Sam LOVES these building blocks that grandma Cindi got him. He plays with them daily (usually multiple times) and three guesses who gets to pick them up each time!! He has recently worked out how they click together and loves building really high towers. I caught him doing it today, he has no help from me so I was pretty impressed with my little smarty pants.

Sam can use a fork, he has tried for months to use a spoon and while he is sometimes successful he finds a fork much easier to use!

Here is Samuel 'dancing' with the Easter Rabbit that Grandpa Brown sent a few months ago. I keep it on the top shelf out of his reach as I'm pretty sure he'd destroy it if he had unfettered access to it. So when I do let him play with it he thinks it absolutely marvelous!

'more' Daddy

Here is Sam playing with Daddy and quite clearly signing 'more' (http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/m/more.htm) He is doing so well with his signing and can make signs for 'more', 'byebye', 'please' 'food' and we are working on 'drink'. If you listen carefully he can also say 'more' (he can also say: 'uh oh' 'Daddy' 'Hello' 'bye' 'cat' 'meow' and 'woof')

What can I say? My child is weird (he takes after his father in that respect) Here he is with a back massager in his mouth!?

Today Daddy looked after Sam for the afternoon while I went bowling with the girls, I came home to find Daddy in his boxers and Sam in the bath and toys all over the floor. Sam was as high as a kite and after his bath decided to spin around in circles (while Daddy danced-should have caught this sight on video really!!) I was also informed by Bryan that Sam had eaten 6, yes...6 fishfingers (fishsticks for the USA family ;)) and peas ....thats more than an adult portion!!

We've gone 'cloth'

Here is Samuel today, minus clothes (its is 94 F!) although he IS in his wonderful, new-ish cloth nappy. I decided to make a concerted effort to cloth nappy Sam after I read about the hideous chemicals found in 'normal' nappies, and of course, to save some $$ and the environment! I have worked out that it will only take 4 months of using these cloth nappies to end up saving money. That is taking into account the cost of the new cloth ones AND the detergent etc used to clean them! I wish we would have made the decision to cloth nappy Sam much earlier, it really is SOOOO easy and they are so soft and look so sweet!! The next 'Brown baby' will be cloth nappied from birth :) Sam has all different colours! We LOVE them :)