Oh, WOW!!!

Sam loves things that go. To clarify, that means anything that has wheels typically and goes a lot faster than he does. I thought that moving to Germany his main love would be trains and he might notice other things if we were lucky, but apparently he is all boy and has been exposed to enough of the other things that is almost equal for all. Here are a few of his favorites...

Ok, so this is a funny first one, but Sam does enjoy being with his Dad in any way possible.

I know you can't see what he's pointing at but I'm sure you can guess. We see airplanes ALL the time. I wasn't exactly expecting that coming out here but Sam has loved it and has gotten very good at spotting them even before Arnold and I see them. Go Sam!

These are fun to see too. Sam is always excited to see tractors when we are on a walk. We usually go to the bridge and watch the cars go under but it's a bit more fun when we get one of these passing us on our walk.

And of course what little boy doesn't enjoy a car. I think this is Sam's second favorite. Every time he gets in the car with out getting put in his seat immediately he climbs into the drivers seat as fast as he can. He knows all the buttons to push and even the right sounds. He identifies them whenever he sees one by saying tato for auto(german).



And last but definitely not least is Sam's favorite! He loves trains! Commonly referred to as Choo-choo's or probably more like too-too's as he says it. Unfortunately I don't have a good picture of him with a train but this was pretty good too. He loves to look out the window every time he thinks one is going by. We can just hear them from the house and there is a window upstairs that you can watch them go by over the housetops in the distance now that the trees are loosing their leaves. So every time he hears one he runs to the window saying TOO-TOO with as much excitement as you can expect from a 1 year old. In this video he's a little preoccupied with the suit case but it gives you an idea of how much he likes them.



Now if you have made it this far and survived then you get the explanation for the title of the post. Over the last month or so Sam has started to say "Oh, WOW!" when he sees something he likes (usually trains) or when he gets really excited (usually about trains). Unfortunately it happens so quickly that I haven't been able to get it on video but it's the cutest thing ever. Maybe I'll be lucky enough to get it sometime but if not, you now know what you are missing out on. :)

Random cuteness

So these are just some random things I thought were cute or funny and so I thought I'd stick them all together...Sam is definitely a Texan. He seems to think the bike is his horse and rides it frequently. I think he also thinks he's a gymnast or something because he likes to perform all sorts of tricks on it.
So the other day Arnold comes in with Sam all bundled up and hands me the camera. He then tells me to get ready to take a picture and this is what he uncovered. We aren't sure how he did it but somehow he managed to get the one arm out of his pajamas. He does move a lot in his sleep but still... ???
Arnold gets Sam ready in the morning. This is the two of them just before Arnold took off for work.
Just chillin together in the morning. Sam loves every second of the day he gets with his Daddy and you can tell by the smile here how happy he is just to be with him. Arnold is the best Daddy in the whole world!

So I'm not sure how this happened but there are a lot of things I'm not sure about when Sam is around. They usually occur in the 2 seconds I'm not looking. Either way he was giggling and when we went to check on him to see what was so funny we found him stuck in the chair. :)
This is one of Sam's favorite books and of course his favorite person. So cute! :)

Hello from Sam

Ok, so first of all to clarify, most of these posts I'm doing right now are about a month old. No this is not all happening at once even though it sometimes seems that way. I know I'm slow...

Anyway, we were on a walk and Sam looked up at me and started saying hello over and over again. It was so cute I kept walking and pulled out the camera so that I wouldn't interrupt him. However as you can see the moment I pulled out the camera he stopped. It's amazing how they do it. I did get him to eventually say it once for the camera and then some mumbling of some sort and it's still cute if you have 35 sec to spare.

One of Sam's new tricks...

Ok, so I wasn't quite ready for this one but I guess it will keep me on my toes. Needless to say we keep the door locked now, and since it takes several turns of the key to unlock it I haven't been too worried about him unlocking it yet. I'm sure I'll need to keep a close watch so I don't miss when it happens or maybe I'll just start taking the key out...

Hopefully the teething is done...

Like I said. Hopefully. I figure getting 16 teeth in 14 months means I deserve a break. I've heard there are more molars to come but I'm hoping that waits a bit since I'm not really ready to do that with a newborn and at this point it would probably happen that way if it does. Anyway, this is just before he got the last 4 teeth and as you can tell he's cute, happy and drooling. ;)

So these pictures are just because he's cute! :)

I just love this picture because you can even see his molars in it. He has a huge mouth and loves to open it all the time but for some reason it's hard to get a picture showing all the teeth he has until now... :)
Ok I take it back, I guess he has 4 more at this point but atleast you can see his bottom molars. :)

Lots of excuses

Ok, so I have to start out by saying I know I've been tagged for a few things and I'm going to eventually get to them but it might take a while. We just got a few new things and one of them happens to be a new computer since the one we had still works but was getting a little on the interesting side. So in order to preserve all the pictures we have of Sam and not loose them if the original computer failed we got a new one! A Mac. So basically we have been spending our free time transfering info, pictures and all that over to this computer and trying to get use to the small difference between the computers. We also ended up getting a new camera since our old one randomly doesn't save pictures...Slightly bothersome and we finally broke down and got a new one.

Now for some random cuteness to brighten everyones day! To sum up Sam loves to be tossed around...not that you could tell from these pictures. ;)
Hope you enjoyed! :)

mowing the lawn

When Dad is home Sam loves to be with him and Saturday morning he decided to be Daddy's little helper. He wanted to push the mower and was so cute. I think he ended up helping mow the whole yard. It probably went a little slower than it could have due to his help but I think all involved had fun. Of course Arnold was very careful with Sam helping.