Griffin Louis Mossman

This is from my 31wk 3D ultrasound of lil Griffy.. He is doing great. He's a big boy, still breech (not a huge deal at this point), good strong 135 heart rate, and weighing about 4lbs 6oz- already measuring a few weeks(not surprising as his brothers were always big also) ahead has a large head and tummy, and the cheeks.. I can't WAIT to kiss them!! The common consensus is that he looks like Nolan, but I never got a 3D when Bryson was in the womb, and the nose and mouth on all our boys are very similar.. so who knows.. he's just gonna be him, so we shouldn't compare right? Anyway, we got a few pics this first one is my favorite, looks like he's showing off his muscles:
side view of his face

def has daddy and big brothers lips:

now look at those cheekers! TOTALLY kissable!

looks like a smile

Sorry this is a few weeks old but, Griffy and I are both continuing to do well, he is growing like crazy and a wild man kicking all over, I'm hoping he has decided to be head down, he has 4 weeks to get there. I will be induced on the 12th of Dec, I can't WAIT.. it's a bit sad thinking this is my last preganancy but I'm really starting to hurt alot so there are times when I don't think that's such a bad thing! I think the boys are ready to meet the new baby, at least Bryson is.. Nolan might not appreciate the competition too much. :) he's pretty attached to his momma, this will be good for him tho, I hope he doesn't suffer from the middle child syndrome too badly! :)

Part 2: Birthday Buddies

Avery and Nolan are good buddies/cousins and Nicki and I thought it'd be smart to go together and throw them an awesome joint b-day bash. Since Nolan is my only summer/fall birthday, I like to make a fun big backyard theme, and Avery is a Thanksgiving baby, we thought this was a perfect way to get the family together only one time, and pool our money and ideas and do something really fun.. I think it turned out pretty darn good, and all that no rain dancing paid off too!! (thank god!!) Thanks for Everyone who came and for the great gifts!!!!

He loved his party, snacks and gifts.. THANKS everyone!!!
Beautiful Miss Avery enjoying the bounce house, maybe her one still moment in there! Nolan decided he wanted to be shirtless, and apparently Avery wasn't to happy about his stripping at her party, sorry Avery, blame his dad! :)

Enjoying what might have been his 10th sucker of the day, but he's the birthday boy, and I'm huge and pregnant, I let it slide.. :) Can you tell he's obsessed with hats!? LOL

Cuties hanging together in the bouncehouse, of course Nolan won't look at the camera.

As soon as I announced I had cupcake cones, he ran up and yelled PLEEZ.. PLEEZ.. so alright bday boy, here you go!

Posing in her adorable outfit, the bows lasted less than 2 minutes :)

Chowin on a hotdog for a snack between suckers and running around crazy, opening presents and eating junk all day is hard work!I've never seen a bigger (or embarrassing) fit than the one this kid threw over this hat having straps inside!! my poor bestie Dana so sweetly bought him the hat and he was all excited, and went to put it on and FLIPPED out because of the straps and threw it and screamed, thankfully Pappy Stone came in to the rescue and cut those straps out and he was happy as a clam and wore it the rest of the party.. here he is enjoying the hat and new Elmo Spin chair

El Diva sporting her adorable hat, new light up glitter shoes (from her fav auntie), hello kitty necklace and toting her new purse, jewlry box and baby doll. What can i say, Girls are born to multi-task! :) Auntie Emma had prizes!

Shocker, what's he eating?

One sneaky thing I did at the party, gave him a sno-cone, and oops forgot the sugar filled topping, so he enjoyed a cup of crushed ice, and had no clue what he was missing!! I think his sucker intake made up for it! :)

Carnival, part 1

WELCOME to the 2 turning 2 Carnival extravaganza!!!!! Nolan and Avery's big Carnival birthday bash! It was a great day and and good turnout of wonderful friends and family. our cool game set up, bean bags/ring toss, can-knock over, ping pong in a glass throw, and quarterback toss thru a hula hoop and for the youngsters pluck a duck from the pond:

Closer view of the food section of the carnival:

A far off view of the carnival food section, snowcones, popcorn, hotdogs and some yummy cotton candy, all a big hit!!

Went went easy on cake this year, decided to go with the cupcake ice cream cones, to go with our very sugar filled party theme! :)

Birthday Boy and Girl, giving a nice big HUG to start the party off right.. my all time FAV picture from this party. (does he look like his dad or what? can Aves outfit can ANY cuter!!?)

Perfect Patient

Bryson has had a few visits to the dentist this year, unfortunately he likes candy and had to get a filling, he is a big brave boy and they took this pic of him at the dentist. How cute!

Don't show ur teeth Brycie, LOL. I got lucky and Daddy had a little time this am and he took him to his appointment for me so I could get to work on time. :)

PONY RIDE!!

Saturday we went to Chapin for the Big Country Days Celebration, the boys had a great time at the parade and Nolan couldn't shove the candy in his mouth fast enough, it was so funny. Bryson was really good and waved to all the people coming by. Between mouthfuls Nolan would yell and point to tractors, 'Orange' "orange', 'papa? papa? his favorite 2 words and color for the month, surprisingly alotof the tractors were orange, so at least he was right on the color. lol.

