Six months of Sammy

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.
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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.
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This was the first time he ate cereal. He was all about the food!
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The only thing messier than a six-month-old eating cereal is a four-year-old feeding it to him.
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Aunt Anna took this one at Kate’s soccer game.
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I have enjoyed watching Sam go from this:
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To this:
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And I can’t wait to see what the future brings.

I love you, Sammy!

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My coughy, sneezy, smiley baby

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!

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Weekly Winners August 31- September 6

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This week we had some big moments in our family. A Labor Day party, Joshua’s first day of preschool, and my 31st birthday. (Thanks for all those lovely comments on the birthday post, BTW.) So, anyways, here are a few of the photos I captured from this week!

Emily’s baby boy, Sammy, gets festive at our Labor Day cookout. Don’t you just want to eat him up??

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Joshua heading out the door for his first day of preschool. He looks so big! I want to FREEZE TIME! It’s killing me.

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My wonderful hubby got me a new (75mm) lens for my Sony Alpha DSLR-300k for my birthday!! Yay!! What a great present! Here are some of the photos I took in my front yard when I was trying the lens out for the first time.

Sunny leaves on our maple tree:

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Stuff growing on the ginormous old tree stump in our yard:

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My neighbor’s tomatoes on our side of the fence. Often I will see squirrels running across the fence carrying a big green tomato! It is a funny sight!

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Webby log. Weblog?

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‘Shrooms

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Our trees and our neighbor’s trees reaching out to each other:

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That’s all for me this week! For more photographic feats, go visit the Weekly Winners HQ at Sarcastic Mom!

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