Already Friday

So this week has flown by.  I am exhausted.  We haven't had TV downstairs all week because our cable box blew up.  Finally Charter came today and fixed it.  I have been so busy that there really hasn't been any need to watch the TV, but it is nice to have it at night.  I am so ready for the weekend.  I have so much little stuff to do and it will be nice to have Dave around to watch Samuel, so I can get it all done.  

Samuel is almost sitting up on his own.  Today he sat for about 15 seconds on his own and I have able to take a picture of him.  His face is hilarious.  I wish I could figure out how to rotate the picture.  When I download them to my computer I am able to rotate and save them, but when I download them to blogger it never picks up my revised version of the picture.  Anyone know how to do that? Anyway, you will have to turn your head to see the picture.

He has been desperately trying to sit up and today he got so frustrated he threw himself backwards and I couldn't catch him fast enough, so he knocked his head on the floor.  I picked him up and he cried for a few seconds and then he was fine.  

Yesterday, I couldn't keep his feet out of his mouth.  It is a good thing I know his feet are clean.  He was sucking on his big toe like it was his thumb.  It was funny, amazing and disgusting all at the same time.  

His hair is getting much blonder lately.  It is going to be strange to have a blonde haired blue eyed kid.  

Oh, I tried one recipe in the Deceptively Delicious cookbook.  I tried the tofu nuggets.  I know you are probably thinking, out of all the recipes why would I choose that one.  Well, I had tofu in the fridge and I wanted to try something healthy.  It was gross.  Dave said he didn't think they were that bad, but after I said how gross I thought they tasted and I couldn't eat another bite, then he admitted he didn't like them much either.  So one recipe down.  I will let you know about the others I try.

I am off to do a few things before Samuel wakes up.  Have a great weekend. 

Busy few weeks and weekend

There were many firsts that happened this weekend. Here they are:

1. Dave and I went out on Friday night for dinner to Justin and Charisa's. They bought a beautiful house in St. Charles and they are pretty close to us now, which is wonderful. Play dates and adult time!!!  The last time we saw them I posted the funny picture of Samuel and Vance, where Samuel was out of control crying during the picture. We were able to get a really good picture this time. 

Before:



New Picture:

(How cute!)

2. Dave and I went out on Saturday night to our friends Cara and Jon's house for dinner and we stayed out until 11:30 pm. Holy cow, we haven't stayed out that late in forever.

3. On Sunday morning Samuel came in our bed around 6 am and then he fell back asleep until 9 am. We got to sleep in!

4. Then this is the biggest first: Samuel slept through the night! He slept from 8:30 pm until 6:30 am. It was awesome. He woke up twice and made a few noises and then went right back to bed. It was amazing. I however still woke up every 3 to 4 hours checking the clock and being amazed that he was still sleeping. At one point I had to go in and check on him because I was worried he wasn't breathing or something.   He was breathing and sleeping great.  We will see if this continues.

More pictures from the weekend:

Aunt Laura, Samuel and I went to Forest Park to walk and here is a picture of Samuel in his stroller.  I love his new hat.

Laura and I went shopping on Friday and as you can tell we completely wore Samuel out.  He didn't even wake up for the fun in World Market.

I forgot to post this picture earlier, but last week Samuel met Tuesday Brown.  This is a picture of Joel, Tuesday and Samuel.  We wish Joel and Rachael would move back to St. Louis.  We miss them!

Side note: Samuel has been sleeping for an hour and a half right now for his nap.  I am getting so much done.

I pureed some Butternut Squash and Sweet Potatoes.  I am planning on trying some recipes from the cookbook Deceptively Delicious.  I will let you all know how it goes.  

Have a great week everyone. 

