{"id":561,"date":"2014-05-14T01:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T01:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/14\/sam-is-8-months-old"},"modified":"2014-05-14T01:50:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T01:50:00","slug":"sam-is-8-months-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2014\/05\/14\/sam-is-8-months-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam is 8 months old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really?\u00a0 Another month has passed?<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/13994796699\" title=\"Sam is 8 months old by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam is 8 months old\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7407\/13994796699_0167e3e640_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Seriously, this guy is blazing through infanthood.\u00a0 Or it seems that way because I&#8217;m only half conscious with sickness most of the time.\u00a0 Either way, Sam is bigger and better than ever.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/13994813970\" title=\"Sam is 8 months old by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam is 8 months old\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7336\/13994813970_21ea756369_z.jpg\" width=\"424\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>No real milestones to report this month.\u00a0 He has a great raking and pincher grip.\u00a0 He blows raspberries at me when I talk to him, most likely a glimpse into his teenage years far in the future.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/14178167581\" style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\" title=\"Sam is 8 months old by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam is 8 months old\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7401\/14178167581_a4c59204c5_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/14158296926\" title=\"Sam is 8 months old by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam is 8 months old\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7365\/14158296926_9cf9d7acc4_z.jpg\" width=\"424\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>He refuses to get in the crawl position.\u00a0 In fact, his flipping from tummy down is so fast, I can&#8217;t even get a picture any more.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/14178167861\" title=\"Sam is 8 months old by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam is 8 months old\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5583\/14178167861_f7ef8e2a74_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>He rolls well enough to get into trouble, so I have to keep an eye on him.\u00a0 The other day, while I was in the bathroom, he had rolled off his play mat, into the media center, and was about to gum on some cables.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/14181468345\" title=\"Sam is 8 months old by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam is 8 months old\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2901\/14181468345_a9b1f2aee0_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I wish I could say sleep is better.\u00a0 As you know, we had a solid 3-4 weeks of hourly wakings.\u00a0 I did some modifications and got him to sleep through the night again.\u00a0 But now, after about a week of that, he&#8217;s back to waking up a lot.\u00a0 Maybe its the drippy nose?\u00a0 I can always come up with an excuse for the sleep, but once one problem passes another one starts.\u00a0 I want a <i>permanent<\/i> solution.\u00a0 Grrrr.\u00a0 I tell him this, and he blows me a raspberry, punctuated by his signature &#8220;ah-tscha&#8221; babble.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/13994812160\" title=\"Sam is 8 months old by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam is 8 months old\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2920\/13994812160_a11f7bcc33_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Still no more teeth.\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t that weird?\u00a0 He got those two at an early 4 months, and nothing new for the next 4 months.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/14201594883\" title=\"Sam is 8 months old by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam is 8 months old\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2899\/14201594883_30cf25d897_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>He makes those teeth work for him, though.\u00a0 He&#8217;s as crazy about food as I said last time.\u00a0 He loves everything I give him.\u00a0 I usually do raspberries or bananas with oatmeal for breakfast.\u00a0 Then he nibbles on whatever he can handle of our dinner.\u00a0 Loves tortellini.\u00a0 If I&#8217;m lucky, he spends lunchtime napping so I can actually enjoy a meal to myself.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s trying to grab the camera here.\u00a0 This is also what it looks like when he pulls your hair \/ grabs your glasses \/ grabs your earrings \/ scrapes your nose \/ or pulls your lips.\u00a0 I see this image a lot.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/14158297836\" title=\"Sam is 8 months old by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam is 8 months old\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7408\/14158297836_7f3f28244a_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I love you, Sam.\u00a0 Now go to sleep and stay that way!<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/13994820628\" title=\"Sam is 8 months old by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam is 8 months old\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7439\/13994820628_bc1c76e239_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really?\u00a0 Another month has passed? Seriously, this guy is blazing through infanthood.\u00a0 Or it seems that way because I&#8217;m only half conscious with sickness most of the time.\u00a0 Either way, Sam is bigger and better than ever. No real milestones to report this month.\u00a0 He has a great raking and pincher grip.\u00a0 He blows raspberries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}