Just another typical breakfast in the Brown household. Sam detests ANYTHING I give him and 99.9% of the time we have tears. I never force him to eat, or make a huge issue-but I have begun making him at least sit there until I'm finished. Who would have known that French Toast, syrup and strawberries could cause such trauma to my wonderful little bundle of joy!

Sams new hair cut...what can I say!? Bryan and I regret it. I loved his floppy locks, they made him look so sweet and baby-ish. Now he looks like a big boy/thug. Hopefully it wont take long to grow out. I want him to have his gorgeous flop-mop back for his Christmas photos. Obviously he is still my sweet, gorgeous boy but we do miss the hair-very much. Sam has been a very whiny boy today-I think he misses his hair too. (Nothing at all to do with the fact that we dragged him 'round Ikea and then had a 2 hr drive home ;) )

Here he is 'before' covered in baked beans!

here is my cheeky monkey doing *some* talking. My mind went blank when I tried to think of what words he can say! But anyway, here he is saying just a few from his collection.

Baby Sam and Grandad in June 2008 Our dear Grandad 14th March 1922-13th November 2009

How sad we are to lose our lovely Grandad and to be so far away that we couldn't say 'goodbye'.

Sam has recently begun to HATE it when I try and feed him. Therefore his morning yogurt is now self-fed. It's interesting. He does manage to get 90% of it into his mouth but today he decided it would be more fun to tip the rest of it onto his table! He also LOVES blueberries- hence the purple face, hands, arms, vest and everything else! You will hear that he says 'too' this is Sam language for 'poo'. He now tells me when he has done a 'too' in his nappy (lovely!!) he obviously thinks that his poo bears a passing resemblance to yogurt-interesting!

Musical Samuel

Sam has an 'amazing' harmonica playing talent. Up until today he had no idea how to make it make a musical sound. Today he discovered how to blow into it. He was very pleased with himself. Excuse the messy living room that was in fact tidy until Sam wakes up and decided to dump out the toy box and pull all of the DVD's off of the shelf.

Here is my happy little boy who found it hilarious everytime Mummy 'kissed' the 'drumstick'!

What a slacker I've been!! SO much has been going on. We spent 2 weeks with Bryans family up in Ohio, which was beyond wonderful! Sam had the time of his life. He got to play in grass and see flowers and trees instead of stupid cactus. He got to see Grandma Cindis cows everyday and LOVED every second of it!

Then as soon as we got back we got the keys to our new house, and it was time to move (poor Bryan moved almost everything alone! it was a tough day!!) and then clean the old house, which took ages and because I had to do it during the day poor, poor Samuel had to be with me. An empty house and Mummy trying to get things done did not make for a happy boy! He had a very boring few days-poor child!

I'm trying to make it up to him though. Today I took him to 'Toddler Gym' which he absolutely LOVED. Tomorrow is playgroup and hopefully the weekend is the Pumpkin Patch -photos to follow!