Big Debut

This morning I took Garrett on his first official social outing. After dropping off Blake on the south end of campus to meet a professor he's working for, Garrett and I drove up to the north end to my office so that he could meet my co-workers. I'm pleased to say that Garrett was utterly charming (and by "utterly charming," I mean "pretty much comatose," which would of course be the case after he kept his parents up all night long with the fussing that finally wore him out). You know, it was pretty fun to be able to play the Proud Mama as I passed him around to the various arms eager to hold him and to listen to everyone coo over how positively adorable he is. If Garrett was dazing in and out of consciousness the entire time, I was beaming the entire time. I can't help but look forward just a little bit to our next official social outing -- church this Sunday.

Last night, because we've had our hunches that Garrett has done himself a healthy bit of growing since we first met him, we took him to the Post Office and weighed him on the scale in the lobby. He is now up to 8 lbs 7 oz -- almost 2 whole pounds heavier than his birth weight. Good job, my boy! Though we haven't measured yet, I think he's also grown lengthwise because the extra 2 pounds have not done much to fill him out, so to speak. He's still just as long and lanky as he's always been, which leads me to believe he's got the same gene that make his uncles so freaking tall.

A visit to the Post Office