The Taylors: July 2009

Friday, July 24, 2009

one year pictures

Sophie was due for some professional one year old pictures. With coupon in hand for some inexpensive prints, I took baby girl to target. My mom met me there. She made Sophies dress. It wasn't originally for her, I think it was made for my neice Ella for Mackenzies wedding. While she was making it, I remember loving it and plotting my evil scheme to take it over, should I ever have a girl. Little did I know, Sophie was chilling out on heaven waiting to come down and allow me to claim the dress.

Sophie was very cooperative for pictures. I felt like we got some good shots. It's amazing how much they change in a year.... She is so toothy and has so much hair now it blows me away.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

I want a bath too!

4th of July

Here are 4th of july pictures FINALLY. In a rush to clean up the house I stuffed my camera in a cupboard and couldn't find it. The kiddos were outfitted by my sister Laurie. She made these outfits even though i never got measurements to her, even with all her gentle harassment. (Sorry Lar) Thanks you for making my kids so cute and patriotic.

Saturday, July 18, 2009

So big

Sam's learning to write, this is his latest conquest. I love seeing his confidence in his abilities build. In his words.... "Mom, are you so proud of myself?"

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

c'mon stay with me

I suck at blogging lately... I'm not sure where my camera is.... I suck at keeping track of things also. Life goes on,

4th of July happened... it was good

Sophie has a new favorite flavor... her brother

what I meant by that is... she bites... hard

she also has learned other things to do with her mouth... give kisses

Sam has graduated from just saying things, he can write a few words... Mama, Sam, and hot

I have been preoccupied latley with counting... calories that is.

(losing weight is friggin hard)

So in the place of unwritten blogs, I hope to have lost poundage. With all the thoughts of protein, carbs and calories and with sweat possible seeping into my brain... I have no room at the moment for cleverness and sitting for too long supposedly makes your bum flat so I suppose that's why I havent uploaded any pictures. Goodnight for now...I'm going to bed with a growley tummy and I gotta get up at 5:30 for my twice weekly kick in the butt.

Friday, July 3, 2009

Salon BBQ

Steve and I hosted our first BBQ. We had all the salon girls and their families come. We had good food, all the kids had a blast playing and we played a mean game of woofle ball. Nicloe's husband Nate, hit the ball over the rence. Steve decided to save the day and jump over the fence to retrieve the ball, he got a nasty cut while he was at it. I suppose I am the resourceful spouse, or just less adventurous, I found an opening in the fence and came out victorious with the ball and without any battle wounds. I appreciate everyone who came. I'm lucky to work with such a fantastic group.

"keep your eye on the ball and swing early" sam was instructing everyone.

Kyra, Andrea's baby... not so much a baby anymore.

Sophie and her basketball, she loves that thing,

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

The Taylors try camping

At the last minute we decided to join Eric and Andrea's family (Steves oldest brother) on a camping adventure. We packed the car, borrowed a tent and were off to Flaming Gorge. It tooks us a good 3 hours. Sam slept a bit, played with his etch-a-sketch and we solved riddles. Steve and I commented off and on how awful it would would be to live in a mobile home on the side of the highway in the middle of nowhere... in Wyoming. Then as we got closer and closer, we saw,

This!! So gorgeous and so... flaming!

Sophie did this, for the last half hour or so

This was Sam's favorite part of camping

This is nature calling... oh to be a boy

This is cutie pie Malia

This is the face of satisfaction when the marshmallow toasts just right.

This is kids dance with glow sticks

This is right before bed, inside the tent, before all hell broke loose. Sophie would NOT settle down and go to sleep. It was honestly like having a colicky newborn.

This is where we ended up for the rest of the night, in a reclined position in the front seat of the car. It was so windy that night, and howling so loud. I kind of freaked myself out thinking of the zodiac killer... if something happened would anyone hear me? I'm a little dramatic at 4 in the morning. When we both finally settled down to sleep, morning came. Andrea was a saint and took our crazy baby on a jaunt with the rest of the kids and let steve and I sleep.

Other than those dreaded 8 hours we really had tons of fun. We camped by a creek, had pinapple upsidedown cake and s'mores. We didnt stay another night, but we will try again next year.

Sammy says

10-03-09: while reading him the book, 'Chicka Chicka Boom Boom' he said, "What if dis book was called Chicka Chicka Bum Bum and it was all about butts! dat wold be hillarious!"

