He may have been born in California, but Griffin is definitely Minnesotan now. When I asked him about the cool lego train he built today, he explained that it was a “Corn Weeder.” Further discussion revealed that he was talking about a combine harvester. I didn’t even know what a combine was until a few years ago when Sarah explained that she drove one for a summer job long ago. Griffin is way ahead of me!
I don’t have a headache because my head is very strong and tough.
— Griffin
On our way home after seeing friends, close to bedtime, Griffin says, “I’m not sleepy or tired or resty or nappy, Mama. I just want to go home and relax with you.”
Griffin shouted from the living room, “Daddy! Come see the Fuzzy Wuzzy Slide!” He was jumping up and down with excitement and pointing to a beam of light coming in the side windows.
He explained that it is a special slide that only Fuzzy Wuzzies and Za Za can slide down. A demonstration followed, with Griffin trying mightily to jump up onto the “slide.” Each attempt was met with dramatic and joyous failure. “See, Daddy, I cannot slide down. Only Fuzzy Wuzzies and Za Za!”
(If you haven’t met the FWs and Za Za, see my recent post introducing them.)
While strapping Griffin into his car seat this evening:
Griffin: “Daddy, be careful! A car is coming.”
Daddy: “Ok, I will.”
Griffin: “Or you will get very dirty and then we will need to get a new daddy.”
Daddy: <laughing> “A new daddy? Where are you going to get one of those?”
Griffin: “At the store.”
Daddy: “Griffin, what are you doing in there?”
Griffin: “I’m playing.”
Daddy: “What are you playing with?”
Griffin:
A few random thoughts from Griffin:
At the pool, after witnessing a girl about Griffin’s age jumping off the side into her mom’s arms, I asked Griffin if he’d like to try it. His reply?
“I not like that very much. I be afraid. But when I older, I be happy to try it!”
Griffin called and left me this voicemail message on Thursday. It’s just a simple message about going to the park, but shows how much his language has developed recently. I’ve been listening to it over and over, so I decided to figure out how to transfer it from my phone to a permanent audio file to share. Click on the MP3 link below to hear it.
Transcript:
Hi! Hi Daddy, I’m riding my bike to Mattocks park and then ride back home and then all the way over there. See you later. Bye bye.
Geek details: Weirdly difficult to transfer a voicemail message to your computer from an iPhone. I just assumed there would be a “forward” button where I could email it to myself, but no. You can access the file directly if you jailbreak your phone, but otherwise you have to use an audio cable and record it into your computer. I used Audacity to record the file, clipped dead air off the ends and then exported as an MP3.
Griffn’s musical stylings, Christmas edition.