sam i am

My swimming time

2011-07-31T20:05:00.002-05:00

I went to the bridges house for a swim. me and my sister had a really fun time. and i jumped without a hoop or you know.it was fun. but once i was jumping and i ran to far up and as soon as i jumped my goggles fell all the way down.

Disney fun

2011-07-09T17:30:00.003-05:00

i love disney world we went with the beasleys and it was FUN.My mom hates astro orbiter.i think im supposed to talk like this.Anyway it was fun so so so so so so fun.

Cat got your Tongue?

2010-09-26T21:08:00.004-05:00

Well we got a cat. And its name is Marzipan. She is about 6 Months old. And she is white and gray.
She got fed hot dogs one day (slices) she hated them.Mom says shes grown alot. Sometimes she is CRAZY.One time we were eating dinner and she hopped on to my chair! it was weird.Elisabeth one time pulled her tail and she went MEORWE! We feed her cans of stinky food Elisabeth helps feed her cans to her they are called friskeys.

By sam himself (:

where have i been??

2010-04-04T22:54:00.002-05:00

i have been doing all kinds of stuff; i just forgot to get on here and tell you about it. we went to disney world again. i will go into detail about that later. also, i got an mp3 player, which is awesome. my favorite song is Living on a Prayer, by Bon Jovi. my mom put it on there, and she told me it was a popular song when she was about my age. that must have been like forever ago. but, they say really good music is timeless.
today was easter. it was a good day. we made this cave/tomb in sunday school, out of paper plates, and gummy bears for people, and an oatmeal cream pie for a rock to roll away from the mouth of the cave. and we found a billion eggs. my favorites are the ones with the jawbreakers in them. and i got to hide some eggs for my sister, when we got home, and the easter bunny hid mine. the easter bunny isn't actually based on a real person, like santa claus. i really liked coloring eggs, and i am pretty good at it, if i say so myself.

when i grow up

2010-01-21T23:19:00.003-06:00

when i grow up, i'm going to have 3 girlfriends and 1 wife. i told my mom, and she was a bit disturbed. what can i say, there are too many cute girls out there.

charlie brown

2010-01-07T17:32:00.003-06:00

did i tell you guys i was Charlie Brown at school one day? i was. we all dressed up like characters from books. one kid in the 1st grade was Captain Underpants.

santa

2009-12-21T22:49:00.003-06:00

We sat on santa's lap the other day. He was vaguely familiar, but i can't place it. Bethy had ear infections. I was tired. Otherwise, it was a pretty good day.

Footies (finally)

2009-12-21T22:27:00.002-06:00

I haven't had any pajamas with feet for a long time. like, since i was really super little. and mom didn't put me in them very much because i sweat a lot. BUT. i see my sister wearing pajamas like this a lot, so i kept telling mom i wanted some. and then, my Aunt Michelle sent me some in the mail today! yahoo! i put them on to take my nap this afternoon. then i got hot later. but really that's probably because i have a fever, and not actually because of the pajamas.

today

2009-11-26T00:22:00.001-06:00

Today is my birthday. I am 6.

Halloween

2009-11-04T23:01:00.009-06:00

My mom and I went to the Halloween store, and I saw this awesome two-handed axe. Mom said I could only get it if it was part of my halloween costume. SO, i was an orc warrior for halloween. I was thinking about the orcs from world of warcraft, but then i watched the lord of the rings with daddy, and i wanted to be an orc from LOtR instead. I kind of ended up being a mix. I wanted mom to make me a helm that looked like samwise's helm from when he and frodo went to mordor and had to wear orc armor as disguises. The symbol on my tunic is the horde symbol from world of warcraft. I had cool arm greaves and shoulders, and leg greaves, and a cape. I helped amber paint the belt so it looked old.

Anyway, i think i make a pretty cool orc. i didn't like wearing the teeth, though. they made me drool a lot.
First we went to trunk or treat at church, and then my dad took me trick or treating on my street for the first time. There was one house that was really scary. The zombie crawling around on the ground looked way scarier in someone's dark yard than it did in the Halloween Express.

DISNEY WORLD

2009-10-04T22:52:00.008-05:00

so, i haven't updated in a long old time. things are going pretty good! i like kindergarten a whole lot, but what i want to tell you about is Disney World. you need to see pics. it was a really good time.

first of all, these are some pictures i took. everything looks neat when you are seeing it through a camera lens. your sister, your tv, the carpet, your feet, the bling at the gift shop, etc.

we stayed at this awesome hotel called Pop Century, in the 1980s wing. there were giant pac mans and ghost monsters all over the sides of our building. and lots of other things.

have i told you i'm going to be a photographer?

MORE DISNEY WORLD

2009-10-04T22:50:00.001-05:00

aaaaand, these are some pictures my mom took. did i mention that we had a good time? i could live there.

my favorite rides were test track and big thunder mountain. in case you are unfamiliar with disney rides, big thunder mountain is a roller coaster. my favorite ride is a roller coaster. i am getting to be pretty much the bravest.

i'm also getting really strong. strong enough to hold the ball at epcot. but not quite strong enough to pull the sword out of the stone. maybe next time. bethie said that epcot ball (it is really the Mission Space ride) is the biggest ball she's ever seen in her whole life. i told her that's not true; the sun is.

also, the tomorrowland transit authority opened back up the last day we were there, so we got to ride it!

man, that was a fun trip. at the very end, before we came home, mom and dad let me put the new antenna topper on. it is a mickey mouse ice cream bar with a bite out of it. probably our best one yet!

ONE MORE DISNEY WORLD

2009-10-04T22:45:00.001-05:00

i just thought i'd let you know, Beverly is still really gross.

i made a movie!

2009-09-03T16:05:00.002-05:00

my dad likes to make movies on this site called xtranormal. so i decided to make one too. i did it all by myself, and here it is:

p.s. "s---h-----h" is supposed to mean "shhhhhh," but the computer voice didn't really understand.

my side kick and i

2009-08-31T22:44:00.004-05:00

this is me being Spider Mon. Yes, Spider MON. i made that up.

and this is my sidekick, Monster Sister.

This is what a kindergartener looks like.

2009-08-20T01:26:00.002-05:00

as you can see, i am taking west fork elementary by storm.

sparklers and pillow fights and summer things.

2009-08-12T22:56:00.002-05:00

i've been having some fun this summer.

most recently, i have been having pillow fights with my dad and elisabeth pretty much every night. we really call them "throwing parties," because we throw pillows at each other. you can't throw them too hard, though, because you'll smash stuff.

another fun thing is that we went to a wedding. nany bought all the boys (my cousins and i) black pants and shirts and ties. everyone said we looked like mormons. the wedding was fun, until i burned my fingers on the sparkler. i grabbed the end, after it was done burning. i didn't think it would still be hot. i had to stick my hand in my glass of ice water during the whole reception.

i go start kindergarten next week. what??

camping

2009-07-22T13:47:00.004-05:00

last night we went on a campout. we went in the back yard, and someday we're going to go camping in the real woods. i helped set up the tent, and then this morning i helped take it down. we cooked burgers and made smores and stared at the campfire.

i'm not sure i like smores very well. mostly i like to eat the marshmallows (roasted) and the graham crackers separately. this one cracker i ate looked like minnesota.

reading in the tent is pretty fun. lately i've been reading this graphic novel called bone. once it made me have a bad dream, but usually that doesn't happen.

they're still a little bit too loud.

