Saturday, December 31, 2011

Monster Christmas

Christmas at Monster Grandma and Grandpa's:



LOUD NOISES!


Monkey man








Cookies with Santa

Want a cookie? (this is Acadia, Celeste's oldest child and Leyton's girlfriend)

Psych!



Santa: Leyton, do you want to join us?
Griffin: You are wasting your time....

Griffin: That is more like it!


Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Apple


This is all that is left when you pass Leyton an entire apple on the ride home from the sitter.

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Monday, December 26, 2011

Fall Photoshoot

At the end of October, Mike took some family pictures for us.  (see previous post here: http://couskids.blogspot.com/2011/11/photography.html)

Check out his page here: http://www.shutterheadstudios.com/

or let us know which ones you want.  Steph and I will be ordering some and we can combine to save shipping.

He took over 125 pictures.  Here are a few of our favorites:

























Monday, December 5, 2011

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Strange Conversations

Steph: I smell poop. Is Leyton poopy? Grif, will you check?
Grif: Sure! I'm the better smeller than everyone! Eew! It stinks! He needs a diaper change!

Leyton screaming in the back seat.
Steph: I know Leyton, you are hungry. We'll be home soon.
Grif: I'm not hungry, I'm drinky.

Watching UD Basketball:
Grif: Which team do you want to win? The blue or the yellow?
Steph: Dayton is in blue, so that is who we are rooting for.
Grif: Oh. Why is that guard playing? Was somebody bad?
Steph: Which guard? The blue or the yellow?
Grif: That guy in the stripey shirt.
For a second, I thought we had some kind of basketball savant... A four year old that already knows the positions and can point them out during a game. Keep putting money into that college fund.

In the bathroom at a Mexican restaurant(there was a fairly large man at the urinal):
Grif (loudly as we are exiting the stall to wash our hands): Why is that guy so big?
Me (trying to hush him): God makes people all different ways an it is not nice to point out peoples differences.
Grif (at least as loud as before): Well, he is a lot bigger than you dad. Why does God make people so big?

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Meat Worm

Working on making Grandma's famous spaghetti and meat balls.  Grif decided to help me make the balls.

Grif:  What do we do?
Me:  Take some of the meat and roll it into a ball.  Like play dough.  Here, you try.
Grif:  I don't know how to do it.
Me:  Just roll it around in your hand.
Grif:  Okay.
Me:  Meat balls Grif, not meat worms.
Grif:  But I only know how to make worms!