I made an iPod cozy to match the headband for a custom order.
But since that’s not very interesting… here are some pictures of Sam!
Doin’ some tummy time. It’s not his favorite activity.
We’re still teething and drooling a lot. I ordered a Baltic Amber teething necklace which should be here early next week. I’m curious to see if it makes any difference!
Have a great weekend!
Due to there being a lot of snow this week, we spent a lot of time just hanging out at home. Sam enjoyed getting his parents undivided attention.
Sam sure does make some entertaining faces!
I love seeing Sam play with his dad, it’s so great to see how much they love each other.
Sam was watching a football game from up there on his little perch on dad’s head. He loves sitting way up high!
He also likes to use his dads wrist as a teething toy. Yum.
This kid makes the best faces, right?
Just wanted to show off some pictures of my boys, I got pretty lucky, right?
Another Vandal Helmet for a custom order!
Sam is a little under the weather (Again) but hey, we’re working through it.
We got lots and lots of snow this week! So we’ve been a little cooped up.
Sam seems to do better when we get out of the house, but it’s just been so very icky outside that we haven’t wanted to get bundled.
But I suppose that’s just what happens in the winter in Moscow.
And just a note, to those of you who are waiting on orders- I am a bit backed up with them, but they ARE getting worked on. Since Sam has been sick there hasn’t been as much time for knitting, so do not worry, they are coming, I promise!
Samuel got to meet his cousin Iris this week!
She’s only a couple weeks older than Sam!
Iris gave Sam this ball for Christmas, and they both love it!
And Grandma Gloria made him some bib-bandanas! So cute, right?
Sam tried to eat the ball, but Iris kept getting it right out from underneath him.
Uncle Phil got some double-baby-holding experience. It does take some skill!
Both of the babies look a little grumpy here, but it was past both of their bedtimes. But they were both pretty happy, I swear!
But we couldn’t for the life of us get a picture of them looking in the same direction. Hah!
Isn’t she just a little scrumptious nugget? I love her! So glad that she and Sam could meet!
While we were in Tacoma for Christmas Samuel got baptized! We had it done at my home church, by Pastor Rayburn on Christmas Morning, and it was lovely.
He was baptized with water from the Jordan River!
And if any of you are curious about Sam’s baptismal gown, that was ALSO made by my mom! She’s so crafty (I wonder where I get it, right?) Here’s a close up:
She knows what I like, that woman!
I need to get Sam to make his pouty face so we can get him in his baptismal gown next to my picture of me in my baptismal gown.
A few days late, but here are Sam’s monthly photos! Here’s a link to Month 1, and Month 2, and Month 3, in case you missed them! And here is a link to a page that I’ll be updating every month with all of the pictures together, so you can see them side by side!
With his bear:
Sam in his crib:
With Crocheted Pillow:
I can’t believe Sam is already 4 months old! So crazy to think that he is 1/3 of a year old. It’s been challenging, but he seems to be getting better and less colicky. He did have really bad croup this week, but we went to the doctor and got on some steroid medication. We were really relieved that he’s gotten so much better because they thought he was in the beginning stages of pneumonia, which in a 4 month old baby is really scary! But he is feeling a lot better now, although we are teething on top of all of that! He’s cutting a tooth and drooling a LOT, lots of chewing on his hands and sticking everything in sight right into his mouth!
Speaking of which… he’s up from his nap, so I’m off to rescue him from the swing!
Posting might be a bit sparse this week, as the 3 of us are in Tacoma visit family (yay!) but hope you all have a fabulous week!
Wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas. May you be blessed this holiday season!
Love Ali, Paul and Sam.
I saw some Baby Legs online, and thought they were really cute, but I didn’t want to pay $14 bucks for basically a tubesock.
So, I took a pair of knee socks that a hole in the heel and I cut the feet off of them, and voila! Babylegs!
He was being really squiggly! I couldn’t get a good picture of him!
They are handy for when we are just hangin’ out at home, and this way we don’t have to take any pants off when we are changing diapers!
I think they look pretty cute, although Paul thinks they look kind of dorky. I think I’ll make some more out of socks that are really worn in the heels or toes.
It’s been a while since I’ve done a real update on Sam, so here goes! He’s just over 15 weeks now, and just over 13 pounds, but only barely 22 inches (putting him in the 3rd percentile for height! Lil’ shorty!). He is still eating like a champ, and still wanting to eat every 3 hours, even at night. I am anxious for him to start sleeping longer stretches, but I know that might not happen for a little longer. He was such a good sleeper until about 5 weeks old, when he started to get colicky. He didn’t nap well during the day and when he didn’t nap well, that meant that nights were rough, too. We’ve gotten on a pretty good nap schedule, and our days are much more structured than they were for the first 10 weeks of his life.