2009-07-04T23:28:00.004-05:00

so, this year we went to our friends' house again, and i still think the fireworks are too loud. they're also kind of dangerous, because they can fall on you, out of the sky, and they can burn you. my mom kept trying to take my picture while i was doing a sparkler, and she kept getting way too close to the fire. i kept turing away from her and telling her not to get too close. i didn't have to wear the firing range ear phones, though, so that's good. maybe next year, we can get some roman candles, because those are my favorite. i had some fun swinging around a spent roman candle and pretending i was the king of the Chinese. they're the ones who make the fireworks, and i think they do an excellent job.

Things i like about my dad

2009-06-21T10:22:00.000-05:00

he tells me stories, like x-men.

we play dungeons and dragons together.

he plays the good night song on the keyboard at bedtime.

he carries me like a different sack (sack of potatoes, rice sack, chicken sack, etc.) every night before bed.

he does horsey.

he does, "sam has a friend named DORTH!" and it's super funny.

he makes characters to play world of warcraft with me. i play inklybob, and daddy plays beffy. he's 22 or 23, and i'm 19.

he takes me to the library to get new books.

i like it when he takes me to the mall and cici's pizza.

i like him more than everyone except mommy. i love him the same as mommy.

i made this shirt in honor of fathers' day. it has a picture of his character, armpitblade, who's level 74.

happy fathers' day to dad and pappy and grandpa and papa!

Growing God's Kingdom

2009-06-11T09:42:00.007-05:00

i am all done with preschool, and i will go to west fork kindergarten in august! that is pretty exciting. these are some pictures from my graduation. i was very serious about the singing, but not really anything else. and that is my teacher, ms. connie, handing me my diploma.

and there are also pictures from my last couple days at school. george is my best friend. i hope he is in my class in kindergarten! and janessa is a terrible rester. and isabelle is the girl who bit me.

indiana

2009-06-11T09:36:00.005-05:00

we went to indiana again. this year, it didn't flood, and the electricity didn't go out. that makes for a much better time. we got to play with the kids, and run around outside, and go to dairy queen. and we listened to the hobbit in the car. i didn't even mind when mom took like 870 pictures of me and elisabeth.

rockin' the suburbs

2009-05-30T22:49:00.002-05:00

i really really really really hate to get my hair cut. one time, when i was little, my mom was cutting my hair outside, and i was crying and shoving my hair-covered hands into my mouth, and screaming, "don't cut me!" while my mom was embarrassed and worried that someone was bound to call the cops any minute. nobody called the cops, and i still had to get a hair cut. anyway, the other day, mom suggested that we give me an interesting and extremely awesome style. i was a little bit embarrassed about all the attention that comes with having a mohawk, but i feel like in all, i rocked it out pretty nicely for a few days. now my hair is all buzzed off, but i think maybe every time i have to cut my hair, i'll sport a mohawk for a few days. it's a good time.

Explode!

2009-05-23T23:18:00.007-05:00

I play tee ball now! my team is named the explosions, and my mom and dad and i think that is the very coolest name ever. i am number 5, and that's my dad's favorite number. they call it tee ball because you hit the ball off of a stick.

There are lots of rules in tee ball. Like, you can only hit the ball with your bat. and you have to wear a helmet. Also, you have to run when the kid behind you hits the ball, but sometimes i forget to pay attention to that. It helps to remember if you're not standing on first, facing the wrong way, celebrating. When you're on defense, you have to stand with your knees bent and be ready for grounders. You almost always throw the ball to first base if you get it. You do not throw the ball at the runner to get him out. You hustle on and off the field. You keep your eye on the ball. You don't give your teammates hugs; you give them knuckles. That's kind of a lot to remember, but i like it!

Oh, and also, the Explosions always win.

i like frogs.

2009-05-16T15:24:00.004-05:00

frogs are cute. and t hat's why we went looking for frogs. what i want to know is, why was it so wet? oh, so if you know, just tell me when you go leave a comment.

one of the frogs was very gigantic, and he swam very fast.

the cutest

2009-05-10T23:55:00.005-05:00

today was mothers' day. in honor of today, i made my mom lots of presents. in school, i made her a handprint. my handprint is really big, and it took up the whole piece of plaster, pretty much. in sunday school today, i made her a flower out of tissue paper, and also a card. i am pretty good at cards. i don't even have to ask how to spell stuff anymore. she laughed when she read the card. i think she thought it was funny that it said, "dear lisa," and also that i said she was cute. then, bethy and i went shopping with my dad, and i picked her out a couple of books to read this summer. she's trying to read classics, so i got The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Wuthering Heights. then we found this card with a monkey and a puppy on the front, and dad let me write inside that one too. she read it at the restaurant (we took her to Joe's pizza and pasta), and she almost cried. my mom is silly. and, cute.

gardens

2009-04-20T22:33:00.003-05:00

did you know that garden tools are good for stabbing the dirt and attacking every tree? they are. you can't swing them around next to people, though, or you get in trouble.

the easter beagle came!

2009-04-20T22:27:00.002-05:00

last sunday, we got to celebrate easter. we do that because a long time ago, Jesus died and then he came back alive. for some reason, we dye easter eggs too, and the easter beagle hides them. i heard him barking and running through the house after i woke up from my nap. my dad let him out the window, and he ran off before i could get a good look at him. easter was a good time. i got to find eggs four different times. i keep getting better at finding more eggs. next year, i'll be an expert.

wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

2009-04-04T22:34:00.003-05:00

we got a wii a while ago, but we didn't have any really good games until the other day. there was a big sale at target, and so we got star wars force unleashed, mario party8, and wii music. i LOVE those games. in force unleashed, you get to have lightsaber duels. it is pretty much a good time. i beat my mom, and i beat amber too. amber is staying with us while she has some job interviews. and amber and i made some awesome jams together on wii music. that is our album cover, with our miis on it, and there is a picture of us dancing and playing our instruments, too. mario party might be my favorite, but i get kind of cranky when i can't win first place. second place is not good enough.

i have big plans.

2009-03-12T19:18:00.003-05:00

My dad told me that in heaven, wild animals just eat grass. They won't eat meat anymore.

So you know what I'm going to do when I get to heaven? I'm going to play tag with a bear.

age of dinosaurs

2009-03-05T22:55:00.002-06:00

this is a conversation between my mom and i today:

me: when were the dinosaurs alive?

mom: a long, long time ago.

me: what year?

mom: well, i'm not really sure.

me: probably the 60s.

she laughed.

My cells can talk.

2009-03-03T13:56:00.004-06:00

so, here are a couple of pictures of my sister and me from the other day, when we both had fevers. it was the weekend, though, so we couldn't go to the doctor. the day after this, i got a rash on my face, and then my neck and back and stomach and everywhere else. you get the idea. mom thought it looked like the heat rash i used to get a lot when i was pretty little. i was feeling a lot better on monday, and my throat didn't even hurt that much anymore, but i still had that rash all over. so, mom decided we should go see the doctor.

on the way to the doctor, i told my mom that i didn't think i was very sick anymore, because "my cells are killing the germs." i said that i thought there are only 10/30 germs left. mom asked how i knew this, and i told her it's because my cells told me. "they can talk. they send messages to my brain."

she was pretty happy to hear this. we went to the doctor, and he lifted up my shirt and said, "yep, that's the scarlet fever rash, from strep."... and my tongue was all white, and my throat was all red. so he told me to take some antibiotics, and i'll be okay in a couple days. i do feel a lot better.

i didn't give my sister strep, but she did have a couple ear infections. those are not my fault.

today, i think i only have 2/30 germs left. those cells are doing a good job. the antibodies are helping too. antibodies are kind of shaped like worms, and they're orange, with black lines around them. i read it in a book.

