School and Catch Up!

We've had a lot going on since my last post... To start, Griffin started school last week. It was a big adjustment as he misses Ms. Nikki quite a bit (and likewise, as she keeps telling me!) though she's been to visit him at school (he was very excited to see her). However, he is enjoying himself quite a bit. On our first morning I sat him down to play with Tyler, a little boy who is a couple of weeks older than Griff. G immediately reached over, pulled Ty's socks off, took his toy, and then pulled at his hair....all of which I guess Griffin and Tyler thought was hilarious because they started laughing together right away. Since then they've been great buddies, and as one of G's teachers put it -- it appears that Ty and Griff are always having a private conversation with each other. The two of them are too cute together. And though G enjoyed his first week of school, he also got his first cold...and was home with mommy on Monday as a result. Mommy got some good snuggle time in, and relished that part, but I just hate when he isn't feeling well. His teachers know him well already -- as they told me that he simply wasn't himself and must not be feeling well because he was actually fussy for once. And though his nose is still pretty stuffed up (and his nemesis the boogie-sucker makes an appearance frequently) he's still laughing and playing with his new friends at school.

Last weekend we headed to Indy to take in the IU/Wisconsin football game with Auntie D, Uncle Pat, and Connor. The weather was unbelievable and the boys had a great time (us, too). I took my camera like a good mom, but went to take a pic of Uncle Pat, Connor, Daddy and Griffin as we were walking into the stadium and realized that my batteries were toast (as were D's, so we have zero pics of the little guys together, which is unfortunate as they were so cute together -- Connor was very attentive to Griffin and Griffin in turn thought Connor was hilarious and kept studying his every move). Then Auntie D and Uncle Pat watched G while Ben and I stayed down in Bloomington for the night and were able to enjoy some grown-up time. Thanks for watching G, guys, I know he had a fantastic time, as did we!

This week Griff and Mom are going to enjoy some more one-on-one time together as Daddy has a conference in Miami for the rest of the week (poor, poor Daddy) and then next week Daddy is heading to Philly for a trial (for three weeks, yuck). We will miss him tons, but have the webcams ready to go. And, we are looking forward to heading down to West Palm to visit Grandma Kris and Grandpa Tom for a long weekend and then heading down to Grandma Cathy and Grandpa Bill's for Thanksgiving to see everyone (including Auntie Kayla and Uncle Eric and Griffin's NEW fur-cousin, Darby)! I just realized that Mr. Darby hasn't had a proper blog-intro, so here he is! Can't wait to meet this cutie (neither can Tucker, Dobber, or G).