This is Griffin with Wyatt, Ben and Marnie's little boy. They were having fun checking out all of Brody's toys.
Griffin was having fun playing "balloon volleyball" with some of the bigger kids. That's the birthday boy in the red shirt in the background.
Brody was showing Haley, Griffin, and Wyatt the bubble machine that he got for his birthday.
It doesn't happy very often, but we did actually manage to get a picture of the three of us together. Griffin is showing a little shoulder in this picture--his outfit was a little too big, but he had to wear it for the party since it had a firetruck on the front and Brody LOVES trucks!
After his afternoon nap, Matt and I took him to Sprout Studio, an indoor play center. He had fun playing the piano, riding on a bumble bee, and playing with all of the different toys. His favorite play area had a little fort with stairs, a tunnel, a ramp, and a slide. He went up the stairs, through the tunnel, and down the ramp over and over again.
Griffin really likes to eat, but he didn't dig into his cake the way I expected. He did get a couple of handfuls of icing and mashed them into his mouth, but he never tore into the actual cake.
Here are a couple of pictures from the pool. We ended most of our afternoons at the pool because it was a good way to get some of the sand off of Griffin before going inside (but we still took plenty into the bath tub every day).
He's holding on in the picture above, but Griffin stood unassisted for the first time while we were at the beach (but I actually missed seeing him the first time). He also learned another new trick while we were gone--blowing kisses. Not only did I witness this one, I got a picture of it as you can see below.