More Griffin-isms

In answer to requests he likes: "Yes, of course." This is said with a distinct lisp which makes it sound more like, "Yeth, of courth." So stinking cute.

In answer to requests he doesn't like something along the lines of "NO!" or "No it's NOT!" or "The answer says yes. The answer doesn't say no. The answer says yes." So frustrating but so cute. I usually end up laughing instead of staying mad.

Griffin also randomly will tell me, "I missed you today mom." Even if I've been home with him all day long. But it's okay because this is always followed by a hug and an "I love you." We must be doing something right:)

Sullivan's first tooth!

Sullivan's first tooth broke through his gums today. Poor baby has been pretty grumpy lately and has a rash on his face, I assume from the mass amounts of drool. Hoping for a better night tonight than last!

(It's his lower right one, in case you were wondering:)

Awesome

This morning, Ryan asked Griffin if he was awesome.

Griffin's response?

"NO! I'm NOT awesome. I'm Griffin!"

Yep, he's pretty awesome!

Tonight, while putting the boys to sleep, I started singing "You Are My Sunshine" which I don't sing very often. Griffin immediately stopped playing with his cars in the playroom and said, "Wow, Mom. That is a nice song!" and came into their room to listen to the rest.

That sure made me feel better than when he tells me to stop singing!

Nice pillow

Tonight Griffin woke up like usual, crying and looking for me and I did what I normally do- run upstairs comfort him and help him back to sleep.

Tonight, unfortunately, there was a little mishap.

Griffin asked for a drink of my water bottle, so I got if for him, opened it up, and gave it to him without thinking a thing- this is such a routine for us.

Well. Tonight he forgot to sit up before trying to drink out of it. Face full of water, choking, up his nose, etc. It was so sad and totally my fault, the poor kid was still half asleep and I usually remind him to sit up.

So I pulled his wet shirt off and swapped out his wet pillow with one on our guest bed while comforting him and as he calmed down I laid him down in bed. He put his head on his 'new' pillow, immediately stopped crying, and said, "Wow! This, this, this is a nice pillow, Mom!" all while caressing said pillow.

If he sleeps all night through because of a different pillow, I'm going to cry. Happy tears and also crazy tears because he's almost 3 and still not sleeping through the night and if it turns out to be such a simple solution. Well. You may need to medicate me!

Bedtime conversations

Today Ryan and I worked on painting the exterior of my parents' house. Griffin was super grumpy and really needed a nap but because we were focusing on working it just didn't happen. He fell asleep on the way home and 'napped' for almost 4 hours. When he woke up, I just made him think it was the middle of the night and time to stay in bed/go back to sleep. This is the conversation we had...from memory, so not a perfect transcript :)

Me: "I love you, Griffin."
G: "Yeah." (nodding head) "You're my friend too."
Me: "I'm your friend?!"
G: "Yeah."
Me: "Oh! I'm so happy I'm your friend. Is Daddy your friend too?"
G: "Yeah. And your name is Sarah"
Me: "That's right. And your name is Griffin."
G: "Yeah. And you are Mommy."
Me: "That's right, I am mommy."
G: "And I'm a boy."
Me: "That's right, you are a boy."
G: "And Daddy is a boy."
Me: "That's right. And Sullivan is a boy too."
G: "Yeah. And you, you are a grirl."

Sounds almost like grill but with and extra 'r' thrown in so it also sounds like girl :)

Love this boy!

First chance

We've been working on teaching Griffin to use words instead of just yelling when he's upset.

Today he was sitting at the table and I told him not to do something (I can't remember what) and he looked at me with his angry face and said,

"NO. You, you, you just make me mad."

Then he gave me a thumbs up and said,

"This is your first chances."

And no, in case you were wondering, I did not manage to keep a straight face. 

Man farts

These boys make me laugh so often.

Last night Griffin woke up and came into our room while I was still awake. So I scooped him up and took him back to his room, as I laid him down he wiggled around, grunted, and let out a huge fart.

We both busted up laughing and he (still eyes closed) said, "That was a man fart!"

Tonight, Sullivan did an Irish-dance and then let out a couple of little man farts, followed up by a smile from ear to ear.

I just can't wait until they can learn to fart in their sleep- then I'll get some good rest!