Sam is a Good Little Baby and Always Very Curious

A day in her life …

Thursday morning

Sam eats all her waffles on her plate. Then wonders what the plate will look like on her head? Strands of syrup attach from her head to the plate when she pulls it away. Amused by her antics Matthew asks, “Can we keep Sammy forever?”

Thursday mid morning

While Mom works on her laptop Sam plays nicely with her toys.

She takes out Matthew’s football men and lines them up in a chorus line fashion on the football field. When asked if she will help clean them up into the bucket she interprets that to mean the trash bucket and promptly carries out the order by dropping a fistful in. The men are quickly recovered and returned to the proper bucket by Mom.

Thursday afternoon

Mom offers her some markers and crayons to color with. Sam obediently colors on paper and in her Sesame Street coloring book. Then on her face. She looks like Health Leger’s Joker in Batman.

Following a bath she parades around on top of the coffee table while Mom puts the bath towel in the laundry bucket.

“No Sammy! Get down from there,” Mom scolds. Sam waves.





Resigned Mom has no other choice but to use her secret weapon. Sam does not listen to the word No unless it is drawn out in a level tone like the word Boo.  “Noo.”  Sam quickly climbs down and spends the next two minutes inconsolable.

Thursday Evening

The family is watching Toy Story (Matthew is amazed when Mom tells him stories about his Toy Story phase and how he changed his name to Buzz Matthew R. for a year –  he claims to have no recollection of it). Sam covers Matthew up with the blanket and kisses him a half dozen times. Matthew politely thanks her but does not take his eyes off the movie. Before he knows what has happened Sam has wedged her way onto the chair by climbing in behind him and he is sitting on the floor. Without a blanket.

Apple Town, California

One morning last weekend Matthew invented Apple Town, California. When asked where this was coming from he responded that he liked apples. As he talked we drew and colored his ideas onto paper. Seven pages later a town was born.

(L-R)

 

The Red apple train station. One train drives through the town with signs that read, ‘Welcome to Apple Town,’ and ‘Leave out cups when it rain for Apple Juice’. The Green Apple bank where someone stands outside with a basket of apples for you to take one. The passenger train which also provides transportation to the Yellow Apple School for grades K-12.

 The Apple Town Stadium where a football game with the Patriots and Vikings is going on. The building with a golden apple on top is the Apple Town Hotel and next to it is the restaurant. 

Matthew: Do you know what it is called?

Me: Apple Town restaurant?

Matthew: Of course not. It's Applebees!

The Apple Science Museum -with sign noting the dinosaur exhibit. The Apple Town Amusement Park where day passes to all the rides can be purchased for a steal at $10.99. Lastly in the bottom right corner is Boba Fett. This is Matthew's imagination after all!

  Apple Town, California in all its glory!

Veterans Day Fun

Happy Veteran’s Day! We had some no school day fun at The PlayTown Express. Here are some pictures from the event: 

Bob's Birthday

Bob's birthday loot

This Saturday marked the end of the flag football season. Our league did a field day with six separate events rather than playoff games against one another. Afterwards we had a tailgate and Bob handed out the medals.



48 Viking cupcakes, I felt like a Patriots traitor!




The flag football princess




End of season tailgate




Medal ceremony



Showing off their medals to each other

Party? What party?

We celebrated Bob’s birthday on Sunday with a trip to The Patriots Hall of Fame and dinner with his family at The Olive Garden.



Can you spot the rookie?




Dad and Matt



 It was a great weekend spent celebrating!

Happy Halloween!

After trick-or-treating for two hours tonight we are ready to say goodbye to yet another great Halloween!

(L-R) Hailey, Riley, Conner, Hayden, & Matthew ready to go

Frankenstorm

Hurricane Sandy or Frankenstorm as it has been nicknamed by the media blew through here yesterday but luckily did not do any damage here other than knock a few branches from the trees in the yard and the power out for a couple of hours.

While the wind and rain blew around leaves furiously outside we kept the kids busy with pumpkin painting (Sammy) and carving (Matthew), read books, ate a lunch of  bacon and cheese muffins with eggs (recipe here), and camped out in the living room at Matthew’s instance once the power went out near his bedroom. Today school was cancelled for Matthew and Sammy had pajama day at daycare but the weather wound up being warm. We have moved on to counting down the hours until it is time to go trick-or-treating tomorrow night.

Indian Summer

I love when the weather in October turns warm to tease us before the months of cold weather kick in. We certainly made the most of it by playing outside every chance we got this weekend.

We also had some Halloween fun by making monster cookies and reading these books:

Do Not Build A Frankenstein

Arthur’s Halloween/ Franklin’s Halloween/ Corduroy’s Halloween

Tucker’s Spooky Halloween

Skeleton Hiccups

Twas the Night before Halloween

Bernstein Bears Ghost of the Forrest

Happy Halloween Stinky Face

Frankie Stein

Bob, Matthew, and I went to a Sharks hockey game on Saturday night too. Matthew's favorite moment from the game was when there was a fight.

Sammy might have celebrated a little too much this weekend as she came home sick from daycare on Monday and stayed home Tuesday. But she recovered and was back outside in no time at all.