Samuel continues to grow, as do we.

Samuel now has a vocabulary.  The other day he was sitting between us on the couch when he dropped his snack trap of cheerio's and he very clearly said "Oh no."

Today is Sunday and we had our traditional Sunday morning breakfast of croissant and pain au chocolat. Samuel had his standard croissant. We are slowly learning as parents.  We have been attempting to feed Samuel "real" food while we eat our meals.  We would hand Samuel green beans , baguette, whatever we were eating and he would immediately place it in his mouth.  We noticed that Samuel did not actually eat much, as most of the food ended up on his bib or tray as it dribbled out of his mouth.  We finally realized that we should regulate how much food we give Samuel(as Homer Simpson would say D'oh!).  This morning we were eating our breakfast on the couch, watching the snow fall and the river cruise by, while Samuel was sitting in his high chair.  Julia slowly gave him pieces of croissant to eat.  She waited until he had swallowed the previous piece until we gave him more.  Doing this, he ate about 90% of the croissant.  A massive improvement over previous meals.

Samuel does love classical music. As we were eating this morning a promotion featuring Vivaldi's four seasons came over the radio and Samuel immediately threw his arms in the air and started waving them and swaying his head and shoulders from side to side.  I would like to say it was in time to the music but Samuel is cursed as his parents are with no rhythm.

Samuel and I went to the boulangerie this morning.  We drove as we had a few other errands to run and it was a brisk-4 this morning. As we were leaving with our order I handed the baguette to Samuel and he tried to carry it to the car with his mittens on his hands.  Very cute as he struggled to hold the baguette but refused to let it fall to the ground even though he could not grip it with his hands.  The women at the boulangerie were very encouraging as he determinedly walked through the door to the car.

-Dave