After the parade we spotted ponies, Bryson wanted to look only, and Nolan couldn't get thru that gate fast enough to get to that pony, he started to get scared when i put him on, but the lady let me walk next to him and he LOVED it, it was sooo cute! he didnt' want off, he was very upset when we had to stand out and look over the fence, he kept trying to sneak under the bottom to get back to his pony friend, Star.


Mommy helping Nolan ride the pony named "Star" he LOVED it! :) **Notice Nolan is sporting his backwards hat, he doesn't like to leave the house without a hat these days. He is too funny!

Nolan

This is my precious little 'Red Bear'.. he will be 2 next month, WOW, where on earth has the time gone?? He's going thru a bit of the terrible two's right now, but is a really sweet, curly headed boy that i just love to hug and kiss.
Nolan has 2 obessions right now, hats and papa:
HATS, HATS, HATS, he LOVES baseball hats, he wears this all night and often to bed lately, cole left this at our house last weekend.

CLOSEUP of the CHEESE face with his construction hat!

This is his ultimate favorite hat, that started this little obession he has, this construction hat is from his bday, he wore it 2 days straight, bed, school, nap, dr office, tried for bath-no on that, everywhere else, it was on. I couldn't help but laugh, it was just so cute, and he was so adamant that he had to wear it, i couldn't change his mind!






Nolie loves his nana, especially her doggie!

Our visit to Papa Brad's farm, with his best buddy big brother Bryson!

Trying out the gator at the farm, he was TERRIFIED!!

He loved this big truck that Papa was driving to haul grain with.

Papa's doggie is awesome, he LOVES all dogs.. he kept saying 'eye' 'eye' and poking the poor guy.. but at least he loves him!

Picture of his other papa's to come.. he LOVES pappy stone and the pool, im just waiting on some pics--

Big Brother's obsession often become his as well, the batman mask was a big hit with Nolan also, and he wouldn't leave Bryson alone and wanted to try it on... i thought he'd be scared, not at all!







He thinks he is pretty funny!

Little attitude going on, he DEFINITELY has a bit of the red headed temper going on! This is the late Easter Egg hunt we had at Grandma Great's
Nolans Best Buddy- Cousin AVERY! these to are a riot when they get together, Avery thinks im her mommy when i'm around, Nolan isnt' sure what he thinks of that, and last weekend she started lifting up my shirt and blowing rasberries on baby Griffin, Nolan found it very funny and joined her and continues this every night, it's really cute!!

They are very friendly with the kisses, Avery is such a sweet and loving girl, and Nolan doesn't mind!

We've had a pretty good summer so far, Nolan is just getting so big and really trying to talk alot, his favorite word right now is "Orange" he says it all the time, when he's not walking around saying "Pappa?" he also loves Elmo, which he calls 'melmo' anything red or a strawberry or actually Elmo, gets called this. It's so funny. He follows his big brother around all the time and mimics him and loves to attack/wrestle him, he always has to have ANYthing brother has. Thankfully Bryson is pretty patient with him, and hasn't taught him too many bad things, just a few. :) I have plenty more of that ahead I'm sure!

Bryson

This is BRYSON! My wonderful 3.5
year old ball of ENERGY. Here is a summer update on him, and a few of his favorite things!






Cousin Cole is his "best friend in the whole world" he claims, here is they dynamic duo in the gator over the weekend, he finally let Cole drive, that's love! lol.




Bryson driving the gator, i was told they were down
the street and having a grand ol time. Not to mention
opening the alarm blocked door before 7am in the
morning while nana and papa were downstairs and
didn't know they were awake! I think the alarm scared them pretty good because they ran upstairs and said, 'we didn't go outside!!' BUSTED! thank god for the alarm, who knows where they would have run off to!

Cole just turned 4, and this is a cute pic of them at his party in June.

Bryson LOVES to swim, this is him a few weekends back trying out pappy Stone's new pool, it was alittle cold, but that didn't stop him!

Bryson loves Papa Brad's dog, especially when he gets to feed him scraps. No one loves animals quite like his brother Nolie tho!

Wrestling is a few fun thing in the house, Nolan is usually the instigator and with Bryson's new sleeping bag he likes to play in, Nolan just can't help himself. ;)

Bryson in his new Buzz lightyear sleeping bag, this was a gift from a friend of mine, and he LOVES it!!

Speaking of Love.. lets talk about BATMAN!! Bryson LOVE LOVE LOVES Batman, I found this mask and some batarangs at the party store and they were a huge hit, he wants to be batman again for the 2nd yr in a row for halloween. He also wants a Batman birthday, we have a few months for this, but it should be a pretty easy theme, just gotta find a huge batman balloon he keeps talking about wanting at his party. boys!! At least we talked him out of naming the baby Batman right!??

I just can't believe how much my 'baby' has grown, if i call him that he quickly reminds me.. "im NOT a baby mom, i'm a BIG boy!" and that he is! He is so sweet and loving. He is a great big brother, and watching him with Nolan really just melts my heart, he still calls Nolan 'his baby', when wants his attention he yells "BABY!" nolan comes running, if he can't find him, "mom, where's my baby?" I try to remind him we have another baby coming, and we should start calling him Nolan, it's just really cute! He LOVES that Nolan worships him, he will get him going and they run all over being so silly. They both love wrestle time with daddy, and he loves to tell you, 'mom, i love you this much, with his arms as wide as he can reach" then we go back and forth, with big things we love eachother as much as, sky, the town, the ocean" he's a really fun and fun kid, we are so blessed to have such a sweet, smart, caring boy!