Zoo trip

we went outside this morning at 7:30 in our PJs and it was sooo gorgeous out that we decided to ditch the chores and go to the zoo to enjoy the nice weather. Of course the weather turned on us and there were massive wind gusts so we spent lots of time indoors and still had fun

mom & sam looking at the gorillas (or mon-shee as Sam would say) - we were lucky enough to get there at feeding time

clearly Sam is having a blast looking at the elephants, hehe (eff-fant!)

trying to get a nice Christmas picture ....

BUG! Sam was so good not touching things. big difference from this summer when we would take him and he would not only touch, but be eating too! he's growing up ....

cutie - as close as we could get to a full face picture since he was much too busy to pose for the camera

kids always flock together .... there wasn't even much to look at (water), but because there were other kids there, that was where Sam wanted to be :)

Fun on the weekend

here are a few random pictures from the weekend

Guess who's winning??!

Sam doing an "airpane"....I don't know where he learned this! his newest thing though is climbing on everything and moving stools around the house to climb on even higher things. oh ya, and threatening mommy that he's going to jump because it's pretty funny to see how fast she can run over :)

Watching vidoes of Grandpa ... as cute as it is, I can't use my laptop anymore when he's around because he runs over and starts yelling "PA PA, PA PA"

Fire Truck

Sam has been obsessed with fire trucks lately so grandma & grandpa brought him a fire truck this weekend. it has sirens and the ladder goes up & down - he LOVES the sirens (mom is on the verge of NOT loving the sirens!) and thinks the ladder should be down at all times and gets mad when you lift it up. :)


And, I have to share this picture too because I love it!! Sunday morning Sam decided he wanted to try my coffee (probably because I was letting him eat the whip cream off my gingerbread latte a few days ago) - he got more on his face than he tasted but he kept saying mmmmm which is probably because that's what I say every morning when I drink my coffee :) this "parrot" phase is scary!

Happy Halloween

we had a Halloween party today so we got to don the costumes a day early ....

we have been trying to teach Sam to say "trick or treat" and he smiles REAL big and yells "BIG TRUCK" - somehow he got trick to be truck. but he's so cute & enthusiastic about it, we're pretty sure it will work.

Happy Halloween everyone! :)

Deliveries

we got 2 deliveries yesterday .... an order of frozen meat and new tires. the frozen meat came on dry ice so we put the ice on water and made fog - Sam thought it was SOOO COOL!

and the tires were lots of fun to play in ...

...and on! this picture came right after asking "Sam, is that safe?!" you can tell by the look on his face that he knows it is probably not :)

Happy Thanksgiving

Sunday morning we went to South Glenmore Park for a family photo shoot. Sam was not really the most cooperative so we'll see how they actually turn out (he's 1.5 and we were at a playground - imagine that he didn't want to pose for pictures!)

Eating pie at thanksgiving dinner #2 .... PIGGY!

What's a lion say??

RRROAAR! :)