Sam Pirate

Sam is very into being a pirate these days - we let him watch Peter Pan a few times and now his bed is a pirate ship, and he carries around his "booming" machine (which is a wooden flute) and his sword (which is a green piece of wood from a log cabin set) and wears a straw cowboy hat to complete his pirate get-up.

He says that we are a family of pirates and I am momma pirate, Geoff is Daddy pirate and Charlotte is baby pirate.   He has also commandeered Charlotte's plush toy kitten, which he calls his pirate cat :)

Every time we go to the park, all the play structures are pirates ships as well.   And his favorite books right now are all on the same topic ;)

Here is a picture from the museum today that Sam wanted Fer to send to me :)

He is getting into naming all his toys and "pets" and has the following pets currently.

1) Ozzie the the snake - which is a black piece of construction paper I cut into the shape of a snake
2) Stripper - his plastic toy whale
3) Lady & the Tramp - his "puppy" which is a wooden barrel loader from his train table
4) Science - Charlotte's plush toy cat
5) Pins and stick - his original plush toy cat  that we left at the lake a month or so ago, Sam says that the cat is very sad to be there alone, but we assure him Granddad visits and takes care of him on the weekends :)

In the bath

Taken October 24 - my baby in the bath:

The Park

Charlotte insisted in bringing my eye mask and a bag of frozen vegetables to the park.

First Place :)

I ran a race the week after our birthdays and came in first place.  Sam loves my medal and he uses it as a leash for his pet puppy.

Geoff Birthday

Sam helped me make a birthday cake for Geoff (white cake with strawberry icing) and then we had his family over for pizza and cake and to sing happy birthday.  The kids helped Geoff with his gifts and cards - so much fun.

Kelley Birthday

This year my birthday feel mid-week, but was part of a week-long celebration so was super-fun.  Geoff had wrapped a few gifts which I opened before heading to the office.  That night my Mom visited with an apple pie and we sang a little happy birthday :)  The kids (especially Sam) were really into helping me open my gifts - it was super cute.  And Sam said that he an Nicholas had bought the gift wrapped in red paper :)

Ice Cream

Geoff was away in the first few days of October at a conference in Chicago - the kids and I went to Joe's one night for some ice cream.  Sam was being very sweet about sharing his ice cream with Charlotte and I.

Charlotte feeding Momma

End of September

Geoff sent me this photo of Charlotte feeding her baby some food: