month three- the socializers

Month three is where we came out swinging. Admittedly, as first time parents, and especially as the parents of a colicky newborn, JC and I were a little gunshy about taking the kid out of the house, or even out of the nursery. Liable to meltdown at any moment, without provocation or warning, Graydon was more like a ticking timebomb to be handled veeeery carefully than a carefree baby to just toss in the baby bjorn and trot out the door. But month three, we decided to throw caution to the wind and get the baby OUT THERE. It was either that or I was going to jump off the roof. So we strapped the baby in the carseat, and after a few traumatic carrides, we all got the hang of it and haven't looked back since. Ok, that's a lie. He still hates the car seat, and many trips end in baby and mommy both howling. But we are still getting out there, and that's what counts. Here's some of what we've done and who we've been hanging out with this month.

Dinner party at the Kleemans- totally fabulous. Graydon was an angel- but JC I had to threaten with bodily harm in order to get him to leave the party and come home (we hadn't been out in quite a while). Our first family shot:

Katy and Gray

My good friend Jami came to visit and forced me to go shopping with her, a trip that will be forever ingrained in my brain because Graydon screamed so loudly, he shut down the food court and we booked it out of there without even eating. I swore after that we were never going to out again. However, Jami wouldn't take no for an answer, and we went back out to lunch the very

next day- and it was fine! But I still haven't gone back to the mall.

We met out with a lot of people this month-

Nurse Tara gave Graydon one last chance to flirt with her before she gets married- congrats, TJ!

Gina went temporarily insane for the day and invited 3 more babies over to play with her twins

Kyung introduced Gray to his first friend, her son Ben-- suuuuch a cutie

We went out to lunch (again! we're getting cocky!) in Georgetown with Jessie, Kim, Megan, and the always popular, ever-chubalicious Casey Elizabeth (at whom Graydon stared lovingly the entire lunch. Well- when he wasn't peeing himself). This lunch marked the first time that I changed the baby in public- there were no changing tables in the bathroom, and hell if I was going to lay him on the bathroom floor, eeeew. So with Kim's help, we did a little quick-change AT THE TABLE. Jessie held up a dinner napkin to block us from view. It was gross. If you're ever in Georgetown, don't eat at Paparazzi's big corner table near the front window.