Nothin better....

Life is good around the Griffin house. We are all pretty adjusted to being a family of 5...slowly getting our routine down. At first it took me 15 minutes to load everyone in the car, now it is a fine tuned procedure that I have perfect in 5 minutes (barring no little kids are playing outside when we leave). My birthday was a few days ago, Mr. Griffin was gone on my actual birthday so we celebrated the weekend before with him. He made me an AWESOME birthday cake...I'll be dreaming about this cake for months. (see picture below...he really DOES cook/bake, he even made the frosting thanks to my friend!). We spent the weekend playing with the kids and just hanging out.

MY grandparents (Jayda and Dallyn's GREAT grandparents) drove down on Sunday from Wyoming. They were just dying to meet Skye and couldn't wait until July. It was perfect timing, we all got super sick on Monday. LOL. I was so glad they were here....I couldn't barely get off the couch let a lone take care of three kids by myself. Even though we were all pretty out of it we had a great time. I am so blessed to have such an awesome family. They are the only people I know who can have a great time whatever they are doing. I really miss our big family get togethers and the mornings spent out on the porch after breakfast just enjoying everyone's company. I hope that even though we are far away my children will get to experience all of that and realize that is what life is about. When my (little) sister and I were young my grandparents watched us when my parents worked. They lived right up the road and we walked to their house quite a bit. I am so glad that they are still around and that my children get to be around them. They are wonderful people and have influenced me more than they will ever know. I love you GG and Codgy!

Skye is growing faster than I am ok with....the turkey! She got weighed today and she is almost 11lbs at 1 month. She is far surpassing her siblings as the biggest baby in our family. Her 0-3 month clothes were all getting too little so this last weekend I dragged out the 3-6 month clothes and she is already too long for some of them. Thank goodness none of the cute ones :-) It just kills me how fast she is growing...she is only one month old! It is amazing how fast they change, she is becoming so much more aware. She loves to smile at me and her daddy....not so much her siblings yet. I think it has to do with the fact that they never just look at her....they always have to kiss her face off! They are both still doing good considering how much our lives have changed. Dallyn has definitely been more needy, but I was expecting that considering how much of a momma's boy he was and is. And Jayda is loving being a big sister. She has become such a big girl these last few weeks!

On that note, I want to thank my amazing friends for giving little ms. Skye the hook up in clothes. She has so many adorable outfits that I might not have to do laundry for her until she is 1 :-) I love you guys!

August 8th, 2009

I will remember this day forever. It started out really normal, got up and got the kids fed and bathed. I had an appointment to get some vaccinations and a birth control shot at my drs office. Everyone did great waiting to get called back, the kids watched a movie in the waiting room and had some snacks while I took my second pregnancy test (for the birth control shot). After the results came back they took me back to a room and I signed some consent forms for the shots and was explaining to Jayda that even though I was getting a shot, i was a big girl and it didn't hurt THAT bad. The nurse swabbed my arm with alcohol and then the lab tech came back in. She told the nurse to check some corrections made to my file. I giggled and joked to the nurse that I was pregnant....believing 100% that there was NO way I was pregnant. Well, we all know where this is going.

The next thing I know she is turning around from the computer telling me that we were going to have another baby. I immediately started bawling. BAWLING. I apparently was making quite a scene. Next thing I know they are ushering a counselor in the room with me. He (yes, it was a freaking HE) tried really hard to skate around the subject but when I wouldn't stop crying he asked if my husband was deployed and that was why I was upset (pretty much straight out asking me if I was cheating on my husband, lol). It shocked me so much I stopped crying. It definitely helped me look a little further than my own situation and realize it could have been A LOT worse. LOL! And then he started telling me about how I had a great reason now to get a kick ass min-van (his EXACT words, hand to God). It was then I realized I needed to get out of there and call my mommy.

And poor Bryan, and Kelly. And my little sister Hannah....and maybe susanna. I must have sounded like a hysterical crazy lady when I called them. I must have sat with the kids in the car of the parking lot of the dr.s office for two hours trying to get a hold of my husband and calling all of my support people in between attempts.

I will never forget my husband's reaction. It brings me to tears to even think about it. We both were done...DONE...having kids. We were so content with Jayda and Dallyn. We had talked and talked and decided to not have anymore. I thought he would be just as devastated as I was. But the first thing out of his mouth was "It's going to be ok, in a year we will look back and laugh about how we lived with out he/her."

And he was so right, I am so glad he knocked me up. I love my 3 babies more than anything and I can't imagine life without Skye. She really does complete our family and I cannot get over how much we all love her. I feel like I am finally getting to enjoy a newborn too. With Dallyn we drove a 2 day drive when he was 7 days old and the stress from that and leaving my family really took a toll on me. And then when he became really colicky it just made it even worse. I didn't get that time to snuggle him and enjoy our nursing time. And with Jayda we were both first time parents and so uptight like all new parents! We enjoyed her but our priorities were a little different. This time I feel like these last two weeks were spent enjoying my new baby. I've gotten to sit on the couch and just love and hold her. It makes me just glow, corny but it's true. I'm one happy momma. And now that all of my help has gone back to Wyoming and work I'm excited to adjust to our new family. Today was my first day with all three of them and I have to say it was pretty awesome. It's amazing how much three little people can make your day shine.

What's a name?

Life is pretty good around here. Everyone is adjusting really well to having a new little person in the house. Our only problem so far is that no one can get Skye's name right. To Jayda she is mostly "My Baby". When you ask her what her name is 2 out of 3 times she will tell you "My Baby". The other time she will say "Skye My Baby". And Dallyn...oh sweet Dallyn. To him she is just "Kate". I have no idea why he picked that one syllable of her middle name but it's pretty cute to me. It annoys the living heck out of Bryan but that's what he gets for changing her name a million times.

My little sweet pea

It truly is amazing how much love you can feel for a little person you only met a few days ago. In 10 hours Skye will be a week old and even though we are still getting to know her, we are all completely in love. Especially Jayda and Dallyn. It's nice to hear them fighting over who gets to hold her first vs. who gets this car or who has more juice in their cup. Jayda gets so upset that she can't feed her....next week we will be letting her give her a bottle of breast milk. We had a rough first few days of breastfeeding. She was a chomper but now that my milk has come in she has calmed down and things are definitely much better. Although it's hard because she is definitely a little piggy. And it shows in her clothes! My long little chunker no longer fits into newborn sized clothing....seeing the little bag of sleepers she has grown out of makes me a little sad. She really isn't so much chunky as she is long. She makes newborn Jayda and Dallyn seem like little peanuts.

So far (knock on wood) she has been an amazingly easy baby. The only time she cries is when she is hungry. She sleeps most of the time but for about 2 hours a day she will just hang out and watch what is going on around her. And for almost ALL of those two hours her big sister is right in her face "loving" her. Luckily she sleeps really well at night too. As long as she is bundled up nice and snug she will sleep almost all night, waking up once twice but she easily falls back asleep after I feed her.

Hopefully things will continue to go as smoothly as they have been. My parents left today so it's Bryan and I vs. the 3 wild things. He has to go back to work on Friday, so hopefully they will be good to me. So far the transition from 2 to 3 kids has been pretty easy. It was MUCH harder on me when Dallyn was born. But who knows how much of that was due to him being colicky.

I'm in absolute heaven with my little girl, it is really funny to me to think back to the day I found out I was pregnant with her. I was devastated to say the least. We were done having kids, we thought our family was perfect.....we had no idea we were wrong!