an ice storm

2009-02-14T18:49:00.005-06:00

a couple weeks ago, it ICED. when it ICES, the lights go out.

when the lights go out, you can not:

watch TV. this includes anything that requires a TV, like the gamecube or DVDs.

take baths (this is fine with me.)

play on the computer.

open the fridge.

go to school (also mostly fine with me.)

when the lights go out you can:

have a sleepover with daddy, where you huddle under the covers and drink mt. dew and eat oreos. we did not invite mom and betty to this sleepover until the next morning.

light a bunch of candles.

play lots of board games! board games are not BORing, but i look bored in this picture. or is it board?

drive down to grandma and papa's, because they have electricity.

i am a photographer

2009-02-05T22:21:00.010-06:00

so! remember how i told you we went to disney world a long time ago? all the way back in january, and now it's already february. we kind of got a little bit busy and distracted, especially when it iced. we couldn't even watch tv, much less update our blogs. it was annoying.

i really love disney world. i am hoping my dad sells a book so we can go back soon. like, next month. maybe if he sells enough books, we can live in disney world.

here are some pictures that i took. my mom let me have my own camera to take pictures with! now i want to take pictures for a living when i grow up. i am already pretty good at it, and things are really interesting when you look at them through a camera. i was especially good at catching mom and dad at great angles. here are a few of my favorites. some are a little avant garde.

guess what?

2009-02-05T22:15:00.003-06:00

elephant butt!

this is my favorite picture. it really made me laugh to see that it turned out so clear. it is hard to take pictures of animals, because they're moving, and when you're on a safari truck, you're moving too. so most of my animals are kind of blurry. not the elephant butt, though! the gazelle head isn't too shabby either.

Greetings!

2009-01-19T09:19:00.003-06:00

i've been gone for a while. we went to Disney World, but we're back now! yesterday morning, i woke up at our motel in Georgia, and i thought we were still in Disney World. then i realized we weren't, and i was sad. then we drove for 87 more hours, and we made it home. i think that's why you have to drive a long time home from the really good places. so that you're so glad you finally got home, you forget that you're sad not to be where you came from.

this is a photo from my favorite ride, Spaceship Earth. we emailed it to ourselves at the end of the ride.

stocking stuffer fun times

2008-12-31T15:18:00.005-06:00

for Christmas, we picked up nany and then went over to grandma and pappy's house for a few days.

my cousins came up on Christmas Eve, and we had dinner and opened presents. i discovered that i really really like ham and scooters.

on Christmas day, we opened stockings and presents from mom and dad and santa. i got this neat glowy sword, and my mom and i took a bunch of pictures with it, in a dark room. that was a pretty good time. it's hard to be completely still!

thank you to everyone for the awesome presents!

hey, it's been a while!

2008-12-31T15:08:00.002-06:00

in case you were all wondering, my dad and i got back to arkansas safe and sound, like two weeks ago.

my pappy's operations went pretty well, and he is already doing a lot better.

i was a really good helper in texas. i missed my mom and my sister, but i only cried when i saw the road from our airplane, right after we took off, and i thought i was watching them drive away. that was pretty sad.

otherwise, it was really a great time, and i told my dad that lubbock was my favorite place ever in the history of time. i'm not sure we'll be moving there anytime soon, though.

when we flew back to the airport in oklahoma, my mom and my sister, and my aunt and uncle and all my cousins were there to meet us. my cousins all wore hats, because pappy was wearing a hat. i gave elisabeth a big hug and kiss, because i was really glad to see her.

leaving on a jet plane

2008-12-06T23:29:00.005-06:00

tomorrow, my dad and i are flying down to texas together, for almost two weeks. i was telling Holly about it tonight. "we are going down because my dad's dad is having sur gery. he has to get his brain taken out. " Holly just laughed. it wasn't supposed to be funny. maybe he isn't really getting his brain removed. dad says that pappy has to get electrodes put inside his brain. and dad and i are going there to help grandma and pappy. we will go get them food, and take them places, and help with whatever we need to help with.

anyway, since we are leaving tomorrow, we had to take Christmas card pictures tonight. it was an interesting photo shoot, but not entirely unsuccessful. we actually got a pretty good one, but i can't put it on here, because then your Christmas card would not be a surprise. these are some kind of funny ones.

tree!

2008-11-30T22:57:00.006-06:00

today, it was time to get Christmas decorations out!

first, we painted some candy cane ornaments for this year. i asked if we had real candy canes to eat, but mom said we don't have any yet.

i climbed up in the ceiling with mom, and i was really brave and not that scared, unless i looked down. i helped get the boxes down, and then i helped put all the ornaments on the tree. there's a thing with ornaments and lights on it above my door to my room now, too!

i'm a good helper, since i'm 5 now. elisabeth didn't really help. she pretended to talk on a santa claus ornament phone. dad helped, when he wasn't busy making weird faces in the backgrounds of all the pictures.

here's an off-subject question for you: is God made of a bunch of eyeballs, since he can see everything? i asked that today, but mom didn't really answer. i thought maybe you would know.

happy thanksgiving!

2008-11-28T15:57:00.003-06:00

so, thanksgiving gets all mixed up with my birthday and my sister's birthday around here. thanksgiving was her birthday, and the day before was my birthday. next year, my birthday will be thanksgiving, and hers will be the day after. see, it's kind of confusing.

we woke up on thanksgiving morning, and i played my new nintendo ds (hooray for birthdays!) while sort of watching the macy's thanksgiving day parade. i was mostly just humoring mom instead of watching it, but i did see a cool spongebob balloon, and garfield.

then i put on my indian vest and headdress that i made in my class. i did a rain dance and lots of poses, to celebrate my 1/64th of choctaw heritage. i refused to put my nintendo ds pen down while i was dancing.

then we went to my grandma and papa's house, where there was more cake and some cool balloons, and of course a lot of thanksgiving food. i helped grandma make the crescent rolls, like i do every year. the cake and pie and rolls were good, but i'm not a big fan of the casseroles and stuffing and all that. my mom made my cake with strawberries in it, and covered in whipped cream, just like i wanted!

Dear Sam,

2008-11-25T22:59:00.004-06:00

(the following is a note from my mother)

when you wake up in the morning, you will be five years old.

that is really hard to believe. we remember when you were little bitty, like in these pictures.

Here are five memories from your life, in honor of your 5th birthday:

1. For halloween in past years, you've been a plague of frogs, pac-man, batman, and spiderman.

2. you woke me up one morning by writing on my forehead with a sharpie.

3. the first thing you really started deliberately drawing was pac-man. you were two, and you were obsessed. for about two years, you consistently drew pac man and ghost monsters. they evolved over time, beginning with teeny, tiny, barely discernable little circles, and then getting bolder later, sometimes with hats, sometimes with teeth covering their whole bodies, sometimes with legs like a spider. it's been fun to watch your motor skills develop with the evolution of pac man. Here are a few of the later ones.

4. you've had and named four pets so far. Nemo, Packter, Copster, and Amy.

