First Word!

My great news is that Sam has said his first word!!!
And I am VERY happy, because it is "Mumma"!!!!!!

I could just sit and stare at him saying mumma all day long!
It was almost a shame to put him to bed tonight!

Five Months

OK, we are a little bit late, considering it is the 10th March now....

But somewhere between the 28th February and the 1st March Sam hit the five month mark!

The biggest thing to happen in our lives lately is that I have returned to work. I survived the first week at work, Kel survived the first week of being home with the boys alone, Sam survived on the bottle while I was at work and Josh survived!

We did have a few hiccups along the way. At first Sam wouldn't take the bottle - but I think hunger got the better of him after a while! I had a bit of trouble expressing milk at work at first - but that got sorted out too. I could only get about 220mls for the whole day which is one full bottle, but it is better than nothing. We have ran out of frozen milk now, so Sam has had his first taste of formula milk too.

I am in the office on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. I am home on Tuesday and Friday and do a total of 8 hours work spread across those two days. This means that I can still spend time with my boys, and get some work done without being on the computer all day. When I am home I feed Sam, and when I am at work he has a bottle of either breastmilk or formula (depending on what we have available). He doesn't seem to be getting confused about things - as long as his belly is getting full he doesn't seem to mind where it comes from!

We still have the rolly polly baby. He can even suck his toes now! And he has sat for a couple of seconds with a little bit of support behind him.

He is still waking through the night but the routine is something like this...

First feed at about 7am, then 10am, 1pm, 4pm and 7pm. Then he sometimes wakes for a feed, or I will wake him at 10pm just before I go to bed. Then he can usually last until about 4am on a good night. On a bad night he wakes twice for a feed (the extra one at about 1am).

He has a cold at the moment though and has needed to have a few cuddles through the night. He is a bit rattley and sounds like he needs to cough... but how do you tell a 5 month old how to cough?

Not long now until Sam's half birthday! And of course we will have to have a party to celebrate! Can't have one for Josh and not have one for Sam now can we? ;)

So keep that weekend free (probably the 31st March) and start thinking about an item for Sam's time capsule... it could be a letter, poem, picture, song or any other idea that you can come up with to represent your hopes and dreams for Sam for the future. (Items can be emailed or sent by mail if you can't make it on the day)