Family Hike

Yesterday Sam and I met up with Jeff while he was on a Mission Year retreat. We had a picnic lunch just north of the city and hiked some. Sam absolutely loves being outside and exploring. He has recently discovered the joy of pockets and loves filling them with rocks and sticks. Here are some pictures from our afternoon.

Election Day

Here are a couple of pictures from Election Day. Sam was a trooper as we waited in line just over an hour to vote. One of the poll workers gave Sam stickers which he shared with Elmo (you can also see Sam's first black eye he got from falling the day before).

Here is a picture of our other growing baby. Here I am at 28 weeks.

Happy Halloween

The last few days have been full of Halloween fun! Sam and his best bud, Jaelyn, dressed up as Pebbles and Bam-Bam. Here is Sam at his pre-school Halloween party and parade:

This afternoon Sam turned a dish towel into a cape, and he was a Halloween super hero!

Tonight we went to a Halloween party. It was a lot of fun, and Sam got his first taste of candy. He actually bit through the Butterfinger wrapper to get to the candy bar - who can blame him!

Finally Fall

The weather has finally broken in Atlanta, and it doesn't drive me insane to be outside anymore in 100 degree heat, hence, Sam and I have been doing a lot more outside together. Here are a few glimpses of us playing soccer together. Before everyone thinks that I am brain washing my child, I think his first love is baseball. However, it is hard for me to video tape him playing baseball while I am playing baseball with him, hence not too many videos.

In this video, Sam's first throw-in (pretty good form too), getting soccer balls and whiffle balls confused, and him learning how to celebrate after scoring goals (even if that means throwing it in, he did kick a few in, but of course off camera).

Angelo Cataldi, you were right

There is a famous video of one of Philly's finest sports talk radio host telling about how children, as young as 2, learning how to boo the cowboys. Well, Angelo was right. In honor of the Eagles/Cowboys Game tonight, here is Sam learning what any 17 month old should, how to boo the cowboys (You'll have to shift through a little pro-Eagles propaganda first). Enjoy, and Katie asked me to apologize to all those that like the cowboys out there. I am not really apologizing though, she just told me to.

Somethings New

Here is a quick video of a few of Sam's new tricks: jumping (or attempting to), snorting like a pig, pushing his new favorite $1 toy, and passionately blowing kisses. Enjoy!

Sam's First Soccer Kick!

I have been waiting for this day for 16 months and 27 days, or something close to that (not really of course, but it sounded good). Sam started actually kicking one of the 20,000 (as Katie would say) soccer balls we have in the house. Here is a video of him kicking it around a little bit, and getting a little distracted in the process a few times. Enjoy!