5. your favorite songs over the years have included Tunak Tunak, Numa Numa, Around the World, TROGDOR, and Here Come the Geese. you're a super dancer and singer. you've got rhythm, kid!

we love you as much as ever.

love, mom, dad, and elisabeth

thankful for God

2008-11-24T22:56:00.009-06:00

the other day, my mom and betty picked me up from school. mom said, "it is probably the last nice day of the fall (it turns out, it was), so we should go do something fun." we grabbed the camera and some snacks and drove down to devils den. i asked mom why it is called that, and she said that one of the caves is called devil's den. i wonder if the devil lives in there. we didn't find out.

anyway, we had a good time. i tried to get this guy's axe, but it turns out, it was stuck to him.

then we went and threw a bunch of rocks in the water. i liked to throw the gigantic ones in there. i am pretty strong.

and also weird and can make good faces. mom told me to make a silly face, so i made about seven hundred of them.

then betty got wet, and mom said it was time to not be by the water anymore. she ate some mud and found out that it does not taste very good. i do not eat mud or boogers. a girl in my class eats her boogers.

then we pretended to be cats and pretended to be in jail and pretended to sleep and rolled down the sidewalk. by that time it was dark, and so we loaded up and headed home.

on the way home, the moon came up, and it was round and orange. ahead of us was a full moon, and behind us was a neat sunset. mom kept saying how pretty that was, and i said that it sure was pretty. and that it must be because it is almost thanksgiving.

then we had this conversation:

mom: "sam, what are you thankful for?"

me: "God."

mom: "that's a good thing to be thankful for."

me: "hey betty, are you thankful for God?"

elisabeth: "yeah."

updates on life

2008-11-05T22:52:00.006-06:00

i have an invisible brother named thomas. tonight i took some pictures of him, but i did not upload them yet. chances are, you would not be able to see him anyway.

today at school, isabelle bit me. mom asked if i bit her back, and i said that no, i used my words and told ms. charlotte. i only cried a little bit. i have a bruise and everything!

my favorite movie ever is spiderman 3. we are going to get spiderman 1 from netflix in about a week, once my mom finally returns juno. i will tell you if i like it or not.

i was the black spiderman for halloween. i got tired of wearing the mask really quick, because it made my head super sweaty. i walked around and got a little bit of candy, and then i just wanted to play. i think my dad was sad that i did not get more candy. my sister was a dog, and my dad was a clown ape, and my mom was my dad. apparently my family is kind of weird.
then that night after trunk or treat, we drove down to my grandma and papa's house, and my mom had a craft show the next day. we went to see her, and there were guys with swords outside, showing us their moves. and also, there was a guy inside playing music, and he let a bunch of kids play along with him. that was a really good time.

good week

2008-10-24T22:40:00.007-05:00

today, my mom picked me up at school, and while we were walking out, a lady told mom that i can read better than any four year old she has ever seen in her life. apparently being able to read is not normal, but i think it is a good time, so i will keep doing it!

my teacher, ms. connie, asked me to bring the hardest book that i can read, so i brought in my charlie brown encyclopedia. i read that to ms. connie, and she might have learned a thing or two about reproduction, because that is on page 3. anyway, she said that her boys could read when they were little, so i remind her of her boys. she also said one of her boys has a runny nose, and so i guess i probably remind her of him for that reason too.

so, guess what i did EVERY single day this week?? i took a nap at school. this is unheard of. before this week, i only took a nap one day this whole year so far. i am just really tired. my mom said that she is super proud of me, and so after school she and i went to sonic, and i got a green apple slush, which was pretty yummy. mom got a lemon berry slush, and she was excited, because they were half price. then, we went to the park and i rode my bike, and we threw rocks in the water and swung and pretended to eat in pretend restaurants. it really was a good time.

now, i should go to bed, but mom wanted to post these pictures of me making weird faces that she just took. i took one of her too! she was so proud of my picture taking skills that she defied the urge to delete every picture of herself.

amy and painting and saying weird stuff.

2008-10-11T23:43:00.004-05:00

so, i have been thinking a lot about the future. for instance, when i am a teenager, my voice will be different. mom and i discussed this a while ago, but i keep thinking about it and bringing it back up. also, i told mom that i want a mustache. why? because i like mustaches. or maybe i will have a whole beard and a mustache. i will definitely be more hairy when i get older. i will get lots of leg hair and chest hair when i am about 65. also, when i turn five, on november 26ith, i will be 4 years older than elisabeth for one whole day. until she turns 2 on the 27ith. i think that my mom has been enjoying these conversations, because they make her laugh a lot.

i am in a new class at my school, where me and about 10 girls learn about letters and math. it is a special class for the smart kids, but my dad said i should not tell people that. i go to that class every day from 3:00-3:30. Mr. Justin thinks i am pretty smart. the other day, he asked us to write the letter A, and i wrote A, B, C, D, and E, until i ran out of paper.

my hamster, amy, is getting really big. here are new pictures of her.

and this is my new favorite hobby. elisabeth and i got to paint the other day, and i keep begging to paint some more. my mom just looks really tired when i ask if we can paint again, every 45 minutes or so.

i am full of good questions.

2008-10-04T10:15:00.003-05:00

this morning, i asked my mom:

"why is there a mothers' day and a fathers' day, but not a kids' day?"

at first she looked kind of irritated, and said, "because every day is kids' day."

then she laughed and said she asked her mom the same question. but she was 7 or 8 then, and not 4.

i swallowed an airplane.

2008-09-21T16:13:00.004-05:00

last night, i woke up and barfed at 3am. then at 6. then at 7:30. then at 9.
then later, i felt okay enough to eat some lunch and drink some gatorade.
then i threw that up at 1.

i told mom that i feel like i "swallowed an airplane." she laughed, because i am funny. not because i am sick.

update: i managed to eat and retain a small amount of dinner. so far.

my best friends

2008-09-15T22:41:00.003-05:00

a couple weeks ago, we had church at a park. these are my best friends, avie and zane.

vintage sam

2008-09-15T21:39:00.012-05:00

amber made animations from pictures she took of me a couple years ago. mom thinks they are hilarious.

you have to click on the pictures, and that will take you to another thing you have to click, but eventually, you should see pictures of me rocking it out.

if the clicking does not work, leave a comment, and my mom will try to fix it.

AMY

2008-09-05T17:20:00.003-05:00

today, mom picked me up at my school. i was outside playing on the playground, and i did not really want to go home yet, until mom told me there was a super surprise at home for me: a pet! i asked what it was, but she would not tell. i said, "is it a monkey??" and she laughed pretty hard. i went and told ms. charlotte and also my friend destiny that i had a pet waiting for me at home.

turns out, it is not a monkey, but still pretty cool. it is a little bitty hamster, and i named her amy. mom and britney found her today at a yard sale. she is only about 6 or 8 weeks old. when she gets to be 48 months old, she will be huge, like my dad. mom said that is not true, but i will wait and see. she is a dwarf hamster, and she is still too small to make the exercise ball roll around. mom said that i can NOT make the ball roll for her. i helped clean the cage out and i put the bedding in there and also some food. amy looks super cute when she holds her food between her feet and nibbles on it. she is going to live in my room!

school

2008-08-29T15:34:00.003-05:00

i like school so big
that i go to sleep
with a butt
and dog
and cat

good nite

new stuff happening like crazy.

