Samuel is now 7 months old and is continuing to become more like a person. His major milestone this month was moving around and getting into everything. His favorite thing to chase after are the power cables for our laptops, but that just shows that he’s our son.

He is very close to being able to crawl and is able to make it across the room in only a minute or two by scooting. Photos in the album linked below.

There is a new issue of Samuel Superhero below, we hope you enjoy seeing his playfulness as much as we do.

It’s a bit late in coming, but Joe gave me several surprises for Valentine’s Day. He doesn’t really like it, but I love celebrating all kinds of Holidays, so it was extra sweet what he did.

Early in the week when I was having an especially frustrating day he surprised me with a gorgeous flower bouquet. Then when I came downstairs on Valentine’s Day, there were all kinds of filled chocolates from Ghirardelli waiting for me (Joe was at church early).

After church that day we went shopping and had lunch at Panda Express (one of Joe’s favorites). We came home and relaxed, and then we cooked Chicken and Portobello Rollups while watching The Lion King (it was his idea to watch that movie!).

We had a fun day together and I love him

Samuel was attacked by a Kissing Fish just yesterday. Here’s the video about his experience. Happy early Valentine’s Day!

Samuel turned 1/2 year (6 months) today, the same day as his Gigi’s Birthday (Happy Birthday Grandmommy!). He has grown so much this month and accomplished many things. This is a bit of a long post, but there were so many fun memories, photos, and videos that I just had to share!

He is eating “real” food every night before he goes to bed now, and he LOVES Bananas. Tonight he ate an entire banana (pureed) and a bit of rice cereal. Of course he is really good at putting just about everything in his mouth.

He re-learned how to roll from his stomach to his back and from then on has become a rolling machine. Most of the time he just does rolling laps around his playmat, but one day I found him in the middle of the room and then watched as he rolled all the way across the room in a matter of minutes.

When Joe got home he put together his “baby prison”(playpen) and decided to try it out.

This video is 10 minutes of him playing speed up to be only 1 minute. This was him playing just after he turned 5 months, so he is actually much more active than this now, but it’s a fun video.

He’s becoming stronger and stronger every day now and managed somehow to get his tree and giraffe on the playmat stuck together.

Since he’s so strong now he’s helping with the laundry.

He’s also learning to stop the advances of girls. His friend Emily was innocently trying to kiss him/bite his face.

Samuel however, turned away at the last minute. I’m so proud of him!

We also had a fun visit with my friends Brenda & Andrea. They had a really great time with Samuel as you can see in the photos:

Brenda & Samuel

Andrea & Samuel
They also taught him all kinds of things that are far too early for him:

How to use an iPhone

How to drink Soda, although he needs a bit more practice. After this picture was taken he dumped the entire glass on Joe.

How to play Settlers of Cattan

This was such a big month for Samuel and we are so excited to see what this next month has in store. As always there are a bunch more photos in the new albums below:

• Samuel 6 Months
• Brenda & Andrea’s Visit 2009
• Samuel & Friends @ 6 Months
• Samuel & Emily

Here are some links we found interesting this week:

• The Best Time To Buy Guide For 45 Products and Services – This is a handy guide. -KO
• Exploration Station | – Super cool new science activity center that just opened near us. Now we only have to wait like 3 years before we can go -KO
• xkcd – Random Number – This is hilarious. -KO
• 100 Game Cupcakes – This is so awesome and such a great idea. There were a bunch of games I have never heard of that sound interesting now – KO