Strange Conversations

Griffin:  Dad, can I have a friend come over and spend the night?  ALL night?
Me:  Sure, we could do that sometime.  Did you have somebody in mind?
Griffin:  Well, I was thinking maybe Greg could come over and spend the night?

Greg is our next door neighbor.  He works at Chase Bank, is Commisioner of the Granville Little League and has two sons.  One is a sophomore, and the other is in junior high.  He nearly always has a big wad of dip in his lip, and is perpetually in gym shorts and a tee shirt that appear to be older than me.  He's pretty awesome with kids and I can see why Griffin likes him.

I can't get the image of him sleeping the the trundle bed that slides out from under Griffin's bed....

Strange Conversations

Steph: Grif, were you as tall as Noah today?
Griffin: I don't know, they didn't weigh us.

Earl

My favorite part of vacation...  yum.  Closest one to us in Columbus is in Detroit.  We only ate here twice.

The World's Greatest Hot Sandwich.

http://www.earlofsandwichusa.com/

Magic Kingdom

Obligatory photo in front of Cinderella's castle

Grif was just tall enough to ride Space Mountain.  The top of the stick just scraped across his head.  About half way thru, he said he wanted to get off!

 Waiting to go into the 3D theater to watch a Disney symphony show.  I love this picture.

Riding Dumbo.  Notice Mom holding on for dear life!

Leyton melting down around 3pm

Sleeping on mom on Its a Small World.

Grif took this picture.  

This one too!

In jail with Zurg after the Buzz Lightyear ride.  (Grif's favorite ride)

Driving all by himself.

Waiting out the daily 3:30 rain storm.

 

Magic Kingdom 1, Grif 0

(Leyton was disqualified because he went home early with Nice Grandma and Grandpa)

Strange Conversations

Steph: Griffin, pick something out to wear.
Griffin: Can I wear my yellow cruisers shorts with my batman shirt?
Steph: Honey, that really doesn't match.
Griffin: Mommy, why do I have to match?

Seriously, why do any of us have to match?  Stupid fashion.

As a side note, I've been demoted from having any clothing selection responsibilities for our kids because my choices don't "match".  I guess Griffin comes by it naturally.

Stupid fashion.

I wasn't best dressed like this guy:

Strange Conversations

At the dinner table last night...

Griffin: Daddy says LOTS of bad words.
Steph: Really?  How many?
Griffin: Well...  I think three.
Steph:  Can you tell me what they are?  I won't get mad.
Griffin:  He said, "shut up" and "sucks" and something else.....  Oh!, "knock it off"


Dodged a bullet there didn't I.

Lights Out

So, we (like many Ohioans) are without power for the foreseeable short term. AEP website estimates that 90%of people in our area will have power restored by July 8th at midnight. We've relocated to Vandalia with Steph's parents who are full on retired. 4 not exactly subdued house guests could make for an interesting week. This morning, the boys "slept in" until 8 this morning.

Steph: Griffin, please be quiet. You are shouting and grandma and grandpa are still sleeping.
Grif: well, it's time to get up.
Steph: How do you know it's time to get up?
Grif: Cause we are up.

There are a bunch of trees down in our neighborhood. One was blocking the only entrance to the development Fortunately we don't have any damage.
Some of our neighbors weren't so fortunate. Yes, there is a house under that tree.