Sneak Peek of Sammy's 1 year pictures

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Sammy turned 1 on the 23rd. I can't believe my baby is now 1 years old. Pictures of his party to come soon.

I love you little man!

Dancing

Sometimes you just need to dance!

Ok ignore the rant I was on before

Someone please make this baby sleep! He had an ear infection and it's all gone but now he's waking up every hour! I love this boy so much but if he doesn't start sleeping soon I'm going to give him away to the nearest person.

Mama

NOT sleeping through the night

10 months old and he's still not sleeping through the night, yes I know it's my fault because I've let him get use to feeding to fall asleep but no I am not going to let him cry it out.

The last couple of days I've had a number of people tell me that I HAVE to let Sammy cry it out to teach him to sleep through the night. I understand that this works for some babies but Sammy is just not one of them, he is what is called a "high needs" baby. Most babies would cry for a period of time and fall asleep exhausted. Not my boy, he'd cry and get himself so worked up he wouldn't be able to stop crying.

Sure I'm not getting much sleep but heck what mama is? I've never seen an 18 year old head off to college not being able to sleep through the night and needing to feed or be held to sleep so I'm not worried.

Trust me when I say losing a couple hours of sleep for me is easier than hearing my baby boy cry and get himself worked up to the point of hysterics.

That's my rant for the day - now I'm going to go take a nap with my Sammy who's falling asleep next to me in the bed :)

Trains at the park

Sammy is now into trains so we took him to a country village near our house that had train rides, and electric trains to watch. He was in train heaven. Looks like we know what to get him for his birthday.

Oh look the trains!

Walking with daddy


We ran into a lion at one of the stores, he followed us home

Kisses from mama

Hey daddy!

My sweet boy