Samuel's First Movie

Hey Everyone,

Had a pretty funny story to tell, so here it is. The other night, we went out to a fairly late dinner at a local restaurant. As we finished dinner at about 8:45 pm, Zachary mentioned he would like to go to a movie. He wanted to see the Iron Man movie. It was still playing at the $2 theater (our favorite). I looked it up on my cell phone, and the movie started at 9:15.

Carrie and I talked about it, it isn't often that we would say yes to taking a 4 month old to the movies. We both agreed that Samuel had just eaten and it was his normal bed time. We were both sure he would go right to sleep. We decided to take a gamble so off to the theater we went. For $6 we didn't have much to lose.

When we first arrived, everything was going just as planned. The baby was getting kind of sleepy, until he pooped his pants. Carrie took him out to change him and slipped back in the theater in record time. She is better than a Nascar pit crew!

When she came back in Samuel had developed a different plan. Did he start crying and fussing? Nope, not a bit. He was awake and had no plans to go to sleep! That little 4 month old sat on his mother's knee and later mine for nearly 2 and 1/2 hours and never took his eyes off of that movie! He never cried or whimpered. He was mesmerized. We couldn't believe his stamina and his attention span. He just sat there transfixed! We all thought it was hilarious. I, of course, added commentary to what Samuel was thinking throughout. He thought that was the coolest big TV he had ever seen!

We left the theater at about 11:30 pm and he was still awake. He didn't finally give up the fight till about midnight. We all had fun and I think Samuel did too! :-)

One More Thing

Today Samuel turned over for the first time! We had him in the floor on a blanket. He was laying on his tummy with some of his toys. Without warning, he flipped his little fat butt right over! He has never even come close before. Mauldin babies don't usually do that sort of thing very early, they are generally a little too rotund. :-) Fluffiness has a "weigh" of weighing you down! Another milestone reached so fast we almost missed it.

Love you all.