Baby Bean: 2013

Sam is 10 months and one week old today, he is growing up so fast!

-Still army crawling, he is getting really fast. We watch him chase Ruby upstairs almost every night now.

-Lots of waves still, his new thing is pointing and peacing (two fingers).

-Lots of distinct ‘byes/bye-byes’ and ‘Mommy/Daddy’ coming out pretty regularly. Lots of them are still on a few second delay

-Standing has gotten a lot better this last week, still needs something to lean on

-Throwing. Everything.

Bonnie had the day off today and brought him in to school for lunch, it was really fun. Made the mistake of carrying him in the hall during a passing period, we got rushed pretty hard by the 6^th graders. Sam just waved at them and smiled.

Loving the new camera I got for birthday but somehow deleted all of the pics from Bonnie/Emery’s birthday last week. Most of these pics are from our trip to St. Louis last weekend..

Great to be back in the Hoosier state! It was nice having a few weeks off work together after the move. Bonnie has been back to work for a week now and really likes it, I start in 3 days at Lincoln. Sam is changing every day, at 8.5 months here are a few things going on..

-Teething! First white spike emerged about 2 weeks ago, others are on the way. Two nights ago was probably his worst sleeping night since the hospital.

-Yesterday he started throwing his hands up in the air. Not sure what it means but we love it. Working on waving, has done it a few times

-Crawling is getting faster but still army style

-Has started pulling himself up more, our next purchase will be a leather ottoman for more practice. Can stand up with a little support but his huge head makes it harder to balance

-Eating- Loves every food. And he eats a ton. Bangs the table when he wants more (see youtube). Sweet potatoes, green beans, avocado, black beans, broccoli, carrots, wild turkey (guess where that came from?), cheerios, bananas come to mind, I’m sure there has been more

-Swimming- Loves the pool. Got him a float the other day that he is warming up to

-Sleeping- Still doing good overall considering the teething. Pretty much have him down to a two nap a day routine, probably averages sleeping from 9 pm to 8 am but that varies a bit

Lots more going on I’ll add as many captions as I can. Pictures will go back to Atlanta, I'll try to throw some captions up on most

Spent our last weekend down South in the Highlands, NC at Chris and Brittany's wedding

Boy has more baby Bonnie than baby Steve

Went to Emory's pool a few times our last week in ATL

Happy Baby is Sam's preferred yoga pose

Sam packed the bigger boxes

Bidding farewell to Mac

One last deck pic

Both sets of parents came down and packed a truck and trailer, many many thanks again. We 'camped' the last few weeks in ATL in our empty house and drove the grand prix up on July 4th.