2008-08-19T23:13:00.004-05:00

i look at my watch constantly, so i know what time it is, what day, and what date. i had been watching it for a while, waiting for school to start. and august 18th finally got here! that means it is time to go back to school. i like school a lot, and i had really been looking forward to it. i am in the orange class this year, and i think it will be pretty good. my teacher said i was really super tall and asked when my birthday was.

to celebrate the first day of school, we all went to eat at taco bueno (formerly known as "taco bee-ay-nee-o). dad asked me what i learned at school, and i told him i did not really learn anything. i only learn stuff in sunday school. so, we talked about what i learned in sunday school. God made everything, and he made adam and eve, and he made the animals, and he let adam name the animals. so my dad said, "that must have been neat! if you could name the animals, you could name a hippo a 'diarrhea dog,' if you wanted to!" i thought that was pretty funny. so i said that i would name a lion a "butt horse." mom tried not to spit out her water.

olympics

2008-08-11T22:43:00.004-05:00

so, my mom is really into the olympics. she has me relay messages in to my dad, who does not watch the olympics that much. "sam! go tell daddy that michael phelps AND natalie coughlin AND aaron piersol all just won gold medals!" that is a lot to remember. so when i look confused, she says, "okay, tell daddy the swimmers just won three gold medals!" and so i run into the kitchen (that is where the computers are) and tell my dad. maybe someday they will give medals for running back and forth in your house, telling people things. if so, i will win gold, because i am already practicing. actually, i want to play baseball in the olympics when i am 41. that is what i told mom. she said maybe they will get it re-instated by then, whatever that means.

we watched the opening ceremonies at my grandma and pappy's house last day (friday), and they were pretty exciting and looked really neat on their gigantic new tv. mom took pictures of us in all our olympics-enjoying glory. we ate popcorn and hostess cupcakes and stayed up way too late. i ran around chanting "go USA, go USA!" i think that made mom happy.

dramatic

2008-07-22T22:19:00.005-05:00

so, we have been dreaming lately about going back to disney world. we went right after i turned two. that is a long time ago. to put it in perspective, i was only a little older then than elisabeth is now. dad says if he sells a novel, we get to go for seven days. go dad!

anyway, tonight we were looking at pictures from our trip, which caused us to look up some animals we had taken pictures of at animal kingdom. and we ran across these videos on youtube. the first one is a tarsier, by the way, not a lemur. enjoy!

allergic to sharks

2008-07-21T15:28:00.005-05:00

so, in the last couple of weeks, we have gotten to go visit some family, which is always a good time!

first, we went to my grandma and pappy's new house, to help them move in. my cousins came up, and we helped by deflating the bubble wrap. and by keeping my dad entertained.

the next week, we went down to see my grandpa. he has a boat and a four-wheeler, which he taught me how to steer, and how to read all the gauges on. he bought us some kool-aid koolers, so here are elisabeth and i doing a promotional spot for them. not really. we are not getting paid. but we do like kool-aid. grandpa let me steer the boat. and then i let him steer, while i did some dancing to the classic rock, just like i did last year (be sure to watch the video footage). dancing on a boat will always be the best. we like to swim a whole lot, even though the fish bit us. they tried to bite off grandpa's mole.

we also watched Jaws on TV while we were there. i did not really pay much attention, because i do not like sharks. i told my mom and grandpa that. and that i am allergic to sharks and chocolate.

camera

2008-07-20T00:22:00.004-05:00

for as long as i can remember, my mom has been talking about some camera she wanted to buy. she finally got it. it came in the mail and was waiting for her when we got home from my grandpa's house.

later, she snuck in my room and took pictures of me sleeping. i guess her subject matter is a little bit limited at midnight. but she said she would not want her first pictures on her new camera to be of anything else.

another 4th of July

2008-07-06T23:10:00.005-05:00

this year, the fourth of july was pretty fun again. i was not as scared of everything as i was last year, but eventually the noisy fireworks did get to me a little bit.

my dad and i went to buy fireworks from miss marsha and mr. justin, at my school, and they were pretty glad to see me. they are really nice, so i liked seeing them too. i picked out a tank and some party poppers and some parachute guys. dad picked out some big ones that were way too loud.

then we went to our friends darien and jadon and their mom and dad's house and ate food and ran through the sprinkler and jumped on the trampoline and set off fireworks. britney bought some really long sparklers that were pretty fun, and she let us kids all have one. mom had to run around by elisabeth, making sure she was not setting herself or someone on fire, but she had time to take a couple shots of me. i am very careful with the fireworks.

this is my friend avie. she will be four like me in august. today i told my mom that i am going to marry avie. she said, "wait, i thought you were going to marry kylee?" and i told her that no, i changed my mind. we will get married when avie is 44. mom said that is just fine with her.

the things i like

2008-06-18T13:55:00.004-05:00

ilike spiderman.

i like spd

also apples

also batman on tv

also x-men

(my mom wanted me to tell you about this post. i told her i wanted to put some stuff on my blog and that i wanted to make a list of things i like. i typed everything all by myself, and she helped me with the links and only had to help me spell "apples," "things," and "also.")

Happy Fathers' Day!

2008-06-15T15:56:00.008-05:00

happy fathers' day to my dad!

i made this shirt. mom drew the letters, and i colored them. i also told her what i wanted the shirt to say. because really, my daddy is so cool. elisabeth helped with the shirt. mom did not want

her to, but i said it was okay. i told mom she was trying to draw me a tie. that is what it looks like, that purple line.

here are some things i like about my dad:

"He likes to play fun games with me, like ToonTown."

"He is sillier than other dads."

"He loves to have beef jerky."

"Also, he loves loves loves candy, too."

"Also, he hugs me and he kisses me."

also, happy fathers' day to my pappy and papa and grandpa! these are pictures of me with them at various times in my life. that is Pappy, teaching me how to hit. and grandpa is giving me a ride on his 4wheeler. and that is me and papa waiting in the waiting room for elisabeth to be born.

happy fathers' day, everyone!

grandma and papa and aunt michelle and uncle jeff

2008-06-13T11:49:00.003-05:00

last day, we went to my grandma and papa's house to see them and also my aunt michelle and uncle jeff, who are visiting.

most of the day, i pretended to be a dog named spot. papa gave me the name spot. i guess he did not like my idea of "furry butt" very much. aunt michelle is going to have a baby boy in october, and she said that seeing how much energy i have makes her a little nervous.

i did stop for a minute to sit with papa on the porch. and i sniffed some flowers.

indiana

2008-06-13T11:31:00.004-05:00

as i told you a few days ago, we went to indiana. we go there every year, but this year it was kind of crazy! there were storms and hail, and the power went off. this meant that we spent a lot of time driving around in the car, where there was air conditioning. my dad needs that. while we were out driving, a storm hit, and there was water on the road up to people's headlights in some places. mom and dad seemed kind of tense, but it was sort of exciting to me. then the water went down, and the weather cleared up, but the power was still off when we got back to the inn. it stayed off until the next afternoon. me and elisabeth took naps in our underwear, but we still sweated a lot.

on the way home, i helped my mom look for tornadoes out the window, after we got through st. louis. we heard after we got home that indiana flooded the day after we left. i am pretty interested in weather now.

these are some pictures from our trip. as it turns out, indiana is a good place to play Sam and Betty vs. Every Tree. and it is a good place to jump on the bed. it is also a good place to go to the mall. we saw noddy there. i used to watch him on TV before i got into power rangers and batman. i think mom was a lot more excited to see noddy than i was.

simpsonized!

2008-06-07T01:09:00.003-05:00

we went to indiana for a few days, and now we are home.
when we came home, mom spent way too much time making us look like the simpsons.

she says we should post real pictures soon. when she finds the camera.

sam version 4.5

2008-05-26T22:23:00.004-05:00

mom said that today is my half birthday. well, there you go. i am four and a half.

yesterday was Memorial Day. we went to the park and cooked out with our friends from missouri. mom told me to make the weirdest face i could. as if she really needs to prompt me to make a weird face.

this is me and elisabeth in the yard today. this activity is what i officially call "Me and Betty V.S. Every Tree." she says that V.S. stands for "versus," but i like to say "Vee Ess."

do i look like a lady?

