Esther Sophia is here! She was born today at 1:43pm, 7lbs 12oz and 20 inches long. I will add a picture after Elaine and Rodney have shown her off! Congratulations guys, we are so excited for y'all. She is BEAUTIFUL!

Baby Grindstaff

Here is our new little one! I'm sure you don't think so but I thought the baby is so beautiful I cried. I know, I know at this stage it is hard to see anything. Over on the far left is the head. If you look on the far right you can see a tiny little leg. I was reading yesterday that the baby is only the size of a grain of rice. How on earth can something so small make me so sick. Kati says, "I know what is making you sick. That stinky little baby." She says it with love of course. As of Tuesday we are eight weeks pregnant, with a due date of June 20th.

In the mind of a child

You will have to pay close attention to the words in this blog to get it (this picture doesn't go with the it, I just thought she looked cute).

Kati comes into the kitchen pretending to ride on a toy. She says "Mommy can you dry your hands off ( I was washing dishes) and get these things off of me I'm stuck." So I dry off my hands and try to take away the toy. "No, no" she says "not that" and she points to imaginary things on her legs. I get all of that off and she leaves the kitchen. She comes back just a little bit later and says, "Oh thanks mom, I had all that traffic stuck on me and I couldn't get home." I wonder what picture goes through her mind when I say Daddy is stuck in traffic and can't come home yet.

Halloween

For Halloween we went with some friends to a church function. There were tons of bounce house, games, food stands and candy but boy was it cold. I for some reason thought it would be inside so the kids had no jackets and very thin costumes. Luckily I brought blankets along so we just wrapped up in them. I say we, I really mean the kids. The kids had a great time. Kati played games and Brendon kept sneaking candy. He had a very stick face and of course I left the wipes in the car. We were so proud of Kati. Jeff was talking her on this huge blow up slide. He stopped to take his shoes off but when he looked up she was half way up, she didn't even wait for him.

My little pirates

Grandpa, Jeff made add this one for you (Kati wanted me to be a pirate too)

She may have been dressed as a pirate but she was still all girl!

This is my favorite of them together. I know you can't see there faces very well but with Brendon always on the move you take what you can get.

What a goober. The hat didn't last for long

Our finished pumpkin

Pumpkin Farm

They had their first pumpkin ice cream. I know they don't appear to be enjoying it but they did.

It's fuzzy I know, but you can see how much fun she was really having that day.

Kati thought this one looked like a peach

It was pretty windy and the kids kept getting dirt in there eyes.

I love this one