of the other kids did and said it was pretty scary. I was really impressed by how much the neighborhood gets into the spirit of things, and the amount of people out trick or treating was almost overwhelming. Thankfully we didn't see many scary costumes, so none of the kids were frightened. We stayed out for about an hour, and came home with many excited, but sleepy kids. Everyone headed home after that, and we turned out the lights. It was a fun start to our days of trick or treating with the boys!

P.S. Luckily Isaac did not remember a thing about getting candy at every house, so I don't have to worry about him begging me for it. =)