g Diapers

We've embarked on a new adventure with Freddie - the g Diaper.



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Updates to follow on our experience with the g's.

still smiley

Freddie Freds = the smiliest baby I've ever seen....







He's also very pretty for a boy...

MCM - "George the Monkey" exhibit

The newest exhibit at the Children's Museum is Curious George. It's very well done - great variety, lots of things to do and discover. As you can tell from the pictures, Sammy was having too much fun to stand still and smile. Also, it's taken me a while to post pictures - these are from our visit a week and a half ago!

Just some of the fun:

climbing up a rocket and sliding down


talking on the phone in the Man in the Yellow Hat's office


golfing

Mommy's contribution???

So while Sammy enjoyed his Mr. Bubble bathtime tonight, he was going over each of our roles at "our concert." Daddy is to play the bass (of course) and Sammy is to play the drums. When asked if Mommy would sing, Sammy gave one of his trademark "Home Alone" facial expressions and said "Oh no! Mommy can just sit and watch." I can now rest assured my first born can tell the difference between singing in tune/on the beat and not.

Jacob

synchronized snoring

At this very moment in my bedroom both Jacob and Freddie are snoring, in the exact same tempo and nearly identical sounds. Seriously they are a little snoring duet. I am cracking up, y'all.

My little flasher

Today Sammy was playing with the flashlight, shining it around the room to see the "polka dot" of light on different objects. He'd put Caillou in Freddie's bassinet earlier and soon enough the light found him, too. Sammy excitedly tells me, "I'm flashing Caillou!" Then asks, "Mommy, wanna flash Freddie?"

Paying for it.

This is reallly Jacob's story, but since he takes forever to blog stuff or forgets I'm going to tell it because it's pretty cute.

Sammy has started to pretend to pay for things, and he actually has a genius and fairly acurate system set up in his playroom: he takes one of his (empty) Target gift cards, pretends to slide it across the side of his Magnadoodledoo (as Sammy calls it, ha ha ha) and then uses the Magnadoole pen to sign.

FYI: he does a lot of paying after he gasses up his little red car.

"Your hair is everywhere..."

This morning Sammy was on his way upstairs for something and he comes back down, diverted. He tells me, "I found a piece of Emma." I wasn't going to post this because, yes, there was a huge chunk of dog hair on our stairs. Huge.

Boys are boys, I guess.

So, during lunch Jacob was going back and forth from the table to the TV and watching (part of) the Live Earth concert. At one point he says, "Whoa! That girl's [booty] is on TV!"

Sammy replies, "I want to go see it!" and climbs down from the table.

"Nate's wedding"

Sammy's friend Nate (from the Jacob's Well band) married Audrey at sunset on Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007, and our family traveled to Northern Minnesota to join in the festivities. Sammy tried to set himself on fire with one of the tiki torches during the ceremony, and *really* wanted to investigate the port-a-potty, but overall both Sammy and Freddie behaved spectacularly for the event. Freddie spent most of his time shuffling between the wonderful people of Jacob's Well - thanks to all who held and loved on him, especially Haley (see below!) and Joe who spent most of the ceremony bouncing him while I kept Sammy off the dock and away from the fire and band (where Jacob and Graham were playing)! Here are a few pictures of the fun:


Sammy stayed up so late! Here he is playing in the dark with Jacob and his other favorite JW band member and swimming buddy, Graham.


Haley - you've been blogged! Thanks so much for hanging with me and the boys before, during and after the wedding. You're awesome!


Babies Freddie and Gabby (born 19 hours apart) on their third date. :) Oh, and Jess and Gina, too.


Sammy shaking his booty on the dance floor with Nate (the groom) and Jacob, post-ceremony.

Happy 4th of July!

Codes-n-Ash and a visit to Duluth

This weekend our family traveled to Duluth to visit with our very good friends Cody and Ashley. It is a beautiful Minnesota town located off Lake Superior, and Codes-n-Ash were there for a job interview and to see if it might be a place they'd like to move to when Cody completes his residency. We had lots of fun exploring the touristy parts of the city during our short visit.


Cody and Ashley


Us, minus the little hooligan.


Me and my mom, and the rocks and Lake Superior.


it really is a fantastic view


the rocks are pretty cool, too

So. Much. Fun. !!!!

We went to the pool Tuesday morning. Then the question was, when do we go back? Answer: Wednesday morning!


Sammy


Cal


Hannah


A GREAT picture pirated from Cal and Ike's blog. Thanks, Leah, for your superb toddler photography skills :)

My three sons

Freddie, Caillou and Sammy

My bathing cuties

little stuff


big stuff

I don't know where he picks up this stuff!

Today, Sammy is playing around the house with Caillou and I hear this:

"Caillou is sick. I need to go mix him a drink." and he takes the shot shooter from the misc. utensil drawer and trots into the playroom. Um - ?

Fun with Nate and Graham!

Today I went to the pool with Nate and Graham - my two favorite friends from the Jacob's Well band. I have been saying that I was going to go there with them since the pools opened a couple of weeks ago, so I was *very* happy and excited to finally go! It's fun to have big friends. Yay!


Here we are at the wading pool.


We had lots of fun splashing in the pool.


Here I am flexing with them. We're tough.

