Due Date

Today is Gryffin’s due date. Instead he is turning 3 weeks old.

The last 3 weeks have been quite lovely. Knowing that he is my last baby has made me appreciate the experience so much more. Even the hourly wake-ups in the middle of the night to feed and change him have been quite enjoyable (I know, it’s hard to believe!!).

Gryffin seems to be a very calm, easy going, and happy soul. He sleeps well, eats well, burps well, poops well. I’m glad I’d scheduled the tubal ligation with the C-section because otherwise I would’ve had 2nd thoughts, he’s just so easy and sweet! Well, for now. People tell me to give him a bit of time for his true colors to shine.

I will say that he does seem to have a bit of a temper. I’ve noticed that if I’m not able to attend to him quickly, he will go from 0 (passed out and perfectly content) to 1000 (screaming at the top of his lungs, not breathing, turning red all over) in exactly 3 minutes (yes, I’ve timed him, he’s clockwork). So it’s possible that he may have a temper. Which wouldn’t surprise me given the fact that he is 25% Italian and 25% Colombian.

His umbilical cord stump fell off about a week ago, which means – bath time! I’ve been taking him in the bath with me and he LOVES it. Even more than the other 2 did at this age. He enjoys the water, has already started kicking and moving around. The others were a bit nervous about being in the water at first; not Gryffin, he loved it from the first moment.

He is already holding his head up, smiling, tracking, and spends quite a bit of time every day in the quiet-alert stage. He already army crawls from one end of the bed to the other, and loves to crawl up my belly to get to his milk. I think we might have another fire cracker on our hands.