2008-05-22T23:32:00.000-05:00

i think it is time to grow a beard.

graduate

2008-05-18T21:28:00.005-05:00

this weekend i went and graduated. this means i moved up from one class to the next. we had a big graduation at Ms. Marsha's church, and we sang songs and got certificates. i sang the loudest on "He's got the whole world in his hands," because mom and dad and grandma and papa said they heard me all the way at their seats. i sang it a little bit weird, and mom laughed. some kids in my class cried and wanted to get off the stage, but i did not. i like to be up there singing.

the other day, Ms. Marsha (she is like the principal) told my mom that next year she is going to put me in a class that really challenges me. whatever that means!

i had a lot of fun while my grandma and papa were here. they brought me this big bouncy see-saw thing, and they brought their dog Sugar, too. my papa has boots just like me, but mom did not get a picture of us in our boots. she did get a kinda dark picture of me and my teacher Ms. Paula.

we went to dollar general, and i just wore my power ranger socks and no shoes. me and my grandma were just going to wait in the car while papa went in and got coffee filters, but i got to go in and pick out a helicopter, and i slid up and down the aisles in my socks. my grandma said i could run really fast.

Happy Mothers' Day!

2008-05-11T19:42:00.003-05:00

the other day, i went to the movies with my dad. we went to see speed racer on the day it opened, and it was really good. my favorite part was when they won the race before the last race. sorry, i hope i did not just spoil anything for anybody.

after the movie, we went to barnes and noble and picked out a present and a card for my mom for mothers' day. i listened to all the music cards, and i picked out this one. and i looked really hard at all the books, and i picked out this cookbook for making cookies. she opened it today, and she really liked it! she said we will make cookies together sometime this week. she also said that we are her best presents of all.

happy mothers' day to my mom and grandma and other grandma and nany and great grandma!

p.s. i am a good guy that saved the whole world. i am a ninja that is not bad. did you know that? that is what i just told mom. i have to go be ninjas with betty now.

dueling

2008-05-05T22:49:00.004-05:00

today, it was pretty outside, and dad had just mowed the grass.

i took advantage of this time to teach elisabeth how to fight like a jedi. i fought Count Dooku while she watched my technique.

as you can see, i am a good teacher. she already knows how to dual wield her lightsabers.

several things

2008-04-19T00:01:00.006-05:00

several things are happening lately.

for one, our plants are growing. you have to look at them real close, cause they are just little right now. but we planted the seeds, and they are all sprouting! my strawberries were last, but they finally came up! mom has tomatoes, so we both have fruits. and dad and betty both have flowers ("zillias" and daisies). we also have a chia dinosaur that my dad mostly planted. it is very fluffy right now.

mom asked me the other day where my jaw is. i told her it is in my hand, next to my fingernail. and it makes my fingernails sharp. and she said she thought it was actually in my face. but i told her that no, it started in my nose, then it went to my cheek, and then to my neck and down my arm and into my fingernails. and there in my fingernails, i trapped it. i think it was the first time anyone told her the truth about jaws, so she was pretty surprised.

today i made up a funny name: Bill Cosby Buttcracks

it is springtime!

2008-04-07T20:05:00.006-05:00

this means that it rains a lot, but it is also a lot nicer outside.

no jackets are necessary for playing in the backyard, and sometimes no pants, either!
hey. if you can not play in your underwear in your own backyard, where can you play in your underwear?

here is a picture of me reading mom the directions for our plants that we planted. i planted a strawberry, and elisabeth planted a daisy, and mom planted a tomato. we put the seeds in there, and they are supposed to grow pretty soon. i will keep you updated on that!

if you will notice, the picture is only from the waist up. mom says that even if i do not care if people see me in my underwear now, that might not always be the case.

happy easter!

2008-03-24T00:29:00.004-05:00

here is the story of easter:

God died on a cross. Then he came back to life, and so that is why we celebrate Easter!

i made sure to remind mom of the Easter story in the van on the way to church, in case she had forgotten.

i am good at finding eggs and helping my sister find eggs!
red peeps are the best.
you get presents at Easter. i had forgotten! the easter beagle brings them.
also, my dad is pretty silly.

we have been busy!

2008-03-22T21:51:00.004-05:00

we decided to do another world tour this spring break, like last year. dad was supposed to go to kansas, but instead, he stayed home and threw up and went to the bathroom a lot. mom and elisabeth and i drove around and saw everybody, and we were already gone by the time we found out dad was so sick. we were sad for him, but he said it was maybe better that we were not there to catch it.

we went to see my grandpa, and we celebrated his birthday, even though it was a month late. he didn't mind. we gave him jelly beans, but elisabeth wanted to eat them all.

then we went to see my cousins and my aunt keri. we played board games and gamecube games, and we even jumped on the trampoline when it was not raining. and we all slept in the same room! it was pretty fun.

the weekend before spring break, we went to see grandma and pappy. we played with balloons, and we also went to the park to film the Starship Millerprise III. i will let you know when it hits theaters! if you will notice from this last picture, my hair is kinda shaggy. i got a haircut in between the grandma and pappy weekend and the world tour weekend. i do not really like haircuts, but i guess they are necessary.

more pictures from the zoo!

2008-03-05T23:37:00.003-06:00

Dr. Goat

2008-03-03T00:45:00.006-06:00

so, lasterday we went to bella's birthday party, at the zoo. bella is one, and she is a baby like my sister.

we saw lots and lots of different animals. we even saw a giraffe, which i had really hoped but not expected to see, because mom and dad said they did not think there was a giraffe at the drive through zoo. they were wrong! there were also monkeys and birds, which were way way too loud, and also tigers and a lion and buffaloes and beefaloes and water buffaloes and lemurs and chickens and an alligator and lots of emos. dad said they are really emus, but they might be emo emus. i do not really get it.

anyway! here is a little goat. there were lots of goats, but this one was my favorite. dad asked if i wanted to give him a name, and so i named him Dr. Goat. by the time mom brought the camera over, he was not too keen on being petted anymore.

later, before my five hour nap (walking around at the zoo a lot makes you really tired), my dad told me a bunty story. in a bunty story, there is a dog at Growing God's Kingdom (my school), who lives in a closet behind the science area. if a kid is nice to him and brings him something to eat, he will grant the kid one wish. dad lets me make the wish. lasterday, i wished for a goat i could ride on, who had a thousand brothers. so, there was a mighty sound, and ms. paula looked out the window and saw a mighty sea of goats rushing towards the school, and she thought the school was going to get flattened. but really it was just dr. goat and his brothers, and they ran up to the school and stopped, and dr. goat said, "come on sam; let's go for a ride!" and we did.

it's rainy saturday

2008-02-16T17:47:00.003-06:00

and very cold and yucky outside. so i decided to dance.

me and mom also pretended to be dogs for a while, and we took turns fetching things. here is my sister petting me.

a request

2008-02-12T09:10:00.000-06:00

yesterday i was talking to God. i asked him to bring me a dog. he said no, because he was too busy fighting bad guys.

stories like these are good for the dinner table. keeps things lively.

bad guys

2008-02-08T00:19:00.000-06:00

on the way home from school, i told my mom this:

"i do not like bad guys, and i do not love bad guys.

bad guys do not like or love me.

it is because i hit them with a sword, and it is really hard. "

dad says i will have to work on that whole "love your enemies" thing.

snow days! (and nights)

2008-02-02T23:33:00.000-06:00

FINALLY it snowed. a little bit of real snow that you can play in. not just silly sleet and icy roads. so we put on my snow boots (which i really like) and went outside! mom and dad said it would probably melt first thing in the morning, so we better go outside right away. my dad and i made this snow head. he melted, but he was good while he lasted.

fabulously sick

2008-01-25T14:06:00.001-06:00

first of all, i feel much better now, and these pictures are staged. mom said, "sam, make a super sick face." so i showed her with my face how i have been feeling.

i started out throwing up multiple times a night on monday, tuesday, and wednesday. i did not really feel that bad except during the throwing up. so my mom was weirded out with my lack of other symptoms. she took me to the doctor on thursday, and he said it is either a virus, or acid build up in my belly. then that night i got diarrhea, and elisabeth started throwing up, so we thought it must be a virus! now i just have to poop a lot.

lunch.

