Our precious Sam has been in our lives for three months now. He’s pretty much a sweet little guy but, as typical with the end of the fourth trimester, he’s more interactive with the world and us. He’s playing with his toys, grabbing them and bringing them to his mouth, sucking on his fingers, watching his hands, and following us around the room with this eyes. He recognizes me, Jeremy and Clare by our voices and by sight, which is really fun.
Besides watching the world with his quiet way, Sam seems to be trying his darnest to set some kind of infant growth record. I’m not exactly sure of his weight and length these days but I know that I’m now putting away his 6 month clothes and dressing him in 9 month size clothing. This means he’s averaging a clothing size per month. At this rate he’ll be wearing a 4T at his first birthday so I assume that pretty soon he’ll slow down. But I’ve been assuming that for a while now and it hasn’t happened so we’ll see. One of the challenges of having a very, VERY healthy baby is that he’s outgrowing things before I’m prepared. So far he’s in size 3 diapers, but he’s threatening to outgrow them in width. I have half a package each of sizes 0, 1 and 2 diapers that Sam outgrew before we finished them. He’s also within 5 pounds of outgrowing his infant car seat. At the rate he’s growing we’ll need a convertible car seat in the next month and a half. He’s also in the last few weeks of his bouncy seat and swing. I’ve been told that in person he doesn’t look as big as he does in his pictures, and in a way he doesn’t. He is well proportioned, for a six or seven month old. He’s also a solidly thick baby, so his weight sneaks up on you. For my part, I’ve never had so much upper body strength in my life.
