Two Lemons

So I realized the other day that I am consuming too much McDonald's Sweet Tea when my nearly two year old son said "two lemons" when I pulled into the drive-thru the other day! In my defense, when I order the tea I have to say two lemons at least twice because they always forget them and I have to ask again at the pick-up window. Needless to say I am laying off the tea because not only is it not good for me but Sam is getting to that age where he can start telling Daddy on me :)

We Love Christmas!

Sam has inherited his mother's love for the Christmas season. He insists on listening to Christmas music constantly (and dancing to it), loves to look at our stockings and says who they belong to, and gets excited every time he sees the few Christmas trees we have around the house. My mom bought us this Christmas tree magnet that has the countdown to Christmas on it. Sam and I change the countdown everyday during breakfast...I announce how many more days until Christmas and we both clap our hands...we are so silly! Yesterday we braved the first real winter-like day here and went to get our real Christmas tree in the snow. We went to a local tree farm and took a wagon ride out to the field to cut our tree down. Sam was dressed kinda like the brother in the Christmas story. He had on boots that were a little hard to walk in and too big mittens. He actually fell face-first in the snow at one point but just shrugged it off like the trooper that he is. We finally found our tree (there were so many good ones to pick from) and Sam gave a shout of horror when Luke cut it down! We had to quickly explain that we were taking it home with us. Now our house smells like a fresh cut tree and Sam is beyond thrilled that we have such a big tree in our living room!

Our tree...9.5 feet tall

Sam loves it, can you tell?!

Watching Daddy cut it down

Daddy teaching Sam how to tighten the bolts

Just My Imagination

Sorry it has been so long since I have posted...time is getting away from me these days. These days Sam has been developing quite the imagination! He uses his tools as microphones to sing into and footballs as bananas that he pretends to eat. He also has some favorite stuffed animals that he has given some personality to. He moves them around the house and every so often I hear him talking to them. Just the other day he held Wally the Koala up to the window so he could look outside and said "show Wally outside". I love seeing him use his imagination and be creative!