Sam’s 3rd & 4th Weeks

Sam is officially 5 weeks old as of yesterday! It makes me want to cry how fast time is going already. I put one of my favorite onesies on him the other day and it was too small! Tragic. Most first-time parents can’t wait to get to the next stage of their child’s development, but I already just wish he would slow it down.

He’s been growing a lot lately, which means he is a HUNGRY little boy. He’s been going on these marathon binges where he wants to eat every hour, which makes mommy VERY tired. I tried really hard to get him to take formula, but he won’t eat much of it in the first place and then it makes him spit most of it up and what’s left makes his little tummy really upset. We’ve been really tight on finances lately, but after several miserable failures with formula, we finally bit the bullet and bought a breast pump, which has made my life SO much easier. Paul has been really awesome on the weekends when he doesn’t have to get up at 4:00 the next morning and has been taking one of the “night shifts” with feeding Sam so I can sleep. God bless him!!

Sam’s eyesight has also been getting better and better; he smiled at mommy for the first time the other day!! It made all those frustrating late nights SO worth it. It still takes him a long time to really focus, but he’s looking around a lot and looking into our eyes more and more. We still can’t quite figure out his eye color; it’s usually lightish brown but a lot of the time has a gray-blue tint to it, too. Very distinct and totally impossible to catch in a picture.

He still farts an awful lot, which of course amuses his parents to no end. We took him to church again the other day and had the whole back row of Relief Society giggling. I’ve started making him have “tummy time” to build neck and torso strength; it’s not his favorite thing but he tolerates it for a few minutes before getting verbally upset.

We try to give him his pacifier as much as possible so that he’s only eating when he’s really hungry. When that’s not around, we try using our fingers…obviously clean fingers taste yucky, haha.

Sam and mommy have been trying to spend more time outside lately, so that the dogs get their exercise and mommy starts being a little bit less lily-white.  Here he is hanging out by the pool:

I was messing with the camera colors earlier that day and forgot to take it off. He is such a studmuffin; everywhere we go literally dozens of people gape and coo at him, telling us what a beautiful baby he is…as though we don’t already know. Psh!

The dogs do really well with Sam, they like him a lot and try to sneak in licks on his toes when they think we’re not looking (this is a no-no). Khai usually sleeps next to Sam’s crib nowadays instead of next to my side of the bed…very cute. And Oscar still thinks he’s died and gone to heaven when Sam’s got a poopy diaper – we can hardly pry his nose away from Sammy’s bum, hahaha. They are feeling a little attention deprived, though, so I took some pictures of them while we were at our little condo dog run the other day.

Here’s Khai running back with his ball, excited as can be.

Oscar and Khai anxiously awaiting the throwing of the ball. Oscar doesn’t actually play fetch, he just likes teasing Khai into thinking that he’s going to get the ball first. He enjoys Khai’s discomfort.

When he’s not teasing Khai, this is usually what Oscar is doing…he’s such a lazy dog.

Sammy likes to watch them while they play around in the dog run…

…which is completely exhausting so then, of course, he has to take a nap.

We’re totally & completely in love with this little boy and being his mommy & daddy. We can’t wait for everyone else to meet him this weekend!!!

love, mary

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