How do you know you are old?

It is, I guess now Sunday morning, almost 1 am and obviously something is not normal if I am up right now.  

Dave and I came up with a list.  How do you know when you are old? 

1.  It is 12 am and you are hanging out with friends and you are soooo tired. (Feels like at least 2 or 3 am). 

2. You are craving Del Taco, you get in the drive-thru and there isn't a line (because it is way too fucking early, even though it feels like the middle of the night).

3. You have to put your baby to bed before you chow down on Del Taco.

4. You ask for and use the del scorcho sauce on the disgusting tacos you just ordered and your mouth is on fire because the stupid sauce is way too hot.

5. You realize you are posting a blog at 1 am, you are trashed and you only had 3 glasses of wine. 

6.  Your stomach is killing you from eating Del Taco.

I think that is it.  I am so tired.  I am drinking water, thinking about getting some Gatorade and heading to bed, so I can be ready for my child to wake me up in about 5 hours.  This is awesome.  Remind me again why I decided to go out tonight.  

TGIF

Here are a few updates from yesterday and today:

Yesterday Samuel took a 2 hour nap in the morning (Hip Hip Hooray)

Then he got me back by only taking a 45 minute nap in the afternoon and then proceeded to scream, cry, throw tantrums and require to be held from 2 - 4.  

He then passed out from yelling so much around 4.  I was walking around holding him and he just passed out, so I sat down on the cough and I also fell asleep.  He wore me out. 

Samuel is definitely my child.  He has quickly learned to throw tantrums.  I put him in his exersaucer because I could not hold him anymore.  He jumped up and down in it, kicked his feet and banged his hands on all the toys and screamed all at the same time.  It was quite a sight. Earlier in the morning he was really tired and put him in his crib and he also kicked his legs and arms on the mattress.  The thing is, I could get really frustrated and upset, but it is actually pretty humorous.  

My mom told me that one day I would have a child that would act just like me and I would understand how difficult I was.  Well, I think I have a clue now.  I can't wait for him to start talking!

A few more things:

Samuel has learned to flirt.  He turns his head to the side and bats his eyes and acts like he is shy, which clearly if you have met him you know he isn't.  I don't know where he picked that up from.  

Dave and I decided that it is clearly time for Samuel to be sleeping all night long.  So last night we decided that we were going to let him cry.  He woke up at 12:30 am, Dave went in and patted him and he went back to sleep about 2 minutes later.  He woke up again at 4 am and Dave had to go in 3 times and pat him. It took him less then 45 minutes to fall back asleep.  He didn't cry continuously for 45 minutes, but it took him that long to completely go back to sleep.  Then he slept until 7:15 am.  It was wonderful.  We are going to stick to this plan for the rest of the weekend and hopefully by Sunday night he will sleep all night long.  

Lastly, I have worked out 3 days in a row.  I feel so much better.  I am meeting a group on Sunday morning around 8 am for a 3 mile run.  The group is going to train for a half-marathon.  Not sure if I will be doing that, but at least I can run with them and it will motivate me.  

That is it for now.  Have a great weekend everyone.    

Not much going on here

I have so many errands to run today.  Our fridge is complete empty, so I need to run to the grocery store and get us food!

Samuel is getting up on his hands and knees.  I don't think he is that close to crawling, but maybe in the next couple of weeks. 

When I check on him sleeping at night, he has his knees pulled under him, so I think he is practicing crawling in his crib.  

I don't have much to say today, so that is it for today.  

Pictures from Our Trip

I gave him toys in his crib to play with.  I went to fold the laundry, came back in and he had piled them all behind him.

Here is how much he loves bananas:

Some 6 month pictures:

At the wedding in Canada:


Here are the cousins (Dave, Kristin, Mark and Steven):

Family from the Netherlands (Karen, Dave, Samuel and Ton):

Dave, Samuel and Uncle Joe:

The bride and groom:
Samuel thinks that the way to kiss someone is to open his mouth and lick people (that is what George does to him, so that is what he does to other people).  Here he is giving Steven a big wet one:

That's it for now.

