Watch out...

Sam might be calling you next. Apparently he has seen his mommy and daddy on the cell phone enough to know how to use it. We caught him the other day with a cell phone up to his ear trying to talk to someone. If you notice on the screen he has actually dialed 411 (I guess he needed some information). Luckily it is a non-working phone! For some reason he enjoys our real phones, not the 4 toy phones we have tried to get him to play with. I guess he really does notice what we do, hopefully he doesn't pick up our crack habit now...

The Merry-go-round is the Winner!

Since Sam can get around a little more, we thought he might enjoy the playground more than last year, so we enjoyed the nice weather as we let him decide on his favorite playground equipment. The fire truck was cool!The rock wall, different and little crazy and silly with dad's head popping out from every where.

The swing, quite relaxing.

The merry-go-round was the winner! I made several attempts to gently pry his hands off the bars when it was time to go, but as far as Sam was concerned he was not leaving!

Rocky Balboa/Philly

After eating Geno's Cheese Steaks, we felt we needed a bit of a work out so we made an effort to conquer the same steps that Rocky Balboa climbed. Sam did well with once again a little help on daddy's shoulders as he ran up the stairs. Sam seemed to think our silliness was fun, I believe the smile on Sam's face said it all as I congratulated him for making it to the top!
After the steps we played on the lawn and as we did we discovered that this was Sam's first attempt to walk on this green prickly stuff we call grass, so we gave him a little extra help.

D.C. Escapades with Aunt Ashley

We're still alive! We've been having fun with Aunt Ashley, then Danno went on a week trip to the Caribbean Islands and lastly we've been mending Sam's war wounds from falling on the driveway.
At Ashley's request we visited Washington D.C. and began with capital hill. Trying to keep Danno from his constant teasing of Ashley proved to be difficult.
Next we visited the Air and Space Museum, I think Sam is the one who made out on this one, walking out with a bag full of toys that mom and dad couldn't resist buying for our Little Red!
We think Sam's got it made, not only being carried on dad's back all day seeing the sights but sleeping when he feels like he's had enough. Do you think he is overdue for a haircut? We do, future blog coming.
Day two of our trip to D.C. with Ashley started with a trip to the National Zoo. Our favorite highlights were Mei Xiang, and his father, Tian Tian (panda bears).

Taking a break while eating our animal crackers.
On the way home we showed Ashley the Washington D.C. Temple. We were also able to get a family picture outside, something we've wanted to do for a long time.