Good morning!

Stinky Fish and Sam.i.am taking in some Sesame Street this morning.

See a resemblance?

Jason and I only make one type of baby.

Carson is above at 4 months.

Sam is below at 5 months.

Pretty amazing how much they look alike!

Fun in Iowa

We made it to Iowa without incident and we are currently enjoying our vacation.

The Smith kids have been champs.

Here are some snapshots from our trip....

Carson on the plane....He was amazing.

We barely heard from him except for one gargantuan poopy diaper mid-flight.

Creators of Dora and Baby Einstein - we salute you!

Sam on the plane...She was also amazing.

Such a good traveler for her first time!

She earned her wings.

Sam and Baba and her Iowa great-grandmas - Great Grammy and Grandma Betty Ann

Carson attended a party last night at Davenport Country Club.

Here he's decked out in his finery.


We had a fun visit with Jason's cousin David and his family, Anne, Jakobe, and Callie Jane.
What cute kids! They had a lot of fun playing.

We had a birthday party for Carson on Saturday with all of Jason's family...

Partying it up, Iowa style...

It's been a fun and busy week so far, with a lot more fun to come.

On Friday we take the party to Chicago.

The Midwest will never be the same!!

Get this boy some chopsticks!

Carson added another food to his repetoire this weekend.

Sushi!

Here he eats his Bonsai Roll - shrimp tempura and crab with cucumber and avocado.

Leopard lady

Just another day of being cute for Miss Samantha.

Tough job, I know!

Houston we have a roller....

She's up!

And she's down!

And she's rolling now....Sam rolled over for the first time yesterday.

She also tried a little bit of avocado and she was a big fan.

Carson made us laugh harder than ever this week.

He's a huge ham at his music class - this week he was dancing and singing and shouting out the lyrics to the songs. Total teacher's pet. Reminds me of someone else I know??

His Daddy maybe?

Yesterday when I went to get Carson up from his nap, I went into his room and he said...

"Hi Mommy! How you doing?"

Today when he saw his friend Chase at the park, he said "Hi Buddy!"

He is also blaming people for his problems now.

He was looking at a book that had a ripped page the other day and I asked him who ripped it.

He said "Papa Dennis."

When I asked him again, he said "Nana ripped it."

It's very hard to keep a straight face around him these days.

All you need is love

Carson and Sam love each other.

They are playing together more and it is really funny.

Here Carson tries to give Samantha her bottle while she is in her Baby Einstein.

Usually he is trying to give her his sippy cup full of juice also.

What a guy!

Just the beginning of a lifelong love between bro and sis.

I smile when I think of all the fun that is ahead of them!