Halloweenie!

Beautiful day for Halloween...high 60's and sunny! Griffin was a champ- even though he was getting over being sick he managed to suck it up and enjoy watching his big bro trick or treat for a solid hour before getting needy enough to warrant some holding by either Jim or me! Riley walked the whole time and even managed to make it up to ring a few doorbells by himself! Dinner consisted of non-candy based foods so all in all in was a good day!

Comparisons...

We hear constantly how different Riley and Griffin look and for the most part we agree but c'mon...look at the similarities when they were both around 3 months old!
RILEY:




GRIFFIN:

Happy Birthday Our Little Big Boy!

Riley is three today! Wooo! Hopefully, the day at Great Adventure won't be as nutty as the day Riley made his grand entrance into the world!

Here's a few pics of Sir Riles from the last couple of months to tide you over before Jim and I post the birthday weekend pics!

Happy 6 monther Griffin!

I promise to compose a post tomorrow and upload pics, but we just wanted to wish the "little" chunk-a-monker a Happy 6 month birthday!! We love you Doodlebug!

Update...Geez, who knew this going back to work thing would eat up all my "extra" time? ha ha ha. It's been a little nutty around these parts since I've gone back to work *(earaches, flus, etc.) so you'll have to forgive the delay in making any posts lately. Griffin is still a beast- he had his 5 month appointment last week and he is in the 95% for both height and weight. In other words, he's enormous, but such a sweetheart. We have not had any sleeping through the night but he's such an easy midnight snacker that it really isn't so bad. NO crawling yet either, but he's trying to wiggle his chunks around. Jim and I are both okay with Griffin not getting his crawling down yet b/c we remember what it means- little dirty knees and constant floor cleaning! *Plus, hawk-like supervision since Riley has so many toys and whatnot that I'm petrified that Griffin will eat. On the eating front aside from rice cereal, he's digging bananas,carrots and peaches and we might get crazy tonight and let him have some pureed green beans! ha ha. He has three teeth, all on the bottom which makes me giddy since I don't want him to lose his gummy smile yet!

Various Griffin Pics from the last month:

Riley did this too him, naturally



5 month photo shoot:


6 months!

Beachin' it up on the last day of summer:


First eats:


Random:

Swing Swing Away..

Griffin's favorite past time at "The Beach House"..

Beach, Beach, Beach!!

So, tomorrow we head down the shore (ha ha, 10 minutes from our house) for a week to stay and then a week to visit for day trips. Riley has no idea what is in store with full days at the beach with all of his favorite peeps in the world...and Griffin, well, let's hope the salty air and sea breezes tucker him out so Mama can get some swimming in! Here's a slew of pre-vacation summer pics to tide all 5 of you over:

Sesame Place Pics (my favorite is Olivia weaseling her way into Team Awesome's photo op)





First day at the beach, when the rain finally stopped!




My birthday *yup,the boy loves his "chock-oh-laht"


First Baseball Game..Go Blue Claws!



Trip to Turtleback Zoo





Random








Last shot of Ol' Mags (We miss you baby girl!)