Almost forgot!

Check out how my family entertained themselves after I went to bed.

AND I might change the name of my blog soon. Can you guess why?

Apples and relatives

Hi peeps!

Did you notice that I changed my masthead to feature my favourite baby cousin? He is so awesome!

My Grandma and Aunt Robyn brought him to visit me last weekend. I spent the first day trying to get him to follow me but quickly figured out that he’s not that mobile yet. Then the next day I was all “Look over here, baby cousin!”, but I guess he still can’t focus so good. He’s still awesome though. He makes spit bubbles and poops A LOT. I made sure to get him the exact diaper he wanted every time. I still speak baby ESP, you see.

We did other fun stuff while they were here too. We read books, played in the park and went apple picking.

You may recall that I’ve been apple picking before with my dear friend Eli. You may also recall that I could not even walk yet so my parents left me to roll around in the rotten apples. Nice.

This time, though, it was great fun! All the good apples were up high so I turned Daddy into a human ladder and went after them. Very rewarding!

There were the usual encounters with the papparazzi. I tried to shield my identity and avoid ending up on the cover of People, again.

Mommy took me on a tractor wagon ride.

Basically, it was the best.

As if that wasn’t enough. I got this very cool ball toy from Grandma and Robyn that Mommy painstakingly assembled, all while mumbling something about it being a Daddy job and the fact that there was math involved.

Respect the classics, man.

This is a little old, but I thought I would share with you my love of Bob Dylan.

Sabbatical and other news

Hello everyone!

I am back from my unintentional sabbatical. Let’s start at the beginning, shall we?

Eli came to visit me back in March. We had a fabulous time and ran around a LOT, which equals happiness in 2-year-old terms, except then Eli turned 3, but it was still fun. We even tried to sleep in the same bed.

Unfortunately for us, we couldn’t stop giggling and we were torn apart by the adults.

Then in April, I went down to visit Eli in Masschusetts with just Mommy. I think she forgot Daddy (a little worrisome). Anyway, we had a blast, yet again. He lives right next to a park! His Mommy introduced me to the art of cookie decorating and didn’t even mind when I just skipped the cookie and ate the decorations. Awesome!

I learned how to take pictures with Mommy’s camera and created the following masterpieces.

Caesar, my muse

An edgy close-up of Mack the truck, from Cars.

In April and May, we went to a lot of other people’s houses and looked around and then left. I found this to be a strange thing to do after supper but I sort of got used to it except the time that I nearly died because Mommy wouldn’t let me play with some other kid’s legos. What? I’m sure he wouldn’t have cared.

Then, in July, that glorious thing happened that seems to happen every six months or so: I got lots and lots of presents! This time it was because I had my third birthday on July 11th. I had a lovely little bash in the park with two friends from daycare. There were bubbles, balloons, cupcakes and my Grampy played rickshaw puller – doesn’t get better than that.

Then at the end of July, something very alarming happened. Something I can barely talk about, so distraught was I. We packed all of our stuff into boxes and moved to a new house. This “new house” had been much hyped up beforehand but I thought we were going to see a new house after supper, not FOREVER! Oh my dear was I unhappy. Even though I told Mommy that the old house was just fine, and that I was happy there, we didn’t go back. Well, since then the new house has slowly grown on me. My room is bigger and I got a new rug and a new bigger bed again and we have a yard now, which is handy when you are inspired to drench your Daddy with water from a hose. Oh, and I have a hose too!

In August this year, I did not, however,  rock it in the Rockies like I did last year and the year before. I will be going there at Christmas to meet my new and first cousin, Daxton, who was born in July too. Do you think he’ll be up for some legos by then?

Love, Sam

The Office

So, I was just hanging out in our office last night. Actually, we’re getting the room ready for visitors this weekend–Eli is coming with his parents!

Anyway, while I was in there, I saw this really cool looking potty, so, naturally, I sat on it.

Judging from Mommy and Daddy’s laughter, it was not intended for this purpose.

Then I measured the camera with a tape measure,

and wrapped up a lovely evening of thwarting Mommy’s cleaning with a videoconference with myself.

