Our First Family Christmas

Okay, I know this is way overdue, lol. I am just now getting time to do this update, and I'm doing it in between calls at work right now!

Christmas was--honestly there are no words, I want to say great, or wonderful or awesome, but it just doesn't seem like enough. There is no doubt in my mind that this was the best Christmas I have ever had in my life. Christmas Eve we spent the night with AJ's family and Sam is so cute, he was facinated by the wrapping paper and actually helped open most of his presents. He was smiling and laughing and he had so much fun!

Christmas day he actually slept in, LOL! I know I won't be getting that for too many more years! Anyway, we got up around 8:30 and brought him downstairs to see what Santa brought him, he got an Excersize Gym that he just loves! Then we opened presents from Mommy and Daddy, and he was just the sweetest thing the whole time getting excited over all the presents we got. After presents we had breakfast and I started on our dinner, we had duck, all in all a very relaxing day, and it was so nice to spend time just the three of us.

One of the best things about Christmas this year is rediscovering the Christmas magic that we had as kids. You know when you're a kid and Christmas is coming up you get so excited about all the stuff you're going to get, and as you get older the magic of it all wears off, you start to get jaded and it's no longer the what it used to be. Having kids brings that feeling back, but in a whole new way, I was so excited to watch Sam enjoy the holiday and his gifts. All in all just a wonderful, wonderful day! :-)

5 Months Old!

Age: 5 months and 1 day old
Length: 27 inches
Weight: 14.6 lbs
Milestones: You are rolling over from your tummy to your back, and occasionally from your back to your tummy. You have started pushing up on your hands when you're on your tummy,

You also can sit unassisted for about 5 seconds before you topple over. When you're on the floor if we put our fingers out you will grab them and pull yourself up to a sitting position then go up to a standing position. You sleep through the night, but only when you want to. You babble constantly and are saying: "dadadada" all the time now. Oh and you've found your toes and love looking at them and grabbing them .

Favorite Food: Carrots, you gobble them up whenever we give them to you!

Favorite Toy: Right now you're favorite toy is your exersaucer, you are starting to figure out how to turn around and how to spin the rattle. Oh and you are OBSESSED with that pig, you find it as soon as we put you down in it!

What Makes You Laugh: When we tickle your sides or when we blow on your ears, also sometimes just when we talk to you! You also think cousin Jake is HILARIOUS!

Interesting things that happened this month: We put you in the shopping cart without your seat for the first time this month, you loved it!

 You also started using the exersaucer this month as well, which you love. It was your first Thanksgiving this month and you enjoyed it by eating sweet potatoes for dinner.

This month we also went on the Santa Express with cousin's Maddy and Ali and saw Santa for the first time! We also went to Pueblo and met all of your Great-Aunts and Uncles and all of your cousins.

What Mommy is thinking: Mommy is thinking that you are growing up way too fast! It was just yesterday when you were a tiny little thing all curled into a ball on my chest and snuggling with me. Now you are already asserting your independance and snuggling is something I only get when you are tired.

But that's okay, because I love to see when you discover something new how your eyes just light up and you start wiggling because you're so excited! I also love waking up in the morning to your babbling, it is so adorable and I can't wait for the day those babbles turn into words. Another thing I love is at night or in the morning when you do wake up, if I go into your room you see me and no matter how tired you still are you start smiling and wiggling because you are so excited to see me... Just makes my heart melt!

Weekly Update!

My little sweetheart is officially 5 months old! I can't believe how the time has flown! He is getting SOOO big and just loves to play with his toes now, we've had a pretty good week this week, starting off with him sleeping through the night for three whole days in a row! I couldn't believe it, he slept from 9-5 each day. Unfortunately it was a teaser since Sunday he went back to waking up in the middle of the night, though he has started figuring out how to roll over when he wakes up, so it's not nearly as bad since he babbles to himself for a while before I have to go get him.

I think that I am going to start a little monthly survey thing with updates for what's going on that month, don't worry I'll still do my weekly updates, but I think they're going to be more around our lives and not just Sam, (though who am I kidding, my whole life revolves around him!) and then on every month on the 21st I'll update with info specifically about Sam, look for that post next!

