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

Here are some links we found interesting this week:

• Boxee – Really cool, and they even have an iPhone/iPod Touch app that lets you control it like a remote! -KO
• Digitally Blonde – Disney Princes Deconstructed – This was hilarious and so true. -KO
• Cake Wrecks – Super funny cakes. -KO
• Fast Food Fun « bakerella.com – Super cute desert. -KO
• Make Your Cupcakes Pop! « bakerella.com – So cute, a really great alternative to cupcakes. -KO

This update on Samuel is a few weeks late because we were waiting for people to look through our Christmas Card 2009.

Samuel turned 5 months old on Christmas day and is continuing to grow, despite my continued pleas to never grow up. He has a bunch of hair, but it’s still hard to tell if it’s brown, red, blonde, or a combination of all three. His eyes are getting lighter, but they are still blue so we don’t know what color they are going to turn out. Incase you were wondering the chance of blue eyes for him is 18%. He learned how to turn over onto his stomach from his back and hasn’t stopped since, even though he hates being on his stomach. Take a look at a bunch of great photos in the album:

He also had a bunch of fun with friends especially his “Baby Whisperer” Amy, here are some photos:

I also know where he gets his mischievousness from:

Here are some links we found interesting this week:

• Giving is Glorious – This was hilarious. -KO
• Jigidi – Free Online Jigsaw Puzzles – Make your own jigsaw puzzle online. Pretty cool. -KO