Madeline's new shoes evidently allow her to leap from the family room into the kitchen much higher than before. She just needed to show me just this once she said, only one time & never while Noah is watching. Right. Quite impressive though!
When you are almost 7, have a little sister who is 4 & a little brother who is 2...but thinks he is 4; well life can be tricky sometimes. Luckily for Sam he has this amazing ability to 'shake it off' & not stay in the downy-dumps for long at all. It is difficult being in first grade, but Sam is soaking it all in & playing hard on the weekends...and we are enjoying the show.
Since the kids are in their costumes year-around it's hard to remember what they were last year (on the day of Halloween). This picture of Sam 'Hulking out' was this summer, probably the hottest day of the year...stuck inside, ready to go go go.
When the leaves start to turn we are reminded
that Sam's birthday is around the corner. It's hard to believe that this little baby was born almost seven years ago! Back then we talked about how we would miss the days of finding binkys in our pockets & bottle caps laying around the house.These days we are finding things like rocks, the occasional shell of a bug, always dirt, and every once-in-awhile a surprise. On this particular laundry day I pulled this out of Sam's pocket. We came to the conclusion it used to be a red crayon & a marble. I think I will keep it forever.
