Christmas Pictures

Decorating the Christmas Tree

Christmas at the Truesdale's

Christmas Morning with Mommy and Daddy

Christmas at the Ledyard's

Busy Week

Adam has something every night this week. This made the week incredible long. I was in desprate need of some adult time and a little time to myself. I did get 45 min to go get lunch, frozen pizzas for dinner, food for Sam, and a movie for the night and I got to do it all by myself.

Sam missed his daddy but we did get to go see him at the many games. Sam loves to steal Adam's hat and chew on it. All that chewing helped Sam's first tooth poke through. That's right we have a tooth. I can't quite get a picture of it yet, but I am working on it.

Still not crawling yet, but I am starting to think that he is going to just skip crawling and go right to walking. He is constantly pulling himself up on what ever is close. He even pushed Silas over and tried to pull himself up on him. Silas didn't seem to mind too much.

Well Tarah is offically full term (37 weeks) so we are waiting paitently to meet our new addition and find out what her name will be. I am excited to see how Sam will be with a baby around.

The cuttiest baby bumblebee in the world!

Sam is seven months old!

It is hard to believe Sam is seven months old!

He is not quite crawling, as you will see in the video he gets up on his knees and rocks.

He is teething, which is why I think we are getting more of these fits than I would like.

He is eating three meals of solid baby food a day.

He loves his Johnny-Jump-Up.

He is a mommy's boy especially at bed time.

He is finally fitting into size 6-9 months.

And he still makes us laugh and smile everyday.

Sam frowed a fit
Sorry it is side ways. I was able to flip it in my kodak program, but it did not translate here.

Almost crawling

The GREATEST sound in the world.

Helping Mommy with laundry.

Ledyard Update

Sorry I am not very good at this blogging thing, but I really am going to try and get at least one post a week up. I can't believe how fast my boy is growing up. He is such a joy! He is sitting up all by himself now. It is so great to be able to put him on the floor with a couple of toys and have him entertain himself. His favorite thing right now is his Johnny-Jump-Up. He will jump for a half hour at a time. Check out the video. He is also a big talker now. After a couple months of Adam and I saying "mama" and "dada" he has finally caught on and says "dada" for everything now. It is really cute, but as mama I am trying to get him to say "mama" too.

For those of you that don't know I am not teaching any more. I am staying home with Sam and babysitting. I watch Silas 3 or 4 days a week. Silas is 3 weeks and one day younger than Sam so it is like having twins. I get asked that everytime I have them out together. It has been really fun and I don't miss teaching at all. It is an incredible joy to be a mom and getting to stay home. I am so greatfull that we have been able to make it work. I am trying to find another child to watch so if you know of anyone who is look for a babysitter let me know.

Enjoy the pictures and videos.

Silas and Samson Best Friends in the Making

Sam sitting in the rocking chair Grandma and Grandpa Ledyard gave him.

Samson sitting all by himself

Look at those Big Beautiful Blue Eyes

What a difference a couple of months makes

Pictures for Grandma Rayanne

Our Little Peanut is growing up

We started Sam on rice and oatmeal cereal last week. He was waking up at 4:30 a.m. to eat and mommy was not too excited about that, so we decided to start cereal. He really likes it! We are eating 4 tablespoons twice a day and eating every bite. Today he decided to get his hands all in it and wipe them on his face. He is also trying to grab the spoon.

On Thursday, Sam rolled from his back to his stomach. It took him a little while, but he did it. Now I put him down and he rolls over in about 10 seconds. He only rolls over his left side and can't get back over so it is a fun new game to roll over and then whine until mommy rolls him back over.

Adam and I were looking at pictures of Sam when he was about a month old and I can't believe how much he has changed in just that short a time. We realized that we need to enjoy everyday that we have with him!

Colorado

We were lucky enough to get to go to Colorado over the 4th of July. My whole family (Mom and Dad, Andy, Seth, Tarah, Jericho, Baby girl G, and Tori) got to come. We stayed at my Uncle Tim and Aunt Bonnie's house up in the mountains of Denver. It was so great to see my family. It was
especially nice to introduce Sam to his GG (great-grandma).

Jericho and Sam just hanging out

We went to The Buterfly Pavaline and Sam loved looking at the butterflies and flowers. Jericho and Sam had fun in the hunny comb jungle gym. Aren't they adorable!

GG loved having all three of her great-grandkids around for the week. The big boy is my cousin Candi's little guy Maddox. Jericho and Maddox were great play mates. They had a dump truck that they were pushing each other around in, it was so cute.

Being with my whole family all week made me really wish that we lived closer. It is so hard being so far away from each other, especially as our family grows. Tarah found out they are having another girl! I am so excited for Jericho to have a sister. I miss mine more that I realized until I got to see them every day.

GG posed for us. Isn't it GREAT!

Andy with Sam with the beautiful mountains in the background.

Sam and Aunt Toi chillin'