Things I have learned:
I’m not sure it’s fair to say this, but I’m going to anyway. For years, I have been called the “slowest Kroo”. Specifically by my wife and, well, everyone else. Now I’m hear to declare that Sammy is going to take that mantle from me. He is WAY slower than I am. He’s a real primadonna when it comes to getting ready. Example: I have to put on his pants, socks, shirt, and everything else, really.
Ok, so I noticed last night that I had not even seen the pacifier in over a week. It then came to our attention that our nanny hid the pacifiers from us!!!! Seriously. So this means two things:
1. It was us, not Sammy that had to go cold turkey on the pacifier at 6 months.
2. When I did finally find it and try to use it to calm Sammy down in the middle of the night last night – it was completely ineffective.
I have officially been weaned.
Who is the bigger child in this story? Danielle came home with a giant box of animal crackers from Trader Joe’s the other day. When I asked what could have possessed her to buy them (Sammy can’t eat them and I might not have had one in 15 years) she responded “Sammy really wanted them! He was going nuts for them in the store!” I’m not sure what to make of this since I’m pretty certain Sammy has no clue what and animal cracker is, though I suppose he might have liked the box. Now I’m eating some really bland animal crackers everyday and loving them.
Last week I mentioned that Halloween is truly about the parents. After experiencing it first hand, it is unbelievably true. If it were up to me, I would have Sammy wear his Yoda costume every day. In fact, I hope he goes through one of those kid phases where he wants to wear the same thing everyday – and I hope he chooses Yoda.
Halloween for me was like one of those people who like to celebrate their birthday 10 different times surrounding the actual day. By that I mean, that we had Sammy wearing his awesome Yoda outfit for several days – because why not!?! He looked so damn cute!
I think it’s built into babies that they always need to keep you on your toes. There is no such thing as a groove. Sammy has now started to wake up at 10pm and 3am for no real reason. Unless it’s the ever-coming teeth. In which case, let’s get this show on the road! We’re ready. Enough with the false alarms. BRING IT.
I love watching Sammy feed himself a bottle. I’m pretty sure he’s trying to use “the force” to feed himself. After a little while of holding the bottle to his mouth, he will slowly pull off one hand – he’d rather hold it right next to the bottle and looks at it versus using it to hold the bottle. Then, hand number 2 will come off to see if he can use the force to hold it. This usually ends in my having to pick up the bottle to feed him. I’m not giving up on Yoda just yet.
List of things that are officially not fun:
1. Trying prevent your son from meeting a giant snowstorm head on. This generally involved my taking it on yourself...and my sitting in wet jeans for an entire day.
It is not the least bit ironic that of all the things to be afraid of right now, like natural disasters, the recession, and an Adam Sandler movie in which he actually plays his twin female sister opposite himself – I am most afraid of: DAYLIGHT SAVINGS. HELP!
New food of the week: Peaches. Mmmmmmmm….millions of peaches.
I might be obsessing – Is it crossing the line if I make the Yoda hat Sammy’s winter hat?
I really enjoyed being up from 3:15am on Friday night until 5am with a screaming child. Words cannot describe how grateful I am for that experience.
I’m not taking it personally (I don’t think), But this morning when Sammy was half asleep in the bed with Danielle and I (the end of our 2 hour ordeal) – He flailed his arms so hard that he slapped both of us in the face (I’m talking full on, open-handed slaps) and then sat their giggling playing with his hands. Come on, man!
I am by nature a tenacious person. I will not give up in trying to deter Sammy from sucking his thumb all the time. Sammy is also a tenacious person. Therein lies the conflict. I could literally spend all day pulling his hand out of his mouth. And he is more than happy to pretend like it never happened and will jam his thumb back in immediately.
Statistics we are keeping track of:
- Number of days spent wearing Yoda costume: 3
- Number of days spent wearing Yoda hat: 5
- Number of times I tried to tell Sammy that eating his carrots will help his eyesight: 2 (it did not have a lasting impact
- Number of times in a one minute span that I pulled a thumb out of Sammy's mouth only to have in put it back in: 7
Things we googled:
- “colic at 6 months” (that’s how rare last night’s cry fest was
- “Soothe a teething child at night” (I was desperate)
Pictures for your amusement:
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| After last week's criticism that I am not handy enough with tools, I sat down for a lesson from the master. |
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| Ben offers Samson some friendly encouragement |
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| Yoda: Day one - Public library scary story reading |
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| Yoda and The Owen-tiger |
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| Sammy doesn't have to read books - he absorbs knowledge through the force |
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| Hello Winter hat. |
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| For those that remember, this is Sammy's Sprockets outfit |
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| We've come a long way from the original bath time reaction... (see below) |
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| This was after all the yelling of bath time was worked out.... |
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| Yoda: Day 3 - The Halloween party |
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| New level of laziness - no longer intersted in holding up his head, Sammy figured out that he could rest it on this. |
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| Mmmmmm....Dinner. 1 cube peas, 1 cube mango. |
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| Yoda: Day 4 - no real reason. |
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| Poor Giraffe |
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| This show continues to taunt me. Does that Exersaucer look familiar? (or maybe everyone has that one?) |
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| Preparing to release his hands and to hold his bottle using only the force |
An Example of Sammy's tenacity: never give up on sucking the thumb:
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