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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Tooth #2

Sam's second tooth came in today. It has been coming up and going back down over the past few days and broke through this morning. So he now has his bottom 2 front teeth.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Crawdadding

Sam has become pretty proficient at "crawling" backwards. He doesn't want to go backwards, it is just what happens. He gets very upset about it because he can no longer reach what he was playing with or going for so I am looking forward to him learning to go forward.

Friday, October 21, 2011

6 month checkup

Weight: 15 pounds 5.8 ounces (gained 1 lb, 4.1 ounces)
Height: 27.5 inches (grew 1.5 inches)

Sam had a great checkup today. He is tall and lean.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Sitting...sort of

Sam can now sit up by himself, but only if I put his hands down on the floor in front of him. So he is holding himself up/stablizing himself with his arms. He can sit that way for a few minutes - he usually falls over because he twists around to look at someone.

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Eating and playing more

Yesterday I fed Sam roasted butternut squash and he literally attacked the spoon. He loved it so much he finished the container. He also enjoyed his roasted bananas today - he is finally starting to "eat" more instead of just taking 3-4 bites.

Sam wents nuts with a teether shaped like a foot today. He loved chewing on it and was jumping all around trying to get it into his mouth. He would flip out when he dropped it - we are still working on this.

I pulled out his container of toys today - I have just been giving him one toy at a time, but with the basket of toys we would give him something and then something new and he was so excited. His eyes would get so big and he would start kicking and trying to grab the toy.

Sunday, October 9, 2011

First Tooth

We have been watching Sam's bottom gums the past few days. There has been evidence that the 2 front teeth would be showing up soon. This morning you can see a little white line and feel the tooth.

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Loving Megan's crinkle block

This morning we gave Sam one of Megan's soft blocks - the one that makes the crinkle noise when you squish it. He LOVES it. He was going crazy squishing it and then threw the biggest fit when he dropped it and couldn't reach it.

On the ride home today Megan threw the block over at the foot of his seat and when he woke up he had the best time kicking it.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Peas!

Sam graduated from just rice cereal to some peas this afternoon. You would never have known that I changed what was on the spoon. We are off to a good start.

Our little fish

We took Sam to the pool for the first time yesterday. He did okay in the cooler water in the outdoor pool, but he had a BLAST in the warm indoor pool. He was kicking and kicking and kicking. I laid him on his tummy coming toward me and he would kick and smile and then get his arms going. One time he got so excited he put his head down in the water and then pulled it back up and looked around like "what was that", but he didn't cry.

We left the pool when his feet started pruning - he would have stayed forever I think.

Saturday, October 1, 2011

New way to get a bath

We are on vacation this week, we arrived yesterday. Due to everything that I had to bring with us I couldn't fit Sam's bathtub. I figured I would just use the sink. Well, the sink is so shallow that it wasn't going to work so I had to come up with something else.

I decided to run about an inch of water in the tub and put a towel down. I then layed him down on the towel and just washed him that way. He had the best time. He was so very happy about everything to do with his bath.

After bath time he was still so happy that he just laughed and laughed at everything. It is always fun when he is in the mood to laugh.