A few random thoughts from Griffin:

• “I get sad sometimes that Grandma’s not here.”
• “When the Minnesota State Fair opens, we will meet Aunt Carol and Uncle Bob in the summer time when it opens!” (He is constantly asking if the Fair is open yet, and while we did go twice this past year, we have never met Bob and Carol there!)
• During a discussion about what kind of present he would like to get his new brother or sister, I suggested a “soft blankie,” like the one he has, so that the baby can have his/her own: “I would like to SHARE my soft blankie with the baby!”
• “Scuse me, Daddy. I want you stop talking. Then come over here on the couch next to me and keep talking about your students.”
• “Let’s go <insert anything he wants to do here> RIGHT QUICK!!”
• “Daddy’s a boy? So both of us are boys and the rest of our family are a girl.”