Moving on up

Gabe's most exciting news of the week - besides sleepovers and hospital visits - is that his booty has moved up to size 1 diapers. Hopefully this will keep the blowouts to a minimum!!

Gabe's first Tea Party

ended in disaster when Jude tried to "feed" him with a play spoon and it ended up half way down his throat. It created tears which I have yet to see. Gabe did enjoy the first part of the tea party with Ella though.

My brother and I

like to watch Scooby Doo together.

A couple of beach pictures

Beach trip

Gabe spent the majority of his trip in the room with Nana. He did go crab hunting (in his habitat) as well as taking a trip to the beach for pictures. We went out to eat alot but he never left the comfort of his sling. I was a little messy a couple of nights and he had lettuce or something on his face one night when I took him out and the other night it was ketchup! Overall he is safe in there though!

Free at last

Why did this need its own post - because I am thrilled! Gabe FINALLY lost his belly button stump thingy...yeah. Now he can take a "real" bath.

October 10, 2008

1 week
1 month

Friday was significant for us for two reasons. First, Gabe was one month old! Second, it was our first family of five road trip. I can't believe how fast the first month has gone by. Things are pretty much the same with Gabe. He is awake a little more frequently but still sleeps most of his day away. He still loves his Gabe habitat as Marilyn calls it (which is his sling that I too love). He is finally going to bed at a decent hour (around 9-10) and is waking once in the night around 3 and then is getting up with the rest of the crew about 6:30-6:45. It didn't take him that long to fall into our schedule. He is even sleeping in with us at the beach. I hope I don't mess everything up...that brings me to the first road trip. He did great. Actually everyone did great. He didn't start crying until we were about 30 minutes from our condo. We stopped about 45 minutes outside of White House for our first bathroom break (which I will detail on the Griffin family blog for anyone actually interested). Overall the trip here was smooth. I hope the trip home is as good.

Quick visit

Last night Mimi, Pops, Aunt Jamie and Kingston came for a quick visit. We had a little dinner, snuggled with Gabe and took some pictures. Gabe thoroughly enjoyed himself and the big kids had fun with Kingston and checking out the goods Mimi & Pops brought as well as what Kingston brought them. Thanks for the visit!!

Three week checkup

Gabe had his appointment exactly three weeks from birth. He was up to 8 pounds and 12 ounces and was 21 inches long. I can't remember the head circumference but he has an itty bitty head and it was only in the 14th percentile when the rest of him was around the 43rd percentile...MUCH smaller that Jude and Ella's big heads!