2008-01-18T23:08:00.000-06:00

the reason why i do not eat the spinach when they give it to us for lunch at preschool is that i am already too strong.

preschool!

2008-01-16T09:25:00.001-06:00

i go to preschool now, every day, and i love it. i wake up in the morning and find mom and tell her that i need to go to school. and she takes me there. and it is a good time. the first day i was a little overwhelmed at first, as you can maybe see in this picture. it is because i did not know what was going on.

my teachers are named miss polar (mom says it is actually "paula," but i prefer 'polar') and miss wendy. they read us stories and teach us stuff, and miss polar does not want us to get up off of our cots at naptime. it is weird that i have to go to sleep without any stories about the hobbit or anything. i told miss polar that my dad tells me hobbit stories. she looked at me kinda weird, so i doubt she knows what the hobbit is. she is pretty nice, though.

yesterday i only ate the orange for lunch. i did not like the soup. mom says next time i should try the soup before i decide not to eat it. so i was hungry when i got home and i ate all my dinner without too much prodding.

there is a boy named tanner there, and he likes me and i like him. i like every kid in the whole world. and i like mom and dad and elisabeth. when mom picked me up yesterday, calen told her that he is strong and i am strong, and that i am gigantic. it is true that i am taller than everyone in my class. i am also older than most of them because my birthday is in november.

these are pictures from my first day. i got dressed by myself! and mom says it is traditional in her family to take a picture outside on the first day of school every year.

anyway, it is lots of fun!

whoah, i am getting old!

2008-01-13T22:30:00.000-06:00

guess what happens tomorrow?!? i start school. preschool. it is going to be really super duper fun. i am pretty excited about it, and i wore my new backpack all evening. i will tell you all about it soon!

also, i have to get some shots tomorrow. that is not very exciting. i will tell you all about that too.

one other thing i thought you should know is this: betty's feet smell like chips.

the end.

fun with cousins, merry christmas, etc.

2007-12-28T21:47:00.000-06:00

it was Christmas a few days ago! we have had a pretty good Christmas.

i got to be in the Christmas program at church, which was pretty fun. "We wish you a Merry Christmas" was definitely my specialty, as it was the only song i really knew the words to. mom and dad were super excited that i sat there and was quiet the rest of the time. i do not know what gave them the idea that i would not be.

we went to my grandpa's house the weekend before Christmas. he is pretty fun. santa sent a letter for me at the post office where he works, so i opened it and read it to everyone. i thought that was pretty neat! it had my name on it, and a stamp, and everything. we watched some westerns, and he let me borrow his UK can cozy. we clinked cans and said "mazal tov!" do not worry; that is just sprite in there. then, we had a duel! i gut shot grandpa. he just was not as fast as me on the draw. you can see him in the background, clutching his gut. while we were there, we went to visit our friends donna and ed. they have a cool globe, and also a magnifying glass. donna was really impressed that i read "union of soviet socialist republics" off the globe, but i really read it as "onion," which made everyone kind of laugh.

the we came home, and there was a gigantic box on the front porch. it was a box of presents from my aunt michelle and uncle jeff! they sent me a big thing of tracks for hot wheels, and a bunch of cars. i supervised while dad put it together. then we crashed the cars into each other!

then the next day, we went to grandma and pappy's house. my cousins came over on Christmas Eve, and we opened presents and played played played! we took turns being good guys and bad guys. even elisabeth played!

on Christmas morning, mom and dad and elisabeth and i opened our presents to each other. betty is getting much better at the opening. she is also a bit of a thief. if you do not share that apple with her willingly, she will just come up and bite it anyway.

peanut butter and jelly

2007-12-22T20:49:00.000-06:00

after eating the 1,425th peanut butter and jelly sandwich of my life, i had the following conversation with my mom:

me: i don't like peanut butter and jelly.

mom: what?!? i thought you loved peanut butter and jelly!

me: i like the jelly, but i do not like that butter.

mom: why not?

me: it tastes like monkeys.

isn't that great?!?

2007-12-11T10:43:00.000-06:00

so, i find homestar runner pretty inspiring.

it makes my mom laugh when i tell a weird story like this one:

"a monkey fell out of the sky and crashed onto a car. isn't that great?!?"

i got that catchphrase from this masterpiece. saddy dumpington is pretty funny!

Christmas came early?

2007-12-05T23:22:00.000-06:00

in my defense, nobody told me i could not open the presents under the tree yet.

my cousin becky

2007-12-04T17:30:00.001-06:00

here's a few pictures of becky and i from last week, at grandma and pappy's. we crack each other up.

silver dollar city!

2007-12-04T14:39:00.000-06:00

the other day, we went to silver dollar city. dad says it is the last time in a while, probably, since next year we would have to buy 2 season passes, instead of just 1, because i am 4 now. the nice lady let me in for free anyway, because my birthday was monday, and we went on thursday.

it was a good time! the lights were really pretty. i did not ride fire in the hole this time; i just was not feeling it. i did ride the balloons, though, and they were a little bit scary. and of course, the elephants, and the frogs, and the ladybugs. elisabeth even got to ride the butterflies!

it was cold!

happy birthday to me!

2007-11-26T17:27:00.000-06:00

as trevor mentioned, today is my real, actual birthday. november 26. i am four, and next year, i will be five, then six, then seven, then eight... you get the picture. and eventually, i will be 19, and that is old.

i got transformers and transformer underwear and spiderman underwear and skittles for my birthday, this morning.

then, this afternoon we went to chuck e. cheese!

we rode rides and played games and danced. it is a pretty fun place. i got a birthday crown, because i am the king!

then we went and got a christmas tree at hobby lobby! we will decorate soon. i will keep you posted!

birthdays, take two!

2007-11-25T13:50:00.001-06:00

over the weekend, we went to oklahoma to see my grandma and pappy and nany and great grandma and great uncle and uncle and aunt and 5 cousins. it was a house-full, and we all had a great time. even the cousin who vomited. as you can see, it is a bit difficult to get a good picture of the seven of us.

elisabeth and i celebrated our birthdays again, and we got a lot of neat presents. i got a transformers outfit and a transformers computer thingie, and some hotwheels, and a sit-n-spin. and mom made my cake out of dirt. she told me later it was actually oreos. if she had told me that at the beginning i might have actually eaten some of it the first time around. you can see here that i wasn't very excited about eating a dirt cake.

it was pappy's birthday too, and he had about a million candles. we had to help him blow them all out. we got him a deal or no deal game for the tv, and i won more money than anyone.

turkey and cake

2007-11-22T22:44:00.000-06:00

today we drove down to see my grandma and papa and uncle chris for thanksgiving.

since i was born so close to thanksgiving (i was born the day before, in '03), we always celebrate my birthday when we do thanksgiving. and now that my sister's birthday is also so close to thanksgiving, we celebrate both of ours this day. first we eat gigantic plates full of turkey and other things, and we take naps, and then we eat cake!

i made the rolls for thanksgiving dinner this year, and they tasted really good. everyone said so. it is a tradition now, since i helped make them last year too.

i got a lot of neat presents, including a rocking chair and a remote control car and a finding nemo alarm clock. mom and dad said the clock went off in the trunk for about the last 5 minutes of our trip home, but i did not hear it. i was asleep. this might make us all question the usefulness of the alarm clock later on, when i actually have things i will need to wake up for at certain times. but! it is still really cool.

our cakes were really cookies. elisabeth had hearts with circles. i had a dinosaur! we had candles with our numbers on them, and when you put the cakes next to each other, it said we are 14.

elisabeth and i also got some balloons, but we accidentally let betty's escape on our way out to the car. i hate when that happens. i cried and cried. i cried so much, it felt like " a circle of blood was coming over my eyes." mom and dad explained that that is a sinusy headache that you get when you cry too much.

monsters!

