Sam and Maddox

| March 27, 2011

Last night we celebrated Adam’s birthday since he will be working like a dog when his actual birthday comes along.  Everyone came back to our house for cake and presents and the kids had such a good time playing.  Actually, they were both so incredibly good the whole night. Sam didn’t nap yesterday for some unknown reason and Mark and I were really afraid she would be miserable at the restaurant and that she would crash really early and be grumpy.  She surprised us and was so great!  I had Sam on one side of me and Maddox on the other at dinner and the two of them were so funny amusing each other all through dinner.

When Maddox came into our house and saw all of Sam’s toys (and there are a lot) he looked like a kid on Christmas morning.  I think he was excited just to see new things.  Sam was a really good girl and was perfectly ok with Maddox touching all of her things.  She actually seemed excited to show him all of her stuff.  It was 8:00 by the time she got to bed — an hour past her bedtime – but she had such a great day that it was worth keeping her up.

Here are a few pictures of them playing.  In the first one, Sam is chewing on one of her Lego fish.  Now if I could only get her to eat fish for real…

Sam is showing Maddox how to play music on her Meowsic.  As you can see, she made off with Adam’s new football.  She had her little hands wrapped around that thing all night. Uh oh….

Thanks Sam!

| March 27, 2011

We had such a great time playing with Sam this weekend. After being sick for what seemed like an eternity, she is finally completely over her cold and back to her happy, smiley self. It was really cold this weekend so we didn’t get out much but we did have a nice relaxing day at home just playing and hugging. Pam got a great photo of us playing today:

This is Sam’s “I’m-about-to-touch-your-lens-with-my-sticky-hands” face

You can tell she was in such a good mood today:

Sam’s first scribbles

| March 27, 2011

Mark and I have been trying to get Sam to color for quite some time now. Unfortunately, she always has more fun trying to eat the crayons than coloring with them.  This weekend, Sam finally decided to try it out.  Here is Sam’s first masterpiece! 

I colored the bottom of the page, of course.  I mean, I know my daughter is a prodigy, but at 18 months old, she can’t yet stay quite so well within the lines!  The red scribbles are Sam’s, and I am very, very proud.