4 More Weeks....or less I hope...

Only 4 more weeks until I'm due. I'm hoping the baby follows Sam and comes early. Charlie helped me put together a dresser for the baby. He came up with improved instructions when I was attaching the drawers! "Mom, you should try it like this." and it worked much better. He is such a little engineer. Charlie enjoys talking about names we could call the baby. He has now moved past Ozzy to "Garbage Truck House-ah". "Let's talk about baby names again Mom". We always come back to the new gem he has settled on. If only Chris and I could decide on baby names so quickly.

Here are some pictures from today....enjoy. I made cupcakes today for Sam's birthday which is Friday....we had to try them out of course. I think Sam liked the chocolate.

After bath cocoons.

A trip to the river

We met our friends Bryan and Susan down by the Mississippi last weekend. It was a beautiful fall day....just like this weekend! The boys loved throwing rocks and watching the boats launching into the river.

Grandpa D and Sam

We spent a long weekend in Omaha. Sam liked sitting out on the front step with Grandpa D. It was great to see everyone. Charlie really enjoyed seeing his cousins.

Charlie and Sam showing off the pumpkins they decorated.

Charlie's First Baseball Game

Charlie went to his first baseball game a few weeks ago. He had a great time taking the train downtown. He lasted until "Take me out to the ball game"!

Applesauce Time

Charlie and Sam helped me make applesauce this week. They did all of the apple washing. They loved using the food mill to make the actual sauce after the apples cooked down. It was a messy but fun day in the kitchen.

Sam's first music class

Sam and Charlie started music class this week through the park board. Sam loves to sing and makes up songs about trucks all of the time so I thought he would enjoy the class. He was very reserved during the singing parts but enjoyed playing the instruments and watched the teacher sing the entire time. He told Pa at dinner that they sang the "star song"...Twinkle, Twinkle.

Camping Video

Love the cute looks Sam gives us all of the time! Enjoy this video of him asking me to throw a rock into Lake Superior.