Whales

I love whales, especially when they come up out of the water, eat something and then SPLASH back down. Sometimes, though, there are mean fish in the water and you have to protect your whale. Keep that in mind, people.

Christmas Joy!

HAPPY NEW YEAR, everyone!

I hope everyone saw Santa this year and got lots of toys.

This year we drove a long way in the snow to get to my Nana and Grampy’s house in Massachusetts. Nana and Grampy’s house is always lots of fun because it’s big with stairs and lots of rooms. This year my Uncle Todd and Aunt Angela came all the way from California, too. Unfortunately, Uncle Todd was a little bit scary when he talked to me but we had fun anyway.

I made sure to spend some quality time on the phone, just like last year.

Let’s cut to the chase… presents! I already told you about my first present that I got a little early, which is still awesome and in daily use, by the way. I also got the perfect companion for it: finger crayons from Melissa (you can sort of see them in the picture). I love them!

I got many more presents on Christmas. Actually, I got to open one or two presents every day until Christmas and then still had a bunch more. Christmas is the best!! I even got to pretend to be Santa, and help my Grampy hand out presents to everyone!

Here’s what I got:

an awesome garbage truck from my Uncle Todd and Aunt Ang, complete with working trash compactor and garbage bins,

some Spot books and doctor set from my Nana and Grampy, a Thomas the Tank Engine railway set from Mommy and Daddy, Percy and Harold the helicopter from cousins Lori and Ava,

I also got a boulder construction site with noisy crane and an engine wash for my trains! Sorry I didn’t take pictures of all of my presents yet, but I’ve been too busy playing with them! THANK YOU EVERYONE!!

Daddy took me out to play in the snow while we were there too. I didn’t really like riding on the sled though. Maybe next year.

But perhaps best of all (hard to believe, I know), I got to see my long lost friend Eli again!! He brought his Mommy and Papa over to play for the morning before leaving for France for a few weeks. We were really happy to see each other. I thought I would never get to see him again after our fun day before he moved.

As you can imagine, and, again, just like last year, I was tired out by all of this excitement and had to relax with a movie when I got home.

First present

Hey everyone!

I got my first Christmas present early. It’s an awesome easel from my Grandma, Grandpa and Aunt Robyn and Uncle Ed. I LOVE IT!!

I’ve already whipped off a few masterpieces this afternoon, tried to clean my ear with a brush full of paint and and painted my Mommy’s arm. Rockin’!

Oh, here are some pictures and videos for your enjoyment. Just wait until Santa comes!

The Cat in the Box

Hey everyone!

I have been seriously misled by my Mommy cum blog editor about the frequency of updates I can expect. I apologize to my fans.

On to an update: last night my parents did something really weird but so cool. They put my kitty in a box! Mommy said he needed to go to the kitty doctor. I thought it was really funny to see my kitty in a box. Here are some photos and videos. Sorry that the videos are sideways. That’s my Daddy’s fault. God, can a toddler get a good documentary staff anywhere? Seriously.

You’ll see that in one video, I notice I’m being filmed and pull my best cheese face.

As it would turn out, my kitty has a case of not-having-brushed-his-teeth-EVER and not rotten teeth. Oh well.

Halloween!!

Hi everyone,

So it turns out that there was a reason Mommy kept going on and on about this silly pumpkin costume that I had to wear. Get this: if you wear a silly outfit outside and knock on people’s doors, they will give you free candy. I know! I too was extremely shocked to find this out. Anyway, I tried it and it worked so feel free to give it a go. I’m not quite sure why we haven’t done it since then, maybe because I still have candy left. Anyhoo.

It was a little confusing at first but I got into it fast. After I got back, I wrapped up my candy-filled evening with a nice reading of Green Eggs and Ham with my Grandpa Blaine who was visiting all weekend with my Grandma. We had lots of fun together. We went out for breakfast and I ordered yellow eggs, thank you.

p.s. Apparently, I missed Halloween last year, which might be a good thing because look what my dear parents did to me when I was wee.