Wednesday, December 31, 2008

5 months old

Samuel is now 5 months old! Time sure does fly! Here are some new developments in the past few weeks...
- He now giggles frequently. Clara can always get him to giggle as well as our friend Kari. He won't do it as much for mom and dad.
- He LOVES Clara now. He watches her, pulls on her ears, and laughs at her. The other day he was fussy, so I sat down on the floor where he could reach Clara and he smiled and giggled.
- He's starting to sit up. He's getting more and more stabble every day!
- He LOVES his bath now. He learned how to splash and this new discovery resulted in a move from baths on the bathroom counter to baths in his own bathroom. He sure makes a mess, but loves it so much!
- He has rolled over again... this time from back to tummy. It happened for the first time today, so we will see if he remembers how to do that again. He had been rolling over from tummy to back for about 2 weeks, but forgot how (or didn't like doing it) and won't do it anymore. Maybe he's figuring it out again.
- As far as sleep goes... we've gone back and forth. He's slept through the night (8pm - 7am) for about a week, but then forgot how and woke up every couple of hours, like a newborn, for several weeks. Now we are up a few times a night, but it's getting better.
- He ate real food! (Pictures of that to come in a seperate post soon.)
- He has all sorts of new noises... squeals, grunts, "da," "yah," "ga" and spitting noises.

Christmas with the Lutz's

We headed up to Spencer, Iowa on Christmas eve to celebrate Christmas with Bud's parents. The usually 9 hour drive took closer to 11 hours due to weather and a baby, but we got there safe and sound. Samuel really did great in the car. He slept, ate, and played on the same schedule as if we were at home. There was about 2 feet of snow on the ground when we got there. It was really cold, so we bundled Sam up, took a few pics and ran back inside. No wasted time waiting for a smile when it's 4 degrees outside :)


Christmas morning... Samuel was having more fun with the wrapping paper than the gifts. Helping Grandma open a present...
Opening Christmas Eve pajamas... I think I was more excited than he was :)
A gift from "Santa"...
Bud's sisters came up from Dallas for Samuel's Baptism. So, we celebrated with them that weekend.

Christmas with the Pfisters

We were able to celebrate Christmas with my family while they were here for Sam's baptism. I got to open A LOT of presents. Bud was holding Samuel and Samuel can't open his own... so I got to open all of them :).

Gdaddy and Samuel, giving zerberts (I'm not sure how to spell that)...
The fam...
Samuel watching his new ball popper from Aunt Alyssa. I think Clara is enjoying this gift more than Samuel at this point... She chases the balls when they pop up! I'll try to get a video of it sometime, but Clara gets distracted when I get the camera out, so that is likely never going to happen.

Sam in his new hat from GiGi...

Samuel's Baptism

Samuel was baptised into the Covenant family on December 21st. Here are a few pictures from the occasion.


Thank you to all our friends and family, near and far, for supporting us in raising Samuel as a covenant child!

For those of you unfamiliar with this practice, here is an excerpt from the PCA Book of Church Order regarding the sacrament of batism:

Baptism is a sacrament of the new testament, ordained by Jesus Christ, not only for the solemn admission of the party baptized into the visible Church; but also to be unto him a sign and seal of the covenant of grace, of his ingrafting into Christ, of regeneration, of remission of sins, and of his giving up unto God, through Jesus Christ, to walk in newness of life. Which sacrament is, by Christ's own appointment, to be continued in His Church until the end of the world. (Read more at http://www.pcanet.org/general/cof_chapxxvi-xxx.htm#chapxxviii).

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Christmas Card Picture

So, I'm a little late getting my Christmas cards ready. I'm having a hard time choosing which picture to send, so I need your help! Which of these pictures would you want sent with your christmas card? You can either vote in the comments section or use the poll on the left side of the page.
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