Our little Negotiator...

Yesterday I had to do a make up appointment at the clinic that I work at. In the break room there was a box of See's lollipops. I just couldn't resist that so I grabbed one and headed for home while sucking on my sucker. When I got home Sam saw that I had a sucker so I let him have a lick of it and then gave him a dum-dum so that he could have a sucker too. A little while later as we were busy sucking on our suckers Sam came over to me and pulled my sucker out of my mouth, put it in his mouth and refused to give it back to me. As I kept trying to get my yummy See's sucker back from him he decided to trade me and handed me is nearly gone grubby sucker with a warped stick. He's no dummy he knows the good candy.

Pictures

I was updating the blog and threw up some pictures and was side tracked before I got to explain them. On Tuesdays I watch my our friends daughter. It's amazing how a 12 month old and an 18 month old can keep you on your toes. They are both napping now (miracle of miracles) so I can now finish and add some more pics (Tiff and Brandy you were just too quick in commenting my blogging queens)

This is on our way to Boston for BJ's brother's wedding. Sam was amazing. We were lucky enough to get a seat next to us for Sam's car seat on every leg of the trip, I think there were 5 legs. Here he's got Dog, binkie, and pediasure, what more could a little guy want.








Here we are in Salem, MA at a witch trial museum.

Here is Boston Harbour. We went to the aquarium ($40.00) thinking Sam likes our fish, he'll love this. However, it was pretty crowded (Sam doesn't like crowds) and it was kind of dark. He had the most fun chasing the birds outside which we could have done for free. After that we postponed the Disneyland trip until he is a little older.

Sharing-Here is Sam and his friend Lauren (the 12 month old started above). He is such a sweet boy. Here he is sharing his raisins with her.

This picture is put in for anyone on BJ's side of the family. Sam also prefers his binkies upside down. Go figure...

(You may notice there are a lot of binkies in these pictures. Sam is a bit of a binkie junky. We were pretty lenient for a couple of weeks because of shots, teething, you name it. Now he is hooked. Even if we hid them, he must have a stash somewhere, he'll find another one. )

Sam loves his swing. One particularly cranky morning(again, shots, teething, you name it), I could not appease him except for swinging him on the swing. He would let me run in the house to do something just as long as I came back soon to give another couple of pushes. After one quick errand I came out to find him totally crashed. After taking this picture I tried to take him to his crib. He immediately woke up and insisted on swinging again. There is just nothing cuter than a kid who falls asleep in a swing.

Here's just another cute one of Sam in his new pool. If you look closer you will find yet again that the 1. he has a binkie (the first step is admitting you have a problem) and 2. It's upside down. For anyone who doesn't know,when BJ was little he would always suck on his binkie upside down too.

One small step for mankind, one GIANT leap for Sammy!!!

It finally happened, a week before his 18 month birthday, Sam decided that he could indeed walk. We was playing with Nanna and Uncle Mike and just walked across the room! He would then only walk to the two of them so BJ and I had to sit on the side lines and cheer. When we got home he walked all by himself from the living room to his room. Now he just cruises every where he goes. I can't tell you how nice it is not to have to worry about him picking germs up off the floor when we are at the store or something and he decides that he wants to explore (truthfully he is still a bit of a Mama's boy so he sticks pretty close to me most of the time anyways but at least I don't HAVE to hold him all the time). We had his meeting for early intervention services a couple of weeks ago, he will qualify for services until he is 3, so we should be starting that up pretty soon.

Poor Sam got a couple of bug bites on his legs last Thursday. This may not seem like that big of a deal but every time he gets a tiny bug bite, the bite turns into a huge pussy sore. We just took him to the doctor again today about this and he is now on an antibiotic again because they get infected so easily. This is twice now that he has had to have an antibiotic for bites. It's so sad because no matter how careful we are we can't always prevent bites. The worst time he got bitten a mosquito was in his room one night and bit him six times. He's been pretty miserable the past couple of days.

BJ and I have been keeping pretty busy lately (thus the huge space between our posts). I have started doing a couple of hours of online speech therapy. Who knew there was such a thing?! I work with a company based out of Boise Idaho and use webcams and a head set to do speech therapy for kids attending an online public school. It's great because I put Sam down for an afternoon nap and then log onto the computer to do a couple hours of speech therapy while Sam's asleep. No travel time, no babysitters, it's great. It's such a new concept and is just starting to take off that BJ and I would like to start our own therapy company doing this. We hope that I will be able to transition into just doing this so that I can stay at home with Sam all the time.

BJ is so happy to be done with him MBA, he now has the time he wants to plot and scheme about what he wants to do with the rest of his life.

We'll have to post photos on our next post. Let's face if I don't post this now it just may not get done.