Schools Out for Sammy!

Well, not really, but I get to stay at my house every day for a long time now since school is almost out! Grandma and granddad are going to watch me tomorrow and Friday, and then mommy will keep all the other days because she will be done with work for the summer...YES!! I bet she'll be taking me to the pool all the time, and I bet I'll get to hang out with Reed and Brady all the time too! I may even get to see Roger some of the time when he comes over to visit! I wish Roger was smaller...then he could get in my pool with me! If we both got in there, though, I think we would break the pool, and that wouldn't be good at all!

Well, I'll go for now. Daddy is going to "read names" at the benefit walk on Friday night, and then we're going to Chelsi's graduation party on Sunday...our weekend is going to be pretty fun!

Rain Rain...Don't Go Away!

I hope the rain will hurry up and get here! My daddy has been complaining that our grass is already getting dry, and this is before it even gets hot outside. I think it is supposed to rain pretty hard tonight, so I'm excited about that, and I bet daddy is, too!

Mommy stayed home with me today. She wasn't feeling well, and neither one of us slept very well last night. The good news is that the school year is almost over, so we'll get to spend a lot more mornings together pretty soon!

I'm not really liking my "meat" right now, but mommy and daddy are still feeding it to me because I'm a growing boy and I need the nutrition. Yucky right now, but yummy sometime soon, I hope!

4 Day Work Week

I'm really excited because this is only a 4 day work week for mommy and daddy...plus, this is my mommy's last week of work before summer break! Sweet!! I'm sure that mommy will take me to the swim and fitness pool all of the time...we'll probably go visit Reed and Kim, and maybe Brady and Tamara, too! We will have loads of fun! I'll get to wear my swimmer diapers, and I'll practice in my little back yard pool so when I go to the big pool I won't be scared at all! Bring it on!

I've started to try to say "baby"...and, tonight I ate a "meat" for the very first time...chicken and gravy!! I had to get used to it...it was kind of yucky, so mommy mixed it with bananas! I'll get used to it pretty soon and keep grubbing, grubbing, grubbing!!

Enjoy the week! I'll be seeing everyone around!

Happy Memorial Day

I'd like to wish everyone a Happy Memorial Day! The weather is great so far, so I'm sure that everyone is really enjoying the outdoors a lot! Mommy and daddy bought me a little pool and some water toys, and I got to go swimming today...we had an absolute BLAST! I fell down in the water a few times, but I got up laughing...I love the water! I'm going to eat up this summer with mommy...we'll go to the pool at Swim and Fitness all the time, and we're going to have a HUGE time in Florida!

I hope everyone enjoys the extra day off...eat well, get rest, enjoy the weather...

Big Stuff

Ok, so I have learned to crawl (army style), but that is not enough for me...I also have to learn how to pull myself up! I've been climbing all over mommy and daddy, and I've been pulling myself up on my changing table, on the dresser, on my crib, and on everything else that I can get my hands on. Now, I'm not able to stand up on my feet when I pull myself up, but I can get to my knees! I'm able to look at stuff and get my hands on stuff that I couldn't even imagine existed just a few days ago!! I love this growing up stuff! Once I learn how to get on my feet, watch out! I'll be getting to wherever I want to go, and quick!

I've been really trying hard to say bye-bye and wave my hand, too! Mommy and daddy are really working with me to learn this, so if you ever see me out, you can try it out too and see if I have learned how to do it yet!

I can't wait until the weekend! Mommy and daddy are going to get an extra day off, which means we are going to have another day of fun. Plus, the weather is supposed to be phenomenal, so I bet we will be outside the entire weekend...sweet!!

Ramble On!

Boy, have I been on the move this weekend! Since I've learned how to do the army crawl I am all over the place...I just like to get around and see what the world has to offer! When I can't get to where I want to go it makes me mad, too, so I start grunting and turning red until someone moves the stuff out of my way and lets me get to where I want to go. I'm trying to pull myself up on stuff now, too, so I bet it will only be about 3 months before I'm walking...holy cow! I'll make mommy and daddy double tired then, but they have so much fun trying to keep up with me!!!

I hope everyone has a great week! Daddy is going to try to start posting photos from mom's new camera sometime this week!

Walking...

Since the weather has been so nice, mommy has been taking me for walks in the evening. Daddy has been working in the yard, so he hasn't been able to walk with us...Tamara and Brady have been walking with us instead! It is so much fun when they walk with us...Brady has really grown a lot...I can't wait until we are both big enough to get out in the yard and run around!!

Football Season, Get Here Soon!

I can't wait until the football season finally gets here! I've got a feeling that the Irish may be better than everyone thinks...I'm not going to make any predictions, but I sure hope we're as good as I think we'll be.

My daddy worked in the yard for 2 1/2 hours tonight, and I know he's really tired now. I bet he'll have to do just as much work tomorrow night since he still has to mow the back yard and put the new mulch down...yuck! When he gets done, though, the yard is going to look great!

I went to the doctor today and got another round of shots....I weighed 19 lbs 2 ozs...I'm in the 75% for height, 65% for weight...Daddy thinks I'm going to be a wide receiver or tight end...fast as lightning!!

Happy Mothers Day!!

I hope everyone had a GREAT Mothers Day today!! We went to Grandma and Granddads and had a blast...we got to eat with GG and lots of other family members, and we had so much fun and so much good food (of course, mommy and daddy were eating the good food, while I was talking real loud)!! Iggy was in the baby bed because he had ACL surgery and was kind of hurting...I hope he gets well soon!