Our day looks something like this:
7:00am- Dad gets up for work, and Sam wakes up, too. He doesn’t want to miss out on any fun! He eats and head downstairs to make some breakfast and coffee for mama
8:15am- Naptime! Usually sleeps til around 9:45 or 10:00,
10:00am- Eat again, then we do some tummy-time and try to play some on the baby-gym. He’s still not really interested in toys, but I keep putting them there, knowing one of these days he’ll figure out he can grab them and play with them
11:00- Nap time again! While he’s napping I make some lunch, catch up on laundry, try to do the dishes, keep up with the house. This is usually his longest/best nap of the day, so I take advantage of it!
1:30/2:00- Finally wake up from nap and eat (he’s usually starving by this point and a little grumpy) after he’s fed we try to get out of the house. Lately I’ve been just putting him in the Ergo and we just walk somewhere. Luckily Moscow is small, and downtown is about a 10 minute walk away from us, so oftentimes we walk down to the Co-op to grab a pesto-roll (mama’s favorite!) or to Bucer’s for a mocha (mama’s other favorite!)
3:30- Return home from walk, do a bit more tummy time, or sit in the Bumbo and we have a good chat. He seems really talkative at this point in the day, so I try to encourage that as much as I can. He loves it when you sit really close and talk in a high pitched voice.
4:00-Nap again! Then I figure out dinner!
5:00- Paul gets home from work, and Sam will usually wake shortly after he gets home. This kid does NOT want to miss out on any dad time. Whenever Paul is home Sam wants to be around him. This kid likes his dad a lot! So we hang out and pass Sam back and forth while trying to finish up and eat dinner.
7:30- Bedtime routine starts (sometimes a little bit earlier if he is getting grumpy or tired) we go upstairs into his quiet and dimly lit room and we change his diaper, nurse, swaddle, sing a few songs and put him in his crib and he will almost always conk out by himself within a few minutes. He’s usually up around 12:00am, 3:00am and 6:00am to eat.
However, the past two weeks I’ve been filling in at the church office in the afternoon a few days a week, and Sam comes with. That’s been interesting… but I think he enjoys some different scenery!
We’re still doing the cloth diapers, except Sam is a heavy wetter, so we switched to disposables at night because he was leaking through the cloth every single night, and I just felt terrible that everytime I would go get him he was wet through his onesie and swaddling blanket. That had to be cold and uncomfortable for him, but other than that the cloth diapering is going great! I just have to remember to keep up with the laundry!
Sam also likes to stand. The other day I set him next to the couch and he grabbed onto the slip cover and stood like this, completely on his own for more than 60 seconds! He kept this shocked look on his face the whole time, like he was surprised by what he was doing. It was pretty hilarious.
He has seemed to calm down a lot in the past few weeks. When he was 14 weeks old (Weekend before last) he got a cold, and it was just the saddest thing ever. He couldn’t breath through his nose, and would wake himself up coughing. He stopped eating almost entirely for 3 days, so we took him to the doctor (I was scared that it might be RSV or something) but it was just a bad cold, and so we set up the humidifier and just spent a lot of the night rocking him to sleep, since he would get so stuffed up while lying down flat on his back. But, it seemed that the cold somehow made him calmer! Ever since then he’s been a lot more chill. His doctor did say that the colic would probably start to abate somewhere around 3 months, so it may have just been a coincidence, but whatever it was, I don’t care! He’s a happier baby, which makes a happier mama and a happier house in general.
He was teething for a little while, but it seems that his tooth has made it’s way back down into the gum. I was hoping it would break through, so we don’t have to go through this again, but the bump is no longer to be found on his gums.
And WOW, when he is happy, oh my word, he is the most fun person in the world to be around. He loves to smile and coo when you tickle under his chin. And his smile is so sweet. Sometimes at night after I put him down he will spit out his pacifier, and when I turn around to put it back in he will raise one eyebrow and then break out the hugest grin. How can you not laugh at that? Trust me, it’s impossible not to smile at him when he flashes his little gummy smile to you. He also will mimic sounds, now, which is funny. If we say “Hi” he will make a high pitched “Eye” squeal sound, which is pretty adorable. He also says “mamamamama” which, you know, I am pretty inclined to believe is “mama”, I can dream, right?
I think we’re beginning to hit our stride, Sam and I. I am able to read his signs a bit better and figure out what’s a hunger cry vs. a “change my diaper” cry (he hates being wet!), a tired cry vs. a “I just want to be held” cry, and once you figure out their cues, it gets a lot easier to make them happy and everyone is the better for it. Being a mama sure is challenging, but it’s pretty great, too.
I never posted these pictures of Sam in the baby-sack I made him!
It was handy during those first few weeks where he wanted to be really cozy.
I can not believe how tiny he was!
What a teeny little squirt he was! With barely any cheeks!
These were taken on 9/14/11, when he was just 11 days old! Goodness- I’ve already almost forgotten those newborn days!
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