Sam time

Sorry it's been forever since the last update.  Sam is getting so big so fast!  He's running around everywhere, is talking up a storm (though much of it is still gibberish), and has really been testing his boundaries lately.  He now has a 60+ word vocabulary - I will try to update this blog periodically with the newest words he has learned.  Sam is also learning more sign language, both in daycare and at home.  His newest signs are "chair", "splash", and "change".  He also seems to have incredibly good hearing (as I am sure all toddlers do), and can hear an airplane coming before you can see it overhead.  At first when he would point to the sky and say "airpane" we would tell him, "No, there's no airplane there".  But sure enough, a minute or so later after his announcements, an airplane would almost always appear in the sky. :)

Sam has been on lots of adventures since my last blog post.  June was incredibly busy - Sam was out of town almost every weekend.  He and Larry went to Wisconsin for a family reunion a few weekends ago.  Since we were going to be out of town the next 2 weekends as well, I decided to stay home.  It sounds like Sam did great on the plane and had a wonderful time in Wisconsin with relatives!  A couple of weekends ago, we went blueberry picking in Houston.  Sam stayed at my parents' house while Larry & I and my sister & her family spent a few hours picking berries in the Texas summer heat.  Our effort paid off, though; we picked 22 lbs of blueberries!  And last weekend, we traveled down to the Rio Grande Valley for my grandma's 95th birthday party.  The party was a lot of fun.  It was great seeing our relatives on my mom's side of the family again, especially hanging out with some out-of-state aunts, uncles, and cousins that we don't often get a chance to see.

Even though all that traveling was fun, I'm glad that we'll be staying in Austin for the next few weekends.  I hope everyone has a happy 4th of July this weekend coming up! :)