Sammy's 9 months old

Today Sam had is 9month well child check up! He's doing great! He now weighs 16lbs 5 oz..still tiny not on the charts 0-5% but back on his curve of growth! As for height he's in the 10th %! Long and lean :) We've switched him of the non-dairy Neocate formula to regular formula with success! He is no longer allergic to diary! Which is great news, except that we will have to pay for regular formula from now on. Before when it was prescription formula it was all covered by insurance company FedEx would drop off a months worth of formula every month, it was so nice! But in the long run I'm so glad he can have milk products! I'm not a very good cook and to have to cook around milk products would have been even harder!
I'll have to make my next post a video of him crawling. He's so cute! I just can't belive how fast he's growing up!

Valentines Day

 

Sammy is sleeping in his new crib right now!

He outgrew his co-sleeper that we had along side the bed so I had to break down and buy a crib......for $20 bucks! Can you believe it....and it's not a cheapo crib either its a 3 in 1 crib that will go from a crib to a toddler bed to a full size bed! And it's beautiful, the people that I bought it from off of Craigslist just wanted it gone!!

Now those that know me, know I am big on co-sleeping! After catching Christian having a sleep apnea spell where he stopped breathing for over a min, I always slept w/ my kids till they were ready to go into their won beds.....in fact Maddy still sleeps with me! She was in her bed for a while, but has reverted back to my bed ever since Sammy had been born. A...I think she misses being the baby...and B, she likes to sleep with Sammy too!

Sammy likes to fall asleep in my bed w/ me. However, he sleeps longer stretches when he is apart from my bed because I always seem to wake HIM up when I toss and turn! The crib butts up against my bed. so I can still tend to him quickly and get him back to sleep quickly! Usually it's just putting his binky back in!

Wish me luck! Tonight is his first night in his big boy crib :)

Maddy lost her first tooth!

Last night it was very wiggly, and today at school with her classmates cheering her on she finally pulled it out!!! Her teacher gave her a tooth box to put it in (which she is very proud of!). In the picture it's kinda hard to see the empty space because she already has her big tooth in!

The little things in life

Sammy is finally crawling... although we still don't give him much opportunity. I wish we had carpet downstairs for him to have free range of the house. Until he's more stable he'll have to settle for the time we spend upstairs on the carpet, which is usually the time I spend on the computer. 

Maddy is soooo close to having her first visit from the tooth fairy! Maybe she'll lose her tooth on the same day that Sammy gets his first :) Yes...he's 8 months and still has no teeth....just teething misery!

Christian is finally feeling like himself again, and with the tubes in his ears, he has super hearing!! No more whispering around Christian, can't keep any secrets from him!

We are weaning Samuel off of the prescription formula Neocate, onto regular Enfamil. I think it's going ok.. no obvious signs of an allergic reaction like diarrhea or eczema. But he has been very fussy lately and his cheeks have been turning bright red...but that could very well be from teething! We should find out more at his next well-child visit, 9 months old! His last doctor's visit showed him to be falling off the weight charts again. Grow, baby, grow!!!

I miss sleep! I really really miss it! Last Saturday Dane took Sammy for 4 hrs to let me get some sleep. I kept the baby monitor with me just in case Dane didn't wake up to his cry. During that time Dane just popped in a couple of movies. Samuel woke up about 7 times...all of which I heard...WHY oh why did I take the monitor with me! After Dane was done watching his movies, he came into me to come back and sleep with Sam (Sammy sleeps in a co-sleeper beside our bed) Dane had seen how much of a light sleeper Sam was, and knew that his snoring would wake him up. Next time I get another opportunity to sleep for 4 hours I'm definitely not taking the baby monitor... I figure if he screams loud enough I'll wake up!!!