Sam's new best friend

Yet again, we have neglected our blog for a couple of weeks. The first 3 photos were taken at BJ's parents cabin over the past few weeks. As a result of the monsoon storms, mushrooms 9" in diameter were growing in the from yard.

Sam is continually growing and sat in a high chair for the 1st time last weekend. He is getting more and more interested in our food, and insists on sitting with us at dinner time.

He has found a new best friend this past week. His friend shows up in mirrors. He will play and talk with this adorable baby for a long time. This gives Mom and Dad a little break because we are his second best friends and he makes us interact with him during every waking moment. Not that we mind this too much. It just makes it impossible to do anything unless Sam is asleep. (Sam has been helping me with my spacing in this paragraph. I think I fixed all of the really big spaces.)

Sam's first flight

For all of you die hards who check often sorry we haven't posted in a while. We have been on vacation. We took Sam on a plane for the very first time. We included a picture from actually inside the plane. He did very well. We made it to three family reunions over the course of the week and many other family gatherings. We were very fortunate to stay with Grandpa and Grandma Clark in their nice home. I think the coolest part of the trip was being able to see Sam interact with other kids. Anytime there were little boy cousins around he got very happy and wanted to go run around with them and became a little chatter box. To his dismay, he is not yet able to walk and run or speak English. We are working on those still and I'm sure he will be a pro here before too long. The last picture is Sam and I in the SLC airport. As you can see, vacation wore him out pretty good. He was excited to get back to his crib and familiar surroundings.



Sure was fun to see so many friends and family!

Young Woman Sleepover

This last weekend we brought the Young Women from our ward to Bryan and Karen's cabin. It was very fun. I thought it was a very successful activity. No one got hurt (physically or more importantly emotionally!), there was enough food, enough places to sleep, and the girls even liked the hike. I just love the Young Women of our ward. It is so fun to be the Young Womens president. Our girls are awesome. Every time I go to the mall and see what other girls their age are wearing I am impressed at how modest each of them are. Being in AZ that is quite a feat. I never thought that I would ever say that when I was that age the world was so different and we didn't have a portion of the temptations that the youth have today, but it is so true. The youth in the church are awesome!!

Favorite Toys

Sam just cracks us up constantly. Some kids love their blankies, Sam's favorite toy is a burp cloth. We will give him a burp cloth and he will be mesmerized by it. He will hold it in his hands, look at it, and then of course suck on it. I walked in on him like this a couple of days ago. Notice how he is snuggled up to the burp cloth. He has also recently found his nose. When he meets new people or is around unfamiliar people (or sleeping) he will hold onto his nose for some reason. I guess it's just a great new handle. He is just the cutest baby ever!!!!!

The Flu Story

Once upon a time there was a baby named Sam. At the ripe old age of four months he got the flu for the very first time. In fact, it was the very first time he had ever been sick! You can see in the first picture how he felt about being sick. He writhed around on the ground and moaned.

Daddy thought he would make Sam feel better by putting him on his stomach and cuddling with him. This was a bad idea on Daddy's part. Just as Dad laid him down Sam figured out how to make himself feel better, as evidenced by picture number 2! Who knew baby's could store that much formula at one time?

After grossing Dad out something fierce Sam felt a lot better, as seen in picture number 3.

Sam's new feat.....

After weeks and weeks of trying, Sam has finally figured out how to roll over. It has been such a frustration for him because he could get his legs and hips over but could never figure out how to flip the rest of his body over. Yesterday Sam was playing on his blanket while BJ and I were in the other room. We heard him complaining, so BJ went to go rescue him. BJ called from me to come in quick, because Sam was on his tummy!!!

His big problem is that he hasn't figured out how to roll from his tummy to his back, and has never been a fan of tummy time, so when he rolls on his tummy he needs us to save him. We tried to warn him with all his valiant efforts to roll over that the end result was "tummy time!". It's crazy that he's getting mobile now. We are going to have to child proof our house pretty soon.

Our little boy Sam...

Here is our little boy. He is 4 months and growing. For whatever reason he has decided that he likes to sleep with his head arched back. It doesn't look very comfortable to me, but as long as he is sleeping...

Wow, we made it!

Congratulations to us. We have now entered the digital age and started a blog. Hopefully you enjoy reading the thoughtful messages of Shannon and the crazy rantings and ravings of BJ. We hope to update this often. Mostly with pictures of our wonderful little boy, but other things might slip in as well. Peace.