In our Vakinis

This morning Ana came over to hang. The girls put on their "vakinis" as Sammie calls them and had a blast.
I, of course, put them to work. They washed off all of our outside play equipment. They didn't know it was work-they were just playing with the hose. They played in the pool, on the slide, in the mud puddles they created. It was great. A perfectly fun morning.
I love this age-they are so sweet to eachother. After they were done and were sitting on the patio having their snack, Sammie turned to Ana and said, "Ana I love you" and And said, "I love you too Sammer". Melt my heart:):)

Tennies

When Nana was here she bought Sammer some shoes for the fall. She got Sammie this really cute little white pair of Sketchers. Then the other day I was telling Sammie how she has to wear tennies when she rides her bike and she told me, "Mommy-they aren't tennies, they are Sketchers."
Well, I guess you can't argue with the truth!
Here she is playing in my "tennies".

Like father like son

Cole is getting quite the funny, little personality. He is changing so fast. It was like the day he turned one he kicked it up a notch!
Yesterday was a big night...he ate steak! We have had a hard time getting him to eat meat. The other night he tried some hamburger and liked it and last night we had rib-eyes. Who wouldn't love that?! Samantha loves steak and turned to Peter during dinner and said, "Thanks for the steak daddy." I love that!
Then, Peter was watching Fox news and Cole grabbed the remote from him and turned the channel to some Love of BBQ show. Looks like he is going to be like his daddy in more ways than one! (That's good with me:)
Cole-we love love you. Thanks for bringing so much laughter into this house.

It's a fun life

I noticed that I haven't blogged in a while so I took some random pictures to show you how fun our life is around here.
Sammie has been really into her babies lately. Baucula (her favorite baby-who is actually supposed to be a boy) is her favorite. She has been sleeping with her, taking her with us everywhere and insisting that we feed her. She sits in the booster. Sammie says, "It's a good thing we have a highchair for Cole mom"!
The pool has also been a big hit this summer-for obvious reasons: it's hot and the pool is just plain fun!
Today Peter went digging in the garage and pulled out his OLD Sega genesis!!!! Blast from the past. Sammie thought it was pretty fun. Cole liked the controller!
It's a fun life!


Sammie feeding Baucula her breasfast.

Cole and Sammie out back playing in the pool.

Check out the screen:Cedric Caballos!!!

Nothing like some good old fashioned competition:)

Ana Banana

After a week of vacation and two rounds of being sick and housebound, Sammie was ready for some quality friend time. So Ana came over this morning and played, and played and played! The girls had such a good time and were so sweet with each other. Susan and I keep saying we can't hardly believe we are at the stage where the girls can go play by themselves and there aren't any brawls. It's great!
Thanks Ana for coming over and playing. And thanks Susan for the yummy lunch. Let's do this again SOON!!!


First the girls got dressed up (of course). Then
we built a fort (castle) to play in. Then they decorated
Sammer's room with ribbons!

A little down time with a movie.

All snuggled up.

Chill...

Look who's up from his nap! Wowza!