Today is Sams second birthday. We had a big party planned and had invited lots of guests. Sam woke up early and we opened presents and cards. When he went down for a nap Bryan and I spent almost 3 hours blowing up balloons, preparing food, decorating, cleaning. Everything was ready-all that was left was to cook the pizza and ice the cakes. The house looked great, everything 'Thomas the Tank Engine' themed. Party bags were ready to give out and Bryan even got a dozen helium filled balloons as a center piece for the table!

THEN...Sam woke up, he felt hot-not great news. I hoped he was just hot from being asleep under the covers THEN came the dreaded sound....a puking toddler. He vomited all over his bedroom floor! We only had 45 minutes before guests were due to arrive *****!!!! We had to make a decision. I decided that I wouldn't be happy if someone didn't tell me and had Sam over to a party and he got ill, so to do that to others seemed just wrong. We called all of guests and told them. So, a lovely party turned into...a not so lovely party. We tried to have fun still, Sam had a birthday cake and we sang to him, he even ate some so he cant be THAT ill.

I think we made the right decision though, one of my friends that was due to come just had a baby two days ago and I'd feel absolutely awful if the baby got what Sam has.

Anyway, here is my little man on the 21st Feb 2010, 21st Feb 2009 and 21st Feb 2008 ♥

Here is Sam at the ball park with his friends, you will notice (if you look carefully!) that Sam has a ball down his shirt. He is obsessed with making 'boobies' with anything vaguely ball shaped that will fit down his shirt-I wonder where he got that idea?!?!


Our new pushchair/buggy/stroller (what ever you wish to call it!) arrived today. Its a 'Phil and Teds' double buggy, while the new baby is an infant it will be in this set up-with Sam in front and baby lying flat behind him. As the new addition to the Brown family gets older he/she will go in the seat Sam is in-but It will be moved to behind the main seat (hope that makes sense). In other words, Sam will ALWAYS be in front as he is the bigger child, at 1st it will be in the attachment (as shown) and then he will move to the main seat and the attachment will go behind haha...that sounds complicated-but it's really not. Its so easy to push. Its a 'jogging buggy' so I can go jogging with both children to lose my 'baby pudge' ...but I HIGHLY doubt any jogging will occur, probably just our bi-weekly visits to Starbucks for cake and coffee hahaha.

We've been looking after Nellies dog while she has been away this week and Sam has loved every second. I know he'd love it if we got a dog (and Bryan would too) im the only one that knows it would be a bad idea!

Sam has a vocabulary of over 200 words now. He can make me understand what he wants 90% of the time. I try and catch his words on camera, but of course as soon as the camera goes on his interest in talking is over. The latest valuable addition to his repertoire of words is...'BOOBIES'. Three guesses who taught him that one!! He now finds hilarious to say 'mummy, boobies please'

Today Sam wouldn't go down for his usual nap. Infact, he some how opened his 'child proof' baby gate and appeared downstairs. This is a disaster for Sam who usually likes and NEEDS his sleep. He very often sleeps for 3hours during the day. So, its almost 4pm here now and we are both suffering. Sam is acting like the world is coming to an end and I have had enough. Bryan has escaped to work (lucky him) so im willing the time away until I can put him down for the night (around 6:15pm is probably the earliest). The count down is on...just over 2hours of hell to go wooohooo!!!

Auntie Jane got Sam an egg cup for Christmas. I thought Sam might be more likely to eat some breakfast (he rarely does) if it was in the 'fun' cup. So I put some yogurt in there. The video shows what happened.

Here is another video from Christmas day of Sam playing on his new 'piano' that my dad and Jo got him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtnRm143fW0

Christmas '09

Although this Christmas was a little 'odd' as we had no family close by, just the three of us, we had a lovely day and Sam was totally spoiled. This will be the last Christmas for us as a family of 3 as next year the new baby will be here and Sam will have some competition!! He got lots of nice presents-mainly along the theme of trains and cars. He also got lots of books, DVD's, a 'garage' for his cars and and trainset and trainset table for his trains. He got the Peppa Pig characters, a 'piano' he can walk along and it plays the keys that he stands on, he got bath toys and chocolate..the list goes on. He was very lucky.

We had Christmas dinner at Nellies house which was nice for Sam as he was able to play with Lily and Michael. It was a very early bedtime as he hadnt had his normal mid-day sleep and was VERY emotional at the end of the day...infact the word 'hysterical' might be a better description of his state at 5pm.