8 months 3 weeks

Bathing Griffin is a lot of fun. He's grown past gripping the sides of the tub in abject fear, though he is still afraid of the sound of running water. I'm not quite sure why, but he is generally afraid of loud sounds, especially yelling. This applies to pretend yelling too, such as when Eric is blowing off steam and yelling at an inanimate object while laughing. Tonight we had to comfort a frightened Griffin who was crying in fear while his father wrestled with the keyboard drawer on his desk, shouting the whole time.

But, the bath. He likes the yellow ducks, and he has a few of them. We got a momma and duck and babies, a duck that tells if the water is too hot, and a duck from a pharmacy. The one that floats the best is the one that tells if the water is too hot. The rest have a tendancy to flip upside down. He enjoys chewing on it.

Besides the duck, he likes looking at himself in the mirror, and has just begun to understand that when he hits the water, it splashes! This is a lot of fun.

I can't wait until he's past eating everything, and when he takes baths in the actual tub. I want to buy him bath crayons!!

Goodnight.
-Autumn