Books

Reading books. Life is good.

3 1/2

Sammy turned 3 1/2 yesterday. I told him he wasn't allowed to grow up. He looked troubled and concerned and put his hands up in question and said, "Why? I have to grow up! Why don't you want me to grow up? I want to be a man!"

I told him I liked him the way he was now, but that I would like him at any age.

"I have to grow up to be a man."

"What are you going to be when you are grown up then? A pilot?"

"No, an astronaut. But I want to be an astronaut now, a boy astronaut."

We love our little astronaut.

Life gets turned upside down sometimes

But hey, why not smile with all 6 of your teeth?

One of this lil guy's favorite poses.

Two babies

I'll be missing these two little guys for a week plus.

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They've already started.

Really into...

...this chubby face.

{taken with the Hipstamatic app}

Show a little love

It's time to show a little love on my part. Inanimate objects are being neglected in my life: my room, figuring out who owes me what, and all eighty billion pictures I want to share. Blog, I'm starting with you :)

"Sammy blow out fire"

He tried and tried. Then Wiwi helped and he blew it out "by self."

I should probably add that the Sammy pumpkin (with the hair) was by artiste bro-in-law and he wasn't yet done with it. Just putting that out there for him :)

He's Two

Already? That went fast.

We love him so much. He blew out his candles 5 times.

County Fair

Animals, police cars and motorcycles, trucks, tractors, construction equipment, man drumming, ride that he went on 3 times, and chocolate milk. I think the little guy will sleep well tonight.

I've never had this happen to me before. Underexposed to the point where you can still kinda see it, but there is a beautiful ray of sun that comes in perfectly.

Tried lots of new things tonight. Learned a lot. And had a blast.

Look who's the cutest

Jonathan has a sponsored post over at Snippet and Ink (my favorite wedding blog) and Babycakes made the cut.

Giddy-up

He just repeated "giddy-up" and "horsey" the entire time.

The things one does for love

Sammy loves "la... mowies." It was the first cut of the year and I let him help. He kept saying "wheels," "grass," and (my personal favorite) - "giddy-up."

Sammy + Goats

He had absolutely no fear of the goats. They would run away from him as he patted them and repeated "nice! nice!" More than anything he wanted to go behind the chain and make friends with the rest of them.

Love of my life

His pretty blue eyes.  His transparent skin.  His chubby cheeks.  His soft blond hair.  

He's still a baby to me, even if he can tell you that bears eat honey and his name is Sammy.

18M

My nephew turns 18 months old today.  What did we do without him?  

Poor thing had to spend a few hours at the hospital last night.  But we knew we had our Sammy back when he saw his teddy and said "woof" and then gave it a big hug.  

He is the sweetest boy alive.  We love him to pieces.

To him

Mommy = "Mommy"

Daddy = "Daddy"

Nana = "Nana"

Grandma = "Mommy"

Grandpa = "Daddy"

Whitney = "Whahwee" (i still can't quite figure a good way to spell what comes out of his mouth)

Lindsay = "Zeezees"

Tracy = confused look and then "Zeezees"

:)

oh how we love our Sammy.

Betty Brinn Children's Museum

We're headed back to the children's museum in the morning.  That's where we play while mommy sings.

Walking on sunshine

He would wake up at 6 am to go to the beach.  Now he doesn't ask to go out in the 0 degree weather.  

Fat Feet

The babycakes has wide and thick feet.  As my mother said, "I've spent my whole life looking for shoes narrow enough for my daughters, and now I have to find shoes wide enough for him!"

I love his feet.

He has to wear Vans and other skater shoes in baby sizes.  It's cute.  Plus he loves to say the word "shoes" which sounds like "sis."

Woof

Cutie boy got a giant "woof" for Christmas.  He loved it more than I thought he would.  

Why does Christmas seem so long ago?