Boone and Bama

We had a couple of firsts last week in the Reeves household: my first solo road trip with little man and his first football game. Both successful, I might add. Sam and I headed up the mountain on Monday to visit Jayme and stayed a couple nights. The ASU campus has changed so much since I was there and I have been dying to go wander around and pretend to be a college student again. But, I gotta say it's not quite the same pushing a stroller around campus. I got a lot of "aw-man-that-poor-girl-has-a-baby" looks. Or at least that's how I interpreted them, because I could still pass for a college student, right? Right? I still love it up there and would move back in a heartbeat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Saturday we went to the Duke/Alabama game. It was a long, hot day, but we had a great time and Sam was a champ. The sun was brutal and we only lasted in the stands long enough to see the first touchdown (which only took about 2 minutes-Roll Tide!) before we found some shade so unfortunately I didn't get to watch very much football but I had an excuse to hold my boy all day long so I was content.

 

 

 

 

Here is Sam laughing on the floor

 

 

Here is Sam laughing again

 

Seven months today! Hard to believe, though not quite as monumental as 6 months. I mean that's half a year. Now we have less than half a year until he turns 1. Slow down!

I've really been wanting to get some professional pictures taken of Sam. We missed newborn and 3 months so I was aiming for 6 months, but that didn't happen either. We procrastinated and then the photographer we wanted to do them wouldn't return emails (she has an 18 month old of her own and one on the way, so I can't say I blame her) so I just decided to get him dressed up on Thursday morning and do our own little photo shoot. Of course, they're not as good as professional, but they'll do! Here are some of my favorites, but you can see the rest here. Happy 7 months, Kiddo!









































































































































Aaand we're done.

Half Birthday

Sam turned 6 months old last Friday, I can hardly believe it has been that long. It seems like just yesterday there was snow on the ground and I was walking around in that sleep deprived new mom haze. Unable to bring myself to put my precious boy down for even a second. Now if I put him down for even a second and turn my head he's reaching for the outlets (don't worry, we have semi baby proofed the house). He is scooting everywhere now, and getting fast! He has almost mastered the sitting up thing; he can sit by himself, unassisted, for about 20 seconds before he starts to lean. Right now, he's trying to pull himself up into my lap and is doing a scary good job. He has started babbling "na-na-na-na" despite my constant efforts to get a "ma-ma" out of him. Occasionally, he'll give Christopher a "na-da". The most exciting milestone that has happened in the last month, though, is that he is sleeping through the night. Eleven to twelve hours a night. It is glorious! I really can't believe how fast the time goes by, before I know it he's going to be walking and talking.

On the Move

Cousin Fun

Sam was finally able to meet his cousins for the first time in early June and has been getting loved on ever since. This kid is so lucky to have so many people around him that are as crazy about him as we are. For the most part, they couldn't get enough of him. At least until Katie was playing with Sam a little too much for Charlotte's liking at which point she asked me to "please leave now, Auntcy, and take him with you." Creighton warmed up to him pretty quickly, too, and was begging for more time to kiss "Baby Sahm." They are going to have so much fun growing up together, and I am going to have so much fun watching! Hurry back, Peters Kids!

Carrots!

We started introducing Sam to some solids a few weeks ago. So far he's had avocados, bananas, sweet potatoes, peas and carrots. The only thing he hasn't really liked is the rice cereal, and I don't blame him. I think the kid just likes to eat. He'll wrinkle his nose up when he gets the first bite of a new food, but by the second he's loving it. As soon as he swallows one bite he's got his mouth open waiting for the next. He usually gets right down to business and is done eating in about 10 minutes and, surprisingly, the majority seems to end up in his stomach rather than on his bib. However, that was not the case with carrots. He loved the carrots so much he just felt the need to bathe himself in them!

I don't know who the dork behind the camera is. Just pay attention to the cute baby.

Finally gave in

So, it has taken me 5 months of motherhood to finally jump on the blogging bandwagon. I take about a gazillion pictures a day of Sam and need to do something with them. They're too cute to just sit on the camera;) And apparently you can have your blog printed at the end of the year, kind of like a photo album. Hello instant baby book! I also like the idea of being able to talk about how totally awesome my son is without actually talking to anyone about how totally awesome my son is. Nobody wants to be that girl. So, anyway, check back here regularly for pictures, updates on all the fun new things he's doing and (hopefully) the occasional video.

I'm kind of late starting this blog, so to catch up a little: Sam is 5 months old today, still not sleeping through the night (yaaaay), rolling over both ways, grabbing anything within his reach and shoving it directly into his mouth. When he will stay on his stomach for longer than a couple minutes he is starting to work on getting those legs and arms moving. So far, though, it has only resulted in him shimmying backward, away from whatever toy he is trying to grab. He loves that. He's starting to kind of prop him self up, like a tripod, when he's sitting up, but we're still working on that. He would probably lie on the living room floor and squeal at the ceiling fan all day if I let him. My favorite thing that he is doing right now is when I lean in close enough to him he puts a little chubby hand on either side of my face, opens his mouth as wide as it will go and lets out his best squeal. Just because I'm near him. Melts my heart.

Here are some photos from a random Tuesday morning photo shoot:

Pretty darn cute, right? I'll try to post as frequently as possible, so come back soon!

P.S. I probably don't need to explain the title of the blog to those who already know Sam, but just in case; his initials are SIR.