Our last week
pamelamyers | April 12, 2010
Things have been going pretty well in the last week. Not that things don’t usually go well, I am just saying that everything seems to be running very smoothly. I think the warm air, green trees, and budding flowers are doing us all some good.
Sam has been eating her solids really well now. We try to give her 3 meals a day, and her bottles. She seems to really be enjoying her oatmeal and most of the fruits and vegetables much more now. She’s not too fond of the meats I have given her, even when mixed with vegetables, so I think I am going to hold off on them for a while. I think it’s just too weird a taste for her right now, and there is no need to push it. Also in good news (and progress) starting on Tuesday, Sam has been sleeping through the night! It’s been 6 nights in a row. I really thought it was only because of the air conditioner in her room (the combination of perfect temperature and the white noise of the machine), but even after we stopped using it, she kept on sleeping. I hope she has finally reached the stage where she can sleep through. It is so nice not having to wake up. Between Muffin always waking me up and then Sam, I literally haven’t slept through the night in about 2 years. It’s a little weird. I don’t know what to do with myself!
Mark just got a new camera, which I don’t know if I mentioned before, so we were outside enjoying the sun and trying it out. Here are some pictures we took on Wednesday and Thursday in our front yard.
She loves to stand up, and sometimes won’t even bend her waist so you can sit her down. So we thought we’d try to take a picture of her standing up. Our grass needed to be mowed badly — you can’t even see her feet!
She seems so amazed looking at how green everything is, and the leaves in their full glory.
On Friday, Sam was really interested at the birds on our bird feeder. I sat her in the window so she could see. The feeder is on a post about 2 feet from our bay window, and she was so entranced watching the birds flying around. Just wait until she can see all the bunnies in our yard — they have come back in full force — every day I see about 3 or 4 of them hopping around.
Mark took some pics of us that night, right before Sam went to bed. I can’t believe how smiley she still is even when it is bedtime. You’d think an exhausted baby would be grumpy, but not our Sam!
On Saturday, Krista and Maddox came over so that Mark could take some pictures of Maddox. This is a cute one of them together. I think it’s so cute that they can sit together now all by themselves. The two of them certainly are checking each other out!
While Krista was there, she saw Sam really pushing up strong on her arms during tummy time. She asked me if Sam has started rocking yet, and I said, no, she hasn’t really figured out the whole on her hands and knees thing. I swear, it was about 2 minutes later, we were watching Sam and you could tell she was trying so hard to get up on her knees. You could just see how hard her body was struggling. Krista and I couldn’t believe it. It was like she heard Krista and thought, hey, I better get moving! Pretty soon she will be crawling and I don’t even know what I will do then. I better start looking at baby gates!
One last photo from Saturday. I think Sam looks so cute and happy just sitting on her own, playing with all her toys. That chime ball is exactly like the one I had when I was little that I loved so much. My mom found it for her on ebay and couldn’t resist. I certainly loved mine and Sam really likes hers too!
