Not so sick

Samuel was coughing a lot last night, so this morning, I decided to keep him home with me instead of exposing everyone at his preschool to his germs.  Samuel was elated.  I quickly realized that he was actually feeling pretty well--the only time he would cough was when I asked him how he was feeling.  "I feel sick dad."
Nonetheless, it was a fun day to spend with Sam.
We went to Chinatown to have noodles.

At one point, I thought Samuel had all of sudden learned how to read--he saw a red button on the Silver Line and sounded out the word: "Ssss, tttt, oopp--STOP!"    But then later we saw a vending machine and when I asked him to read the word "Pepsi", he sounded out:  "DRRR..INNNN....KKKK."  I think he's faking phonics.

It was fun to have a daddy--Samuel day:  we played hide and seek at the playground, enjoyed a nearly empty Children's Museum, watched a lot of demolition & construction along the streets of Boston, I carried him all the way from Kendall to Joshua's school when he fell asleep (good workout!), and it was nice to be relaxed and be able to give him some special attention.  In return, he pointed out a lot of interesting things to me, like this skylight at South Station I never noticed before.  Sam said, "It looks like someone punched out the roof and put some windows up there!"

First day of pre-K

Not time for loving

Favorite recent Samuel quotes:

When Annette tries to cuddle up with him while he is trying to playfight, Samuel escapes her grasp, snarls, and says, "It's not time for loving"

Now wanting to cuddle up with Annette:  "I want to snuggle up with someone with squish arms."

While trying to hold me down while wrestling, "Someone cheer me up!"  (he means "cheer me on")

Monkey bars

Love his determination.  He goes on to try about 6 more times.

Lemonade Stand

The boys operated their first business today, a lemonade stand.
Making the "cukes"

The sign:

Samuel kept on shouting, "Free Lemonade!"  and Joshua had to keep correcting him: "Lemonade for sale!"

Swimming

Samuel decided one day that he'd swim on his own without his life jacket and he was brilliant.

I bet I'd be great at that

Annette points out a skateboarder to Samuel, "Do you think you would like to try that someday?"

Sam says without hesitation: "I bet I'd be great at that!"

Samuel is definitely our daredevil. After swimming around with a floatation vest for a couple weeks, yesterday he just decided he didn't need it anymore, took it off, and started swimming around on his own. 

He was so excited to swim back and forth between us and the wall.   Each time he reached the wall, he would flash us a big grin and give us two thumbs up.

Annette and I were flabbergasted.

Way to go Sam.