Happy Birthday Grampa!

My gift to you is that I took out the hairdo Mommy gave Ben. He looks better like this hey? (Not very happy though. Oh well. You can't have everything.)

Buster Days Weekend

Yes, Mommy is still WAY behind on here. WAY behind. What are you going to do though? No one else is volunteering for the job so this is what you're stuck with.

For this post we'll all travel back in time to June of this year. Mommy took Benjamin and I to see Gramma and Grampa. Daddy had to stay home and do school work. Poor guy. He missed a pretty sweet weekend.

We helped Grampa build some stuff. I love building stuff because you get to use tools. Drills and tape measures are my special favorites. Mommy has a hard time keeping track of our measuring tape at home because I like to steal it and play with it. Grampa is the only person who is smart enough to find my hiding spot for it: My tool bench. (Sheesh, you'd think Mommy would think of looking there. Every good fixer knows you should always put things away when you're done with them so they're ready and waiting for when you need them next time.) Here I am enjoying Grampa's tape measure. I think I like it better than even Mommy's.

We went to Kinsmen park next. That place is so great. There were gophers there. LOTS of gophers. I staked out a few holes, but they never came out of the ones I was waiting beside. They kept popping out of the ones I had just given up on! Tricky.

The train scared the living tarnations out of me. It was lucky I had Grampa along to keep me safe.

I went on the big ferris wheel too. It was almost as scary as the train, but not as loud. It was lucky I had Ben along to keep me safe.

We went to the Buster Days parade in Martensville. I loved it so much we watched it twice. Actually, I still talk about parades, and asked to go see the firetrucks almost constantly for weeks and weeks afterwards. In my mind there is a parade probably going on at all times, and all I need to do is convince my mom and dad to take me to it. Parades are only parades if they have firetrucks and candy and all that other junk is just the stuff you have to put up with while you wait for the firetrucks and candy. Here I am waiting in the gutter for candy:

And here I am waiting for the firetrucks. They're almost here!

Ahhhh... That was a good weekend. Isn't it fun to look back and remember good times? (There's going to have to be a lot of that around here if Mommy ever hopes to get this blog all caught up.)

Weekend With Grampa...

Birthday Pictures: Part One

Well, here it is. As promised. Finally.

Sam had a mini-pre-party at Gramma and Grampa's a week or so before he actually turned two. I went all out on the cake:
Here he is with his Aunty: (I love this photo.)
Opening presents: (Check out Ben. He was having a hard time that day with waiting and with the fact that Sam had more presents than him. Good thing Gramma always remembers the two non-birthday boys.)
Opening his present from Aunty Melissa and Uncle Johnny and Noah:
Looking at his present from Gramma and Grampa:
I couldn't decide which picture I liked better so you get both:
Watching Aunty open his present:
Making music with his present from Aunty:
Mike and Johnny throwing plastic parachuting men from the garage: (They will use almost any excuse to climb up there.)
Blowing out his candles:
Looks like store bought cake does as good a job at getting the birthday boy dirty as a homemade cake: (And it actually worked out to be cheaper because Gramma bought it!)
Noah chowing down:
Sam cleaning up after the party:
So there it is. Sam's birthday extravaganza. It was nice to have a celebration with the family. Gramma Braun was there too, she brought a train whistle for Sam, which was fab for me because we already had ONE that the boys fought over all the time. Now they can be trains together.

I still have a birthday project in the works for Sam, but that will have to wait for another time, because of something I'm waiting for that should have shown up in the mail almost two months ago. I called to complain and they assured me it would be only five more days, which was Thursday. I'll probably have to phone again. It may be next year when I finally finish up with Sam's birthday!

Still No Birthday Pictures...

... But to tide you over here are some pictures that were taken at Easter time that I've been meaning to post for a while now. (I'm working on the birthday post next.)

We didn't go home for Easter, so I made as much of the family as possible come to us. I love that Dad can go places again. Ben and Sam both really love having Gramma and Grampa at our house. The only trouble was that the boys both got sick on Good Friday, and since I thought it was food poisoning we all thought Mom and Dad would be safe to visit. Sigh. It turns out none of us were safe, and if we'd known what that flu was going to be like we all would have run very far and very fast to get away.

Sammy got lots of play time in with Grampa this Easter. Sadly, I'm pretty sure he's the one who made Dad sick, but since everyone is feeling better now we won't think about that.

Here he is helping his Grampa fix our tub. "Here you go!" Oh man. Don't you just love handy guys? I do.

And another picture of Sam and his Grampa playing outside. Grampa is great because he thinks of fun things to play... Like, poke the snow with a stick. That's a fun one.

Here's my little tiger playing with his brother. Sam just loves it outside. Sometimes it almost seems like he's a whole new child once he gets into the great outdoors. He just seems so much more relaxed. We're all really looking forward to summer. Okay... I am. But they would be if they had any idea that summer comes after spring and it means paddling pools and icecream cones on the deck.

(Don't all those pictures of snow make you wish winter was back?)

And here's my littlest Easter Buddy... On the hunt. He's so cute when he's not using permanent ink to decorate my furniture or pooping on my floor.

I like it.

Me and Grampa like the same thing.
Drills.
You just SQUEEZE the trigger... SQUEEZE!
And it makes this really great sound and whirls round and round.
What could be better than that?

Sam's First Haircut

What do you mean I need a haircut? I look goooood!
Hey baby. Wat choo doin?

Fine. But I'm telling you... I looked gooooood before.

What's this? Are you trying to distract me?

Who do you think I am? I'm not falling for such an obvious...

Well, maybe just a little.

Hey. I look gooooood. Good work G.
Hey baby. Wat choo doin?

Grampa's Coming!

Sometime soon... My mommy won't say exactly when... My Gramma and Grampa are coming to see me. I can't wait. I love those guys.

At the Dugout

Grampa and Gramma took me to this water the other day. It was so big, and the waves were so huge, it must have been the ocean.
I didn't find any sea shells, but there were lots of rocks for me to eat.
I sure love hanging out at the seashore.

Love at First Sight

Happy Birthday Gramma!

Of all the people I know,
I love you better!
And if you were here,
I'd gob on your sweater!

I love you Gramma!

Wait till Gramma gets a load of this!

You wouldn't believe how much I had to practice this.

Happy Birthday Grampa!

I love you almost as much as I love Gramma. If you see her could you say "hi" to her for me and tell her I miss her? Thanks guy.