On Monday Sammy figured out that he could pull himself up the stairs… he’ll be climbing on furniture and walking before we know it!!!
Hey, Mommy, look! I got up a step all by myself!
Let’s see if I can get any higher!
Watch out, Mommy… one of these days I’m going to try to go up the whole thing!
… and we’re not taking anymore guesses for our baby game. Sorry!
If you want to participate in our Baby Guessing Game, your time is running up! Here’s a list of the people participating so far!!!
Nov. 1, Girl, 5 lb, 4 oz- Aunt Linda Lucart
Nov. 1, Boy, 6 lb, 0 oz- Uncle Steve
Nov. 2, Girl, 5 lb, 9 oz- Rachel Feucht
Nov. 5, Girl, 6 lb, 5 oz- Kjerste Whaley
Nov. 6, Girl, 6 lb, 12 oz- Joanna Wright
Nov. 7, Boy, 6 lb, 5 oz- Alisa Weis
Nov. 8, Girl, 6 lb, 8 oz- Aunt Karen
Nov. 10, Girl, 6 lb, 0 oz- Alison Flanagan
Nov. 10, Boy, 5 lb, 6 oz- James Flanagan
Nov. 11, Girl, 5 lb, 11 oz- Oma Feucht
Nov. 12, Girl, 6 lb, 2 oz- Grandpa Flanagan
Nov. 13, Girl, 6 lb, 4 oz- Michelle Muretisch
Nov. 14, Boy, 11 lb, 5 oz- Jonathan Feucht
Nov. 15, Girl, 6 lb, 0 oz- Jennifer Steffen
Nov. 17, Girl, 6 lb, 9 oz- Diane Feucht
Nov. 18, Girl, 6 lb, 13 oz- Josh Fey
Nov. 19, Girl, 6 lb, 3 oz- The Depner Family
Nov. 19, Girl, 6 lb, 11 oz- Lori Fey
Nov. 19, Boy, 7 lb, 4 oz- Jan Fey
Nov. 19, Boy, 8 lb, 0 oz- David Feucht
Nov. 20, Boy, 7 lb, 2 oz- Alicia Gutierrez
Nov. 21, Boy, 8 lb, 7 oz- Rachel Arnold
Nov. 22, Girl, 6 lb, 14 oz- The Prugar Family
Nov. 22, Boy, 7 lb, 0 oz- Derek Whaley
Nov. 23, Boy, 6 lb, 10 oz- Kyle Fey
We will not take any more guesses after JULY 11TH, so if you’re interested in playing (and possibly winning the gift card!), please leave a comment soon!
The original Guessing Game post can be found here (in case you need more information about the game!).
Samuel is actually feeling a lot better. He still has a lot of crud in his lungs, so it sounds terrible when he coughs, but I’ve been using the inhaler on him. I can’t tell if it’s working, but hopefully things will clear up soon!
Yesterday he was “bouncing” off the walls… he was creeping all over our entire downstairs and getting into anything he could find in reach. When I put him to bed I noticed the first thing he did was try to pull himself up onto his bumper, so I took that out immediately. I had originally taken out the bumper when he was about 4 months old, when he started to roll, but placed it back in a few weeks ago when he accidentally got one of his chubby legs stuck in between two crib rails.
Another interesting thing I’ve noticed is that Sammy’s legs don’t seem so fat and chubby anymore. I think he’s finally starting to lose some of that baby fat. Once he’s walking, I’m sure it will start coming off even faster!
Here are a few pictures I got of Sammy last night when he was being cute (not that he is ever not cute!!!).
Sammy discovers the fun of getting stuck inside a chair!
Peek a boo!
Somebody looks guilty!
Sammy loves his crib!
One other thing: By now you’ve probably all figured out that we’re going to be finding out the gender of our baby in two weeks. Well, to spice this pregnancy up a little bit, I’ve decided that I’m not going to announce the gender or name of the baby when we find out! Instead, I’ve come up with another game! I will be putting up clues on this blog every week, and I’m going to make you all “work” to find out. As soon as someone gets the correct answer, we’ll post it on the blog. However, if no one figures it out, we’ll announce it when the baby is born! The first person who guesses correctly will also receive a prize. If I’ve already mentioned our name ideas to you, unfortunately you won’t be able to play, but you’ll also probably figure out the answer sooner than everyone else. I’ll give more details as soon as the game starts!
Sammy has been pretty sick for over a week. He’s had a fairly bad cough, lots of green mucus clogging up his airways, and has felt generally very unpleasant. After seeing him look so miserable on Saturday, I scheduled an appointment for him to see the doctor this morning. The doctor took a look, told me his ears were slightly inflamed, which is a sign of an ear infection, though he said that he’d like to keep an eye on them and not administer antibiotics too hastily. However, Sammy had some pretty bad wheezing, so they gave him a treatment of medicine using a nebulizer in the office. He hated it! He cried so hard the entire time I was holding the little mask to his face. He wriggled and squiggled and tried so hard to get it off of him, but I had to hold it there for 5 minutes. He must have been pretty traumatized afterwards, because he cried and seemed really mad at me for several minutes after that, until I was able to distract him and help him forget his terrible nebulizer experience. The doctor came back, said that Sammy sounded slightly better, and sent us home with an inhaler for him. Thankfully, he said I could do this instead of renting a nebulizer! I’m hoping his inhaler will help clear him up!!!
I’m a little worried, though, because Patrick was very fussy today and is in middle of taking his second nap for the day. It might just be because he’s still worn out from a very long day we had yesterday. I’m really hoping that he’s not coming down with Sammy’s little bug…
Things haven’t been totally “sick” here though! On Saturday we had a garage sale and were able to get rid of some things that had been taking up a lot of space in our garage. We’ve been able to hang out with the aunties quite a bit (when they aren’t working!). We’ve been busy taking walks when the weather is nice. I’ve also found some motivation to begin working on some of my craft projects, mainly a baby cross stitch. My personal goal is to work on it an hour each day, though that doesn’t always happen. I’ll be lucky if I get anywhere close to done by the time the new baby turns 1! Speaking of which, Sammy turns one in a month, and we’re doing a Very Hungry Caterpillar theme for his party. Diane and I designed the cutest invitations! I am looking forward to being creative with his party!
Here are some pictures from the past week.
The boys taking their “first” bath together (apparently, the aunties gave them a bath together while Mommy was in Hawaii, so she didn’t know and couldn’t be there…)
Patrick seems like he’s having fun, at least!
Sammy is getting into trouble a lot more… here he got stuck behind our futon!
Patrick graciously gave Sammy all his goldfish crackers… by dumping them all over the floor. Sammy didn’t mind!
Patrick looking guilty!
Sammy feeling sick and taking a nap in the stroller