Well, I hope everyone has a great week! I think the weather will get better every day this week, which means mommy will take me for a walk outside...YES! See everyone soon!

And down the stretch they come....

It won't be long before I'm on the way to the races with mommy, daddy and Uncle JP!! Hopefully daddy wins a little money so he can buy me something cool!!

Hope everyone has a nice weekend, and a Happy Mother's Day!

TGIF!!

I am so excited that weekend is finally here!! This means that I will be able to spend a bunch more time with my mommy and daddy...splendid!! I'm also excited that this is Mother's Day weekend...we got mommy a really cool gift, but I can't tell what it is yet...we got mommy some Crocs for Mother's Day, too, but daddy couldn't wait until the weekend to give them to her, so she's already been wearing them...daddy is funny like that!!

Mommy is going to have breakfast with her girlfriends tomorrow (Kim, Donna and Tamara) for mommy's birthday...Kim got all of that together for mommy...they are going to eat at the Cracker Barrel. I'll bet a bunch of my toys that mommy takes me with her...she can't leave me at all!!

I'm also excited because we are going to the horse races and the baseball game tomorrow!!! We are going to have a blast....Uncle JP is going with us, so you know a bunch of fun is going to be had!!! SSSWWWWEEEETTTTTT!!!!

Here Comes the Weekend!

I hope the rainy weather hurries up and gets out of here because I really want to go to the baseball game on Saturday! Daddy keeps telling me about Slugger Field, and how neat the grassy knoll that we're going to sit on is, so I've really got my hopes up for nice weather!

The Gadds are supposed to be here any minute, and the house is pretty clean, so I guess we're all ready for a good time! I think we'll all probably watch a little tv later on tonight, and then I'm going to bed so I can get some rest to be ready for Uncle JP! This is going to be an AWESOME weekend!!

Gadd Visit

My cousins, the Gadds, are going to visit me tomorrow night and I'm real excited about that! I'll get to see Grace, Carson, Preston and Aunt Tiffany, and I'm sure that we'll all have a great time! Mommy and daddy are cleaning up the house, of course, to get ready for the visit, and I think that is pretty silly since the house is clean almost all the time. Oh well, that's just how mommy is, so I guess we'll be cleaning all night long!! Yuck!

I got to see Brady Abell yesterday, and boy has he grown! It won't be very long before we're both romping around in the grass in the back yard having a big old time....

Do you think I'm cute?

This is a picture that my mommy bought from Jason Propes Photography...this is her favorite picture of me!! I was 3 months old when it was taken....I've sure grown a bunch since then!

I think mommy and daddy are going to take me to a baseball game this weekend, weather permitting! That should be a blast...I think we'll probably sit on the grassy knoll out in center field, and I'm sure that mommy will let me ride on the ferris wheel, and they'll probably eat brats! I can't wait!!

High Chair

Here is a picture of me sitting in a high chair for the first time in my life! We were at the Roca Bar in Owensboro (a restaurant, not a night club) meeting Papa Pat and Grancilla for dinner. I didn't fall around or anything...I just sat up like a big boy, played with my toys, grunted and whined when I wanted something, and made people in the restaurant look at me...I had so much fun!!

We had a good time at Grandma and Granddads this weekend...they had a birthday cookout for mommy and it was fun!! Daddy won all his cornhole games and ate until he was fat, and I got to take a bunch of rides in my running stroller!! Of course, mommy got a bunch of presents that she loved (she is soooo spoiled!!) and had some good strawberry cake to eat. She also got a balloon and a happy birthday banner, and so much stuff that I can't remember it all! I just know we had a great time!!

I can't wait till my first birthday...I bet mommy and daddy throw me a bash!!

One more thing....I'm even closer to crawling...sweeettt!!

Derby Day!

We're going to celebrate the Run for the Roses today, and we hope the sun comes out for a few minutes so the race is pretty! I'm not sure who is going to win, but daddy thinks Gayego, Colonel John, and Z Fortune will be in the money...we'll just have to wait and see!

I hope everyone has a nice weekend!!

God, Country, Notre Dame

Well, daddy finally got the Spring Game slideshows up and running...thank goodness! I think mommy really liked her gift today...we got her a brand new digital camera, and it is nice! Roger gave daddy some good advice about the camera, so I think now I won't ever have red-eye in my pictures!

Daddy promises that he will do much better this week with keeping the blog up-to-date!

One more thing before I go...I'm about ready to start crawling! I have been getting up on both of my knees, and I can kind of drag myself around to get to stuff. Mommy and daddy did a little video of me tonight because they couldn't believe how good I was doing...YEAH!!

Happy Birthday, Mommy!

Happy Birthday, Mommy! I love you so much, and I'm glad that this is your 21st Birthday (that's what Mommy keeps telling me, but daddy tells me in my ear that she is really older than that)!! I hope you like the present that I got for you with Daddy's help!

Papa Pat took this great picture of me tonight...can you believe it! I had so much fun visiting with Papa Pat and Grancilla...they brought me a really cool toy doggy to play with...I kept trying to put it in my mouth, but it didn't taste good and I made funny faces that everyone thought was funny! I love seeing my grandparents.

Well, happy birthday again, Mommy!!!!! Me and Daddy LOVE YOU!!

P.S. The Spring Game photos are going up tomorrow...finally