Warning - Long Post

I haven't posted in a while because we have been out of town since last Friday.  On Friday, September 5th (which by the way was Samuel's 6 month birthday. I can't believe how old he is getting!) we left for Canada for Dave's cousin Kristin's wedding.  We were very worried about how Samuel was going to do on his first flight, especially since it was out of the country, but he did wonderful.  

He woke up late on Friday, so we were able to keep him up a little past his first nap time and I fed him during take off and he fell asleep.  He slept the majority of the flight.  He basically did the same thing on the way home.  Thank goodness he behaved himself.  We were really worried.  

More updates:

We gave Samuel bananas last week.  He HATED them.  He tolerated them by the end of the week, but he still didn't like them.  Last night we gave him prunes.  He LOVED them.  He was screaming because I couldn't feed them to him fast enough.  (I have pictures of the banana eating, so I will post them later).

We had Samuel's 6 month doctor's appointment yesterday.  We decided that we are going to split up his shots.  He is going to get about 2 a month.  I just don't feel comfortable giving him 4 or 5 shots at a time.  They wanted to give him 5 shots yesterday and I said no way.  How can that be good for his little system.  Anyway, here are his stats:

Height: 26.75 in (64%)

Weight: 18 lbs 15 oz (76%)

Head Circ: 43.25 cm (36%) -I am sure some of you are wondering how in the world he could have such a small head when he is the son of Dave.  I am wondering the same thing myself.  

We also asked the doctor if he thought Samuel would keep his blue eyes and he said he should.  We think his eyes are getting lighter blue.  We would love it if he kept them.  

There were tons of things I was planning on writing about, but now I can't think of them.  I will post pictures from the weekend in a new post.  

Can it already be Thursday?

This week has flown by.  I don't know where the time has gone.  

So I know I am a complete dork, but this morning Samuel was getting cranky because it was close to his nap time, so I was holding him and bouncing him and he put his thumb in his mouth and put his head on my shoulder and closed his eyes.  It is the first time that he cuddled with me like that.  It was so sweet.  

Last night I took a few pictures.  Dave was on the floor with Samuel playing.  Samuel decided to use Dave as leverage to try to get on the ottoman and get the TV remote.  When I told him no he can't do that, you will see the look he gave me.  It is priceless.  I am sure as he gets older I will be getting many more of these looks.  

Here is his attempt to get the remote:

This is the look he gave me, when I told him no: 

I found out that a movie theatre in town has mommy and baby movie time.  They have it every Wednesday and it is usually one of the first movies of the morning, but you can go with your baby.  So if the baby cries or is loud it doesn't matter because you are watching another movie with other moms and babies.  I plan on going sometime soon, so I will let you all know how it goes.

Samuel is just waking up, so I better go.  

Busy Labor day weekend

We had a very busy weekend.  On Friday night we had the first book club meeting.  We picked The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon (I think that is how you spell his name).  I just started it today and so far it is really good.

Then on Saturday morning we left our house at 5:45 am to head to Cincinnati to see Chris, Carrie and Celeste Thelen for Celeste's 1st birthday.  She had a big party on Saturday and it was lots of fun to see them.  

Here is a picture of Celeste and Samuel playing.

While we were Samuel obviously had to take a few naps.  I went up to check on him during one of his naps and this is how I found him sleeping.  He must have really felt comfortable.  

We also met Ari, John's fiancee.  We really liked her! Welcome to the club.  (FYI: Just an educational side-note.  Did you know that a man who is engaged to be married is called his partner's fiance and a woman similarly engaged is called her partner's fiancee.)

Then we left Sunday around 1pm and headed back to St. Louis.  Yesterday we were busy running errands.  Today both Dave and I are exhausted.  We have so much to do this week and it is already, well almost, Wednesday. 

I am now going to watch a little 90210.  Yes, it is back on.