Griffin

Griffin at two and a half months has started to develop a personality, likes, and dislikes. Here are some things he is liking/doing/learning/being:

• BEARS!! Griffin loves his bears. They hang above his swing, he stares and stares and stares. Sometimes they rotate out of view, he lets us know!

• SONGS!! Getting Griffin to smile is as easy as singing a song, and if they involve actions/tickling/touch all the better. Right now “If I were a butterfly” is a hit.
• BOUNCY CHAIR!! If he isn’t being held chances are he is batting at toys in his bouncy chair

• SLEEP!! I am blessed with a sleeper. Lately he has been sleeping 8-ish hours straight at night, and then from the 5/6-ish feeding until 8. He doesn’t nap without being held during the day though. I am well rested but don’t get much done during the day!
• THUMB!! He is a thumb sucker (so were his parents).
• EATING!! After all our struggles in the beginning I am so happy to have a nursing baby. He weighed 13lbs 1.5 oz. the other day (clothed) so he is gaining weight and hasn’t had a bottle since week six. He is wearing 6 month clothes!

Adventure

So Saturday was a test day... could we camp with Griffin? Jay and I have enjoyed many trips together and we want to do the same now that we have Little Bear. We went with friends, Mark and Jobina, and their three kids. We hit Hecla (40 min. from home) for one night, just to see how it went.

The trickiest part may have been packing the car! Tent, food, stroller, clothes, diapers, stove, cooking/eating gear, sleeping bags, bouncy chair (to sleep and play in).... all in our family size car (next vehicle we buy will be a van)! Seriously I should have taken a picture of my husband’s awesome tetris skills! Griffin rides in the back seat so we don’t want a ton of stuff back there with him, the trunk was crammed perfectly! Setting up and packing up were a little tricky because both times Griffin decided it was meal time, which means I was no help at all, but if we went by ourselves we would just have to wait until I was done feeding to set-up/take down.

Griffin was pretty good for the most part. He had a bit of a rough time in the evening, which is usually the worst part of his day. He hates the nursing cover so that only made things worse. Jay spent some time in the tent with him and when I went in he ate a bit (more) and conked out for the night. He seemed very fine sleeping in the tent, and woke up smiling and ready for the day around 7:30am. On Sunday he enjoyed a nap on the beach in his stroller, and playing in his bouncy chair under the bug/uv cover. He came home without bug bites or a sunburn! I think we will do another trip later this summer with him!