Piles of snow in Spokane!

They weren't kidding when they said Spokane was under multiple feet of snow. It has been melting for days, evidently, and still 2+ feet exists in the yards. Griffin had a lot of fun, but couldn't make a snowman because it was so packed down, so he and Daddy pretended to make a snowman.


Also, here is Griffin standing in a hole in the snow:

Spokane-bound commentary

Scene: Sitting in a McDonald's in Ellensburg, Washington, where we are just glad to have made it out of Seattle at rush hour in something less than two hours.

Griffin: Mommy, do you have a booger?
Mommy: What?!?!? (thinking he has learned a new word at preschool, but also thinking it could be worse.)
Griffin: Do you have a booger?
Mommy: (thinking a bit before answering) A booger?
Griffin: (looking at Mommy's food) Yes, do you have a cheesebooger?
Mommy: (relieved) Why, yes, yes I do have a cheesebooger!


The fun never stops.

3 or 13?

Griffin is playing with his motorcycles with Daddy and having a wonderful time, but suddenly starts doing the "potty dance." We ask if he needs to go, but he's having so much fun that he keeps saying, "I don't want to go potty!" over and over.

Finally he picks up his puppy and says, in a very sarcastic voice,"Fine," and walks off downstairs, where instead of going to the bathroom he goes into his room and closes the door. When Doug goes to check on him, Griffin repeats, "Fine," and folds his arms and turns his back on Doug.

If this is 3 years old, what are we in for in 2017?

Griffin's 3rd Birthday

Here are a few photos from Griffin's birthday, both his party at Grandma and Grandpa's house a few days before and from his birthday itself.

Shopaholic

Griffin is such a great shopper! He loves to push the little cart around at our neighborhood grocery store, and the people there know him by his long eyelashes. When I noted what he had in this cart, a friend kindly said that she knew he was just comparing the national brand of chips to locally grown, organic chips.

Rough winter again

Here's another photo from our last snowfall, and then it snowed again today! I'm not sure what's going on, but this is not the Seattle weather I remember. We've lost our power twice in one week, too. Griffin doesn't seem to care, he gets to carry around a light stick or a flashlight when the lights go out. Cheap fun!

Inspired by Griffin's new cousin

Since Jen has started a blog for the new baby (who hasn't arrived yet but already has a blog!) I feel like we should update the Grifflog to keep up. To start, here's a photo of him from a month or so ago. He just looks so much older in this particular photo!

Snow Again!

Can we just get a break from this weather already? No school again today, our fourth day this year between the last snowstorm and the windstorm.

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Christmas Night

This is where we spent Christmas night - if you can't tell, we're in a hospital room at Children's Hospital. Griffin tripped and hit his head and needed to be checked out.

After a couple of hours and some glue, his head was almost as good as new. The bottom photo is one from a day ago, showing the mark that remains for now. We'll hope it will fade, but it will always be a reminder of Griffin's second Christmas!

Griffin shows Beppa how to find the Grifflog.

Snow!

Griffin went out to experience snow for the first time on Sunday. He liked it!

Cornucopia of Veggies

We are thankful for so much this holiday season, but most of all for Griffin, who constantly amuses, amazes, enlightens, and frustrates us. He painted the wonderful vegetables in the cornucopia at daycare last week.

He will undoubtedly eat only mashed potatoes and bread on Thanksgiving, avoiding the meat and stuffing and cranberries. But he will have fun with his "Bapa" and Grandma and "Bear" the Bernese Mountain Dog, while missing his Beppa and Papa, Aunt B, and Brayden, along with everyone else who won't be with us this holiday.

We'll look forward to seeing as many of our friends and relatives as possible over the Christmas holidays. Plus, it's only 54 days until Griffin's 2nd birthday!

Griffin's Lego explorations

Griffin loves his Legos. He builds towers (as seen below), lines them up neatly, names the colors, and then stacks them on top of each other - lengthwise! When they fall he says, "Oh nooooooo!" and laughs.

Griffin's Tower

I think Griffin's going to be an architect in the Frank Gehry mold.

Chalk Art

At Griffin's preschool they do all kinds of art, not just painting and gluing. This is chalk art, where Griffin had a piece of paper with glue on it and then he rubbed chalk on a screen just above the paper so the chalk sifted down in patterns.

Owl Art

Another art masterpiece, with the eyes almost in the right place, done at preschool a few weeks ago. Notice that his name, near the bottom on the left side, is painted over. Griffin usually colors or paints over his name if you write it on while he's working. He doesn't want anything to interfere with his artistic endeavors!

This is another example of his stabbing technique with the paintbrush. Look out Seurat!

Pumpkin Art

Some more recent artwork from the enthusiastic artist. Enjoy his Halloween pumpkin painted at preschool a couple of weeks ago. I'm not sure if he had more paint on the paper or on his shirt. His technique is one of pointillism, or poking at the paper.

Look what my Aunt B taught me to do!

Griffin and Aunt Brenda had a blast balancing spoons on their faces at a wedding we attended recently. You'd never know there was any age difference at all between them.

She also taught him the sign for "football" so be sure to ask him the next time you see him!

A list of things Griffin says before bed.

"Bye-Bye Mommy...
Bye-Bye Daddy...
Bye-Bye Ella...
Bye-Bye Es...
Bye-Bye Gun... (this is what he calls our cat "Gwen"... we don't own a gun)
Bye-Bye Pooh...
Bye-Bye Colors... (his crayons)
Bye-Bye Bear...
Bye-Bye Puppy...
Bye-Bye Water...
Bye-Bye Bath..."

"Ok Griffin, it's bedtime."

"No."

Every week is different!

Griffin had a busy week. It takes a lot of energy to refuse to wear your Halloween costume multiple times! So, we don't have any photos of Griffin the Lion to share with you, though he will say "Rrrraahhh!" if you ask him what a lion says. I guess that's enough. Maybe he'll wear it in February and we can show him off then.

He's taking a nap now because he's sick. He even asks for a "Nap!" when he's tired. It's just the times when he isn't tired and you say, "Bed?" and he says "Noooo..." in his cute little voice that drive everyone nuts.

Since it's raining today, we'll have to find something inside to do. Maybe we'll go visit Ba-pa and Grandma and Little Bear and Griffin can count the wooden coasters for 15 minutes.