To my Mr. Griffin

Happy 25th Birthday!

25 years ago my best friend was born, and I am so glad my MIL let him survive (he was a handful apparently).
I love you honey, I hope you are having a great day floating around in the big blue.

Did you ever wish?

That you could be a kid and stay in your pjs all day and just sit around and watch movies? I do. Especially today. So I did :) Although I had to keep the movies pg, I was pretty satisfied with Monsters Inc, The Rescuers and Madagascar. I'm easily pleased.

And the winner is...

Estrogen, well at least in this household. Poor Bryan and Dallyn, I hope they know they are in for a wild ride living with 3 girls in the near future :)

The ultrasound went great, the little turkey was moving a lot though so it took a lot longer than normal, I felt bad for the lady waiting after me but the tech was determined to get every measurement. I had an early ultrasound at 6 weeks and it said my due date was 4-20-10. The dr and I had still been going by my original due date of the 15th, but today I was measuring exactly to the day on all of the measurements for the 20th. Works for me, 5 more days of wiggle room in between the D day and when daddy gets home! In fact, can she just stay in there until....ugh...july?

I'm tired...

Really, that's all I am these days. This baby has taken so much out of me. With Dallyn and Jayda I at least was able to function in my 2nd trimester but i am still just as tired as I was in my first (minus the barfing). Of course, I'm sure the swine flu, infected tooth and taking care of two little kids all by myself has NOTHING to do with it.....right. I'm so pathetic that I am looking forward to our 21 hour drive to Wyoming coming up in a few weeks because I will be able to sleep....maybe not comfortably but I'll take whatever I can get. But it's a slippery slope...the more I sleep during the day, the worse I sleep at night so I am even MORE tired the next day.

Are you ready for this...?

This is going to be the post of all posts....there is so much to catch up on and so much info you NEED to know about our lives. Need. That's right.

We are all healthy and thriving again...we all got the swine flu, lucky us. Thankfully it waited a few days after Halloween, I'm so happy my kids got to enjoy that cough/runny nose/fever free. Who knew we were all incubating a hurricane though! Monday I was sick, I got up off the couch 5 times that day to put Dallyn to bed, feed the kids and throw more cheerios in bowls to keep the kids off of me. Tuesday my savior came over and watched the kids while I hauled my sick ass to the ER at the Naval Hospital. Let me start off by saying that there were the hottest corpsman EVER at work on Tuesday morning...I hit the jack pot. Being that I was pregnant and having breathing difficulties I was put in a room right away and pretty much had constant attention until they admitted me to the hospital. I was sick, really sick. Thank goodness I listened to the nurse and went in, I almost just stayed home. I ended up catching pneumonia and my o2 levels were around 72%...not good for a preggo! But I got discharged the next day (Kelly had the kids the WHOLE time...she is amazing, I owe her A BIG ONE!!!!!). My mom flew out to help with the kids while I recooperated. Thank gosh because they both ended up catching the same thing. They were able to fight it off (eventually, that is one tough virus!) right before she had to fly home. Now we are all back to 100% and feeling good.

I don't know if my kids have really just become AWESOME this week or if it's because I am just remembering how they are when they are sick but they have been pretty cool. Tonight I was sad to tuck them in bed, they were having so much fun playing together and running around. I'm not sure when Dallyn turned into a big boy but he definitely did it behind my back, or while he was sleeping at night. He loves playing with the big kids and it's so fun watching him turn from a whiney, mommy obsessed baby to a really cool toddler. Today he sat in the driveway for an hour coloring with sidewalk chalk with the big kids in the neighborhood. Jayda has been pretty good with him to, she is really excited (a little too much) that he likes to wrestle with her. We have many a wrestling matches that end in someone crying but that's ok with me. I'm glad they are starting to enjoy each other more and more. Especially since they will really need that bond come next April!

Baby #3 is doing well, we should find out what the little booger is next Monday (the 23rd). It's a wild one already, at my last appointment it kicked the dr while she was listening to the heartbeat. She was pretty impressed that it was strong enough to do that since it's about the size of a potato, haha. Then she made a comment that I am probably feeding it pure caffeine (if she only knew how addicted to cherry coke I am) since I have been feeling it for about 3 weeks. Jayda has felt it a few times, she seems completely unimpressed. Although she is REALLY excited about having a new baby. She tells me that it will sleep in her room and she will feed, burp and bathe it. That being said, she means that she will do that if it's a girl....a boy and all bets are off. She really really wants a little sister so we will see if she gets what she wants. Bryan has his vote in for girl. I am torn, I would love either and am not really "feeling" like it's one or the other. I have all the boy stuff still but I do love purple. It's nice to not really have any pressure as to what it is. I know people always say that it doesn't matter but we all know that's not true. Even if it's just the pressure you put on yourself!

18 weeks

Happy LATE Halloween!

Halloween was an absolute blast this year, it was so busy and so fun! We got to see some of our oldest and dearest friends and it was great to spend a holiday with my extended family here in San Diego. I honestly was a little nervous at how I would feel spending a holiday without Bryan, my hormones have made this deployment a rollercoaster already and seeing the kids spending a holiday like this without him was hard but thanks to some great people, not as bad as I thought it would be. We were honestly so busy it was much easier than I thought. Jayda loved everything about Halloween, from the creepy decorations to the sweets she got at EVERY party....she is going to be on a sugar high for 15 days! And even at the end she really enjoyed handing out candy to the big kids when we were done trick or treating. This year was just great, one of the best I have ever had. It's amazing how happy it can make you to just see your kids happy :)