May 7 - Win-Win

Seriously, there is no better purchase for South Carolina summers with a 1 year old than a pool.  I promise.  Give the boy a hose, take his clothes off, and stick him in a pool...and BAM!  He is happy and totally entertained for a seemingly endless amount of time, whereas he was whining and throwing fits 5 minutes ago inside.  Also, said one year old is contained in one, confined space, which allows me to sit down and enjoy the sun, the outdoors, and watching him have a blast.  It's a win-win.

May 6 - Vocab

This is what Griffin has been doing lately when I pull out the camera.  Hah.  For the past few months, Griffin has been going through a physical growth spurt.  In the past week or so, it seems that he has started into another cognitive growth, growing more communicative and enlarging his vocabulary daily.  Lately, he's started regularly saying, "uh-oh," "book," "boat," and "mama."  Up until this point, he's basically just been babbling (he babbles alllllll the time), but he's never consistently spoken words until now.  He's been a little slow to actually speak, but he's signing like crazy, with a really amazing signing vocabulary, and is even stringing signs together to create makeshift sentences.  He's signed the phrases "hug Papa," "more orange please," and "Papa help."  Currently, his favorite signs are "help," "juice," "please," and "truck."

May 5 - Swinging with Sully

We asked Sullivan and Griffin to hold hands, and this is as close as they got.  Still cute.

May 4 - Pouty

May 3 - Hose

This all started as a quick trip outside to fill up the pool for later, but Griffin found a new love:  the hose.  He had all his clothes on, but I put him in the pool with the hose to play around.  After becoming completely soaked, I let him run around in there naked.  He just loved it.  I was surprised that he wanted to play in water that cold, but he could have cared less about the temperature of the water.  He was just happy as a clam to have that hose.

May 2 - Sillies

We took these silly shots while looking into the mirror in our kitchen.  You know, today was a pretty terrible day, complete with non-stop crying, tempers pushed to their limits, hitting, throwing, and a lovely near 2 hour long battle of wills; but it's nice to sit back at the end of this aforementioned long, hard day and think about how blessed we really are and how it's all worth it.  As we approach the end of a tough semester, an even tougher year, and an extra-quadruple tough season of college, we are faced with a blank canvas of sorts.  We're not even close to sure what our next step is, where we go or do from here, and the options are vast and varied.  But we have each other, and we have the Lord.  We have wonderful friends, wonderful family, and those things won't change when and where we move forward.  It's been difficult to be so....unsure, but I suppose we all need to learn how to live in the moment rather than agonizing over what is to come...even though "what is to come" is mere days away for us.  May the Lord give us the strength to keep our eyes fixed on Him and those He has given us to love and serve today, then tomorrow, then the next day, etc. 

May 1 - Sneak Peek

We took a few pictures today for our graduation announcements.  Here is a little sneak peek!