Day Off Diddies

Here are a few random pictures from my last several days off...

When I'm off, I often will text a picture to Shawn when Sam wakes up.  Just a little, "Good morning, Daddy" kind of thing.  On this particular morning, Sam wasn't feeling especially friendly.  Side note:  Check out that rooster tail in his hair!

During Shawn's last late week, Sam and I had a stop to make after work, so we were especially late getting home.  In an effort to get him in bed at a decent time, he had Spaghettio's for supper.  DO NOT JUDGE ME!  After he ate, I immediately dunked him in the tub with plans to clean up the kitchen after he was in bed.  Note to self:  take the time to clean up the kitchen immediately.  While I was busy packing his bag for the next day, Sam retrieved his left-over Spaghettio's from the kitchen table and decided to finish his supper.  Molly was doing her best to destroy the evidence so I wouldn't be mad.

This is Sam waiting on his breakfast.  Just an ordinary day in our house...chill-axin', waiting on Mom to bring me my milk noon.

Pooh was hungry on this particular day.  It's so fun to see Sam starting to pretend.  Pooh often has to eat a bite of whatever we're having for dinner, and about the only way I can get Sam to brush his teeth at night is to let him brush Pooh's teeth when we're done.

Day Off Diddies

Sam had his FINAL appointment with the orthopedist yesterday.  Hurray!!!  His heel still has a small black place on it, but it's getting a little better every day.  Other than the fact that he wants to pick at it, it doesn't seem to give him any troubles. 

After his appointment, we ran in the mall for a couple of quick errands, where we discovered the illustrious mall playground.  This was the first time I had let Sam play there, and I think he was a little bit huffy that I had been holding out on him.  He.  Had.  A.  Blast.

At first, he couldn't quite figure out what to do with that giant tube.  He was really interested in it and kept walking from one in to another peeking in.  Luckily, this little girl was nice enough to demonstrate crawling through.

There she goes...

...and there goes Sam.  Isn't it a little early for him to be so eagerly chasing girls?

The actually had some other things to play on, but as far as Sam was concerned they only had the tube that you crawl through.  Once he figured it out, that was all he wanted to do. 

Yesterday evening, I was mixing up a casserole for dinner but I couldn't find my rice.  Looks like my little helper struck again.  Apparently, Pooh has a thing for rice when honey is in short supply.



Day Off Diddies

Sam continues to help himself to a snack whenever he wants one.

This window looks into Shawn's Man Cave.  During a recent UK football game, Sam and I decided our time would be better spent making laps around the house, and we stopped on one trip around to peek in at Daddy.  Now, every time we walk by this window we have to stop and yell, "Da-da!!!"

Sam also helped me pick a few tomatoes.  Before I could stop him, he took a big ol' bite out of this one like it was an apple.  Come to think of it, it kinda crunched like an apple, too.  When I tried to pry it out of his mouth, he locked jaws on me so I just let him eat it.  He did.  Then he proceeded to pick about three more and take bites out of them as well.  True story.  When I told him to eat his green vegetables, I didn't mean green as in unripe.  But at least he was listening. 

Day Off Diddies

I am fortunate to have a job where I work four 10-hour days, so I get an extra day off every week.  I try to text Shawn pictures throughout the day of cute things Sam is doing or things that I think will make him smile. 

But why should he get to have all the fun???

So I thought I'd try to post a few pictures from my day off every week to share but also to help me remember that there is a little bit of wonderful in the everyday.  

Remember how I said that Sam is walking now?  No easing into something new here...he literally woke up Thursday morning last week and said, "I'm going to stop crawling today" and he has been upright ever since.  As soon as he finished breakfast this week, he immediately started asking to "goashide" so we had to get dressed and take a walk.  And walk, and walk, and walk....

He's got this whole Godzilla/Frankenstein thing going on that I just love.

How many times over this kid's life will I see him from this vantage point with tears in my eyes???

We're also perfecting our step-climbing technique.  It's pretty cute.

Oh, look!  Mom put out some fall decorations.  I'm sure she wants my help in rearranging them. 

Molly, ever the devoted friend, was eager to help with this part...

Buddies... 

What's a day off without a lunch date with one of my favorite men?

And can I just say God TOTALLY knew what he was doing when he gave us a little boy?  If we had a daughter, we would be broke.  But she sure would look cute in this little dress. 

It' so funny to see what Sam mimics nowadays.  We have never really had any luck getting him to wear sunglasses on his eyes, but he's more than happy to wear them on the top of his head like Daddy.