warning! warning! cute hat photos to follow...

yo! mtv raps - - i'm rockin' the sock hat at 5.5 months old and kickin' it in my high chair... 

...and here's my bro, luke, rockin' the backwards hat...

...and here's all my big boys rockin' it with the horns gear!!!

we're pretty silly.  :)    but if i do say so myself, how cute am i in that first picture??  it's amazing that momma hasn't actually eaten me already.  i have to watch my back pretty closely.  :)    anyway, things are moving along pretty swimmingly!  we had fall weather for i think two days in a row last week and now it's just hot again.  but we're enjoying it as best we can while trying to avoid west nile from the mosquitos.  here's me in the swing - yea!

and the two big boys looking like a photo from the 1960's with maximum cheesy smile from luke and horrible knees from ben.  you might not think the knees are that big of a deal because dirt can be washed off and boys just get dirty knees, but unfortunately this is now what ben's knees look like all the time!  he actually has pretty hair legs and his knees are so dirty that it won't even come off anymore.  momma must have skipped class on the day they covered knee-washing in mommy school...

and now some better ones of luke, just generally looking cute playing outside...

and now me back in the highchair - whoa!  i sat in here for the first time a couple weeks ago and i'm diggin' it!  

momma also tried feeding me my first meal of food, and just like my other two brothers i gave her some faces like she had lost her mind trying to feed me that stuff!  i am not ready for solids yet, and this is what i think of the very idea of her trying them on me...

this is kind of a random picture but we're including it because i'm wearing an outfit that ashley holloway gave to ben as a baby!  cute!!  let's see if she remembers and is actually reading the blog...  :)

moving on, these last ones are of the big boys playing with some cute toys outside.  momma painted the cars and peg people and the boys have been playing with those for a few weeks.  and then beamee recently (and randomly!) sent a package with little wooden chairs, a table and an umbrella (fun!) - and they work perfectly with the set and beamee didn't even know that!  cool! 

so we're having lots of fun playing outside still and are really itchin' for fall to come.  i'm officially sitting up now - as of two days ago - woohoo!!!  and i'll post some pictures of that soon, plus some of our recent trip to the zoo - yea!  lots of fun things are happening because we had our zoo trip and then next weekend mimsie and grandpa will get to come!!  and then the next weekend beamee and grampee will get to come!!  life is good.  see you next time.  :)

   

september sillies...

hi there!  this is sam.  i am five months old now and have a few fun pieces of news to report!  the first one is that i am finally sleeping all the way through the night - wahoo!!  we do use this phrase somewhat loosely, because sometimes i do wake up in the night for a bit, but momma doesn't feed me during the night anymore, which was a huge milestone for both of us!  and i'm pretty good at going back to sleep even if i do wake up, so we're considering it a success at this point.  yea!  i also have learned to stick out my tongue and i spend a good portion of my waking hours doing that (see above).  momma isn't sure what this is about but does find it hilarious that each of us have had our own quirky baby behaviors.

speaking of quirky, ben and i have really become great buds.  there's just something about him that makes me laugh, so i'm laughing, then he's laughing, and then i'm laughing more, and he's laughing more - it's just so fun!  of course i love luke bunches, too, but he's still learning how to be gentle enough with me, and ben and i just have a fun connection right now.  here we are out in the grass with ben being silly and sticking his tongue out like me...

and check this out - - here we are laying together again because ben wanted to get in on some pictures of me that momma was taking the other day.  she took several pictures right in a row and look at how ben and i were making the same faces!!  first some sweet smiles for the camera...

then serious faces off to the side...

surprised faces...

tongues out...

and some silly smiles for the camera!

isn't that cool?  or weird?  we have a neat brotherly connection (for now - haha!).  but let's not forget about sweet luke, already getting left out as the middle child (insert pity and sorrow for luke here now...).  he's definitely going through a "terrible two's" patch but his sweetness in between the spells makes up for it, and that face, folks, how can momma be mad at that face for very long?  (she can't...)

anyway, now we just have some random photos of life around here.  this one is ben and luke playing under the playroom bed the other day - this kept them busy for almost an hour!

and here we all are climbing around on daddy while he pretends to be sleeping (this must have been after a hard night before i started sleeping better)...

ben with a silly bird feather hat on upside down...

and this one is to show ben's homemade bleach pen t-shirt that he had fun making with momma and now loves to wear around...

and let's see, what else...  ben is back in preschool twice a week and is still loving gymnastics.  he starts flag football this weekend so hopefully we'll have some pictures of that next week (yikes).  he's getting better each day with writing his letters, he can read many sight words, and loves music.  luke loves reading books and dancing to music.  he's fond of throwing his dishes and cup at the table, making food in the play kitchen, and practicing football with ben and daddy.  both big boys love the movie chitty chitty bang bang and have watched it several times now!  it's still hot down here so we continue to spend a lot of time outside, checking out bugs and getting dirty.  as for me, i love standing up in the jumperoo, i can produce more boogers than most grown men, and i love my momma.  i do not love the solid food that she tried to feed me the other day, however.  and in general, i'm just trying to maintain my status as the favorite while luke is going through the terrible two's and ben continues to try out different variations of a teenager's attitude so that i can secure mimsie and grandpa's woodcut.  :)  see this sweet face???  

alright, folks, that's all for now.  stay tuned again soon.  bye!  :)