Monday, March 12, 2007
Month 8 Updates
This month was full of fun, fun, fun. Well, as least there was some in-between all of the travel.
Sammy got to go to his first Sushi bar for Daddy's birthday. Uncle Deasik, Daddy, and Mommy stuffed themselves at the bar while Sammy busied himself in a highchair.
Sammy started opening doors and drawers this month. He showed a great deal of interest before but just couldn't get them both open and get into them before. This all changed. He finally got into the bottle drawer and decided to feast on nipples.
Ho Ho Ho Chicago
Of course, the big trip of the month was a visit to Chicago and a date with Santa Claus.
Sammy got an early Christmas gift in Tokyo. We thought that a toy airplane would be a good diversion on the next leg of the trip (13+ hours!).
We finally arrived in Chicago a little worse for the wear, but Sammy was great (again) on this trip. He's really been good on these trips. However, he does keep up both moving all the time and on a 17 hour trip, that gets tough. I don't think that he slept for more than 3 hours and those were 30-40 minute segments.
Family Christmas
After a couple days to work on our jet lag and get caught up it was already Christmas day.
Sammy got the full treatment. Mindy and Anika woke everyone up with their horrible sleigh bells. We all got in our PJs, had some coffee, and hit the livingroom.
Sammy was in awe. Of course, he wasn't interested in all of the presents, but rather all of the boxes, wrapping paper, and ribbons. He was in 7th heaven.
We finished the day off with a big meal and Sammy couldn't even make it to bed.
Dickinson Christmas
We had a fun trip to Carthage for the Dickinson family Christmas. Going to the farm is always fun and Sammy loved it. Not because he was able to enjoy the great outdoors, go 4-wheeling, or fishing. It was because of all the attention that he got from his aunts and cousins.
