Sam Richard Phillips

Here we are: the excited, tired, relieved parents of lil' Sam the Man.
For those of you who don't know and are interested, I had Sam 7 weeks early. We think it happened because I had a marginal placenta previa (prone to excessive bleeding) and I had pushed myself while packing and getting ready for the big move. I have a hard time taking things easy apparently...

Sam had a hard time breathing in the beginning. Within just a few days, however, he made a championship comeback and went from being on the respirator, to the CPAP (shown), to just the little nose thing that gives oxygen (same thing old men have.)

He also had to get fed from a tube through his nose starting on the 2nd day. As you can see here, though, he proved himself again and got the tube removed to eat normally. What a man!

Would you look at that hair! It's so blond it almost looks gray. It's also more hair than his older brother Aiden has now.

I just can't get over how tiny, long, and skinny Sam is. He has long, piano-playing fingers as well as long monkey arms like me. :) He loves to stretch out his toes, something Aiden didn't do until he was almost 9 months old!

We sure love our little Sam. A lot of prayers have gone into this sweet, 4 pound baby and we really appreciate all the help and love our friends and family have shown us.

Even though this binky is as big as his face, Sam LOVES it already!

So slowly but surely, Sam has gotten stronger and stronger and hasn't needed to rely on machines as much. Now we can see the baby behind all the wires, and what a handsome guy he is!

And at that, we'll say, "Good Night" to y'all!

And just for comparison's sake, here's a picture of Aiden when he was first born.