The month has been a combination of passing very quickly (as in, where did the time go? It’s 3:00 and all I’ve done is held the baby all day!) and feeling like Sam has always been in our lives. I remember J described it as “not remembering a time when I didn’t love Clare” after she was born. Now it’s the same with Sam. How were we ever a family of three? Obviously we were missing someone.

At one month old, Sam continues to be a sweet, mellow, cuddly baby. He loves almost nothing more than to snuggle close to someone, though he is increasingly showing a preference for me. I think this is because he doesn’t want to be far away from his food source 🙂 I write he loves “almost nothing more” than cuddling because what he loves most of all, and I mean MOST of all, is eating. He’s my little piglet – he snorts when he eats. I think that Clare was calling him “piggy” the other day. I’m not sure if this nickname will stick (or if we really want it to – it might not sound like a nice thing to call a ten-year-old) but for right now Piglet seems to be Sam’s nick name (besides Samster).

Besides eating and snuggling, Sam is growing. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a baby grow this quickly. He’s now very comfortably wearing his 3-month size clothes and even some 3-6 month size outfits. It’s such a difference from his sister, who was my skinny little bird for her first six months. Sam is a bruiser, already.

He’s starting to sleep better at night (hallelujah!), and will settle down for the evening between 10 and 11. This is a little late for me, so generally I feed him and then pass him off to J for the final snuggle down. Sam still wakes up for a feeding at about 1, but it’s becoming shorter and shorter and he goes back to sleep right away. Half the time I’m able to get through this feeding half asleep. I’m hoping that in the next week or so he’ll just skip his feeding all together. The 4 am feeding is still a bit of a gamble – sometimes Sam wants to look around, wide awake for about an hour or so after this feeding (super fun, since Clare usually wakes up within an hour after we put Sam down making for some very short nights). All in all, we are sleeping more if not sleeping well. After Sam’s 4 am feeding he generally will not lay back down in his bassinet and will only sleep snuggled up next to me. With Clare I was very concerned about co-sleeping (dangerous! starts bad habits!) but with Sam I enjoy the extra cuddling. He likes it too, and will often scoot towards me if I try to move away.