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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Free eye exam

Yesterday we took Megan for her eye appointment. When the doctor came in the room and saw Sam he asked us how old he was and then checked his eyes. Everything looks great!

Friday, September 23, 2011

5 months old and more

Sam was 5 months old yesterday. :-)

Sam has really started going after toys. He is trying so hard to crawl to get to them. He gets his little legs going, but he picks his arms up off the floor so he doesn't go anywhere. He does get very excited when someone helps him to get the toy. Though, he does have a little temper. He gets upset when he can't get to something or when a toy he is playing with doesn't do what he wants. If you tell him "you are okay" he will calm down immediately and even smile at you, but if you don't say something he just escalates.

This morning we tried cereal again and he did awesome. He opened his mouth for the bites and he swallowed what I fed him. Way to go Sam! We are on our way to fun with eating. I will feed him cereal for 2 weeks before we transition to veggies and then fruit.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Trying to escape and trying to use a spoon again

Yesterday I put our "safe" bumper in Sam's crib. This is a breathable/collapsible bumper so that if his face gets smushed against it he won't sufficate and so that he can't use it to climb out of the crib.

We originally bought this bumper when Megan started getting her legs stuck in the rungs of her crib several times a day and the bumper did its job, she never got stuck again. Sam has decided to use the bumper to get stuck. He sticks his legs out of the crib on top of the bumper and then bends his knee. He was doing this already, but I thought the bumper would fix it for us.

I will be working with Sam again this week trying to get him to eat some cereal from a spoon. I am hoping that he will get the hang of it so he can start eating "food" every day.

Friday, September 16, 2011

Missing Megan

Megan came down with a cold on Tuesday night so we have been keeping Sam away from her since then to keep him from getting sick. Thankfully it is working, he is just fine; though he is sleeping more than usual so he may be trying to fight off getting it.

Today Sam was in his exersaucer and Megan was sitting in her music chair 4 or 5 feet away. He would reach toward her and fuss. I think he misses playing with her and getting her kisses. It was very sweet.

I told him that he could get her as soon as she was better.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Bouncing Baby Boy, Laughing & Finding his feet

Sam truly is a bouncy baby boy. He LOVES to bounce when you let him stand in your lap. He just bounces up and down and smiles. We need to get the Johnny Jump Up out and let him go at it.

He is really laughing now. Not just a giggle here and there but seriously laughing and laughing and laughing when he thinks you are funny. Usually he laughs himself right into the hiccups, but that doesn't stop him from laughing more.

A couple of days ago Sam found his feet. He is grabbing them and putting them in his mouth.

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Oops - posted in wrong Blog

This was accidentally posted in Megan's blog:

Sunday, September 4, 2011
In the corner and on his head

Sam has been inching/scooting his way into the corner of his crib for a couple of weeks now. The problem is that when he gets there he doesn't understand that there is nowhere else to go. He keeps pushing and pushing with his little legs, cramming his head into the corner. As you can imagine this is not something he enjoys and he screams while doing it. I can go in and turn him onto his back and move him to the other end of his crib and 5 minutes later he will be right back where he was.

This has been an "annoying" problem, in that he is upset and I have to keep going in and moving him back down, but today it became a HUGE problem. Why? Because now when he is in the corner and moving his little legs he is getting his feet under him and standing in an upside down V on his head in the corner. Oh dear! So, not only is this even more upsetting to him, but I wouldn't put it past him to push hard enough to somehow flip out of his crib. This isn't really a danger - it would be an amazing feat, but we are lowering the crib anyway just to be safe. He is so strong, you just can't be too safe.

Cereal - Take Two

So yesterday I tried feeding Sam cereal again and it went so much better. He opened his mouth for the spoon and eventually ate most of what I fed him. At first he was just "collecting" all of the cereal in his mouth. He wouldn't swallow it and he wouldn't spit it out. I think that it will only be 2-3 more days of teaching him and then we will move to him getting cereal with every meal for a couple of weeks and then start introducing veggies.