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happy birthday marky man!!!

hard to believe it's been a whole year since marcus showed up!!

and it's like he KNOWS it's his birthday.

he's being all extra cute and extra smileysmiles.

or maybe that's just me thinking that.

either way, it's definitely HIS day and god is good!

and it's sunny and gorgeous out, perfect!

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yes, i know, PEAS! on his BIRTHDAY!
but he LOVES them, so that was lunch.
i tried to give him avocado and bits of turkey, but he turned up his nose.
hey, it's his day, right?
we're doing homemade pizza tonight and a couple of presents,
then having a party later this weekend.
i will try and do a blog post about that...
oh my poor neglected blog.
facebook is killing the blog, i do believe.
what with all my wit and spare minutes online going to snazzy (i try, at least) status messages!

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and since he doesn't lend himself to being overlooked very easily,
i must say something about my mr. sammy mcsammerson...
today he told me, out of the blue:
"i got that boom boom boom, mama!"
great.
pretty soon he'll be telling me that i'm so 2000 and late.

xoxoxox

and hi megs! (you get a shoutout now that i know you read this!!!)

dirty little chip eater!

all the posts lately have been around sam, so i must share a story about little marky man this time! and this morning he gave me something to share.

so i went upstairs for about 3.2124 minutes this morning to get sam up and dressed, and i came down to a distinct...aroma...

i must not have shut the pantry door all the way, because marcus had helped himself to an open bag of bbq chips and got them EVERYWHERE...shellacked to the tile, ground into the carpet, smooshed in his hair, crammed in his mouth, dangling from his pjs...you name it, it was there. must have been a very busy 3 minutes...he made the MOST of it!

i had a good chuckle and went hunting for the camera, of course. i was not prepared for sammy's reaction, though--the kid came UNGLUED. he's so very meticulous, and messes just freak him all the way out. i find this amusing. he very clearly didn't inherit the trait from me, she who laughs and takes a picture!

so it was a crazy 30 mins or so as i tried to manage sam's hysterics and clean up the mess and then get the baby bathed--i can NOT STAND the smell of bbq chips...all this before breakfast...unless you count chips as breakfast. ick!

for those of you that remember our cat (who got into EVERYTHING food-related)...jeremy pointed out that we didn't need to miss mister popo anymore because who needs a cat when you have marcus?

sam was sitting on the counter this morning, eating his oatmeal.
he noticed my to-do list and asked what it was.
so i explained, and read off all the tasks that i plan on doing today.
clean out my car, mop the floors, vacuum upstairs, etc.
and he pointed to the list and said: "make brownies for sammy"...!!!
what a little sneech!

his powers of observation...

me: (rolling red play-doh into a log shape)
sam: it looks like a sidewalk chalk!

me: (rolling brown play-doh into a log shape)
sam: it looks like a poop!

that is all today.

sweetest prayer. ever.

our bedtime routine goes something like this: bath, pjs, brush teeth, read books, then hop into the rocking chair to pray and sing some songs. tonight i told sam it was time to pray...usually, i just say a very general prayer--thankfulness for events of the day, etc...tonight, sammy folded his hands and said "oh God..." the rest of the prayer went like this:

me: i'm thankful for...
sam: dada!
me: i'm thankful for...
sam: mama!
me: i'm thankful for...
sam: cake!
me: i'm thankful for...
sam: milk!
me: i'm thankful for...
sam: food!
me: in jesus' name...
sam: amen.

oh my...so very sweet.
i'm thankful for...
THIS BOY!

funny boys...

i realize i still need to post about sam's bday, but sickness has overtaken our house...in the form of hand, foot and mouth virus. poor little boys...they are on the mend, now, fevers are gone.

last night went like this:
j: sam, what would make you feel better?
s: feel better.
j: what would make you feel better?
s: cookies!
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j: we don't have any cookies...here's a marshmallow.


FUNNY boys in my life!!!