Easter Math

Mmmmm Ketchup

Right before I took this video, Samuel was actually hugging the bottle of ketchup and saying "I love ketchup." We force him eat some chicken nuggets with it, otherwise I'm sure he'd be happy to eat a big bowl of ketchup all by itself. And apparently forks and spoons are highly overrated.

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Weekend Pictures

One of Samuel's newest games is to get in his car and pretend he's going to work. He'll say "bye guys (he calls me and Ernie "guys" all the time now) I go work." Then 2 seconds later he's home and we need to ask him if he had a nice day.

Here he is going off to work wearing not only his mickey hat, but also a bowl, which he insists is a cowboy hat (he takes it on and off and says "hee-haw".)



Ernie has been building a piece of furniture for our house. It's a combination storage box/sweater trunk/bench. Here are pictures of it so far. We still need to get a cushion for the top, and Ernie needs to sand and finish it, but you can get a general idea what it will look like:





Here are Ernie and Samuel reading on the couch:



And, finally, here's a picture of the coolest clock ever:




Why is this clock so cool? Well, for starters, you just plug it in and it sets itself - automatically it knows what month, day, and time it is. If it ever gets unplugged, or the power goes out during a storm, it will reset itself when the power comes back on (it resets the alarm, too.) Also, this weekend it automatically knew that it was time to spring forward for daylight savings time, so it just changed the time itself in the middle of the night.

Maybe I think it's so cool because before I got this clock a few months ago, I had the SAME alarm clock I bought in the 7th grade. Obviously technology has come a long way since then. If anyone needs a new clock, I'd highly recommend this one. We bought it at Walmart for about $15 (make sure to get the one with the red display. We bought one with a blue LED display at first, but had to return it because it was like sleeping with a spotlight in the room. Way too bright.)

Snowman

Last week we built a snowman outside. It looked kind of like the snowman version of Charlie Brown's Christmas tree (kind of small and pathetic looking), and all I could find for the eyes were radishes, which made the snowman look slightly evil.) At any rate, it was a snowman:



Samuel wasn't quite sure of it at first:



But then he decided he liked it, and here he is giving it a hug:





Samuel has become quite the ham lately. He'll say to us "I say cheese?" and then want you to go get the camera. He'd like to actually take the pictures himself, but with his reputation for breaking things, it's probably not the best idea (all of our thermometers are for some reason set to Celsius. How does a 2 year old know how to reprogram a thermometer?)

Here is is after wrestling with Ernie, showing you his new posing for the camera face:



And another one:



Notice he's wearing the hat in both pictures. He has become totally obsessed with that Mickey Mouse hat. Erin sent that to him when he was about 3 months old. Now it's almost too small for his giant head, but he still loves to wear it anyway.


Some funny things he has said lately:

• If you ask him if he wants more of something to eat and he's full, he'll say "no kank you, I good."
• The other day he asked me where something was and I told him, and then he said "you a smart boy, Mommy"
• I was eating a starburst the other day when I got him up from his nap and he said "what in your mouth? it taste yummy in my tummy?" He's never had those before, but apparently they just smelled like they tasted good to him.
• He likes to tell us he's a kid, but doesn't quite understand he can be a kid and be getting taller at the same time, so if you tell him he is growing, he'll say "I not growing. I kid."