Your First Month

Dear Sam-

Your first month of life has been very eventful. Grandma Dittu and Mom-Mom have already come to visit you. I don't think you were awake most of the time, but they loved you anyway. And your dad and I have learned a lot about you:

You will deal with a poopy diaper but all hell will break loose if there is pee in there.
You are iffy on pacifiers, you prefer to suck on our little finger.
You like to be held, but only when and where you choose.
You need to be in constant motion...no seriously.
You refuse to acknowledge that we have a cat (in fairness, the cat isn't a huge fan of you either)

At the time of this post, you've just learned to smile. I wish I could capture a picture of it, but so far I can't tell when its going to happen. It could be when you see Mr Chicken on the playmat or when I talk to you on the changing pad. Either way, its easily the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. I can't imagine loving you more than I do. I can't wait to see what next month has to offer.

Love,
Mom

The Day You Were Born

Aren't you just adorable?! You were born on a Thursday..well just barely. 12:48am. We were hoping you would decide on your own to come out, but you didn't. So we went into the hospital on Tuesday January 19th and I got induced. That means we got drugs to tell you it was time to leave the nest. 36 crazy hours later, you were born. Our nurse, Trish, was AMAZING. All the other nurses said you didn't want to come out and I would need a c-section, but Trish wasn't having that. She had me in all sorts of twister positions and in the end you decided it was finally time.

You changed our lives that day. We loved you the minute you arrived and its just been getting better since then. Thanks for deciding it was ok to meet us.

Love,
Mom

Your parents wedding

Dear Sam-

Since I'm just trying to catch up on this blog..I'm going to do a few background posts so you know what kind of family you are getting into. Today, I would like to tell you a little bit about your parents wedding. We got married 6 years after the meeting at the copier in Baltimore. Our wedding was in Cabo San Lucas and we had 68 of our closest friends and family. Hopefully, by the time you read this you will have met every single one. The weekend was perfect except for when your Dad slipped on a boat. He was so excited he was jumping at the front of a boat when a big wave came along and he slipped, fell and then got pummelled by said wave. It mostly funny to watch, but then your Dad got some back problems which he's recently had fixed. Good thing, because little did he know a little over a year later he'd be bouncing you on his knee.

Anyhoo, I'll post a photo or two when I find them on this computer but til then know that your parents are actually pretty cool people who had an amazing wedding which led us to having you. The End.

Love,
Mom

Starting Out

Dear Sam-

This is my first blog post especially for you. I'll try to keep up with it as you get older so we have some memories to laugh about later...I promise I won't show any of your boyfriends (yikes, a subject I never want to talk about...well at least until you are 30).

Anyhoo, I thought we should start out with how your dad and I met. We were both working in Baltimore on a movie called Ladder 49. We met at the copy machine and I think we both decided on each other in about 10 minutes. Despite the fact that your Dad said idiot things like "You know, I used to date models" I couldn't help but love the fact that he made me laugh and he was definitely a man on a mission. As he was leaving a party that our friend Abby and I were throwing he said, "I want to take you out tomorrow, and if things go well the next day too." I sure hope you get his sense of purpose without the idiot part.

Love,
Mom