Doctor's Appointment

We had Samuel's 4 month doctor's appointment yesterday. he got 4 more shots and an oral vaccine. We were thinking about splitting up his shots but they were the exact same shots he got at 3 months and he did perfectly fine, so we decided to give it to him again. He was a little sore n his legs, but acted fine otherwise. He was really tired in the evening so we put him to bed around 7:15 and he slept until 3. Thank goodness. I then fed him and he slept again until 6:30. This is the most sleep I have gotten since May and I am not exaggerating. Ever since he had pneunomia the beginning of June he hasn't slept more then 3-4 hours at a time. I have been exhausted. This morning I got up, made coffee, got Dave's breakfast, lunch and snacks ready for work and now I have been playing with Samuel. He is hanging out on the floor next to me in his play yard thing.

So Samuel weighted 16 pounds and 11 oz. He gained less then a pound in a month, but he is still the 84% percentile in weight. He was like 64% in height and 34% in head circumferance. Crazy.

One last thing before I go. Yesterday I happened to have the TV on when the new hour of the today show with Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford were on. That hour is terrible. Hoda looks so uncomfortable because she has to deal with a true idiot as a co-host. Kathie Lee is one of the most annoying idiotic people on TV. They were talking about celebrity new born babies and they mentioned that the "man" finally had his baby girl. Kathie Lee was like "I don't know what to call 'it', is she a woman or a man. I think she is a woman, she had a baby." She went on and on about how strange it was and that she would invite "it" onto the show, but only if "it" came on to do a mommy makeover, as a woman. Hoda tried to tell her that this was a transgender person who is now living as a man and should be treated as if he was a man. If you refer to the person it is a "him". Kathie Lee wouldn't buy it and just kept going on and on. That is just one example of how stupid and annoying she is. Anyone else feel the same way? Poor Hoda, if she were the only host during that hour I would watch it, but because Kathie Lee is on, I can't stand it.

Pictures from Michigan

Pictures from June

Home again Home again

We are home from a weekend in Michigan.  What a trip!  One thing we learned: Samuel is not a good traveler at all.  He was fine at the beginning of the trip and then couldn't stand another minute in his car seat.  It took us about 9 hours driving.  Once we got to Michigan and then back to St. Louis he was so happy to be out of the car seat and he was enjoyable, but the drive wasn't so great.  

We got Samuel a new car seat, one of the convertible car seats that are bigger.  He was filling up the little pumpkin seat and we were worried about driving such a long distance with him in something so small.  We think he really like the new seat because he sits up higher and can look out the window.  

The trip while we were in Michigan was really nice.  Samuel met his cousin Jacob for the first time.  (I will post some pictures once I download everything).  It is really interesting how babies check out other babies.  It was pretty cool to see them together.  Jacob will be 11 months in a few days and the difference of 7 months is just amazing to me.  They grow so quickly.  

Samuel also met his great Aunt Irene and Uncle Butch.  They drove from Canada to see Samuel.  It was a very pleasant surprise.  Oma and Opa were excited to have everyone under one roof.  

Not only were all the humans excited but George had a wonderful time too.  For those of you who know George, she isn't much of a REAL dog.  She doesn't like to walk on wet grass, she walks around puddles in the street, she won't go outside when it is raining, and I could go on forever.  Well when we go to Michigan she turns into a real lab.  Oma and Opa have a big pond and we can't keep George out of it.  She swam so much and retrieved sticks from the water.  She loved it.  We wore her out so much on Saturday that she could barely move Saturday night and then slept the entire time on the car ride home.  Then she went upstairs around 7 when we got home and went to bed for the night.  

Also, Samuel is now 4 months old.  I can't believe it.  He is almost able to sit up on his own.  he can sit for about 2 seconds and then he falls forward.  We are working on it though.  

That's it for now.  I am off to download pictures.  

  

Super Busy

We have been so busy this week.  I have been running tons of errands and we went to lunch with Uncle Jonathan and Aunt Laura.  

I hope everyone has a wonderful July 4th.  I will post lots of pictures after the weekend.  I am trying to clean today.

Sorry so boring.