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!

Dino Cards

So you already know that Sam loves dinosaurs. The other day I was at a kids sale and saw some dino flashcards. I thought Sam would love them even though they were probably intended for a much older kid. Well instead of encouraging Sam to work on his letters and numbers (he knows some of them), I encourage his love of dinos. Who knows, maybe he will be a paleontologist some day! Here is Sam telling us the dinos that he knows.

Trick or Treat

Sam was really excited to wear his Dino costume for another night. He also loved carrying his dino flashlight and his pumpkin bucket. First we had him help pass out the candy to the kids...he was kinda helpful until he realized he could put all of the candy in his bucket. We then took a walk to Grandma and PapPap's and stopped at some houses along the way. He did say "trick-or-treat" at most of the houses and would say thank you when I prompted him. I was really impressed how well he did...he wasn't afraid of any of the scary masks or decorations. It was a really fun night!

Dino on Parade

Oh my Dino!

Modeling the tail and awesome wings...maybe he is a flying dino?

Sam's first time in the Halloween parade! I always loved walking in this as a kid and was so excited that Sam could be part of the fun this year. Grandma and PapPap bought him the cutest Dino costume ever! He wasn't too excited about his hands being covered by the claws...but he wore the hat the whole time...so that was enough for me. He even got to walk in the parade with his cousin Layla!

Sam the Dino (almost 21 months), Layla the Ladybug (almost 4 months)

We were bringing up the rear of the parade and the

fire trucks were behind us...he was more interested in them.
As you can see, I had to keep him on track!

Carving Pumpkins

Sam sure loves pumpkins...so fall has been a great season for him! This week Luke and I carved the two big pumpkins that we bought and let Sam color his smaller one. We did let him pull out the "guts" of one of the bigger pumpkins. I wasn't sure how he would respond...but he loved it! The pumpkin was so big that at one point he had his whole arm in it trying to pull out (and eat) the seeds!