Captain Underpants

Last night I was getting the boys ready for their nightly bath.  Griffin is getting undressed and begins chattering excitedly.

Grif:  Dad!  I wore two pair of underwear today.
Me: Really?  (not really believing him).
Grif:  Yeah, that way if I have a accident, I can just take one off!

I didn't think much of it.  He took off his clothes and got in the tub and I didn't pay too much attention to it.  We did baths, jammies, brushed teeth, etc for our nightly bedtime routine.  Steph was collecting their clothes from the bathroom and brought me Griffin's pants with both pair of underwear bundled up in them.  Laughing her head off...  I wish I took a picture.

He was pretty groggy yesterday morning and I put his clothes out and left him to dress himself.  He must have just pulled the clean under-roos over the ones he slept in.  And then proceeded to wear them both all day!  To the sitters, at school, while we were carving pumpkins and didn't bother to tell anybody.

Pumpkin Patch

Ducky Mario Kart

Leyton in Steph's Boots

Leyton ain't quite right...

Storytime

Leyton narrates the Truck book...

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Leyton Riding a Trike

Golf Swings

Grif and Leyton practicing their golf swings:

Allergies

Grif has had some problems with acid reflux for the past 3 years or so. This summer, it has been pretty bad. He was having "spitup" in his mouth 3-4 times each day. He is on Prevacid every morning and Zantac each night and was still having issues, so our primary doctor referred us to a GI specialist. The GI did an endoscopy which involved putting Grif under and sticking a camera down his throat. The evening after he had the scope, he told Steph I was going to be really mad because the doctor didn't do anything:

Grif: I was with you and dad in the bed in that room, then I took a nap and when I woke up, you and dad were there too. He didn't stick that thing down my throat.

The results of the endoscopy indicated an allergy as the likely culprit, so we went in today for a followup and extensive battery of allergy testing:

We did some testing when he was 18 months old or so. They pressed a grid on his back and we waited to see what would happen. This was far more traumatic. Every single one of those dots on his back was stuck with a needle. I had to hold him down while he was screaming and crying, begging them to stop and saying he couldn't take anymore. It was pretty rough on mom and dad as well. This is what his back looked like at 8pm tonight.

He is allergic to tree nuts, grass, ragweed, dust mites, cats (anybody want our demon Lily), hickory, oak, cottonwood, birch, sycamore, ash, elm, cocklebur, mugwort, plantain, marsh elder, SOY, PEANUT,PEAS, PORK, and ALMOND.

Holy crap! I think we are going to get him a big gerbil ball to run around in. The doc also wants us to avoid milk because this really aggravates the reflux.

After all that, he got his flu vaccine (nasal thankfully), and then had to give three vials of blood! So there may be more to add to that list once the bloodwork comes back.

Jeeesh.

 

Biker Dude

Grif on his Big Wheel.  Intro by Leyton:

Strange Conversations

Grif:  Dad, I wish I had a toilet in my bedroom.

Reds NL Division Game 3

Steph and I got the opportunity to jet on down to game three against the SF Giants!

Steph chewing on her helmet nachos.

Rally cap time. Down 2-1!

Jim Day and Chris Welsch prepping to commiserate over the loss on bow-tie Tuesday.

Spiders in the Bed

Grif got this giant hairy spider in a goodie bag.  Completely on his own, he decided to hide it in Steph's pillow case to scare her.

No, I had nothing to do with it.  It does make me proud though...

Grif Turns 5

Grif had his 5th birthday on September 20th.  We had a Star Wars themed party.

Darth Vader was there.

All the kids got their own custom light saber!

Just uncle Jamie!

Look out!  Leyton has a Light Saber!

Milkshake

Song playing in the background:  "my milkshake brings all the boys to the bar"

Grif:  I don't like this song.  It sounds chinese.

If you want to hear the song, click here.