The Griffin Family Website

Category: Our First Baby

  • New Nursery Theme

    As of today, Monica has arrived at the 30 week mark leaving us just 10 more weeks until she is at term. Monica has been frequenting Craig’s List and has gotten some great deals on toys and, more recently, a bedding set. With our purchase of the bedding set, our theme for the nursery has changed from nautical to transportation.

    The new bedding set has bright, primary colors and pictures of trains, boats, airplanes, and cars on it. We were going to go with a blue-and-white color scheme for paint and fabrics, but this purchase opens the door to a much larger color palatte. Ev壯陽藥
    en though the theme is different, all of the nautical stuff we already have should fit right in since the boats and ships fit into the transportation theme. Here’s a picture of the quilt that came with the bedding set to help you visualize the new theme:

  • Travel System

    Monica has had several dreams in which, when the baby arrives, we don’t have a car seat for him so he has to ride home rolling around on the floor of the car. Hopefully that dream will be a thing of the past after today.
    Thanks to (soon to be Grandmother) Nina, we now have a great little travel system; it’s a combination stroller, carrier, and car seat. With the 30-week mark fast approaching, Monica, her mother, and her sister all went shopping this afternoon for various things including baby… stuff. Monica found a couple of cute gowns that fit the new nursery theme (I’ll have a picture of the new theme for you soon) as well as some little mittens to keep Offspring from scratching himself. The big purchase, though, was the Chicco travel system Monica and I wanted. The carrier is multi-purpose; the carrier locks into a base to serve as a car seat and it locks into a stroller for all those trips to the Zoo we’ll be making. Here’s a picture for everyone. Thank you Grandmother Lewis!

  • Baby Registries

    Hallo–Monica here.  After the excitement of yesterday and finding out the sex of the baby, I’ve now gotten the baby registries essentially together.  We have two–one is the standard Babies R Us registry, which is available at www.toysrus.com and the other, which allows us to post items from a variety of websites, is www.myregistry.com (which also is linked under main menu here).  The two registries ARE redundant; most of the Babies R Us items are also posted under MyRegistry.  It would be most helpful if you purchase anything from Babies R Us to also indicate so on MyRegistry. 
    We are thinking of doing a nautical theme in the nursery, with navy/white colors and whales, sailboats, etc.  We’ll even be able to use some of犀利士
     Andy’s photographs (from Baltimore).  Enjoy browsing on the registries!

  • Baby Registries

    We have two baby registries up and running; 壯陽藥
    here they are:

    http://www.myregistry.com/ lists items from a number of different sites. You will have to search for “Monica Griffin” since they don’t offer a direct link to our registry.

    http://www.babiesrus.com/ is a second option. Our registry number is 79063120 or search for “Monica Griffin” in “TN”.

  • It’s a… (Spoiler Alert!)

    This is the appointment we’ve been anticipating since that stick showed two pink lines on it; the day we get to try to determine what gender offspring is.

    Since this will be our first attempt at determining the gender of offspring, Monica invited her mom along just in case offspring cooperated with us. Offspring was very accommodating, bordering on exhibitionist. OK. You ready?
    We’re going to have a boy! Here are a number of pictures for you, the last one will embarass offspring for the rest of his life.

    Baby's Face3D BabyOffspring's SideOffspring RecliningIt's A Boy!

  • Curled Up In a Ball

    Julie came for a visit this weeke壯陽藥
    nd so she and Monica and I all tromped over to the clinic to take a look at our offspring.
    Offspring wasn’t very cooperative and was curled up in a ball on one side. While we could still make out the head, body, arms, and legs, everything was a big jumbled mess with feet over the baby’s head and arms practically everywhere. We can only hope this child will be more cooperative on Monday when we’re supposed to find out the sex of the baby.

  • Baby Needs Earplugs

    Monica had a busy day in clinic today and didn’t get to eat much which made her feel light-headed. She didn’t want to drive home from the clinic until she felt better so she paid the baby a visit via ultrasound. I think the baby has its fingers in its ears in the second picture.

    Reclining BabyBaby Is Still Reclining

  • That’s One Active Child

    Monica and I had an evening free so we decided to sneak into the clinic and take a look at our baby-to-be.
    Monica got the ultrasound machine warmed up, slathered on some of that goo, then drove the ultrasound wand around, showing me the various parts of our offspring. We could see the heart beating, which was really cool, but the most impressive thing – at least to me – was just how much this child moves. He… she…whichever… stretches, twirls, and kicks; I had no idea that babies were so active in-utero. It was frequently hard to get a good look at fingers or toes because offspring kept moving. It was a lot fun being able to see our baby, it kind of makes the reality of the coming addition to our life even more real. We’ve got a little less than three week before our ultrasound to determine the baby’s gender; I hope offspring is more cooperative and less restless then.

  • Baby’s Getting Bigger

    Monica paid the baby a visit via ultra sound again today and came home w犀利士
    ith three new pictures. You can clearly see the outline of a tiny human and can see fingers, toes, arms and legs pretty clearly. Monica said the baby wiggled and turned for her while she was running the ultra sound on herself. She’s (He’s?) about four inches long now and has working joints. She’s also “breathing” amniotic fluid to help develop the air sacs in her lungs.

    Baby RecliningBaby WavingBaby's Profile

  • Baby’s Second Doctor Visit

    We went to the doctor again today and got to listen to the baby’s heartbeat for the first time. Dr. Byrd told us that everything looks good and that we can try to determine the baby’s gender at our 18-week appointment.