Sam’s Story: Week 10

Short update this week, as I’ve just gotten back from SIOP. It was my first trip away from Sam since she was born, I was haunted by worries that she would be walking and solving quadratic equations by the time I got back. She wasn’t, though I swear she looks bigger than she was when I left on Thursday. Fortunately, grandma Sommer came in town to help Geralyn out with the baby care agenda.

Really the only thing to report is that Sam is starting to fit into her 3-6 month old clothes. This basically means that she’s like a brand new, very expensive dress up doll to us once again. Unfortunately, it pisses Sam off when we whip clothes on and off her just to see what they look like. Don’t know why, but it does.

There were many congratulations from people I ran into at SIOP, though ODDLY ENOUGH, not everyone was really interested in looking at the pictures I brought along. Still, enough were. Here’s the screenshots of Sam’s life for this week:



This week’s featured baby product isn’t really a featured baby product. It’s a website called. www.dooce.com. It’s a blog by a very talented and funny writer who also recently had a kid. Not all the posts are about the baby, and you should be warned that the language can sometimes be rough (she sometimes carpet f-bombs her posts), but it’s really great stuff. I’m constantly surprised by how similar her experiences have been to ours, and how close in time they come (their kid is only a few weeks younger than Sam, I think). It’s like the author is IN MY HEAD. Check out the archives and just start reading if you’re a parent. Or even if you’re not.

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