2007-11-20T11:41:00.000-06:00

mom and amber made this box for me with little monsters in it. my picture is in there with them, and they are yelling my name!

it is for me, and it is really good! that is how i feel about it, anyway.

snakes and other fun things.

2007-11-18T22:56:00.000-06:00

so the other day i was watching this movie with my friend Jess. she is the one who likes dinosaurs. anyway, in the movie, a guy cut a snake's head off, and there was blood coming out. and Jess was really scared. she did not want to watch it because it was super gross! you should never cut a snake's head off. it will grow back, and he will bite you. mom laughed when i told her that, but she better be careful.

my dad finally got back from all his trips, and i am glad he is back. it is more fun around here when he is here too. mom had a headache and so i had to be quiet all the time. he brought me a really super cool matchbox bus with mickey mouse on it! and some cookies shaped like mickey and donald and goofy's heads. i shared them with my sister. dad said he did not actually go to disney world, just to orlando, because he would never go to disney world without me.

also i went to my cousins' house while my dad was in dallas, before he went to orlando. they are fun! i get to ride the four wheelers. i did not even crash into a tree this time.

also i got my hair cut, and mom said it makes me look old. i am not old, i am just three. nineteen is old.

everyone loves my stories lately!

2007-11-08T15:50:00.000-06:00

here is an example.

this is a story about a cat named "your own poop."

your own poop did all kinds of things. he danced around. he ate stuff. he howled at the moon.

one day he met a super big gigantic cat named "buttocks."

buttocks looked like he might be a parent.

you know why?

because he pooped!

who is the tooth fairy?

2007-11-05T08:09:00.000-06:00

so, halloween was on wednesday, and then the next day i went to the dentist. do not worry, kids, the candy did not rot my tooth overnight. this has been happening for a long time.

a while ago, my tooth chipped. and then it was hurting a lot. so mom took me to see dr. ward, and he said that a cavity made my tooth chip like that. and we made an appointment to come back in december and get a filling. but last week it really started hurting, and mom called, and they got me in to see dr. ward again, and he said that he would have to pull the tooth out. the weird thing is that all the other teeth look just fine. just that front one was rotting and yucky, so there must have been something wrong with it when it came in.

they made me eat some weird medicine and then gave me a "spongebob nose" to wear while dr. ward looked at my mouth. before i knew it, it was all over, and they said i did a super good job.

i got to leave the tooth in a little box for the tooth fairy. she came while i was taking my nap and left me a little bag with some coins in it, including a half dollar (my favorite) and a mexican coin! and also a letter with her picture on it. i think she is actually the lady at dr. ward's office.

halloween

2007-11-03T22:23:00.000-05:00

the other day was halloween! i wanted to be batman, and so i was batman. i almost wanted to be a power ranger or a ninja turtle or a skeleton, but then i decided batman. my friend zane was batman also! but he looked different. durko said zane looked like movie era batman, and i looked like golden era batman.

anyway, on halloween this year, we went to church and got candy out of people's cars. that was pretty fun. i went around twice! i got a whole entire pumpkin bag full of candy, and it was really heavy. i still have a lot of it, because my mom and dad will not let me eat it all.

dad dressed up like cakey, and elisabeth dressed up like daddy. mom did not dress up, but she wore a weird hat.

copster lost his body.

2007-10-21T22:12:00.000-05:00

so. if you will remember, i got three fish last year, in the summer. i named them nemo, and packter, and copster. i never told you all this, but nemo and packter did not live very long, and they went to be with Jesus. but copster just kept living and living and living. even after he started being mostly upside-down, he still lived for a long, long time. i think he spent the last 6 months upside down. we kept thinking something was wrong with him, but he kept on living.

yesterday morning, my dad came and said, "sam, i need to show you something, and you might be a little sad." he brought me into the living room and showed me copster, upside-down at the top, instead of on the bottom under the shark or a plant, like usual. he told me that copster went to heaven like packter and nemo did. i asked dad if that meant he lost his body, and he said yes. i told mommy when she got home that copster's eyes died. like optimus prime.

so we buried him, by flushing him down the toilet that takes him all the way out into the ocean and then up in the sky to heaven. daddy kept asking me if i was sad, and i was. but now i am really only a little bit sad, because heaven sounds like a good place.

pain

2007-10-16T23:59:00.000-05:00

so i got a splinter in my hand, playing outside with my pappy. that is a picture of my bandaids from the splinter.

then i went home from grandma and pappy's house, and i got a big old canker sore in my mouth.

i am an ouchie-magnet lately. i try to be brave, but it hurts to eat with a giant sore on my lip. i prayed that God would make it better. he is, but i guess he takes a little while sometimes, to heal things up.

speaking of God, i told mom that he was angry at her for calling some lady an idiot in the parking lot at wal mart. the lady did not hear us, as she was in a different car. but God did. and he was angry. but she told him she was sorry, and he forgave her. God is nice like that.

on a more serious note, i have also been praying for my cousin daniel. he has something wrong in his belly. we do not know what for sure, yet, but we will hopefully find out soon. he is 3 like me.

we have been busy.

2007-10-07T17:26:00.000-05:00

so we are still unpacking and decorating our new house, so it looks more like our house and less like just any old house. my room has pac man stuff all over the place, and also my name above my door. and a glowy frog head night light thing. and some dinosaurs that jess really liked. and lots of other very cool stuff. today a bunch of friends came over after church, and i got to show them my room and my yard. don and i sat together and played world of warcraft. amber and i rocked out some on the drums, and it was a good time.

it is not all play, though. we had to get ready for people to come over, and i have been helping a lot. britney and i put our chairs together for the new table. i got to use an allen wrench and a power drill. i am pretty good at that. later, my sister and i were installing some quarter round under the desk.

FIRE IN THE HOLE!

2007-10-04T15:53:00.000-05:00

so i thought i would show you all some pictures from when we went to silver dollar city last week.

i was super duper brave and decided to ride fire in the hole. it has three really big hills that you go down, and on the last one, they yell, "Fire in the Hole!" my plan was to be a power ranger with super powers, so that it would not be scary, but once we got on the ride, i kind of forgot and tried to crawl into my dad's armpit. i guess the ride took my power away, but then i got it back later! there is a picture of me in front of the fire in the hole sign, pretending to be scared. i am tall enough to ride it by myself, but i kind of doubt i will do that for a while.

i also rode the ladybugs and the butterflies and the elephants, and if you will notice on the butterfly picture, i like to make my butterfly go as high in the air as possible. on the flooded mine, i got lots more points on the targets than mom, because she said she is not a very good shot. but my dad always beats all of us.

that brown thing is a corn dog.

the place was decorated like fall, with pumpkins and stuff. oh, and i got to pet a mule! he moved and made my finger touch his eyeball, which i thought was pretty funny.