Welcome home Brodi!!

This has been a big week for us. Brodi moved in with us on Thursday. We are so excited to have her here. We have all had our moments adjusting to this big change in all of our lives, but when we are all together it just feels right. A 2 year old and a 1 year old who have never had to share in their lives don't have the greatest negotiating skills believe it or not, but we will have wonderful moments when neither of us were in the room mediating between the fairness of who has what toy (Of course what ever toy the other one has is the most amazing and coolest toy in our whole house) where they are both happily playing together. Sam will come up to Brodi several times a day and give her a hug (ok true he will also go up to her several times a day and push her down, but they're siblings for heavens sake) and Brodi just thinks Sam is the coolest thing ever and fully appreciates it when he shows off for her. It is so fun to see these to bond together. It is so wonderful to have another little one in our lives to love. She is truly growing on us and our lives would just not be the same without her.

Partners in crime.

Pumpkin Patch

Sam and Brodi looking at the baby chicks at the pumpkin patch

My little pumpkin.

Cute, cute, girl.

Daddy and Sam. He had a hard day (Brodi learned the power behind her teeth) and had woken up not too long since we took these pictures so we were lucky to get him in a picture, but he wasn't about to smile.

Pork

The best thing about Sam talking is that we now he graces us with those hilarious little kid tid-bits. We got the first one worthy of actually telling others last night. I hope I can tell this story in a way that you to can see the humor in it and not just one of those well you had to have been there moments. Yesterday we we reading some good night books to Sam. His favorite lately are this series that I got years ago for therapy that tell a story then have a "look up book" embedded within the regular book like a little encyclopedia. I think the book within a book concept just blows his mind. Last night we were reading a book about a farm, and the little look up book teaches what each of the farm animals does for us. The pictures in the look up book has a picture of an egg for chickens give us eggs, some yarn for sheep give us wool, a glass of milk and cheese for cows give us milk, and some pork chops and sausage for what pigs give us. Apparently for our little 2 year old this was a pretty graphic picture because with all the seriousness and concern he could muster he pointed to the pork chops looked at BJ and I and declared "Pig broke!" Yes, it is true the pig actually has to break for us to be able to use it. Then giving us all the faith and confidence that a 2 year old gives his parents who can in fact fix most everything in the world with the aid of batteries he looked at us and said "Fix it, fix pig." Mind you BJ and I are rolling on the floor trying not to pee our pants. Sam as serious as he was to begin with kept on asking us to fix the pig. The only way we could appease him was finding a picture of a pig in the book that wasn't "broken" yet and saying see he's all fixed. Did we mention that one of Sam's favorite movies is Babe? Heaven help us if we ever show him Charlotte's Web, he might become vegetarian.