10-3-09: After I told Sam he was being snotty he burst into tears. (he hates being in trouble) after some reconciliation, he instructed me on how I could have handled the situation better. "You should ownee tell me I'm snotty when I'm truly being naughty, like when ... I yell at you.... oooor.... I shoot my sister in da face." After some clarification, I learned he meant with his nerf gun.

9-28-09: Steve has a t-shirt with JFK on it, and Sam, who is following in the JFK fascination footsteps, said, "Dad, since you have a JFK shirt, mom should have a Jaqueline shirt, Sophie should have a Caroline shirt, and I should have a Jon Jon shirt." so funny what that kid soaks in.

9-20-09: "Mom, I'm not afraid of anything, not even bears. If a bear came to our house, I would dust call Chase (his grown-up buddy that took him shooting.) and he would bring his gun and we would be like, 'bring it on bear!"

9-16-09 Mom:"Sam, let's get ready and go to the store" Sam:"I don't want to go to the store, I just want to stay home"

Mom:"Why don't you want to come?" Sam: "because my body is dust a home-body"

9-16-09 He is going through a new hotwheels phase and just recently got a new case to keep them all organized. Sam decided that any little car he has that doesn't bear the "HotWheels"logo doesn't make it in his case. Those cars are kept in a little pile which he calls the "HotWheel Bynah-nah"???? maybe it's like hotwheel outer darkness?

9-2-09 Sam's room is the cleanest in our house (not my doing)

I'm not really a bed-maker but I made his bed the other day. This, I guees is a novelty for him. The next day he said to me, "Mom, can you please pull my blankets up over my pillow? I LOOVE it when you do that."

7-26-09 "mom, I missed you! We need some one on one time lets go have a little chat."

7-2-09 We were talking about how water gets hard when it becomes ice. I told him the difference between gas, liquid and solid. He was naming off all these beverages that were also liquids, like water. I said, "What else is a liquid that we don't drink?"I thought he would say rain, or the pool, he said, "beer?"

6-25-09"Mom, I don't know what heaven looks like." Mom: "I don't either ." Sam: "Let's look it up on the website."

5-2-09 Sam said the prayer at dinner time and after the usual thankyou for's, and please bless's, He said, "...and please bless my little sister not to be so spazzy."

4-29-09 Sam likes to pretend to be a mail man and he had folded up a peice of paper and said I had mail, and that he wanted to read it to me.... "Dear Stacy, You shouldn't watch American Idol so much. I know you yuv American Idol but you should watch da Yankees wiff your husband Steven."

4-27-09 When Steve was running an errand, I asked him to take one kid with him, Sam said, "Dad, would you rather take me, or crazy face?"

4-2o Steve bought him a kids JFK history book and he loves it for a bed time story. Here are some funny comments that have come from that.

"Dad, would JFK still be alive if he didn't get shot in the head?

Dad: "yeah, probably... he would be a Grandpa."

Sam: "But it's okay huh, cause he is in heaven wiff his bruhder Joe. He's probee like, 'hey what's up Joe! I have'nt seen you since the war!"

4-16-08: His response to our random snowy days was, "Mother! What happended to our lovely spring?"

4-15-08 When asked to do something he said, in an overly exuberant voice, "I'd be delighted to!"

2-21-08: Sam: "Mom, I'm so drunk!"

Mom: already laughing "You are? what does Drunk mean? "

Sam: "oh, it dust means dat you drank too much water."

2-19-08:"Is dhere such fing as a real party animal?"

2-7-08: "I know how to say, 'your welcome' to girls...you say, 'your majesty.'"

2-6-08: "When a friend was telling me about her moms lack of memory lately, Sam piped up to join the conversation and said, "Maybe your mom has a concussion."

1-29-08 Sam: "dhere is a girl at my pre-school dat said she wants to marry me!"

Mom:" Really? what did you say to her?"

Sam: "wehw, at first I fought she said she wanted to bury me... I was a yiddow confused."

Mom: "what is her name?"

Sam: "I don't remember"

Mom: "Well if you are going to marry her, you should probably ask her, her name."

Sam: "Yeah, and I should pwohbwee tell her dat I stihw want to yive wiff my parents."

1-15-08 Steve has been bugging me to cut Sam's hair, which I don't want to do. here is a conversation about that.

