The Brown Brick Road

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8 months old!

Samantha turned 8 months old on Sunday and she’s the sweetest, happiest little 8 month old girl ever!

8 months old

I remember LOVING this age with both boys too.

Maxwell at 8 months…

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Spencer at 8 months…

spencer 8 months

8 months is just full of chubby, happy, sitting babies! 🙂

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Samantha has a very happy disposition and only cries when she wants to be picked up. Now, she does like to be picked up a LOT, but that’s ok! She’s nursing 4 times a day and getting some baby food at night. We’ve given her a few finger foods – mainly puffs and yogurt melts – and she’s loved that. She’s a great sleeper – takes a morning nap at 9:00, an afternoon nap at 1:00 and then goes to bed around 6:45pm. She sleeps all night long and when we go into get her around 6:45am, she’ll just be playing in her bed and greet you with the biggest smile!

skb 8 months

skb 8 months

I’ve said it before, but it’s true – no one makes her smile bigger than her brothers. She loves when they play and interact with her. Maxwell swears he’s heard her say “bruva”.  🙂

skb 8 months

This baby is also on the move! It may not be a pretty crawl yet, but this baby is crawling! She can get from one side of the room to the other with no issue at all doing her fancy army crawl using one elbow and sometimes even her head. She’s getting up on her hands and knees a lot and will be crawling like a big girl in no time. We really need to get out those baby gates! I can’t leave her alone for a second…especially not on a chair. She’s going….

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going…

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and then gone. Yep, she busted on the floor before I could catch her and ended up with a red head.

8 months sob

Not to worry though, after a little love from Honey Bunny…

8 months sob

she was happy again!

skb 8 months

I could not love this baby more. She is special and she’s mine and I’m so grateful.

skb 8 months

Happy 8 months baby girl!!

8 months sob

We love you!

Back to school!

The boys started school this week and so far, so good! Maxwell was excited about his first day of 4K in Ms. Edwards’ class. He’s going 4 days a week this year Monday through Thursday – big stuff! Spencer was sure to give him a goodbye kiss – and slight choke hold! – on Monday morning before he left…

school

Maxwell was proud to be sporting his new orange shoes!

first day of school

He had a great first day – even if he told me he only played by himself all day. 🙁  I don’t think that was entirely true! It will be an adjustment this year not having Max or Lila in his class but I know he’ll make new good buddies in no time.

On Tuesday, Spencer got to have his first day of school! He’s in Ms. Betsy’s class this year and is only going Tuesday and Thursday. I really wanted him to go 3 days a week but the only option was Monday, Wednesday, Friday and I didn’t want Spencer to go Friday if Maxwell wasn’t going to go. So, Tu/Th it is and both boys will be home together on Fridays to play with each other.

first day spencer

Spencey wasn’t nervous or hesitant about school at all. And he was pretty proud of his new “geen” shoes!

spencer first day

Spencer had a good first day too – even if he told me he didn’t play with anyone, didn’t eat lunch, and didn’t go on the playground! ha! I’m thinking none of those things are true!  🙂  I did get the most awesome email from his teacher that night.  She said, “Spencer, as always, had a great day!  I have to tell you he has the BEST belly laugh I have ever heard.  He gets to giggling and just can’t stop!  Makes me crack up!  I love it!” That sure made me happy. My little buddy really does have the BEST laugh!

I sure do love these boys and am so grateful they have such a wonderful school to attend.

first day of school

Cheers to a great school year ahead! Have a great weekend!

Zzzzzzz

TGIF! Ok, I think I can talk about this now without jinxing it. Samantha is sleeping through the night! Woohoo!! It’s been a week and I am so happy she finally decided to snooze all night long!

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sleep

Last Friday, she woke up around 3:00 am and I left her. In the past when I left her I would finally go in after she cried for an hour but, that night, she only cried about 30 minutes and then went back to sleep until 6:30 am. Awesome. Since then, she’s stopped waking up at night and sleeps from around 7pm to 6:30am. Yay! She’s had a few little wakeups here and there but if I just leave her, she’ll get herself back to sleep. Both of her brothers were doing this by 5 months so it was about time she made the leap too!

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sleep

Here’s to a restful weekend ahead.

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Night night!

Sitting up!

As I mentioned yesterday, sweet Samantha is doing so good sitting up on her own!

Momma, look! I’m up! I’m sitting up!

sitting

Can you believe I can hold myself up even with these heavy, chubby cheeks?!

sitting

Whoa….

sitting

Whoooooa….

sitting

And I’m still up! yes!

sitting

Whooosh!

Whoa, what was that?!

sitting

Momma, did you see that?!

sitting

But, hey, I’m STILL sitting up!

sitting

Go me!

sitting

Uh oh, here he comes back again. Move brother! I’m trying to sit up!

sitting

Now I’m surrounded. Guess I better get used to this!

sitting up

Phew, this sitting up business is exhausting. I gotta take a rest.

sitting

We’re so proud of our happy sitter!

fruity

We haven’t started feeding Samantha real food yet, but last week we did give her a little taste of an orange! We had some orange slices at dinner so just handed her one and she was hilarious. The faces she was making were cracking us up. She wasn’t quite so sure of it at first but ended up really liking it and did quite a good job eating all that orange!

orange

orange

Adventures in eating!