Oh Tannenbaum

We put up our Christmas tree on Sunday. Adam is a fan. He reached for the tree and squealed when we turned on the lights. We're tempting fate by putting up our glass ornaments this year. I think I will be going on a shopping spree after Christmas to buy plastic ones.

My mom helping Adam put his first Christmas ornament on the tree (thanks grandma and grandpa S):

We all survived Adam's first day of daycare today. I only cried a little as I handed him over, but it wasn't as hard as I thought. He was crying when I showed up to pick him up, but as soon as he saw me he stopped crying and wanted me to hold him. Below is a picture of my smiley boy tonight in his Christmas jammies!

15 pounder

Wow- a 15 pound baby was born in Minnesota. All I could think while lugging Adam into church in his baby bucket was that new born weighs as much as my five month old son!

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It's Been a While

Adam is five months old, Dave is back at work and on Monday- Adam goes to daycare for the first time! Life has been pretty crazy lately, but mainly I haven't posted in a while because we got a virus on our home computer. It's the final straw that has made us decide it's finally time to buy a new computer.

So to catch up. November has been an unseasonably warm and beautiful month. Dave and Adam took advantage of the fabulous weather and went for walks during the day and even played in the park for the first time. My little baby got to go swing!

Adam is moving around the house now. He rolls from one end of the room to the other. He's also making raspberry noises all the time now.

Adam has been reaching for everything lately. This last week he's started acting really interest in food, so I've been giving him a little adult food when he reaches for it. So far I have given him a some tiny pieces of bread and some cheerios. This is the face he makes when we give him some food to eat. He's not sure if he likes it or not.

Baptizm

We baptized Adam the Sunday before Thanksgiving. Uncle Henry and our friends Andy and Brooke were the Godparents. Adam was great, he smiled as Father poured the water over his head and loved being paraded around church. I was a little nervous to sit in the front row through the hour mass service, but Adam was great. He squealed once during a song, but as my aunt said, it was just Adam trying to sing along with the music.

After mass we had everyone over for a brunch at our house. My parents made practically all of the food which was super delicious.

Sitting is hard work

It's amazing how you can take something as simple as sitting for granted. Adam has been working so hard on sitting up lately. I propped him up between some pillows on the bed and then he would lean forward and hold himself up on his arms and slowly he would get tired and start falling. His sitting always ends with a face plant!

Even Brockway has been helping.

Daddy Daycare

Dave is figuring out daddy daycare this week. He's taking the next three weeks off to get to know Adam better and I am back at work. Monday I came home to four long lists on the counter with times down to five minute intervals of everything Adam and he had done. It was a little overwhelming, but I have to admit it was nice to know exactly what they had spent the day doing. He did the list thing on Tuesday, too. Then today the list making ended at noon. I guess the afternoon was a little too hectic. I guess part of daddy daycare is dressing Adam to match daddy- so I couldn't resist taking a picture of my boys.