6 Months and Such...

First Food

Favorite activity - laying with Isaac and Isaac's favorite activity?  Touching Sam's tummy, cause it's SO cute.

Well, 6 months passed over a week ago, but here is a quick catch up on the things Sam is, or is not doing these days :)
- Sam sits up on his own great!  He became really good at it at about 5.5 months and seems like it opens up a whole new world for him.  It's easier on mom and dad, too, because he does a lot more self entertaining!
-Sam has his two bottom teeth now.  They came in one after another around 5.5 months, too!  Much earlier than Isaac's, which came in at nearly 8 months.  Teething was a bit of a catastrophe, mostly at night, but 2 of those sharp little suckers down, and 18 to go?
- Sam started solids a little before his 6 month birthday and he's definitely got mixed feelings.  So far, we've tried sweet potatoes, avocadoes, apple sauce, and whole grain rice cereal.  Naturally, like his mama, the sweetest is his favorite.  Apple sauce.  He does like the other stuff, too :)
- Sam smiles all the time.  He still smiles at everyone he meets, which is adorable.  I wonder when he will hit the stage of stranger danger.  I'm glad I went back to work before that occurred, because then it would have been REALLY hard to leave him.
-Sam started "school."  He seems to be pretty content and happy there.  He definitely loves watching all the other babies.
-Sam loves to grab Isaac's face and hair, and babble as close to his face as possible a whole lot of gibberish, which Isaac thinks is hilarious.
-Sam loves to slap anything and everything (people, objects) over and over.  He also loves textures, and will be content scratching different surfaces/feeling them for several minutes at a time.
-He continues to be an observer and very contentedly so.  Like mom, he likes to watch, take in what's going on.  Isaac, like dad, likes to be in on the action/conversation.  It's nice to have a balance in the house :-)
-A couple things he is NOT doing:  Sleeping awesomely. He sleeps a good 10 hours, but not straight and not in his own bed.  He starts out there, but always ends up in our bed.  It's been hard to break him of this habit the last month between teething and catching a cold from Isaac (which led to an ear infection, poor baby.)  Now he's back to normal, so we'll see.  I'm just waiting for his top two teeth to mess up our sleep routine again. Gah!  It definitely makes for a zombie mom and dad.
-Sam is NOT interested in crawling right now. Not at all.  That's okay.  Isaac was a late crawler. 9.5 months.  We'll see what Sam does.
-In closing, we love this boy - for everything he is, and isn't :)

Halloween - trying to overtake the camera

Always (well, except if he has to sleep in his own bed heaven forbid) happy