Happy Clapper

Freddie has hit another milestone - he's a clapper! Wooohooo!

Merry Christmas!

Sammy's new drum set or trap set, depending on what kind of music he is playing



The smile says it all, doesn't it?



Freddie displaying his new upright posture and a sweet handmade (in the US) toy



This is an action shot as we took our sled down one of our favorite hills...it snowed the most perfect, powdery snow starting from about 1:45pm to about 10:30 am on Christmas Day.



Sammy preparing to watch Jacob build the worst snowman ever...are you ready?



The smile says it all, doesn't it, part II.

Christmas Eve festivities

First, I should mention we are having a lovely white Christmas. :)


We had a day full of fun activites for Christmas Eve! The day began with an outing to Walgreens (we sickies can't seem to stay away) but after naps (ha!) we headed off to the 2 p.m. service at jacob's well, then home to the following:

Decorating our Gingerbread House






Putting out the Reindeer Food they made in preschool




Preparing a plate of Cookies for Santa


And, er, ahem. :) Almost finished just waiting on Santa to finish up one more special thing! ;)

Sick Boy on Sunday

Freddie threw up Thursday night and about 3ish times on Friday. Sammy started puking overnight Friday, he didn't eat or ralph Saturday, but then ate a small bowl of Goldfish crackers before bed on Sunday night and barfed them within a few hours.

He also slept until 1 p.m. on Sunday, anywhere and everywhere, poor sick kid. Here he is sleeping on the couch just before he woke up.

For my Littlefield friends: Are you Jimmy Ray?

Who wants to know?

LMAO. Seriously. Anyone else? I think he has Cody down perfectly. LMAO.

He's sitting! He's sitting!

Just now to the Mailman who was at our door...

"At the Museum I dressed up like you."

They have an Our World exhibit at the Museum, and if you'll remember a few months back I posted pictures of Sammy in mailman attire delivering mail. It's one of his favorite things to do at MCM. That and drive the city bus. So, the above statement is true. :)

R-rated addition, rated for vulgar language:
A little later, just before his nap Sammy says (repeats) in a happy sing-song voice: "I like a little piss on my toilet." Hmmm...I wonder who he was parroting?

This Morning

torturing starts young

Teeth! (again, yes)

after breakfast

In Nana's sweater

Angry and toothy

*sniff*

A message

What mothers find sometimes after fathers have been playing with the children:

Still working on the crawling

"Photography" by Sammy

Arthur, Caillou and Emma are some of his favorite subjects.







It's unfortunate - Sammy's recently become very fond of Emma. He's constantly involving her in his play, be it putting sunglasses on her, racing cars toward her, or trying to get her "on the airplane"; he feeds her scraps of whatever he's eating, and he takes care of her, too, by reminding me to feed and water her daily.

More Christmas jammie pictures

Brothers. And I think they really look it now.


I know, the socks. But he lost one of his slippers. (oops. I forgot redeye.)

I have a BOY

Sammy is such a kid now. And such a boy. I can't get over it. But he's still so sweet that I just want to grab him up and snuggle, squeeze and kiss him, and luckily he's only looking like a stud because he still little boy enough to totally love big hugs from the Mommy Monster.

Haircut

from Friday

"Forts" start early with boys, huh?

Sammy and Arthur were keeping safe in this fort Sammy made in Freddie's closet.


And he refused to let me get a good picture of him. Arthur is very photogenic, though. lol

Wednesday morning

Even though a lot of the time it's waaaay earlier than I'd like, it's such a joy to be able to wake up to these two and hang out just on a random weekday morning.

Ears

We have two double ear infections at our house. Four ears. Full of puss. mmmmm...

Find the teeth

Here's a view from our front door

This is what it looked like when I got the mail this morning. There was a beautiful red cardinal in the tree but I couldn't get a good picture of him through the branches.

We're suppose to get more snow tomororw.

Oh, yeah

He's this guy from this morning:

Gale Force somewhat restrained.

I came back from tending to Freddie to finish unloading/loading the dishes only to find something missing from my dishwasher:


He's a funny kid, people.

still sick

Sammy didn't wake up until 10 a.m. and he's still dragging, and not eating but he wasn't as warm today as he has been. Temp wise he's maybe been around 100, but it's hard to tell because I am giving him Tylenol Cold for his sore throat, unproductive cough and super yucky runny nose.

Speaking of snot and where to put it, other moms of boys may appreciate this: Sammy favorite method of removing the snot is surprisingly not a tissue but his pointer finger. This evening he was coloring on the kitchen floor while I made Freddie's dinner and I saw him wipe his nose with his finger and then wipe it on the floor. So watch out when you come to our house. There's not telling what's on the floor. *yuck*

Since we were at home resting again all day we made these:

And Sammy finally ate something. I actually bribed him into eating some soup with the promise of a cupcake after. It worked!


He still looks sick, though.


But happy about the cupcakes.

And he stayed in his jammies all day today.