The Griggs Family: Happy Father's Day Update...

It has been over a week now that Justin has left for China. His week in Hong Kong went well and he is now in Shanghai experiencing his first Monday morning of work there ( he is 13 hours ahead of us). The time change makes it a challenge to talk a lot, but luckily we have been able to speak often and email if talking isn't an option.

The kids and I had our first full week on our summer schedule and it was a busy one. Peyton is really enjoying our Monday and Wednesday morning activities of Gymboree and the Trampoline park and Jack warmed up to both pretty quickly both days. I anticipate with going to Gymboree twice a week (once for class and at least once a week for open gym time) and the trampoline park once a week he will start to really enjoy each of those morning more and more. He had a good first week of summer social. They start out at the park each morning then head back to Kerry's house for structured social learning activites and also gets to enjoy some water fun. Which for a boy who loves being out side makes for a good day. Friday is our free day of the week when we have no pre-scheduled activities planned. This Friday we had a play date with my friend Jessica and her son Heath. Peyton was having so much fun she skipped her nap. The fun lasted all day so we decided to go out for dinner at Whataburger, and then we headed over and played at the open gym. I was so surprised that girl just kept going and going, my little energizer bunny children :) She ended up paying for her lack of nap that night, she was overly tired and didn't sleep very well (such the opposite what you expect to happen), but made up for it with Saturday's nap that lasted for just over 3 hours.

I had some great help this week from my wonderful neighbor Jessica who watched Peyton for me a couple time so I could get to the gym and go to an appointment. She also brought us dinner Monday night and surprised us with a fantastic bag of goodies for me and the kids. Peyton always loves to play at Jessica's house, she loves playing with Lydia and really enjoys when Jack entertains her with his balloons :) Today was also the first time we used Rachel who is someone that Justin found who works at fossil that is willing to baby sit for me this summer. I had her come over this morning for a few hours to watch the kids while I ran some errands. It was nice to get out of the house without the kids. Those trips to Target without kids is truly a mini vacation ;) We finished up our Sunday with an invitation from my friend Celina to come over and go swimming with her and her son Tanner. Jack and Peyton both had a blast at the pool, and since Jack decided to take a nap today (is there a blue moon or something??) I am hoping it helped wear him out a little so he isn't up to late.

I hope everyone had a really nice Father's Day! We missed spending the day with Justin but I was able to make him a fun little digital gift he could watch and hopefully it made him feel loved today. We will be excited to see him July 5th when he comes back home for his week in Dallas.

Happy Father's day to my Dad too who I am looking forward to seeing over the 4th of July holiday!

Here is a link to the video I made for Justin if anyone is interested but I'll warn you now its kind of long (16 min)
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6MU3XcwrZzWdGU0WklPZ3FQRWs/edit?usp=sharing

Gymboree Fun!