Sam wishes me to inform you that his current weight is 7.02 kg (15 lb 7 oz).
With all the solid food that he’s been gobbling down it seems that he has finally escaped the bottom part of the growth chart curve and he is heading up to chubbier weights 🙂
Sam is surprised to announce that he now weighs in at a hefty 6.88 kg (15 lb 2 oz)! My – all that solid food must be doing a good job 🙂
You can see him in this photo modelling his new sun hat while out enjoying the sunshine in our local park. He was trying to reach the camera while I was taking this photo which is why he has a look of annoyed concentration on his face.
Sam is mildly pleased to announce that his new weight has just been measured and he now totals a moderate 6.35 kg (13 lb 15 oz) – so very close to his first stone!
After being weighed the health care lady decided to prescribe some creams for Sam’s dry skin and also gave me a lot of advice on what to do to help his cradle cap – hopefully it clears up quickly ‘coz the new cream I have to put on Sam 3 times a day makes him very, very slippery!
Ruth also came a visited us today. Sam was very happy to make her aquaintance and was all smiles and talking. Ruth was great with Sam, she even gave him his lunch and help me change his nappy! Thanks for visiting Ruth and thanks also for the lovely ducks I will Sam will be sure to play with them lots in the bath.
The photo of Sam on the left is of him having a sneaky look through one of Rich’s engineer magazines…!
Today Sam had his first taste of ‘solid’ food. You can see him here trying out a bit of baby rice and from his expression you can tell he really doesn’t know what to make of it.
We managed to hold out on starting weaning him until now, though it has been tricky as he seemed to be getting increasingly hungry and fascinated when watching Rich and I eat our meals. What finally gave us the push to start the process was seeing Sam imitate our chewing – very, very funny 🙂
The baby rice mostly ended up all over Sam’s nice bib, but hopefully he gets the hang of swallowing soon. Then I’m going to have to get myself busy in the kitchen making up pureed baby food – any ideas of what I should try?
Sam is delighted to be able to inform you that he now weighs a hefty 6.25 kg (13 lb 12 oz) – he is very close to attaining his first whole stone! Sam is also growing lengthwise too and has just started wearing his 3-6 months clothes as he is finally too big for all the 0-3 months stuff.
As we are still in Diddy Doddy Daddy week Rich got the chance to join Sam and us at the health centre and help out with the weighing. Sam enjoyed himself chatting away while he was being undressed and while in the weighing scales decided to do a bit of ‘watering’!
Now I had best go help Rich make fairy cakes for the cake sale at baby group tomorrow…
Sam is proud to announce that he has achieved the new weight of 5.94 kg (13 lb 1 oz).
Samuel is shown in the photo on the left trying to figure out this baby bouncer business – he seems to think that it is a new device for turning around in while standing with his legs straight out at an angle beneath him. He has also been enjoying watching his dad and me try to teach him it’s true purpose by bunny jumping next to him.
Sam was very happy to have yet another visitor this evening – our good friend James made his way over here just to meet our little Sam. It looks like James is another lovely guy who knows what to do with a tiny person – just look how comfortable and casual Sam looks with him. I’m sure it has nothing whatsoever to do with Sam receiving a new teddy bear from James…
We all enjoyed a tasty ‘Spicy chicken and peanut’ stir fry made by my own fair hand followed by a good bowl full of ice cream – yum! I think I’m getting a bit of a taste for this entertaining lark – any excuse for a good tasty meal I say! After dinner Sam was good enough to sit and bounce in his chair while the big kids talked about what mischief they got up to as young’uns. It turns out that James was very much an engineer from a very young age and I even discovered some extra geekery about Rich’s childhood. I wonder if Sam will end up the same way, playing with computer programming or taking apart old telephones? I must say I did feel a little out of my league in the conversation – it would seem that Librarians as kids are pretty normal and don’t feel the desire to know how everything around them works.
I’ll keep a close eye on Sam for you all just in case any early engineer tendencies start to manifest themselves.
Yesterday Rich and I came to agree that Sam really is looking a little bit too big for his moses basket and that we really should start putting him down in the big cot bed. We’ve been trying to get the basket to last as long as possible as we can’t fit the cot bed in our room, and we’ve done quite well really as Sam is almost 5 months old now and most babies grow out of their baskets at 3 months.
So last night Sam spent his first night in his own bedroom and after setting up the baby monitor and saying good night Rich and I returned to our own room where we lay awake wondering if Sam was okay. After about 20 minutes of not being able to get to sleep we tiptoed over to Sam’s doorway and peeped in to see Sam fast asleep – phew! Sam slept until 4.30pm when he woke up and wanted his dummy and after providing him with this he kindly let me get back to sleep until his morning feed.
Hopefully Sam continues to be okay in his new room – if not then I’ll just have to cut holes in the bottom of his basket so that he can stretch his legs 🙂
King Sam is shown in this photo with his loyal subjects the Lady Kathy and Sir Alex. He summoned them to visit him in his royal dwelling at lunch time where they were required to entertain him for an afternoon.
Sadly Sir Alex had to fight his way through some terrible traffic on his noble stead and in the process both he and the fair lady Kathy got very numb derrieres. Once they arrived Sam’s other minions (the wench Mum and the rascal Dad) provided the tired travellers with beverages and victuals to refresh them.
Much was discussed during the visit and Lady Kathy even got presented with a small token of appreciation in acknowledgment of her recent anniversary of birth.
Hopefully King Sam will summon the good Lady Kathy and kindly Sir Alex again some time soon – either that or he will probably get his minions to take him out in his carriage for a royal visit instead.
After a quick dash round to baby group in the morning Sam and I went off to visit the folks at work and say farewell to my old manager who was retiring. Sam was much admired by all the engineers and happily smiled at everyone who said hi to him until the big boss at work stood up to make a speech…
It was at that point that Sam decided that he had a few things of his own to say and tried to join in a few times but thankfully everyone seemed quite amused. Sam then got a few hugs by some of the ladies present and after he had thrown up a bit of milk over one of them I felt that enough damage had been done so we headed off back home.