..sam @ 7 months..

dear sweet sammy boy,

you are already seven months old! i'm not sure why, but you seem so much more of a baby to me than your big bro did at this age, and i gotta say - i'm loving it! it seems like i blinked and finn was a rolling, crawling, standing, climbing, walking machine, and it made me so sad that he grew out of his "babyness" so fast, so the fact that you are still pretty stagnant (in terms of motor skills) makes me secretly happy. i am sure you'll start to move when you are ready, and whenever that is, i'll be fine with it, but for now, i'm loving the baby that is still in you.

your personality is starting to come out strong, and your dad and i are loving that too! when you aren't crying or fussy, you are just so happy and chill. haha that sounds weird, right? but it's true. it's like you are either really happy, or really sad. i have a feeling you may be a bit dramatic. needless to say, we totally love playing and laughing with you, especially when you are in your happy moods. :)

some things i want to remember about you at seven months:

- you are finally rolling over! still not very often, but the point is you can do it. woo hoo!!!
- i think you'll be a bum scooter. you sit on your little toosh and rock back and forth all day...i can tell you are trying to move.
- i can tell you're starting to get frustrated when things are out of reach, and i think you'll be much happier when you start to move so that you can get the things you want to play with. :)
- we started feeding you solids this past month and you LOVE pretty much everything we've given you. no surprise there, you love food. :) you've tried carrots, sweet potatoes, squash, bananas, peaches, apples, pears and we just started incorporating cereals (like oatmeal) into your diet. it took you a couple days to figure out what you're supposed to do with this new type of food - you'd sort of just play with it in your mouth at first - but you caught on quicker than your big bro did (maybe bc you were two months older than he was when he started? okay, maybe you're just smarter :)) and now you are absolutely loving it.
- you've been having less bowel movements lately. tmi? i think it must be because of the solids though. you'll go a couple days in between poops. it's gross!
- started blowing raspberries on our skin! love this!
- you and finn caught a stomach bug, and it was nasty!!! i'm pretty sure you averaged two blow-outs a day, and when i say blow-outs, we're talkin' the worst blow-outs in the history of blow-outs. poop from head to toe and all over the carpet/my rugs type of blow-outs. this lasted just shy of a week, and let's just say it was a looooooong week. ;)
- we started staying at church for all three meetings and you have done great (knock on wood!!). you pretty much just sleep in your carseat, and when you wake up, you sit very contently on mine or dads lap. so far you have been much easier to take to church than finn ever was! :) let's hope it stays that way, and maybe we'll actually start staying at church. ;)

anyway mr. samuel james, i hope you know how very much we love you, and how grateful we are to have you part of our family. you are so full of life and energy, and we love watching you grow and learn each day.

love,
mom