Damaris' Diary for Greyson Efran

  About a dozen times a day you point to Ellie and say “baby cute! awww!” And I respond with “aww yes baby is cute” and then you say “me too! me too! me too!” until I agree that yes, you are cute too. 

Dear Greyson,  They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions... all my life I have thought this quote means that when you intend to do a good thing but don't act on it, you might as well have done the opposite since you did nothing at all. A quick wiki search told me it actually means something else, but for this blog entry I will retain my original meaning. I can't believe that I set out 7 years ago to write blog entries for you and your brother (and any other children) so that you may have these wonderful stories of your childhood to read one day, and yet here you sit, at 3.5 years old, with only your introduction written down at 25 days old. If nothing else, I hope that the thousands of pictures & videos we have taken over the years will serve to tell you just how loved you are, and how you lit up our little family from the day you arrived. So, I may be absolutely terrible at writing to you and your siblings, but I will definitely pay for any amount of storage ...

Hello baby boy! Your birth story is very very different from big brothers', I guess you wanted to make up for all the discomfort of pregnancy because you were born so quickly! You were born at 2:01 PM on June 18, 2019. You were 8 pounds 1 ounce and 20 inches long... still a big baby by normal standards, but a little baby compared to Emmett. I am glad you are my second child and that I am not an anxious, nervous wreck about everything I do. So far you seem a bit more challenging than what I expected; you wake up to eat exactly every 2 hours around the clock. You are about 25 days old today, and last night you have finally decided to increase that 2-hour block to 2.5 hours. Still not the best, but I'll take it! You did lose a lot of weight your first few days of life, your weight was 6 pounds 10 ounces at your first pediatrician visit just 2 days after birth! What happened!? I can tell you.... we had issues with breastfeeding. Everyone at the hospital kept telling me that colos...