Santa stopped by for a visit

Each year mommy writes a letter to Santa (garden club helps me) and I ask Santa to visit us. This year Santa came through. The boys were ready in their Christmas pjs and before his visit they played and we were able to get the cutest pictures of them.

 

Then the jolly ole St. Nick came and made Andrew's night. Sam was so afraid of him. Santa brought each of them a stuffie and it was a hit! Sam likes his much more than I thought he would. Santa came through big time!!

Andrew hugged him right away

Sam just started crying

One last hug with Santa before he left

Andrew was so happy to get his giraffe stuffie

playing together

So happy Santa came to visit us! It is a treasured memory.

Andrew's 4th Birthday Party

Planes! It's a favorite item in our house. Andrew wanted an airplane party. So my mom found out there is a remote control airplane group in Hattiesburg and they let us come and watch them fly planes. Theory was perfect but the weather was too cold. The Pine Belt RC group could not fly as many planes as they had hoped. But the kids still have a fun time and that is all that matters.

Here are some pictures of our fun, cold afternoon celebrating Andrew.

We had aviator glasses and foam airplanes for the kids to play with

Andrew's teacher Ms. Tracy came to do face painting

Ms. Tracy and Andrew

Alex and Leo (a friend of Andrews from school and my bunko friend)

Aha and Sam

Cousins Anne and Connie

Frozen Sam

Graham L and Wilkes Bounds

The birthday boy

One of the Pine Belt RC guys

Boys loved watching the helicopter

Sweet friends

"Happy Birthday to you"

Amanda, Me and Mandi

Andrew and Graham Thompson

Even though it was freezing - the kids had fun and Andrew knew he was special!!!!

Birthday time for Andrew

Andrew is now 4!!! And he is every bit 4. His vocabulary is amazing. He loves to be outside. He pays attention to sports and seems to really like football. He LOVES a stuffed animal. There is not a stuffed animal that this child does not like. He likes planes and big trucks. He likes to watch Apple TV. He is really getting into Spider man things and likes Jake the Pirate. He is a sweet, loving and just all around a great four year old.

He had his check up on Friday and he is in the 44% of height and 68% of weight. The doctor was very happy with his development. Since he will be going to 4 Pre-K at Sacred Heart they gave him his booster shots. Andrew did so well with the one in the arm but the leg one hurt - alot. It was a silent cry hurt. He limped the rest of the day (I think partly for the attention).

He does seem to really need attention right now. Which is hard for this momma b/c I want to give him all the attention I can, but it is hard.

Andrew was so excited for his birthday. He had been waiting so patiently for the day to come. Here are some pictures from the third.

Opening his gifts with Ralphie the helper

Birthday donuts by request - chocolate with sprinkles

His hide out tent - present from mom and dad

First remote control monster truck

Getting ready for cupcakes at school

Plane cupcakes - also by request

Our birthday boy

Sign outside of M&M!!!

He had a good day and week full of love of celebrations. Mommy and Daddy love you so much. Happy 4th birthday!!!

Thanksgiving program

Andrew is now at the age where the Thanksgiving program was fun and the kids knew the words to the songs. Andrew was an Indian - Black Hawk!

Andrew and Vivvie

His class getting ready for their performance

Singing such cute Turkey songs

Black Hawk

Vivvie and Andrew telling stories

And they are funny stories :)

Andrew is a kid now - not a baby - he is learning and growing every day - Thankful for this sweet child.

Sam is 23 months!!!

WHAT! How is it possible that this boy is almost 2 years old. My heart can not take it.

He is not feeling well

His face is changing by the day. He is getting taller by the minute. His head is now over our kitchen table. He sits in a big chair. The high chair went to the attic a while ago.

Sam is speaking more and is a very polite baby. He says please and thank you perfectly. He even said "bless you" to me the other day after I sneezed.

He has such funny expressions and still cracks little jokes. He LOVES to be chased. This is his favorite game.

He is a good shopper (this is me showing some of my favorites - peppermint mocha and Sam )

He also likes to do whatever is the opposite. For example you say cat, he says dog. You say bus, he says truck. You say cheese, he says yogurt. It is such a fun game :)

He loves is 6:00 pm bed time. In fact he is much more adamant about that than I remember Andrew being. He gets so fussy and tired. If it is too late he will start saying "night night - bed".

He still likes Mickey Mouse and trucks. He LOVES his big brother. This is the month that two of them like to be with each other. They play and their voices get louder and their play gets rowdier. Owen and I think it is fun to watch but it does usually end in tears.  

Here is a picture of their school picture. I can see brotherly love happening right before our eyes and it makes this momma so very happy!!!

One more month until the big 2 YEARS OLD!!! I still can't believe it. But I am so happy and proud of our Samuel. He is a charmer and loves life. We just adore this sweet and active little guy.

Andrew and mommy go to the theater

This weekend the Saenger Theater showed Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. I thought Andrew would like to go. We had ourselves a mommy and son date. I love him and these moments. He watched it and was very interested in everything that was going on.

I hate it is blurry!

In his seat and ready! He was so excited!!!

Halloween 2013

We had a couple of friends over for trick or treating and ordered pizza again this year. I ordered way too much though - I guess I thought I was feeding an army. It was going to storm Halloween night and it in fact did rain but we were lucky enough to be inside when the downpour happened.

Our street has alot of kids on it which is great but that leaves few houses open for trick or treating business. I think the kids stopped at 5 houses but they had fun and that is the whole point.

Andrew was a pirate - he changed his mind 1000 times, but since we had one costume - he remained a pirate. He was a cross between Jake the Pirate and a Buccaneer. Sam was a scare crow and he was right there with the big kids running from house to house. Sam amazes me at how much he wants to be like his brother.

M&M had a costume day as well on Halloween. Andrew wore his costume all day and loved every minute of it. Sam wore his half the day. I was able to pick them up early and get ready for our friends.

Andrew the Pirate

Waiting for our friends

Sam eating the candy we had out for trick or treaters - he wanted a head start

My adorable baby

Trick or Treat in full action

Sweet friends, Brantley, Andrew and Vivvie

CeCe - A friend in Sam's class and Sam

Dinner time - Bergen, Vivvie, Andrew and Brantley

I love Halloween!