Sittin' around

Samantha loves to sit around in her Bumbo seat.

She really thinks it's fun to sit up and give Carson the hairy eyeball during breakfast.

I know she is thinking..."Just wait big brother....just give me a few months...

and then I am going to GET YOU."

The giggle...

Samantha has a new killer giggle these days. Here she laughs at me saying "woof woof"...I will do about anything to get this giggle out of her...so excuse me sounding like a complete weirdo!

Via Bellagio

We were bored this morning.

All three of us have runny noses and we weren't sure what to do.

I thought of my Dad and how he always seemed to be able to make things fun, even when the day wasn't the greatest.

So in his honor, I packed up the kids and we went to the Bellagio, just for fun.

Hey, we live in Vegas so we might as well live it up!

The kids enjoyed looking around at the Conservatory there, which was all decked out for the Chinese New Year.

I was hoping to show them the water show, but it doesn't start until 3 PM on the weekdays.

So we cruised around and got some gelato and had an absolutely wonderful time.

My Dad would have loved it.

Our view...

Carson loved the "TIGER!!!" in the Conservatory

Carson and Sam - Viva Las Vegas!

Big boy Carson....or not?

Two things...

The first is that Carson is really interested in the potty right now.

I am trying to capitalize on it even though I know he is too young to be trained.

I should rephrase...he is more interested in toilet diving than actually using the potty.

He loves to put his hands into the potty and splash around in the water. He loves toilet paper.

And he LOVES to wash his hands...for like 20 minutes straight. I can't get him to stop washing his hands. Which I guess is a good thing since we are in a toilet diving phase.

As I said, if toilet diving were an Olympic sport...Carson would be bringin' home the gold.

He does like to sit on the potty once and awhile. I figure one of these days something might come out. But for now, we will be here...toilet diving in Las Vegas.

Second thing.

This is what Carson's bed looked like for 2 hours one night this week.

He got out of his crib Monday morning. I found him standing at the top of the stairs all of a sudden. Never heard a thud from his room, so I imagine that he shimmied himself down somehow. We tried the toddler bed on Monday night. But after he escaped 500 times in 2 hours, we decided to postpone the big boy bed transition. Now his crib faces the opposite way with the high side facing out and it is working so far.

Our babboon has been contained......for now!

Carson is talking soooo much and I can hardly keep track of all his new words

He said "T-Rex" and "dino" this morning...And he put three words together this morning when we were reading ("Blue eat apple...Blue eat pretzel"). He attempts to say almost everything even though it is not always clear. He shakes his head "yes" but still loves "no".

Carson is becoming a big boy but he is not there just yet. :)

4 Months Old!

Our beautiful, precious Samantha is now 4 months old.

I can't even imagine how it's possible that 4 months has passed since her birth, but it has!

She is flourishing every day and we love to watch her grow.

She weighed 14 lbs, 1 oz (63rd percentile for weight) and is 25 inches long (80th percentile for height). Carson, by contrast, was 16 lbs and 26 1/2 inches at this age.

She loves to stand and loves to follow her brother all around the house.

She puts her lower lip out anytime she loses sight of her mama for more than a minute.

She loves books like her brother and kicks her legs wildly whenever she is read one!

She is good at grabbing objects and putting them in her mouth.

She looks so much like Carson sometimes...it's crazy!

We love our Sam I Am, more and more each day.

jump!

When Carson saw Isaiah jump off the stairs one day...he wanted to do it so badly...he has tried and tried since then to jump like Isaiah. We aren't quite there physically to do the jump with two feet....we haven't quite had lift off yet.....but here he works on his new skill, jumping off the stairs! I am sure once he learns, he will be doing it all the time, especially when I am feeding the baby! :)

Noooooooooo!

Here are some pics from a typical weekend at our house....

Carson pretends that Jason is a horse and rides on his back all over the living room, only to be bucked off onto the couch, 100 times in a row. Intense giggling follows.

We put on our Iowa gear and sit on the couch and eat pudding.

Carson decided to toss all of his shorts from the drawer in his room

through the bannister slats and down to the family room below.

He thought Samanatha should wear them, too.

Fashion Police!

I knew this was coming, too....but Carson's new favorite word is

....drum roll please...

"Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

He answers "Noooooo" to almost every question...

even questions he would normally say "yes" to....

Example: "Carson, do you want another cookie?" "Noooooo!"

"Carson, are you a good boy?" "Nooooooooooooooooooo!"

And on and on and on....

Carson's new talent that he displayed last week is that he can

count to 10...

IN SPANISH.

I started with uno last week and he went all the way from dos to diez, with an emphasis on ocho...he really likes ocho.

I guess all these months of watching Dora in utter adoration means that Carson will be able to hold his own in Spanish class. Before he turns 2!