Mom: "we will cut your hair in a while but not right now"

Sam: "No! I never want to cut my hair."

Mom: "If we never cut your hair it will grow all the way down to your bum!"

Sam: "Whehw, my dad has hair on his bum... right dad?"

1-12-08 He loves to learn new words and I was teaching him a few while we were in the car. we go over the meaning and use it in sentences, after a while he said, "Mom, I have a new word for you! it's "body dawdy, it means, 'what's the news?'"

1-8-09 "Is Jesus afraid of spiders?"

12-25-08 After pretend calling all his favorite people yesterday on his pretend phone, this was his conversation with another favorite person, "Hey Jesus, how are you? Happy Birsday!" and, "Hi Heavnee Fahder, I fink I want anudher baby sister."

12-19-08 He wants to say his prayers entirely by himself and occasionaly he gets all sweet and mixed up, like the other day when he ended his prayer with, "my name is Jesus Christ, Amen."

12-19-08 "Aunt Tristan shoud'nt name her baby 'Bear' cause uncle Greg might shoot it."

12-11-08 "Mom I want a bear from yellowstone for Christmas!"

12-3-08 Sam was sick and throwing up yesterday so like a good mom, I was not allowing him anything to eat besides sips of clear liquid. It broke my heart though because he was just balling and begging for food. After a few hours of no puke, I tested him with a full cup of watered down apple juice... which he threw up right after his pancakes were about to be served. So the crying and begging excalated. "But I'm STARVING!.... You're my mommy, and mommies are supposed to feed dhehre kids!"

11-08-08 I went with the female side of my family to see High School Musical, Sam came with us and at one point during the movie Sam asked where the main girl's Mommy was. I told him that she is all grown up and went to college. Then he said." Mom, Womans don't go to college!" I did my best to put that idea to rest.

11-08-08 as we were walking through a parking lot to our car, I insisted he hold my hand, he pause for a minute and said, "what if you had a kid wiff no ahwms?"

11-1-08: Sam: "What is daddy going to be when he grows up?"

Mom: "Well, he is not quite sure, maybe a teacher, or a writer."

Sam: "will he write our grocery list?"

(Sometimes the Sam speech is hard to type phonetically...You get the idea)

10-31-08: We went outside to play and Sam pointed to the overcast sky and in a very grown up way, said, "I don't yike da yook of doze clouds!"

10-04-08 : He was holding his a pretend gun and pretending to be a cowboy, He got a serious look on his face and aimed his gun at me and in his best man/cowboy voice said, "You miserable old lady!"

10-03-08: Sam is becoming more and more independent but he still wants help on things he is totally capable of. He came up to me after using the potty and wanted help pulling his pants up. I told him to try himself and his response was, "But I fought you were my big helper"

10-01-08 Sam: "Mom, whehw is my maternity belt?"
Mom: "your what?"
Sam: "My maternity belt!"
Mom: "ummmm...?"
Sam: "My batman one what can hohwd woopins (weapons)"
Mom: "Oh... your Utility belt"

9-30-08 This was totally out of the blue
Sam: "People shouldn't kihw (kill) wabbits, dat's mean!"
Mom: "yeah, I guess it is. People used to not have grocery stores to get food so they would eat things like rabbits for food."
Sam: "Yeah and dehy used to kihw spiders and eat dem too!"

9-23-08 After leaving his friend Jacksons house, Jackson was crying because he didn't want us to go. as we were driving home, Sam said, "I wish I had wihwee yong ahrms dat can stwetch all da way to Jacksons house, Den i would open his door, and hold his hand so he won't be sad any mohw."

9-13-08 "We should paint our car black for hayoween so it can be da bat mobile"

9-12-08 (now that it isn't really sandal weather anymore).... "I wish we had a shoe taker offer machine."

8-9-08 "Mom I have good news! I fohgot to bwush my teef yast night, and I din't get any cavities!"

8-8-08 Just some recent phrases.....
"dat's fweakin' awesome"
"Do you know my name?.... It's Batman!"
"Easy Camper!"
"next time I get hurt... I wihw dust suck it up!"
"Mom! I have good/bad news.........!"
"seewiouswee! (seriously)

8-03-08 When explaining to Sam that the reason Dad can't always stay in nursery with him is that he has to go to his church class, He replied, "Do dey teach him to fohwd his ahwms dehre?"