"Cute"

Annette was telling us the story tonight at dinner time about her first time in Disneyland. She was about seven, and when her uncle took her to the store and asked her to pick out any present she wanted, the only fairy tale she could think of was Cinderella, but the doll was dressed in rags and not very pretty, so her uncle urged her to get something else. So she ended up with a Snow White doll. I reached across the dinner table for Annette's hand after the story and said, "cute." Samuel then immediately grabbed Annette's hand and also said, "Cute!"

Frog Pond

Yesterday was 55 degrees, so Samuel and I went to the Boston Commons and got to enjoy the playground. Samuel is a climber, going up stairs for much bigger kids.

Winking

Samuel tries to wink at us, but he can only shut both of his eyes, so he ends up blinking at us. It's hilarious

Samuel's first voicemail

I was away in Minneapolis this week to help my friend Ryan get hitched. I got this call from my boys:

Shoe fetish

Samuel loves wearing peoples' shoes around the house.  He has also picked up Joshua's lego obsession, and prefers to play with age-inappropriate small legos instead of his duplos.

His vocabulary has gradually increased, and we even heard him said very distinctively "Joshua" tonight. But his favorite words are still: no, more, dada, momma, wow, & dat.

First Lego Creation

Though Samuel unfortunately chose tonight at 12:30am to discover his newfound passion for lego building, it was quite impressive nonetheless. Soon he will probably move on to building firetrucks like his big brother!

Snowball