Wordless Wednesday

Praising the good health of good friends

Sam and I woke up obscenely early Thursday morning to go over to the twins house. We were "helping Sarah" by watching her while Kristin had surgery to put tubes in her ears. She did amazingly. She was back and playing in two hours. I can only wish that any of Chris's surgeries had gone that wonderfully, quickly, and sweetly. She was only a slight bit snippy and dramatic, so that hard to tell between normal snip-snippery.

Meanwhile, I thought Sam would be terrible having got up at 6. But no, he was in a Great mood. He was happy, playing sweetly. And most humorously, putting the Cinderella shoes on.

Love.

Wordless Wednesday

The Water Table

For his birthday Sam received a Pirate Ship water table.  Unfortunately, the weather has not been cooperative enough for Sam to go play in the water all day like he would really like to do.

That hasn't stopped him from bugging us to go out and play in it.

Their hands were soaked.  

Sam played until his hands curled, and were red.  The first time, he played literally, until it hurt.  And he still cried when I took him away from it.  

I think he forgave me when I put him in the bathtub afterwards.  Last Monday, the twins came over.  And they all played outside in it, dirty water and all.  And Sam didn't even care enough to put a jacket on.  

Again, he played until his fingers were numb.  And he didn't care. 

This thing is gonna be FUN this summer! 

Spring Breaky sorts of things.

Over Christopher's Spring Break, I took these yahoos to the park. I tried getting sweet pictures of them tiptoeing through the tulips.  But Sam just wanted to Run through them. 

Like hearding cats.  Sam kept wandering off, but Christopher kept bringing him back to me.  

Stopping to smell the lilacs.  

Pretty boys in flowers

Tuesday was when I took the boys to the flowers.  We had all gone to the Gardens at the zoo, with the girls. We went to the zoo, but didn't manage to see any animals.  So we went again.  This time Actually seeing animals.  Sam liked the Jellies.  Yeah, I know, "Takin' on the jellies."  

What can I say?  This kid really digs the underwater scene.  From Jellies to Sea Lions.  You know what I learned on this visit?  Sam can say Sea Lion.  Of course his L has a bit of a Y to it, but it borders Sea Yion. But Christopher called them Sea Roars forever.

It's a little hard to see.  But the Polar Bear was taking a nap on a rock in the sun, above the water.  But Sam pranced down to get as close as he could to seeing the water.  The silouette just looked really cool.

Then to continue with our Water theme, we all went to the dolphin show.  It had been a while since I'd seen one.  We usually bypass them.  So it was quite refreshing to go, and have Sam enjoy the show too, for once.  I think it had been a long time since I didn't have to fence and juggle him through something like that.  Instead he sat content watching, laughing, and having a great time. 

Stop to smell the tulips. 

We swung through the Forest section, and the brown bear was out. 

A quick stop to get stared at by the Tiger.  Sam seems cool being this close to the Tiger.  Me, it scares the snot out of me.  

Sam found an unusual specimen of peony, one that blooms early, even with all the early flower blooming this spring, this guy was cool. 

Even in the shady garden, he was having a great time and running wild.  

Sam's turn to tiptoe through the tulips.

Sam took this picture.  I set it up to catch us in the sunlight, and Sam pushed the button.  We leaned up by each other and smiled so big, because we were laughing.  It was fun to run wild through the gardens just he and I.  Something different, something special for just Sam and I. 

He's just so pretty smelling the flowers. 

Pretty face in the flowers.  I love this shot of him.  

I took a bazillion pretty pictures of him being adorable in the flowers.  

Sweet Sams

Just a few sweet videos of Sam, reading his favorite book, The Octonauts and the Only Lonely Monster.  And playing with balloons with Fina, me and Daddy. 

Easter Cuteness

Easter Weekend, the boys had a great time dying eggs.  

Sam only wanted to do blue eggs.  He got really mad when we went to take them out of the stuff.  He also doesn't always remember to not stick his hand in.  

Easter morning, we had to be at church Early.  So, we got the boys dressed, and were just going to let them find their baskets.  But when I tried to get a picture of the boys being cute together, Sam would have none of that.  He would only take pictures on his own terms.  And 7 in the morning was way too early.  

Here's how you know Sam is my child:  1.  Not a morning person until he gets a little something in his system. 2.  Has a bit of a temper, but if you let him explode like a volcano, he calms back down pretty quickly.  3.  If he's hungry, that temper is terrible, and does not go away quickly.  So if he's mad for more than about 10 seconds, than he needs to eat.   

No time like Easter morning to get a little sugar to cheer you up. ;)  First though, they had to find the Baskets! 

Give the boy a little sugar, and he perks up.  He was pretty excited about the chocolate and jelly beans.  The Easter Bunny brought special Red 40 free jelly beans.  Though I guess Sam is very in tune to me saying he can't eat red things, because his first egg full of jellies he picked out all the non-red colors.  But we told him these were OK.  So he went to town.  And when the sugar started kicking in, well, then he joined brother in finding a couple eggs.  

Sam found an orange egg, perfect to match his shirt! 

A little bit more sugar for the road. ;) 

Sam discovers the beauty of Peeps.  He got his first taste before church, but after we came home and he took care of the Peep problem, taking care of the whole box, and drooling yellow sugar all over the house. 

I did the yahoos outside for some pictures after church.  And Daddy helped me get them smile by jumping up and down and being crazy.  It worked, they smiled.  But it also got Sam wanting to reach out and love on Daddy.  

Of course, with all the sugar, no one had any inclination whatsoever to nap.  And by Noone I mean Sam. How could he?  After church, we hosted the Willman clan for a fabulous pitchin lunch.  Then the kids played and played, we had a bit of time for Quiet Time, but no proper naps.   But that was ok, because for Once, we arrived before my sister at Oma and Opa's house.  And so with more sugar, we went to have more Fun.

Sam and Annie discovered how to swing around the lightpole.  He wouldn't stop.  Man, I would've gotten so dizzy.  But not Sam, he's a spinning superchamp.

Oma made a scrumptious dessert for the kids, a black cake caterpillar crawling through the easter grass, with jelly beans, and chocolate bunnies and whatnot.  My favorite part was that Oma put yellow and green icing on it, lots of red 40 free.

After dessert, it was noted that the Easter Bunny had stopped by, and left an obnoxious amount of goodies for the boys and girls.  And Eggs.  Sam couldn't wait to go Find some eggs.  

And by the late afternoon, he was an Egg Hunting Pro! 

I love this one, it's one of my favorites.  Sam's scoping out all the eggs hidden in the flower bed.  He was so thorough.  

Inside one of those baskets, was a basketball, so Sam and brother started play Catch.

So we broke out a ball for Sam.  Chris had been sitting and rolling on his basketball, so of course, Sam had to join too.  

What's right for one is right for two.  Except for candy.  We worked so hard to make sure all of Sam's Easter candy exposure was Red 40 free.  But by the time we got home, he was having rashy explosive diarrhea.  So we racked our brains to figure out what it was that he could have eaten that might have set him off.  We made sure the bunny left only chocolates and jelly beans that were Sam friendly.  But we realized it.  One of the kinds of chocolates was Butterfinger eggs.  

Ahh...butterfingers.  

So, yes we looked it up and indeed Butterfingers use Red 40.  Dang it.  

One of these days we'll get it right.  In the mean time, we have tons of Cuteness to enjoy.