Sam loves his (decaf) tea

Geoff gave Sam his own mug of tea last weekend - he just loves it :)  The mug is Geoff's from growing up when his grandmother had a tea mug for each of her grandchildren at her house.  Geoff has been holding on to it for many years and it is the perfect size for Sam :)

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Sam & Nicholas

Over the past month or so Sam and Nicholas have been spending almost every day of the week together as we have been sharing child care resources while we found a new nanny.  Our new nanny, Casey, started full time this week and she will be taking care of both boys.  They are at such a fun age, it is really terrific that things worked out that they boys will be able to spend so much time together.  Here are some photos of the two boys (who I have been asked are twins at the playground ;) together:

We got the wagon free on the crib from a neighbor - huge hit

A lot of time is spent in the wagon :)

Bath time!

The paparazzi interrupts bath time

Acquarium and Dinner with Jordan - 8/30/11

Geoff and Jordan took Sam to the Aquarium last week and Jordan was kind enough to send us the following photos - well these an one of 2 penguins in a rated R position, so I will keep this G.  We went to grab a bite to eat :)

New Forest 2010 vs 2011

I love looking back at photos of Sam from a year ago - it is so much fun to see his little faces from back them and also see how much he has grown since.  Here is a photo of Sam from New Forest last summer (mid-July really) and then mid-August of this year :)

New Forest

On Wednesday we went to New Forest for the day.  We had visited last summer, but only stopped in quickly, so we wanted to go back to check out a few more places in the Forest. Sam loved it there - he could run around and there were sticks galore!

Kew Gardens

We visited Kew Gardens on the Tuesday of vacation - we had been there last year with Sam and it is a really great place with so many pretty things to look at and plenty of space for Sam to run around.  They have a huge playground area as well and added in a new "creepers and crawlers" exhibit this summer.

Sam meets Peacock

In the Creepers and Crawlers space

Throwing a very large pine cone

Loving chocolate

When we were on vacation we stayed with Andy & Lesley and their daughter's Anna and Rachel.  They were so incredibly sweet and took such good care of us.  The girls played with Sam and Rachel took Sam out to their little orchard to pick his first apples with her.  Lesley also took him out to their garden to pick onions and he said "pull" for the first time.  They were such generous hosts and bought Sam a bunch of toddler food and treats - here are some photos of Sam trying out (and loving) his first packet of chocolate petit filous.

What? Do I have something on my face?