Sam’s Story: Week 43

This week I finally managed to catch Sam in the act of standing up. She actually stood there for like 30 seconds, just kind of looking at me like “Hey, check me out, I’m a biped!” while I snapped pictures like a gibbering idiot. I shouted for Geralyn to come downstairs and she came on the run, thinking the Sam had fallen into the garbage disposal by the way I was screaming. Of course, Ger started clapping and whooping, which startled Sam so much she let go of her death grip on the chair, twisted around, and did a face plant into the carpet. Sorry, I didn’t take a picture of that part.

One thing you may notice from the that pic of Samantha in upright mode is that she’s getting bigger. She weighed 18 pounds around a week ago. This is, no doubt, due to the fact that she has decided that eating is the most important thing in the world, a recurring quest worthy of her gastrointestinal fanaticism. I mentioned this a while back, but she’s only been shoveling the food in faster and sometimes, I swear, with three hands. Yesterday, she ate three and a half pounds of mixed vegetables in 45 seconds and then shoved a whole avocado up her nose. Lately, a typical day for her involves eating rice cereal, banana, Cheerios, mixed vegetables, pureed fruit, pureed vegetables, cooked apple, avacado, cheddar cheese, and about six ounces of watered-down juice.

The funny thing is that she’s still not a chubby baby by any measure. I think she burns it all off, because unless she’s asleep or literally strapped down into a chair she’s on the move –crawling, shaking things, trying to pull up, cornering the cat, trying to break my DVD player, crawling some more. I’m never giving her coffee.

And now, pictures:

In all likelihood, Sam’s next update, including pictures, will be delayed as we take Sam’s Story on the road for a three-city World Tour. The three of us are flying to Houston, Texas to meet up with my sister. Then the four of us are driving up to Tulsa, Oklahoma, to spend Thanksgiving with my parents. This will be great, as we haven’t seen them in a while. So while Sam’s Story will probably be delayed, her most hardcore fans will get to see her live and on stage.