Alex and Sam taking a break after opening a few presents.




It was Christmas today and Alex and Samantha had plenty of presents to unwrap and play with.

Once again it has been a while since the last posting. Hopefully we can keep things more consistant from now on Here's a small video of Alex and Sam jumping.

Things have been really busy at home lately with the cooler weather moving in and still plenty of work being done on the house. The kitchen is now finished and there has been plenty of baking lately and Alex and Sam always perform taste test before anything goes in the oven.



It was Samantha's first birthday on Monday and with a few friends over to watch Samantha played in her birthday cake.

Alex has been running around and around for a long time now and Samantha has been joining in lately.

After Alex's balloon floated away in the sky, Mum found plenty more and Alex and Sam had a great time playing with them all.



Alex and Sam are always having fun playing together these days. They are in the blue thing as we call it with ballons and balls. Balls being a favorite toy of both! It was Sunday so they are gearing up for Mom's team dressed in Redskin colors. It use to be good luck for the team, but these days nothing gives them good luck.

Alex is making brownies for Dad as Sam watches.



Alex can never make brownies without sampling them before they go in the oven. she is also generous enough to give Sam a taste.



Sam loves to eat. Everything is her favorite food and here she is enjoying some cheese.



Alex and Sam are having fun on the PowerBar boxes sharing an ice block.



Ever since we lost the ballon in the Braintree Mall parking lot we can never have enough. Alex is showing off all her ballons.



Sam is ready for Halloween dressed in her cat costume. She did not take too well to the hat over the head with the cat face, but she looked very cute and brought home lots of candy in her pumpkin.



Once Alex found out Sam was going to be a cat she decided that being a dog was going to be her costume. The dog hood never made it over Alex's head. She was kind enough to carry Sam's pumpkin as well as her own. they came home with two full pumkins just going down our street so we will have candy for quite awhile.



It did not take Sam long to catch on to trick or treating. She would stick her little hands into the candy jar and take her own at every house.



Alex and Sam entertained themselves for about a half and hour pushing the chairs around the house. They were having so much fun and mom was able to cook dinner!

Alex was running around the other day and Mum caught some on video.

Alex and Samantha have to be kept busy sometimes when Mum needs to do some stuff. There is a box of Saucony clothes sitting in the corner and Alex like to hand them out one by one to Samantha.



When Mum just has Samantha to look after, the small booster chair is Sam's favorite place to hang out!

Alex woke up this am and said she had to go ride her bike! thanks to Speedy Pete she can do some indoor riding.

Sam is now taking steps. She is walking towards mum and soon mum won't have to catch her.



Sam enjoyed Dad pulling her around in the lego wagon. She did not want to get out.



Jake's parents threw a big party to say good bye to summer. They know how to throw a party as there was plenty of activities for the kids. Alex and Jake are kicking off the party chasing the bubbles.



Alex is getting ready for the hulu hoop contest as her competitors look on.



One of Alex's favorite things to do is jump! She spent half the day jumping in the jumpy house to see how high she could go.



Sam was trying to get a closer look at the goats. She had no problem pulling herself closer and got the attention of some of the kids in the background with her strength.

Alex and mum are cheking out the horses. They put a big smile on Alex's face when she got to see them up close.

Alex found one of Jake's toys she liked riding.

Alex started the weekend off baking some biscuits. Mum helped a little just with the oven and then eating them.



Carolyn bought Alex and Samantha some nice new clothes and Mum dressed them to match.

It was a quiet weekend with a lot of playing inside and now Samantha is almost walking she can push things around the room with Alex.

It was too late to cook dinner Sunday night so it was Pizza time and Alex used her knife and fork to cut up a slice.

There was only one photo taken today and that was after Alex had a hair cut. Mum had her's cut, then Alex and Samantha watched on. Alex, Mum and sam also spent about 2hrs at the swimming pool late in the afternoon and aparently Alex is swimming great and Sam likes going under.

There have been a few leaves falling from the trees lately and Alex has her own rake to help Dad pick them up.

Alex found the camera laying around this morning and took a few photo's of her own. This one of Samantha was the only one that was a full picture.



It was a nice day outside today and Alex road her bike for the first time.



Alex must have spent about 1hr riding up and down the driveway.

Alex has gotten used to the new house now and likes to jump off the stairs. She has jumped from the 4th one up but Mum now only lets her jump from the 2nd one.

On Sunday Mum took Alex and Sam to see some different kinds of cars. Alex liked this small race care. The camera battery was flat so Mum didn't get the picture with Alex sitting inside driving.



Because we live so close to the hospital Alex likes Ambulance's and she got to sit in the driver's seat of one to check it out.

After a few hours of looking at cars and trucks and things Alex and Sam where pretty tired.

Alex started the day off in the jog stroller with Dad and then joined Mum in the stroller whilst Mum ran. Alex also got a run in after watching Mum and Dad run.

Samantha always likes to grab Alex's things and "bear" is always a prize catch!



Mum said Samantha took 8 steps today and standing building tower's is also a common thing for Samatha.

Samantha crawls fast and also push's things fast. Maybe Mum is training Samantha to mow the 6hr lawn (10hr for Pop) when she gets older?



Sam also plays for a while in the rubber duck whilst Alex helps Mum fold clothes.

Alex and Sam like eating ice blocks from time to time sometimes after breakfast and sometimes for breakfast.




Alex has some good puzzles that keep her busy and she now does them better than Mum.

Alex has gotten better at playing Wii golf and Mum is now thinking about golf lessons in the near future!

Besides playing and running around Alex likes to help out with everything. It was a cool morning so keeping busy working and cleaning warmed things up.

Samantha slept for a good part of the day and when she woke up Alex pulled out the old rubber duck to play in. Besides that it was all puzzles, TV and some golf on the Wii until Mum came home from work.

It was football day today and Mum had Alex and Sam dressed in Redskin clothes. Sam has been getting around quite easily the last few days, crawling and climbing.

Mum says Sam took her first step today and maybe it won't be long until she starts to walk.



Looks like Mum took a lot of photo's of Samantha today and Samantha had some good smiles going.

Alex and Sam have a big play area on the carpet and some days there are toys everywhere. Alex also likes to hug Sam like a toy!

Samantha is pretty tough and doesn't mind Alex wrestling and grabbing her.