Yummy For My Tummy!

Yea! Griffin likes Sweet potatoes! I am so excited. I absolutely love these messy face pictures! They are so much fun!

Baby Canfeild

We had a nice surprise! Catherine Canfeild joined the world Wed August 22nd weighing 7lbs 8oz and 20inches long. Isn't she beautiful? She looks like a Catherine!

Proud mommy and daddy! Congrats!

Say a little prayer

We have had two very busy weekends! We are trying to sell our home and have had open houses Sat and Sun. Wow, it is so hard to try and take care of Griffin and keep a spotless house! No offers yet but have had several prospects! So everyone say a little prayer!
The next three weekends will be packed with fun events so I am ready to post some fun pics.

6 mo check up

Griffin had his 6mo. check up today.
Everything went terrific! He is now 16.3 lbs and is 26 inches long!
He received a book from Dr. Whitehead and it went straight to the mouth.
He is definitely teething. Poor guy. He just now liking his pacifier. I think he likes the way it feels on his gums where the teeth are trying to come in.
Over all we are so proud of our growing little one.
We love you so much!

No More Peas Please!

Well today was the firs time Griffin got to taste baby food. I don't think he liked the green peas.
Just a guess by all the silly faces I received while feeding him. Take a look I hope you will enjoy them as much as I did.

I think we will try some sweet potatoes next. We will see if he likes any veggies. I hope he will be a good eater!

Parent Time

Saturday Night we had the best time! We invited Jennie and Brian over for a dinner date. They got to meet Griffin and We had the best Salmon prepared from my very own personal sexy chef John Van! We all got to have great adult conversations and learned that we have a fatastic loving new couple to hang out in our home town! Jennie is due in just two weeks! We can't wait to meet Evelyn and I know her little sister Carlisle is ready too! Thanks you two we had a wonderful time and can't wait till our next date!

Happy 6 months

I can't believe you are 6 months old today! Here are your new changes

You love to gibber all the time. You are very vocal but it's a sweet sweet vocal. You stop everyone with this gibber. It is the sweetest thing. People are so amazed at how you love to talk and flirt!

You love to reach for everything. Especially if it's in mommy's hands. My drink, the phone etc.

You can feed yourself but mommy still loves to hold you and cuddle when you eat.

Your bottom two teeth are breaking the skin. Which makes me very excited! Now I can clean them!

You love your bath time and are trying to crawl but only in the bath not on land. Maybe you will be an excellent swimmer!

All these changes are so sweet. Each of them we will treasure! I love you so much!
Love mommy and Daddy!

Congrats Robi!

Griffin and I went to visit a very special friend at the Hospital! She just had a little girl Alivia Todd. We are so excited for your new little one! We will be praying for her strength and that she will be able to come home next week! Griffin had a great time and you look terrific! You would never of known this was your 4th! Please give her kisses from us! We will come and visit real soon!

Griffin's Special Day

Today was Griffin's Baptism. We were so excited and it was the most amazing experience!
We received a book prior to his Baptism that focused on the meaning of infant Baptism. It was such an eye opener. We learned that infant baptism was a promise to our church that we would try to give our little boy the best Christian home possible. Which is going to be our number one goal. These are some of his cute Pictures from his Important Day!

The service was so sweet! Griffin did great didn't cry at all! His parents did enough of that for him! My favorite part that always gets me is when they walk him up the isle singing Jesus Loves me! Tear jerker!

Love Love Love to the little baby boy!

Nana holding both of her grands

Great Great Aunt Jean feeding Griffin. Boy was he hungry

Noah one of Griffin's best buds!

And his beautiful mommy Crissy

Aunt Shey and Cousin Foster!

Leigh came to see me too!

Thanks Dee and Pops for making my day special! Thanks for all the yummy food and for offering your home to all the people who came to see me!

You guys are the best!

Also a special Thanks to everyone else who came and I didn't get pictures of. It is a truly wonderful feeling to see so much love given our son. All of your friendships mean so much!

We are going to try and bring Griffin up in a loving Christian home and it will be a lot easier with friends and family like you!

Miniture JV

This is a picture of John Van when he was 4mo old. This is a picture of Griffin now. Everyone asks who does he look like. What do y'all think?

Quick Trip

Saturday Tara and Jayce decided to have one last summer pool party before she had to start back at work. Grifffn and I only could stay for a little while due to such a busy weekend. I thought it wouldn't be far to put him in the pool for a little while and take him back out.
I love this picture! If you double click you can see I'm trying to hide behind Griffin. We were wanting a picture of just the kids. We had such a great time! We promise to stay longer next time!
Sarting left to right is Jackson, Claudia, Griffin, Jayce (back row) Then in the pool is Peyton and Caleb.
THANKS AGAIN!
a note from Griffin to Jayce: " Thanks for having us. I really think it is so cool how you jump in the pool all by yourself with no floaties! Maybe I will be swimming by next summer! I had fun!

Sweet Visits

We had a surprise visit from Rita, Catherine and Matthew (still in Catherine's belly!)

It was so good to see you! Thanks for letting me rub on your prego belly! That is one of my favorite things to do. I miss rubbing mine! Thanks for the sweet visit. Griffin sends his love too!

Love Letter for Griffin

Dear Griffin,

You are still growing so much. People told me that your life would flash before me and it has. I am hoping that this blog will help me to remember when I go and check on you in the middle of the night and you are as long as your daddy. Yes, I will still check on you! You will always always be my sweet baby boy!
Here are some of your cute little changes:
You are now feeding yourself which helps mommy out a whole bunch but kills her heart because your getting so independent.
You love to babble all day. You are such a happy baby everyone you are around you smile at!
You still love to sleep yeah!
You reach for everything! My favorite is when you gently reach up for faces. I know it's your little way of saying you love that person.
I think you will get teeth any day now. You suck on your lower lip all day long ,which by the way is the cutest little face. Maybe I can get a picture of this before you stop.
You are finally out of your swaddle at night! We are so proud of you and it was an easy transition! We thought you would start waking up in the middle of the night crying for it but surprise you didn't!
You are still on breast milk with a little of cereal at night but 6mo is this month so here comes the fun fun baby food! Mommy can't wait. She loves to get messy!
All my Love Mommy!

So much fun!

Nana Jan and Papa John sent Griffin Gifts! Griffin wanted to Thank you for his glow worm which lights up and sings and his huge teddy bear with the cute mushy belly! We thank you for the college fund money! He will surely thank you guys later! We miss you guys so much and can't wait till your next visit! Lots of love Griffin Amy and JV.

1-2-3 Squeeze!!

I have to do these at least once a day! I just can't get enough of his cheeks!