Category: Samuel

I can hardly believe that Sammy is six months old (as of yesterday). It doesn’t seem like it’s been any time at all since I was writing about his birth.

I know I’m his mom and more than a little biased, but he is such a great baby. He is really happy – he’s almost always smiling and laughing. I love to hear him giggle!

So in honor of his six-month birthday, I just have to post a few pictures!

One of my favorite things about him is his hair.

His sister loves him, and she is totally his favorite person (despite the fact that she has spent his entire six months of life poking and prodding him). He just lights up whenever he sees her.

This was the first time he ate cereal. He was all about the food!

The only thing messier than a six-month-old eating cereal is a four-year-old feeding it to him.

Aunt Anna took this one at Kate’s soccer game.

I have enjoyed watching Sam go from this:

To this:

And I can’t wait to see what the future brings.

I love you, Sammy!

Sam has his first cold. It’s so sad! He is so pitiful… he’s coughing and sneezing constantly and just generally doesn’t feel good. He hasn’t had a fever or anything and he’s not horribly sick, just a little under the weather.

This, of course, also means that his sleeping has gone from bad to worse. The last three nights he has pretty much woken up each time we’ve had the audacity to lay him down. The poor baby just wants to be held, which I can understand. Actually last night and the night before, we’ve just brought him into our bed so that we all could get some sleep, and that has worked pretty well. I resorted to that last night after waking up in the rocking chair and figuring out that I had been asleep sitting up (and holding the baby) for over an hour. Desperate times, people.

I’ve been giving him Advil about once a day, but I’m not sure if there’s anything else to do for him, besides giving him lots of snuggles.

What do you do to help your kids feel better when they’re sick? Any suggestions? I just want to fix it!