Some Favorite Pictures

Sam, early August, in the tomato patch with Mommy.  He loves raspberries (notice the purple hue on his cheeks) and tomatoes.  Apparently, all my little dresses were stained down the front with tomato drippings, so Sam comes by this quite naturally.

Entertaining himself while his brothers are off at school.  This is the end of August and the first time I noticed him up balancing on the little step.

Sam on one of his birthday presents.  He gets pushed around the house by his brothers.  He hasn't figured out yet how to move himself.

What a grub!  And yes, he finally had a haircut.

Dressed to hunt....currently, it's squirrels.

Fall Baseball, Nathan with a smirk.

Under all that catchers gear is Thomas.  He needs to put that right hand behind his back!

Thomas, taking off for first.

Nathan had his adenoids removed again yesterday and tubes put back in his ears.  He is a little old for new tubes but we felt it was the best course for keeping the ear infections at bay.  He was a trooper!  Everything went well.  They did find scarring on the adenoids which had grown back 80% since their last removal in 7/2010 so they had to remove them the old way of cutting.  Gross...I'll say no more.  He has a sore throat and was very pale all day yesterday but he acted himself and so was off to school today.

Thomas and Nathan are really enjoying the fall baseball league.  We are noticing a marked improvement over the spring.  Just practice and of course they are just a bit older.  We enjoyed the open house at their school, meeting both teachers.  I think they are both happy in their classrooms which makes me happy! 

One of Sam's favorite words is Get!  We tell that to the chickens when they come up on the back porch.  He was out there the other day rattling the compost bin which brings them running and then stood there yelling at them to get.  Finally he picked up the bin, put it right up against the door jam and stood between it and the chickens yelling at them.  It was so funny.  He tells Annie too.  He cracks us all up but I have to say that boy is getting a temper!  He has this little mad cry he does.  He seems so young to really get mad but he does.