Thankful

I can't believe that it's already Thanksgiving! Time flies.

I have so much to be thankful for this year. I am healthy, my family is healthy, and this is the first year to spend the holidays with my precious baby boy. I have a job that pays the bills and a warm place to call home. My husband is so supportive and is a wonderful man of God. I have an amazing home church with spirit filled leaders. I'm so blessed and so grateful.

Eighth Month

I’m almost caught up!!



This month has been FULL of milestones!!
G is still in a size 3 diaper, but in 12 month clothes. Actually, there are some 18 month pjs he can wear. For example:

Name brand clothes always seem to run smaller.
I believe Griffin is around 21 pounds and 30ish inches. His 9 month check up is at the end of this month, so I’m excited to see his stats. I already know that he is a big guy!
Griffin has learned how to play peekaboo, blow air with his mouth, clap his hands, and today he started to cruise! Wow! I’m not ready for all of this!! He has been army crawling for a couple of months now, but he’s not up on all fours just yet. I’m just not ready for him to be cruising yet because that means he will probably be walking in a few months. He is already in to everything! He loves to play with wires. I hide them all, and he knows exactly where they are. I think he’s learning the meaning of “no” but he definitely doesn’t mind it yet!







I just die of the cuteness! My mom is getting to be an AMAZING photographer! I’m so grateful that she is catching all of the fun moments! For Griffin’s first Halloween, he dressed up as a lion! It was adorable. We didn’t go trick-or-treating though because we were at church. We did make a stop at Bran’s parents though. Maybe next year we will be able to go!

Griffin can pretty much go where ever he wants and gets into everything. This is how he uses his bouncer these days. I really need to pack it up with the rest of his baby things, but it’s nice to strap him in when we are trying to get ready in the morning. He will take his bottle while sitting there and watch Baby TV.
Griffin eats a container of baby food in the morning, afternoon, and sometimes two for dinner. He takes four to five 6 ounce bottles a day. We have started to give him more of our food. I can’t wait for the day I can stop buying baby food and formula!!
Personally, October has been much better! I’ve had a better attitude about my job and have learned how to juggle all of my different responsibilities. It’s not easy and there are a lot of things that don’t get done. But as long as Griffin is happy and taken care of and my husband feels loved and appreciated, then everything else will fall into place. My lesson plans are never written early. My house is never clean. There is always laundry to be done. But for now, that’s okay with me!
    
He’s my ray of sunshine!

Pumpkin Patch

I’ve wanted to go to the Pumpkin Patch FOREVER! I was so excited to take Griffin this year! Nana was excited. Drew was excited. Griffin and Audrey didn’t know any better. Kayla was not excited at all. It was definitely not her cup of tea.

I mean seriously…. That is precious!
We went to McKenna’s Family Farm in Branson. It had a corn maze, hay bale maze, face painting, a bump and jump, slides, and a hay ride. However, it was kinda small and dirty. Next year, I want to go to a better one especially since Griffin will be able to play more.
    
He did get to play around in a box of corn kernels. I was afraid he would try and eat them, and he did try. But I was fast and I think I caught him before they made it to his mouth!

Griffin kept pulling poor Audrey’s paci. She did NOT like her bare feet on the grass and dirt. She was ready to go just like her momma!

It was too hot this day. It would’ve been much better in cooler weather. Looking through the pictures makes me so sad…. Nana isn’t in a single one. I need some pictures of her and Griffin together. He and I will want those one day when he is grown!

Seventh Month

I’m really sad about this post. I didn’t write down his stats….
    
As you can see though, he’s still as cute as ever!

I believe her was around 19 pounds and 28 inches.
The big milestone this month…..

Griffin cut his first tooth! Actually, two teeth came in this month. Almost at the same time. Teething wasn’t terribly awful. However, at that time, Griffin also experienced his first double ear infection. That was HORRIBLE! It took us over three weeks to get him better. The doctor tried a round of amoxicillin first. After a few days on that and a temp over 102 during the weekend, we went back. G got a shot and a different antibiotic. After a week on that, we took him back. One ear was still infected. He took a z-pack and in five days, he was good as gold. On the other hand, his sleep schedule and eating schedule and any and every other schedule was completely screwed up. He is just now getting back in the swing of things.
   
This month, he started eating a container of food at lunch time. He wouldn’t take a bottle very often because of his teeth, so he ate more solids. We also started feeding him bites of our food. He LOVES it!

Meanwhile, my attitude was still stinky in September. I had good days, but a lot of bad. Going back to work was a MAJOR adjustment for me. Brandon and I got to take a little getaway though to Oklahoma to hear Dave Ramsey speak. It was awesome! G stayed with Nana. It was my first time to leave him overnight. I cried and cried that night, but it was good for me to get away with the hubs! We had a good time!

OH! This month a tree almost fell on our house too. Luckily, we had only minor damage. Thank you Lord for protecting us!!

Sixth Month

I’m so sad. I haven’t posted in ages.

Life is crazy. Crazy good!

Crazy amazing!

Not perfect. We’ve had our ups and downs.

But how can it not be awesome with this precious little one!
At six months, Griffin weighed 18 pounds and 13 ounces. He was 27 inches long. (75 percentile in height, weight, and head circumference). So blessed to have a healthy baby!!!
G was in 9 month clothes and a size 3 diaper. This month, we cut an inch of hair off the top of his head.
   
At six months, Griffin was a roly poly. He could get pretty much anywhere he wanted by rolling around. He ate a container of food in the morning and one in the evening. He drank five 6 ounce bottles and slept 10 hours a night (7pm – 5am).
This month was trying for me individually. I started back to work. I had so many new expectations on me with a new grade level, new curriculum, and new baby. It gave me a new attitude, which unfortunately wasn’t a very good one!! So basically, August was tough.