life with a baby
October 3rd, 2009Wow - I can’t believe it’s been about 9 months since my last post. Life with a baby has been much busier than I could ever have imagined! We now have a son, Samuel, who was born this past February. Delivery and the childbirth process was pretty dang painful, but not nearly as bad as I thought it would be. I made it through, and I have a wonderful son to show for it! 
With a serious lack of sleep and various breastfeeding problems, the first couple of months were pretty rough, but we’ve been having a lot of fun being parents these last few months. Sam is a great kid (we think so, at least) - he’s got a fairly easygoing personality, and for the most part is a smiley, happy baby. I just can’t believe he’s getting so big so fast! Sam’s about 8 months old now, and he notices everything. He’s also very mobile - he can crawl and is pulling up on furniture. He’s even starting to cruise a little. Mostly for the grandparents and other family members (but for anyone else who is initerested too), Larry and I have started a blog about all things Sam, with occasional posts about other happenings as well. We’ll be updating that blog a lot more frequently than I update this blog, so please check it out!
It’s been a fun & lazy weekend for us so far - just hanging out around the house, playing with Sam. I think we plan to make a trip to Babies R Us later today to check out convertible car seats. Sam still fits in his Chicco infant car seat, but lately he’s been looking a little uncomfortable, like he’s running out of room fast (which is kind of weird, since he’s still well below the weight limit of the car seat). Anyone have any advice about good convertible car seat brands? Tomorrow, we hope to make it to the Cake Wrecks book signing here in Austin. Cake Wrecks is currently one of my favorite blogs - I highly recommend it; I think it’s hilarious. The woman who writes the blog has compiled a book of horribly funny cakes, and will be at Book People at 3pm tomorrow for a book signing. I hear that there will be lots of free cake, in case anyone is interested…