In case you forgot how cute we are. But that's silly.

Sammy and Caillou both have on yellow clothes. Thus, photo documention of this momentous occasion was requested.


And Freddie's just darn precious, even in green clothes.

Ocean Wonders

Today I helped Mom put together the Ocean Wonder Kick and Crawl Aquarium for Freddie. It's actually pretty fun, for a baby toy. I guess this is probably the first time I've really played with my brother. Of course, I tried to get Freddie out of the way so Caillou could have more room, but I was pretty paitient. I squished up next to Freddie and looked amused by him for about 10 minutes before asking, "Freddie, you all done playing here now?"

Cute pictures:





Squish!


He loved it!

There were so many cute pictures of all this playing that Mom created an album. If you want to see more from this series, and you haven't received the album, give me a shout out and I'll send it to you. :)

Oh, and 18 seconds of this silent movie: (Click on it even if it says "Image coming soon")


Or go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIueY9eYjgM

Efficiency

Going in: Milk (check)
Going out: Butternut squash (check)

Babies are great at multitasking.

Big Boy Bed!

Oh, my! I'm getting to be a big boy!


I'm not 100 percent sure about this new bed, so Daddy read stories to me in it tonight, but I still asked to sleep in my crib. Maybe I'll test out the bed tomorrow.

Brothers smile!

I like this guess the baby game. Although I think mine is easier than the Cal/Isaac game. Oh well.


Baby A: Who am I?


Baby B: Who am I?


Freddie sure looks like a chunk when he smiles. Mom thinks he's precious.


I was pretty chunky myself. Ah well.


One more Freddie

The Culprit

A sock. A baby sock. The littlest reason for a broken washing machine. Of course the repair man said, "This never happens. It's hard to do." Apparently the pictured sock was caught in the pump.

And to continue with our week of broken things, this evening Sammy broke one of the bars off his crib. Thus, he will be moving into his big boy bed over the next few days.

Sammy's Band

Sammy has been discussing the possible line-up of his band the past couple of days. So far, this is what he's figured out:

Sammy on drums and cymbals
Cal on guitar
Hannah on bass
Kennedy on the microphone (I guess this means singing?)
Andrew on piano
and Phoebe singing

Sometimes Sammy is on drums, bass and piano but I imagine that becomes exhausting - that's where his friends come in.

He didn't learn this at home...

Today Sammy was pretending to iron. IRON. Oh my. I must thank Lisa and Hannah for teaching my child that, yes, some people do go out into the world without looking like slobs! ;-) And thanks to Lisa and Hannah (...and Anne, and Gina...) for letting us use your washer(s) this week while ours sits broken. Our clothes may be wrinkly (wrinklie? wrinkled?) but at least they're clean! ;-)

Six and a half weeks young.

Sammy and Ba

Then (September 2006)...
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And now (June 2007)...


(Mom's Note: It looks like Sammers has turned into Serious Boy. Not true. He's just serious about watching Caillou. Maybe he's TV Boy since Freddie. Dang. Also, I love how James (aka Ba) isn't afraid to use the pink pillow. :)

Funny Face Freddie

I put this picture up because my brother is funny-looking. ha! Maybe one day he'll be a stud like me. Maybe.

No, Emma!

Last Thursday morning by best buddy Cal came to play at my house. Here we are eating lunch, laughing our goofy heads off, looking under the table at the food we dropped and saying, "No, Emma!"





(Mom's Note: Emma was outside at the time.)

ABC Man

It's hot at our house. Something about our ABC being broken. This morning I waited to go to the park until the ABC man was done walking around our house. I had a pretty good time showing him around, though. I told him about my doggie Emmie as he was walking down the basement, past her dog food. I showed him my Nutnees and my room when he had his tape measure out up there. I even offered him a cat cracker while he was sitting at the big table with Mommy, who was looking rather pale at that time, despite the heat. I kept calling him the ABC man and following after him. He seemed to like me - he gave me a truck-shaped magnet with some letters on it before he left. Overall, the ABC man's visit was fun. I guess another man is coming back tomorrow - Mommy says after that ABC man leaves our house won't be hot anymore.

(Parental Note/Translation: Aforementioned ABC man was measuring for the new system we had to buy because the A/C unit that came with the house was complete, uh, turd and no longer works. I know it's Minneapolis and it'll only be hot for about three months, but, man is it hot and humind here right now. Great timing for all things to break at our house. Boo.)

Sammy, what are you going to be when you grow up?

Answer: "A cow. A milk cow." Then, "A farmer."

mmmm...

today in his playroom Sammy fixed me pasta with chocolate ice cream. It was very yummy.

Yesterday's funnies

Sammy calls from his crib yesterday morning, "Jacob, come get me please!" then, after waiting patiently for, oh, 30 seconds, "Jacob come up here NOW!" Hmmmm... no idea where he's heard stuff like that.

After he woke up from his nap and I went up to get him, I found him at a very strange angle with his feet on the bars of his crib. He tells me he's climbing the ladder on the firetruck.

Then, as I'm packing up our stuff to head out to playgroup and dinner (i.e. ignoring both children) Sammy dashes past me saying, "Caillou crying. I have to go get him." (I know I say that one a lot. Substitute Freddie for Caillou. Poor kiddo.)