Looking Older

Over the last few weeks Sam has made the transition from looking like a  Baby to Infant. Everyone who sees him these days says he looks so much bigger and older. After extensive research and consideration, his new aged look can be attributed to:

• Haircut

Before:

After:

• Tooth (well, now teeth on the bottom)

• "Solid" foods. (The boy loves his spoon!) 

• Sitting Up. This is Sam's preferred position. He can finally see everything that's going on.

• Standing?? (Only with support close by. No, he isn't pulling himself up on his own just yet, but I know it won't be long before he is!)

• Swimming, Scooting, Rocking, Diving, Creeping (and occasionally a forward crawl)

We keeping thinking this will be the week that he starts crawling. He has gone forward about 2 or 3 feet but isn't consistently showing forward motion. Most of his movement is actually backwards. He spends a lot of time on all fours and has even shown us some Downward Dog yoga moves. His signature move is to sit back on his hind legs and reach around to the back with his left arm and scratch at his left thigh. This is clearly a sign of significant intelligence. We try to entice him to move forward but often he just ends up diving forward to get what he wants. And then does the swimming in place motion.

I honestly don't know why we're encouraging him so much to start crawling. I love love love him just the way he is... and where he is. Not sure I'm ready for the baby gates and baby proofing!

So, bottom line is, if you haven't seem him lately, come visit Sam soon. He's already changing oh so much.