St. Paddy's Day Parade! Corktown, Detroit.

The Family...

My Connor Patrick Griffin

Looking on at the Parade

Caitlin & Uncle Terry

Happy St. Patricks Day everybody!

Abc's with Grace

Here is Caitlin and Connor's cousin Grace doing a great job with her Abc's. Caitlin is very obsessed with her Abc's lately - so much so one song can just keep going and going! Most common is "Abcd - lmnop"

Also doing a great job is Grace's sister Lauren who is starting to walk - notice her in the background!

More Mommy & Me Pics!

Keeping up with my mommy & me challenge for 2009 - Here are a few more pics!

We love our watertable (Great gift, Dana!) it is the perfect size - we use it all year round! A great activity for these long winter days is to fill it with fun stuff and let the kids explore. We decided to bring the snow in since we have had the sniffles and just can't seem to keep the mittens on when we are outside! The Mr/Mrs. Potato Head pieces came in handy!

The Walk Watch continues...Connor is standing up confidently by himself and is taking a few steps. He usually starts clapping for himself which causes him to lose his balance and down he goes!

PJ Days

Lots of PJ days around here lately...sniffles and coughs...a few more mommy & me pics!

Funny Feet & Fetch

Connor loves to curl his toes...really curl his toes which makes it close to impossible putting shoes on him. However, this past weekend we were off to cousin Lauren's 1st birthday and he needed some shoes. Found a great pair of kicks at Target to get him through til he gets his BIG BOY shoes - I think he will be walking by his birthday but we will see...He is really into fetch right now but is taking steps by himself (especially if I dangle his pacifier out in front of him) funny little guy!

Big Girl Pants...

The perks of potty training for Caitlin, chocolate covered sunflower seeds, mommy's home-made cookies & getting to wash her hands "like a big girl". On this particular day when I came to check on her this is what I saw. Never a dull moment around here! A favorite routine she has developed is picking out undies for the day. She insists on spreading them all out and then going through the names (YES, she has names for her undies) of each of them. Eventually she will decide on a pair, or as in the top picture she will just try and wear them all at once. Last week as a little treat I took her to pick out some new undies and an extra potty for the kids bathroon upstairs. She has the Fisher Price froggy potty - very simple and easy to clean no bells and whistles to distract her from the job at hand. We still have an occasional Uh-Oh but she continues to surprise us. Today for example, during nap I heard a loud banging noise followed by a MOMMY! I went up to check things out and found Caitlin in her birthday suit - I tried to quickly get her back in her pull-up but she said, "No mommy, wet!" followed with a "Poo-Poo" and off she went down the hall to do her business. We are super proud of her!

Should be Sleeping...

Its 11:07 and I should be sleeping...BUT I have had this on the "To Do" for much to long. So now I can check it off! Sometimes I write things on the "To Do" list that I've already done just so I can check them off...yep thats a bit crazy.

So a friend of mine, Melissa, got me hooked on her blog...
http://melissamooradianphotography.com/blog/
I've enjoyed keeping up with her and have even decided to join her in the MOMMY & ME Challenge. The idea is to take a picture with your kiddo once a week (this means I have to do my hair). I've always been the "photographer" at family gathering, parties, playgroups...and I take a ton of pics of my little ones BUT I rarely get any of me with Caitlin or Connor. So I set up the camera and TRY, keyword being TRY to get a shot of me with one of them. So far I've got a couple I'm somewhat happy with. I am excited and hope I'll get better at it as I go. To get inspired check out the shots Melissa has with her son Reece. PRECIOUS!

WEEK ONE - (Connor & Mommy) I had to hold him because he saw that camera and had one thing on his mind...I'm going to crawl super fast and knock it down like my stacking blocks!

More to come!