Update

We have been such slackers in updating lately. It's hard to blog when all you can say is life is good.

Life is really good. Everyone said we would hit our stride at about 6 months home and we really have. Sam's English improves daily and his vocabulary is amazing. He talks all the time! Sometimes it's hard just to get a word in edgewise. He's very social and would rather play with a friend than do anything else. He's looking forward to school in a few months about as much as his mama is dreading it.

His new favorite thing is Ben10 Ultimate Alien and he is constantly smacking his wrist or Ben10 watch and transforming. His imagination never ceases to amaze us.

Tim started a new job this week and Sam and I are adjusting to his new schedule. Instead of getting home at 4 now he gets home around 6 and Sam is definitely missing his papa time. On top of that Sam has an unexplained fever that seems to come and go and have no other symptoms. I'm trying to get him to stay calm but he's all 5 and all boy so it's only partially working.

Attachment feels like it's progressing, although as Tim likes to say, you feel like your attached until something happens that says you aren't. Sam is still crawling in bed with us most nights and after a few hours away he will usually call to say he misses me but he doesn't mommy shop and he is getting really good at checking in when he's playing with a friend or by himself. He seems less anxious and more sure of himself daily.

Below is what you actually came for. The first video I took on the one year anniversary of the first day we met Sam and the second one is of Sam reading one of his BOB books.