the many faces of sam...

hello again.  it's me, sam.  ben and luke will be back soon for their second spring update, but first i wanted to share a few more pictures of me in my first month of life.  yes, that's right - i'm already one month old - wow!  i'm doing really well so far and am trying to be a very good baby since momma already has her hands full (literally!).  she wears me around a lot in the sling and i just go along for the ride.  here's a cute picture of all three boys outside in the yard the other day...  ben is doing his own thing (spacing out?) in the background while luke messes with his shoe and i just hang out in momma's lap with my cute feet...

i try to spend more time awake during the day now so that i can let momma and daddy have some more sleep at night (in theory), and here are some of the funny faces i like to make while i'm stretching and playing.  this first one is me starting to wake up... 

silly after-yawn face...

this is where i start to get over the picture-taking a bit (momma had taken probably 50 of me sitting there by this point, but i'm only sharing a couple)...

okay, now i'm really over the pictures and want her to just feed me...

if you have an extra minute, you should check out pictures of luke as a newborn.  if you look to the right on this blog, you will see links to posts from previous months.  find the third april and may from the top and check out luke's faces as a newborn baby too - we make so many similar faces it's almost starting to freak momma out a little.  crazy!

anyway, here's one of me doing some yoga moves with ben on the rug.  he has a kids yoga dvd that he really loves, and i joined in the other day for a bit.  it really helped me to relieve some baby stress and i was very calm and relaxed afterwards...  :)

here's kind of a random one of momma holding me - check out that silly look on my face!  it kind of looks like i'm already up to some mischief, but surely i'm not...

back outside last weekend i enjoyed some time with daddy...

and of course some more time with momma...  i love me some momma...

and we'll end with another cute feet shot.  okay, thanks for checking in and hope to see you again soon!  bye!  :)

spring update number one...

hello again!  it's me, ben, and we're here with an update of the fun we've been having this spring.  we've been busy with baby sam since he's been born - and we all love him so much!! - but we also had lots of pictures to still share from before he was born, so here you go!!

first up, we've been playing outside a lot and a lot, and i got a new bike to ride around on!  i had outgrown the tricycle and have graduated to a "real" bike - with training wheels for now.  i really love riding it and spend a lot of time on my bike now.  :)

at first luke was a little bummed to be watching me have fun on something he couldn't do yet...

but in true luke style, he got over it quickly and moved on to find something else to put a smile on his face...

he got a basketball goal for his birthday and has been practicing his ballin' skills...

he also loves riding around on the tricycle now and especially the plasma car.  we couldn't remember if we'd shared pictures of him on this yet (and were too lazy/busy to look back at previous posts!), so if we have, sorry for the duplicate.  but he rides this a lot and is pretty cute doing so...

also back in april we got to visit the bluebell ice cream factory in nearby brenham.  YUM!  we met some friends there and took a tour and even had some free ice cream at the end - yay!  that was a lot of fun.  we enjoyed the forklifts, conveyor belts, machinery, and cow statue...

we also hit up the local hot rod car show several weeks ago.  we thought about grampee while we were there, because he likes those things a lot, but we only managed one picture of cars before momma's camera broke - so sad!!  this one was silly because it looked like a school bus!!

they also had jumpy things, which i always love, but luke was not so sure about.  this picture sort of looks like we're in a really colorful prison.  momma would like to get one of these for the backyard and velcro the doors shut...  KIDDING!!

next stop on our spring tour - the annual trip to the strawberry patch!!  momma picked (at 38.5 weeks pregnant!) while we played in the dirt...

and checked out the chickens and turkeys...

and ran around...

and looked at the old tractor...

good times!!  and that's it for our first spring update.  we'll try to be back soon with the rest of april, including luke's birthday - whoa!!!!!!!!  and we know you guys are really only wanting to see pictures of sam at this point, so sorry for not having much of him this time. we'll share a couple cute ones now and will definitely have more (lots!) of him the next time.  bye!!

hello there...

hello there...  i'm sam...

i was born on april 24th at 11:52pm.  i weighed 7 lbs 12 oz and was 20.5 inches tall.  nice to meet you.  :)

i had to stay in the hospital for a few days because my billiruben numbers were too high and i had jaundice.  it actually is a true blessing that i was born a few days late because my body was in that much better shape to recover after birth, and there were other reasons too why my birth date worked out just right (even though mom and dad thought they were ready for me earlier, it all worked out just perfectly!).  my brothers, ben and luke, came to visit me in the hospital.  they really liked momma's moving bed!

here's what i looked like in the hospital under those funny blue lights with my silly sunglasses on.  momma didn't like that i had to lay under there for so long, because she wanted to be holding me all the time, but i took the chance to relax and get a nice suntan before heading home.  i was a really good baby the whole time...

finally on the last day at the hospital (it was really only three days, but it seemed like forever! to momma) my brothers got to hold me.  they really liked checking me out and seeing how small i was!

beamee and grampee and mimsie and grandpa were all there too.  they mostly took care of ben and luke so that momma and daddy could take care of me.  we were so thankful to have them!!

here's an "official" picture of me all wrapped up at the hospital on my first day of life.  ahhhh...

and since i'm clearly a little bit late getting some pictures of myself up here, i will finish with an overload of pictures so that you are all satisfied until the next time we update (which may be a while!).  momma loves my little face and so she snapped a bunch of me the other day at home.  also, we should have mentioned earlier that if you wanted to know what i looked like, you could just refer to pictures of luke as a newborn, because that's me too.  on day one, people thought i looked more like ben (which luke did too on his first day), but i already now look a lot like luke and have many similarities to him too, so we'll have to see if that stays as time goes by!  anyway, here you go...

and finally one with my eyes open!  i sleep a lot still and don't really open up too much, so that's why i usually have them closed in all the other pictures.  plus when my eyes are open and i'm awake, momma is smooching on me and doesn't have time to take pictures...  :)

and i forgot that i do have a few more of me and my bros - cute!!  they sure do love to hold me...

excuse me, miss, could i get a beverage...

and this one is of ben seeing that i might be cold, and so he covered me up with a blanket - ahhh!  we're all going to get along just fine...

that's all for now.  thanks for checking in.  bye!!