Spiderman

Sunday night, our church had a festival for the kiddos.  Samuel got his face painted.  He chose a spider.  

He had the hiccups while Hannah painted his face, so the spider is a little wobbly.  :-)

I a Great Hitter

We went back to Hope/Prescott this past weekend.  Friday evening we went to Pop and Granny's house.  Samuel wanted to play gold with Pop and Casey, so they went out to hit balls into the pasture.  

Samuel was using one of Dad's smaller clubs(a wedge, I think) and missing the ball a lot.  So he put it down and said, "I just not a great hitter." 

Then Pop pretended that he just couldn't hit it either, so Samuel showed him how.  It was the cutest thing ever!

After switching to Dad's driver, he got a few good hits in and sent it across the yard.

Before we went in he said, "I a great hitter, aren't I Pop?"

While we were all visiting in the living room, we noticed Maddie wasn't with us.  When I went to find her, she was already on our bed-sound asleep.  Poor girl had an ear infection and just didn't feel good.

I love how Samuel was sitting while Pop read to him.

Mother's Day Weekend

Warning!  Lots of pictures! 

After hanging out in Prescott for PawPaw's birthday, we headed to Hope to spend time for Mother's Day.  

Samuel and Pop explored their new storm shelter.  

Before bed every night, Casey reads some Dr. Seuss books to Samuel.  Pop got the honor that night.  But, as you all know, those are hard books to read aloud smoothly.  Pop got tongue tied and then made a funny game out of it.

It really tickled Samuel.

Then he made Granny read it to him one more time.  She is the queen of calming children for bedtime.

He slept in the queen sized bed again that night. I went in to check on him and he was like this.  I rotated him and then scooted him to the middle.

While I was scooting him, I couldn't find his pacifier and I knew if he woke up in the night looking for it, he might freak out or get too close to the edge, so we found one that Granny had and put it in his bed.  He woke up the next morning and proclaimed, "Hey!  That's not my pacifier! Mine was blue!  What's going on around here?" Hearing that through the monitor was a pretty funny way to wake up.  :-)

Before church, Samuel and Pop played some bowl drums.

We got mom a Kindle for Mother's day.  She loved it!

That morning in church, they did a drawing for some prizes.  There were several Kindle's among the prizes.  We just knew Mom was going to win one.  Dad told mom that we were going to try to subliminally tell her "Don't get the Kindle."   Samuel got a kick out of that too.  He's been walking around all week with his hand over his mouth saying that same thing in the same tone.  So funny!

PawPaw's Birthday

Happy Birthday, PawPaw!  

Cinco De Mayo

Samuel slept til almost 7 this morning!  WooHoo! The first thing he mentioned was watermelon.  He wanted it now! We managed to get him to eat a little bit of breakfast and then we went out to eat watermelon about 9:30.  

This was no Hope melon, but it satisfied that need.  :-)

We spent the day in the pool and then met Valerie, Chris, and Chase for a late lunch.  I completely forgot my camera, so I have no pictures from it.  Samuel talked non-stop and Chase was adorable-as always.  They were up here for a UAMS NICU graduate reunion.

After we got home, Casey grilled pork chops for us while Samuel did laps around the pool on his tricycle.  He is a speed demon on that thing.

We ate our grilled food outside on a pic-a-nic blanket.

It was a wonderful day!

More Swimming

1st swim of 2012

Samuel had a good day at school Tuesday, so we decided to try a new incentive-swimming.  

We sat and put our feet in for a while discussing it.  He decided to give it a whirl!

After changing into swimsuits, Samuel still wasn't quite convinced-the water was cold! So Casey decided to entertain him and make it more enticing.

It worked! Look at that face!

He finally got in.  And had a blast!

The boys had a blast.  Mommy just watched from the sidelines. It was FREAKING cold.