Sunday Sam Snap Week 41 - Groggy Christmas

Happy Christmas!
Everyone else is out at Church and I've just put him down to sleep - yesterday he started to get a temperature and now is miserable. Here's a photo of him with the squeaky samurai sword Santa got from Kansai airport:

Here's the slideshow of Sam's Groggy Christmas:

Sunday Sam Snap Week 40 - Landed in the UK

Playing with Great Great Auntie Maggie:

Here are some more fun snaps from the week here so far:

Pat-a-Cake with Great Great Aunt Maggie

We just arrived back to a snowy UK for Christmas. As usual we popped in to see Auntie Angela on the way from Glasgow airport, and to say hi and Merry Christmas to Great-Great Aunt Maggie. Here are the kids learning pat-a-cake with her:

Anya's Message from Santa

This is brilliant - a personal message to Anya from Santa!


I filmed her reaction here:


Now I need to polish my iMovie skillz and get the reaction video in the bottom corner. Soemthing to do when we have some downtime...

Another idea totally stolen from Julie Lemley. Keep 'em coming!

Sunday Sam Snap Week 39

A cold weekend!

Here's this week's Sam Snap: dressed up for the Polar Express party - the kids went from house to house and did different activities. At the final stop there was a special guest, but Hesty has better photos from the real camera, so she can post those up.

Week 39 - in my Christmas pajamas for the Polar Express party!

Tim Minchin's Christmas Song

It would be brilliant if this was Christmas No. 1 instead of some X-Factor rubbish. A bit lower-key than his normal comedy songs, and really touching.


In case you didn't know, he has written the songs for Roald Dahl's Matilda stage musical, which is supposed to be really good fun:


But this one's more in keeping with his style...

Sam Snap Week 38

Late again, but this is a funny one at the supermarket today. He was pulling faces while I was looking for potatoes for a Biology lab.

Week 38 - Can you see me, Daddy?

 This was a funny week. Super busy,  starting to think about Christmas and had a couple of days in Tokyo for a school thing. Luckily the mo' came off without a zit-tastic trail of destruction in its wake.

Daddy's Home!

I really don't like being away from them.

Anya and Sam play very well together now, though Anya does sometimes try to tell him off. Here they are in some of their better moments:

And this one can't be passed up - it was almost the Sunday Sam Snap. This is the hooligan coming to Nana and Grandad's for Christmas!

Sam wants to put Free Willy in the DVD player (except that's not a DVD player and we don't have the Free Willy DVD)

Sam's Big Blether

I tried to catch him saying "Dada" and waving, but he just wanted to blether.



This is my favourite baby age, where some words start to form and the personality really comes through. He's fenced in the living room now, but uses Anya's chair as a walker.