Happy Mother’s Day

| May 12, 2013

Sam wanted to get her Mom something special for Mother’s Day this year. She’s always liked to paint and like to watch the birds with Mommy so I thought she would like to paint some birdhouses as a surprise. Well boy, did she like that! I got her a house which looks a Lincoln Log house that she builds with Mommy all the time and a rocket ship because Sam has always like rocket ships. She couldn’t decide which one she liked better so I let her paint both.

Here she is painting the house. Yes she is using two bushes, one in each hand. That was her idea and she was actually pretty good at it!

She insisted on painting the inside of the rocket ship too so that the birds “would have a nice room!”

She really took her time because she wanted to do a great job for Mommy who she said would be so excited.

“Hmm, how did all this paint get on my hand?”

Sam did a great job and she is so excited to give these to her Mom on Mother’s Day. They are supposed to be a surprise and she did a pretty job good job of not talking about them but she was so excited I think she let out a few hints. Plus, Mom suspects we were up to something because even though I tried, I couldn’t get all the paint off Sam 🙂

Mark’s Birthday

| May 11, 2013

Since Mark’s actual birthday falls on Mother’s Day this year, we decided to have our celebration at home the day before. It seems every year Mark’s birthday falls right on the same weekend as Mother’s Day and I always feel like he gets the short end of the stick.  There are a lot of moms around now who are angling for special attention – me included!

Sam was really excited, as always, about the upcoming celebration. She helped me wrap all his presents and make the cake. She picked out the Lego candles and the letters at the supermarket. As you can see, she wanted ALL the letters on the cake.

Sam is always more excited about eating the frosting than anything else, but she was pretty happy about the whole idea of cake in the first place.

She helped Mark blow out his candles…

…and sample the cake!

Present time! Mark got some stuff for his bike and some tools.

Happy Birthday, Mark!  We love you!

Later that night, Sam and Mark did some clay crafting, which has quickly become one of her favorite things to do – luckily, Mark loves it as much as he does! More photos and details on that to come!