Sick and Tired!

This must be what's known as the "dog days" of winter. It's still too cold to be outside for very long. We're tired of being inside all the time. And everyone in our house is sick. Ahhhh - is spring here yet?

This is a picture of me and Sam goofing around with my pants. Potty training was going good there for awhile but I'm taking a few days off - in case you're interested.

We've started another science project. Despite our wishes for spring to come soon, we're learning how to make our own snow inside the house. This is my snowman - can you see his snow??? Sam Alert: Hey everyone from a sick (but still mostly happy) Sam!

Random Pictures plus

Big News from Mason & Sam!

It was another good week at our house. Everyone was busy as usual but we got to do some fun things around the house. Plus - read all the way to the end and you'll see what our big news is - we each have something fun to tell!

To follow up from last week's blog - YES, a guy can live on banana bread and chocolate milk alone! Here I am making another big loaf of 'nana bread. Yummy!

Here I am playing with some puzzles. I really do like learning new things - and I amaze mommy and daddy every day with the stuff I already know.
Mommy and I made a Valentine's craft project this week - a Valentine's mailbox. My friend Anzleigh gave me a big pile of Valentines this year.

This is me doing some more fishing. This is a book I found on the shelf - it makes me want warm weather to come so I can go fishing for real fish!

This is baby Sam playing with a left over balloon from daddy's birthday last week. We re-used it for Copper's birthday this week.

Here is Sam working on the computer with mommy. He sure likes to do everything everybody else does. No baby stuff for Sam!

This is Sam playing on his car. And this is me and daddy. We tried taking mommy out for a Valentine's dinner but all the restaraunts we wanted to go to were packed with people - so we ended up at IHOP for pancakes. It was yummy!

So finally - to our BIG news!

Sam: He is really starting to get moving. You can't really call it crawling yet, but more like a slow commando crawl. His other big news is that he has his top two teeth in now. That makes four teeth all together so far - this explains all the drooling he has been up to lately! Yea Samuel!

And Mason's big news - I am deep in the potty training routine and doing really, really well! Daddy promised me Thomas the Tank & Friends trains as I make progress with potty training. You can see I'm doing good. And these were only as of Saturday. As of today I have two other new trains to add to my collection. I'll bet I earn more tomorrow!!!

Things are good . . . .

It was another quiet but good week at our house. Not too much going on to report. Mom and dad are working and gone lots so I have to resort to making my own banana bread. Wonder if a guy can live only on banana bread and chocolate milk? I'll let you know in a week.Mason says this is a face that only a mother could love - but I think daddy loves me too!

Oh, by the way . . . Happy birthday daddy (earlier this week). He says he's 106 years old now. That's old!

We Love to Learn New Things!

This has been a week filled with learning some new things. With parents like ours, learning is something we probably better get used to!

I learned a new song on my drives home with mommy this week. It goes something like this . . . The other day, I met a bear . . a great big bear, a way up there . . . . and on and on! It is a great song and I ask mommy to play it whenever we're in the car now. So after we got home after learning the song for the first time, mommy and Sam and I played hide and seek with one of my bears - a polar bear to be exact! It was great fun!

Daddy showed a new game to me this week too - it is called "A, B, Seas". I get to go fishing and every fish I catch has a letter on it and then I decide what that letter is and match it to the ones on the playing board. I know 21 out of 26 letters without any help. I'm a great fisherman!

Here I am matching up my letters.

Most kids just have to go to time out when they misbehave . . . not us. Our parents tell us to "drop and give 'em ten".

Ok - not really. . . Just five!

Baby Samuel has been learning the steps toward crawling. He's got the pushing up part down pat!In fact, how many babies do you know that can do a one-legged push up? Here is a picture of Sam learning to stack his cups - or more accurately, learning to knock his cups down.

And here is a picture of the boys just hanging out.

Sam Alert:
Hi y'all! Attention all you cowgirls. Eat your hearts out. I'm not available for twenty one years - or if mom has her way, forty two years.