I have to say I have been pretty productive though and it has been nice being able to get things taken care of around the house and with the cars while I was home during the day.
Sam is a growing girl. At her 6 week check she was in the 95th percentile for weight and by her 10 week checkup she had hit the 99th percentile. She is our little chunker, but we love it!
She is a healthy eater which has translated into a healthy sleeper! For the past 4 nights she has slept for at least 7 hours, and up to 9 hours! Woo hoo! Right in time for Momma to go back to work and be able to function.
Sam has found her hands and is getting better at grabbing the toys on her gym mat and she has become an expert at sucking on her hands as well.
She has also become a chatty-kathy which is a lot of fun. She will "talk" with you and loves to "talk" to herself out loud. I wonder where she gets it from...
This is Sam talking to me:
While on maternity leave I was able to get all of our closets organized, which was nice after being in the house a year I was able to re-evaluate where we were storing stuff and make sure everything has a home that makes sense. I am not one for a disorganized house with stuff stored in random locations, it drives me crazy. My label maker also got a bit of a workout.
I also explored my creative side by making Sam a fall tutu and taking pictures outside by our gorgeous tree that turns the most amazing yellow/orange color at the beginning of fall. I definitely need to find out what kind of tree this is because if we ever move I am going to plant this tree at our next house. By the way I love her funny side smile. We think that Sam has my face, but Mike's facial expressions.
We also took Sam on her first car trip which lead to her first college football game at Notre Dame. She is a champ of the car rides. She went from Lawrence to St Louis, St Louis to Indianapolis, Indianapolis to South Bend and back again with no complaints! She just slept the whole way. The only stops we had to make were because the adults were hungry or had to potty. Let's hope this continues, her Momma is a good car sleeper too, maybe its genetic. She did great at Notre Dame too, slept right through the band performance, and loved being carried around by Daddy all day in her Baby Bjorn - genius contraption!
Sam has started to attend Day Care and she is doing great! Mommy and Daddy are doing OK as well. She has only gone for a couple half days so that she (and us) and can get used to the idea and get the hang of the morning schedule/routine. If you know me well, you know that there is always a schedule and a plan, I try to eliminate as much chaos as possible.
Well, I think that is a brief update of what we have been up to lately. At the rate I am going keeping this blog up I will update you all again in about a month and a half. :)