Weekly Update!

Sam is 4 months and three weeks old... He's getting so big, going to be 5 months old a week from today! It's a little surreal thinking that almost 5 months have passed since he was born!

This has been a pretty rough week, to be honest, the week started out okay, but by Thursday Sam was extremely fussy and not wanting to eat anything, we took him to the Dr on Friday to find out that he had an ear infection, yikes! We were prescribed some Antibiotics and thankfully he has done much better, he still has a pretty stuffy nose that is interfering with his sleep, so unfortunately he's still been a little grumpy. But not too bad.

And the sleeping through the night thing lasted all of two days before he started feeling sick, so we are back to square one on that. In fact now he's waking up more than before, I know that's just due to all the extra snot in his nose, and I'm hoping the sniffles go away soon so he can get back to feeling better, as much as I hate losing sleep myself, I know that he needs a good nights sleep just as much as I do.

I also think he has an allergy to Prunes, well maybe not exactly an allergy, but he could have had an adverse reaction to them. I started him on them on Sunday night and he didn't have any issues until after I gave them to him Monday morning. That afternoon I noticed he had a pretty bad rash after eating them, so I've stopped giving him those for now... it also could be due to the dryer sheet I used the other day too, so I've been re-washing all his clothes without the dryer sheet to see if that helps too. Once the rash clears up I'm going to try giving it to him again to see how he reacts since that's what the Dr wanted, they told me once the rash clears up to give him just prunes and formula and see if there is a reaction. Apparently sometimes allergies manifest over time and so even if I've fed him something before it could be a reaction to the oatmeal cereal I started giving him, or something completely different! I don't know if it's the prunes though just due to the fact that peaches are in the same food family as prunes and he had no problems with those.

Other than that, things are going well. He's a trooper, even though he hasn't felt well the last few days, he's still been happy... pretty clingy so my house is a disastor since I can't get anything done except for when he's asleep, but that's okay, I like my Sam snuggles when I can get them since I know it's only a matter of time before they are few and far between *tear, he already holds his head up so well all the time and would rather be looking out at everyone than snuggling with Mommy. They grow up so fast...

Other than that, AJ and I are doing amazing, I thought my new shift would make it hard for us to spend time together, but the fact is that we actually spend more time together now than we did before... we usually spend time talking when I get home before going to bed and it gives us that hour of time for just us to spend together, when before I would be going to bed at the same time Sam does and we never really got time just the two of us, so it sure is nice to be able to get that time with him...

All in all, things are going great right now!

20 weeks!

OMG, I can't believe 20 weeks have already gone by since Sam was born... it feels just like yesterday that I was in labor!

Sam is my big growing boy... growing literally like a weed, tall and skinny, lol. We had his Dr appointment yesterday and he's in the 81st percentile for height and the 29th for weight, and his head is in the 84th percentile for size, that I am not at all suprised about, I remember how big that head was when I was giving birth, LOL! The Dr says he is perfectly healthy and is not concerned about his weight at all. All in all he is doing great. He's getting a little bit better at rolling over, to his back from his tummy. Hopefully he picks up on that soon, I think that when he wakes up in the morning he gets pissed from being on his tummy, so if he was able to roll over I think he would just babble more than anything at least for a little while, lol.

We also got vaccines yesterday and they didn't sit really well with him, he had a low grade fever this morning when he woke up and he wasn't a very happy camper most of the day, luckily my SIL Sarah said that he was fine for her most of the day, though by the time AJ got him he was fussing again... I also think that he can sense that we are worried about him and he fusses more. Not that Sarah isn't worried about him, just that she's been there done that with her girls so she knows how these things work... she's just a tad bit wiser and much more confident than me on this, lol.

Also... he SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT!!! I can't fricken believe it, I guess I have to keep him awake until like 11 to get him to do it, but he sure did it. 10:15 pm-5:30 am, probably would have been longer but I went to check on him at 5:20 am and I swear the boy has amazing ears, cause not 5 minutes later he was fussing for me to come get him. The next night he slept from 9:30-4:30 and last night he did the same. So I think that he is starting to get the hang of sleeping finally.

All in all a great week!