Happy Half Birthday to Jake

No "Jingle Bells" around this house today...."Happy Birthday" was the song of the day! Today we celebrated Jakob and the fact that he has been part of our family for 6 months today!!! Lukas thought it was a great day! Jakob must have known that it was his birthday today because he started getting up on his knees and ALMOST crawling. He just has to hit his milestones!:) He is log rolling, as we call it, like crazy! One minute he is by the couch, the next he is on the other side of the room! He is mobile! He smiles and interacts with us...I am just waiting to hear that first word...mama:) Such a fun birthday for such a sweet, smiley little Jakey!

We had a great and long Thanksgiving...I guess the longer it is and more people we have to see, the more thankful we should be!!!

Little Jake 

LOVE my boys!

Our family

Goof

Santa Baby

Our little turkey

Hilarious 

Happy thanksgiving!

Happy 6 months to you!

Just a little taste of something sweet:)

Santa's watching!

The Christmas cheer is in full swing over at the Samuels' household! We put up our tree and decorated last weekend. Lukas is ALL about Christmas...taking after his mom! He loves the music, the decorations and talking about Santa (or Nicholas..as he refers to him). He wanted to hang each and every ornament and touch every single light. Lukas helped to decorate the house and we have brought Harold, our very own elf, into our house. Harold, our elf on the shelf, is mommy and daddy's new best friend! As soon as Lukas is acting out all we have to do is mention that Harold is watching and will report his behavior to Santa and BAM our sweet little Lukas reappears!!!! 

I cant even describe how special it is to start family traditions that Lukas now understands. As we were unpacking our boxes upon boxes of Christmas "stuff" Matt mentioned that I wait ALL year for this...and he is right! I just love the Christmas season and love that Lukas loves it even more!!!

Jakob is really giving us a run for our money right now. Our little guy who decided to sleep through the night at 6 weeks is PAYING US BACK! He is up every night hungry for MORE FOOD! This kid never stops eating! We go through a can of formula a week on top of 4 jars of baby food a day! Im not sure where it is all going but obviously he needs it!

Last week I took Lukas to our school musical, Willy Wonka. He was in awe the entire play. Just love that Lukas shares in all my interests...

Goodnight Sun,,,

So cute...just want to remember

When driving to the school musical Lukas was looking up and told me he could see the moon.

"Mommy, I see the moon. Pretty moon. Mommy, Mommy the moon is hiding from me!!!!! Awe, I see it again. Come out Come out, moon. Where is the sun, Mommy? Oh, its sleeping...goodnight sun!"

2 year olds are so precious...

Daylight Savings Time was NOT created by....

SOMEONE WITH CHILDREN!


Seriously, daylight savings time is more like torture parents time. Kids bodies do not know that they have an extra hour to sleep. They dont care if the sun is up or down! The fact that it is 4 am just does NOT matter. Therefore, this was one of the LONGEST days EVER! BUT...as always we made the best of it!:) The weekends are filled with nothing but family time. Both boys are at really fun ages and are starting to interact. Lukas is super protective of Jake. Lukas' sentence complexity is increasing each and every day. Jake is ALMOST sitting up alone. The both are just growing and growing...why doesnt this growing require more sleeping?:)