November 2009

The boys can sometimes drive me crazy (like this past weekend), but the rest of the time they make up for it with their cuteness! Sam is SOOOOO talkative, he has the largest vocabulary! He tells me things in long sentences and can analyze and remember better than me sometimes! It's a good thing that Joseph and I are pretty smart cause he is going to give us a run for our money! I was giving Eli a bath (cause Sam likes to take showers now, so they don't take baths together anymore!!! I don't know of too many two year-olds that like showers) and I asked Sam to go tell Daddy "Get Mommy a towel". I thought that was a simple enough direction for him to follow. So he goes into the kitchen, tells Joseph to turn off the dust buster he was using and then says, "Daddy, Mommy said she needs a towel to dry off Eli!" Wow, we sure think he is smart!


Eli is trying to imitate his brother so he says "Bye", "Ba-ba" (bottle), "Dada" and "Momma" but it is so random I'm not sure if he is really naming things or just babbling. I think Eli will be like his brother in his physical development because if you offer Eli your fingers he pulls up and wants to walk!! Big Bro Sam walked at about 9 months so I'm guessing Eli might too! He already loves chasing Sam around the kitchen in his walker. Don't worry, I try not to compare them too much! Eli has definitely developed his own little personality and my goal is for him to feel like he can be himself and not just "Sam's little bro". Here are some pics of the boys horsing around! Enjoy! :)

Every once in a while I try to get the boys to sit still long enough for a pic...this is the best one out of about 10 even though Eli isn't smiling!!! I included some of the funny ones below that didn't turn out! haha
I have no idea what Sam is saying here!

I think Eli sneezed in this one! haha

This pic makes me wonder if this is what my Dad and his brother would be like if they had digital cameras back then and could take 50 millions pics!

Sam grabbed one of my "silly" magazines from the living room. (I say "silly" because it was one of those celebrity gossip/snooping magazines that my sis and I get every once in a while to read about what they think certain celebrities might be doing and we really love the pics that are so incredibly grainy you know they were taken at least a mile away with a huge telephoto lens!!!haha) Anyways, this is where we found him, hiding in his room, reading about Matthew McConaughey and his son! hahaha We thought it was pretty funny!