Big brother day care

When I picked Sam up at the babysitters on Monday, Sarah said Sam had a fall at the park on the teeter-totter.

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He hit is face, I guess, and was wailing. Instead of walking over to Sarah, who he would usually go to for comfort, he started walking away, which she found quite odd and couldn't figure out where he was going until Sam walked up to Malachi, one of the other kids that Sarah watches. Malachi gave Sam a hug, in a very big brotherly way, and looked at his face as Sam was going on about what had happened and was pointing over to the teeter-totter.

Sarah expressed that it was quite sweet how Malachi took care of Sam's hurt and Sam was quite satisfied with the effort and went back to playing. I am so thankful that Sam is developing supportive, healthy relationships with the kids he hangs out with during the day and even more impressed as stories like these come out of his interactions with them. We are truly blessed to have our son being cared for in this manner during the day.

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RSVP rudeness

Even though Sam's second birthday turned into quite a party, I was a little disappointed in the lack of response we got from some of our friends who have kids that are Sam's age. Aimee had invited over 25 families, but several were from out of town, of which I think all of them didn't come and most, outside of family, didn't even respond to the invite or Rsvp in the negative.

Do people these days just not understand that if you are invited to something and cannot make it, it is polite to respond to that effect. We invited some people that we don't see very often since we moved out of Portland, who we considered to be good friends, but didn't receive any response, not even a birthday card since they couldn't make it. I guess we don't get invited to their kid's parties either, so maybe it is more than just the distance. It is just harder to accept that these people we thought were friends don't respond to invitations to celebrate my son than it is when they ignore or don't acknowledge me and/or Aimee.

That being said it was amazing how awesome our friends here in town are. We have really built some great friendships with the families we have met here through Birth-to-Three and from our church. Even though we happened to schedule the party on the same weekend as the OSU vs UO civil war game, almost everyone either came, had a conflict, or a sick kid. We are quite blessed to have such a good group of friends.

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Wonderful Ones

So Monday, we had a fun time with our Birth to 3 Wonderful Ones class group. They take a week off half way through the 10 week class to allow for the families to do an outside of class get-together. We had planned on going to a local park and having a brunch Monday morning due to napping schedules working out best for that time.



Due to rain, one of the families decided to host at their house which was about 2 miles down the road from us. We had a fun time from 10 - 12 playing with the kids, eating, talking with the other parents and trying to get a good picture of all the kids together. Unfortunately Sam was the one that was screaming during the pictures where all the other kids were just sitting there hanging out; oh and Anika was patting whoever was beside her on the head. Oh well. I got a decent picture of all of them where Sam at least didn't have a screaming look on his face so I guess it was successful. The pictures with the Moms and babies turned out a little better.




There were 6 families there and the kids (Andrew, Caden, Avery, Anika, Sam and Matteo) all had a really fun time playing with all of Avery's toys, which were new to all of them. Sam, and actually everyone, especially liked the blow up blue pony that they could ride and the kitchen set (which I was surprised to find out Adrienne had found at St Vincent for $5 with all the pots, pans, plastic fruits and vegetables).

belated... Easter Weekend

Well, had a little bit of a hard time finding and hten downloading all the pictures in this post, so it took awhile...

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We had a great time with Family in Seattle, well except for my brother and his girlfriend, Candace (who was sick and couldn't make it).

We first had a nice visit with Aimee's parent's, got Sam all dressed up in his Easter suit, did an egg hunt and, the best part, got a good hour nap before heading over to my sister's house where my parents were also.


Sam also got a kick out of playing with a baby doll that MaeMae had... he drug that poor doll all over the house for about an hour or so.


While at my sister's house, we went to the 6:30 Sunday morning Sunrise service, which was very cold and we were all quite tired. It was a nice morning and the sermon, although a little long for 6:30, was very good. Sam got a little restless and we walked around the park that the service was held in behind where everyone else was standing.

We got home, had some breakfast, hunted for Easter baskets, opened up presents and then did an Easter story my sister did with plastic eggs that had different things in them related to the story the kids would open up in turn.



Then we were out the door for the main church service. Sam looked so cute in his outfit.He seemed to have a good time at daycare; when we dropped him off he went right in and started playing with the toys without even needing to say goodbye to us when we went to leave. I think we may have gotten a wave, but that was all.



After church, we played a little and had a nap then sat down for a very good Easter dinner of steak, oven baked potatoes, pea-n-cheese salad and green salad. Then Ann brought out short cake and strawberries for dessert; yum. I really tried not to eat too much, but was hard and I ended up a little too full. It was totally worth it though.



Sam enjoyed watching his cousins with their remote train set. He couldn't keep from grabbing the train, so he had to watch from a distance. It was pretty cute watching him squat down behind Tyler and watch as the train went around the small track. Sam got distracted from that when we started hunting for easter eggs; Tyler and him had a good time gathering them and Sam even tried to help himself to eggs Tyler had already found, but we redirected him.



At the end, Sam just got in this groove of wanting to hug Isaac and would find him again and again for a big hug. Isaac was almost not too sure about all the attention but took it in stride and was very patient with Sam. What a great cousin!



We ended up leaving around dinner time and drove back to Portland, where we met up with some friends who had just had a baby girl. It was really good to see Robert, who has been a long-time friend of Aimee's and was the person who introduced us 9 years ago. I met Robert while we were both working for Intel. We had the pleasure of getting to know his new daughter and his wife Pam whom I have only gotten to know a little at their wedding reception. Aimee and Sam had dinner with them on a trip to Seattle they did last fall, but I didn't make that trip. Anywho... we ended up at an Applebee's in Tualatin at 9:00 at night and had fun visiting for about 2 hours before heading back home. oh, and Paula, a friend from back when Aimee and I first met showed up also. It was a fun break before driving the rest of the way home.