3 months old!

Here's Sammy on election day just a few days ago. Hopefully this photo won't come back to haunt us when he's a conservative Republican whose parents tried to indoctrinate him into the liberal ideology... But until that time *shudder* he's an Obama Baby. :)

At three months, Sammy is doing all of the baby stuff he's supposed to be doing, i.e. drooling, smiling, giggling when tickled, playing with his toes, sleeping every two hours for about a half hour (not long enough, however), and generally being cute as a button.

Our life is very changed by having a baby and I remember someone telling me that having two kids is not double the work, it's more the work is exponentially more challenging to even attempt. Chores that used to take a few minutes now take forever (and are forever interrupted) such as emptying the dishwasher. We have more laundry that I thought possible. Then again, I remember growing up with my four sisters, we had a laundry room with a heap of clothes that was as tall as I was. I'm not kidding. Socks were not put together but all were put into a "sock basket" never to be paired again. So I shouldn't complain. I only have two kids and that's doable.

Part of the struggle is helping Olivia find words and outlets for her depth of feelings about everything from what she's going to eat to exactly how to play the games she wants to play. Let me just say there are lots of tears. And not just from her.

But about Sam, he's awesome. He has beautiful auburn hair, sweet eyes that look like his dad's, and a great disposition. I couldn't ask for any more. Other than a housekeeper.

Halloween 2012!

Halloween this year started months ago with plans for Chris and Olivia to dress as Jack and Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas. Grandma Marjie made Olivia's costume and it ruled! Olivia loved it. Yesterday, Olivia's preschool went to New Seasons for a Halloween parade. Here she is with her teachers, Miss Kristin and Miss Gemma and her classmates:

After dinner, Chris put on his costume too, which was AWESOME for some trick-or-treating in the neighborhood (Sammy and I didn't dress up, we went as ourselves):

Here's Olivia's costume:

Here's one of Chris's bat bowtie, just like Jack Skellington:

So cute!

Rollin'!

Sammy is definitely rolling over. He threatened to roll last week when he was totally p.o.'d about being put in his crib. But now this rolling over is a *thing*.