And he looks like.... ?

(Wow. I am a blogging fool today.)

An update on our week. And it's only Tuesday.

What could be more fun for a mom than getting a pedicure while downing a glass of wine (or bowl of Cold Stone, depending on the sort of mama you're talking about)? I'll tell you - a sick preschooler and a teething baby. Yee-haw!

It's been a thrilling week thus far at our house. Sammy's been running a fever since Monday morning - we had to cancel playgroup last-minute Monday, and he missed preschool this morning. He was still running 101 degree fever before bed tonight. Over the past two days, however, we had discovered a cool new show on PBS called Word World. He cracks up at it. It is precious to hear him belly laugh at a show. And it's about letters and words and spelling. No whiney (unnamed) four-year-olds on the screen. Word World. It's cute. And if your a mama who lets her kiddo(s) watch TV then you might should check it out. *thumbs up*

Freddie has his offically cut his first two teeth. Sunday night was brutal - neither one us slept much. But he slept through last night no problem. The difference? His amber teething necklace. Hokey? Maybe. But I'm not gonna scoff/laugh at something that lets me (and the baby) sleep.

Our (itty bitty) Christmas Tree

All dressed up.

Snow pretty.

We had another snow day today. It snowed all day. In fact, as Jacob is out there in the 12 degree night, it is still snowing. Here are some pictures from this morning. These are mostly for our family/friends that don't get winter where they live, all others kindly ignore as I'm sure you are already sick of looking at this stuff. But I think it's so fresh and sparkly. :)

The fresh snow was just starting to cover Saturday's snow.

The Barn


Sammy in the backyard.


Our street.


Our morning sky.


A park.

Mirror, Mirror

Freddie was cracking himself up yesterday. He was checking out his fine self in a little plastic baby toy mirror.


Sammy was unamused by his brother's antics. He gave one of his fake laughs. Which cracks his mother up.


Hey! Look! He smiles back! How cool is that?!


Hiya!

teeth trauma

Tuesday night Sammy fell up the stairs. His front two bottom teeth (now we know it was the front four) received the blow. He bled and bled from behind his teeth, and they have obviously shifted. But now, four days and a first-ever dentist visit later, he's not favoring those teeth as much.

The middle two bottom teeth are okay for now, but we need to keep watch over them from now on because there is no way of telling just yet if the teeth died in the blow. If they become infected then they'll have to be pulled. But, if they survived, well, then, everything is fine. So we just wait and see and pray for the best.

The outter two from the middle were chipped pretty bad - same goes as with the top.

Poor kid. He's good for the moment, though. Too bad there's no cure for clumsy little boys. I tell ya folks, I don't call him Gale Force for nothin'.

Freddie Claus: A Freddie Photo Shoot

Because he's darling. And his thighs are legendary. Couldn't you just squish him?


I'm getting my first tooth! Finally after months and months of drooling and mouthing!


Moobs! (ha!)


Baby push-ups again.

Lifting up

Freddie's been lifting up his upper body and getting his knees up under him... just a few steps away from crawling!

And then, he's pooped! Plops down and sucks his thumb for a few moments, then tackles it again.

O Christmas Tree

December 1st was our first super snowy day, and it made for perfect tree-gettin' weather.

This was the tree Jacob and Jess had all picked out.



Sammy wanted the skimpiest Charlie Brown tree.


But we compromised and got this beauty. A steal at $10!

It is taller than Sammy, promise!

Thanksgiving in Arkansas

The house was beautifully decorated. The boys worked hard all week to trash the place.


Freddie with Jacob face.


Sammy was happy to ride bikes outside again.


Ba made triking more fun.


The whole family was enjoying some outdoor time before the cold weather set in.


Farm ATVing


Sammy totally looks at home on the farm. But he really wasn't comfortable with the 4-wheeler.


See?


Sammy loved the outside deck and patio. He wants one at our house now. Oh, he's licking the bowl here.


Ba hung these for Freddie. I couldn't resist a picture - they look so purty.


Baby's first Thanksgiving. Showing off his Christmas jammies.


Both boys love Dominique (aka Aunt Nikki) and Kiki. Freddie laughed everytime Kiki licked him.


Sammy and Jess drinking hot cider on Thanksgiving.


Ba carving the tofurky. Which was disgusting, BTW.


Nana making final preparations for our feast.


Um, yum?


Sitting by the fireplace right before bedtime.

How to pack when traveling with small children.

So happy and proud

Sammy earned Arthur for being potty trained! His smile says it all.

He was two weeks trained/learned when he earned Arhur last Monday, November 19th - and had 7 #2s on the potty by then.

It all started when the boy put sunglasses on the dog...

You know you're laughing.

Israelian Idol?

So after listening to the killer contemporary jazz they play on the Weather Channel (TWC for short), Sammy wanted to hear some more music. After surfing through several Sirius channels, we settled on the Holiday channel which was playing a Clay Aiken Christmas song.

Sammy asked, "is that Jesus singing?" I laughed and said, "not quite."

Sammy then responded, "it must be American Idol."

I was unaware that my son was familiar with both Clay Aiken and American Idol. Guess not.

Jacob

Smiling, even though he gets no cake.

Birthday Cake!

He helped me mix the cake. And helped clean up, too.


The cake! Sammy chose it - chocolate cake with chocolate icing and "Lemon-M's" on top! yummmmm..... !

birthDAY celebrations

Sammy opened two presents in the morning, then I went with him to preschool for the morning. At preschool the class sang to him, he got to pick out three treats from the birthday bucket, and he got to sit on a special star mat at the front of group time with Miss Michelle. He chose a book for me to bring and read to the class (Chugga Chugga Choo Choo) and when I read it to the class Cal joined Sammy on the star mat. My two boys. :) It was very sweet. Michelle calls them "the friends" but I was surprised that while they do hang out and talk to each other the most, they don't do every single thing together - i.e. Cal and Sammy sat at different tables for snack and worked on different projects during the morning.

More bday pictures to come. Photobucket is being annoying again...