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!!!

my sweet swweeeeeet sammy!

today i'm finding it a little funny that sam doesn't like to be bossed around.

i'm a little over halfway through 4 weeks of keeping my friend's 2yo daughter, and she likes to tell sam to "sit here" "play with this" "come here"...you get the idea. wellll sam is NOT into this at all. he doesn't know yet how to tell her no, so he just screams at her. nice. not really. we're working on "no thanks". but it's good for him to have a friend around, to learn how to work this stuff out!

he's also starting to tell me "no" a little bit...i'm suprised it took him this long, really.
today when i told him to sit in his chair and he didn't do it until i starting walking towards him. he didn't know it, but he was going to get a time out.
well, i guess he did know it...
sometimes it's so hard to discipline him...he's so stinking cute, and he's really very good and very obedient most of the time. hopefully that will last!my heart gets so full when i look at these little guys. i think more and more about how much MORE full god's heart must get when he looks at us. and it pretty much blows my mind. and how much does his heart laugh at/with/near us when we do stuff like sam and try to be sneaky and not sit in the chair until we realize we've been caught...metaphorically speaking, of course. :)

i like thinking about that. a lot.

hello, summer!

long time, no blog, eh? i'll just say that i've been outside a LOT lately! summer has finally come to indiana, all hot and humid-like. i'm babysitting for a few weeks, so i take the two toddlers outside every day from 10-12 while m sleeps...it's so nice to let them run around and play in the sandbox, the baby pool, on the swings and slides...they eat lunch, and then they are POOPED so they take amazing naps in the afternoon.

that's pretty much the summary (hahah summary...get it?) of my past couple of weeks. it's a tough life. no, i'm so very blessed to be able to be home with my boys and to be able to help a friend out when she was in need of child care for a month or so. sam does SO WELL with having a friend around--learning to share and take turns and all of that. i have a sneaking suspicion that he's of the introverted persuasion, but a few hours of play does him a lot of good anyways.

summer is best enjoyed near water, no? sam finds this to be the case...and he looooves to drive the boat with gpa h.


our first lake weekend of the year was a mixed bag. sam LOVED everything--the water, the sand, hanging out in the cottage w/ all the little people toys circa 1982...and marcus seemed to be fairly interested in all things big turkey. as interested as you can be at 7mo. it was the sleeping that killed us...or shall i say the attempts at sleeping. the boys actually slept quite well, but sam coughs a lot at night, which resulted in him being moved into the living room at 5am...and marcus is an EARLY riser, so i woke sam and jeremy up shortly after they had settled back to sleep when marcus and i came out at 6:30 to start the day. i think we're going to try a different plan in the future...one that involves different sleeping arrangements...sigh.

other than the lake, we've been busy with home improvement projects...(ha! "we" = jeremy, but i like to feel involved since i live here) this week it's been a new front door and all kinds of crazy trellis stuff for the garden...also in progress is the manly lair in the basement and the purchase of a new sliding door for the back room. how long it will be in the garage is anyone's guess...i don't think jeremy is looking forward to that job...one of these days we'll have the bigger projects done, right? something tells me that busybee husband of mine will keep finding things to do!!