More from Samuel

I always find it amusing when I hear Samuel say something new and think to myself "where'd he get that?" - and then hear myself say the EXACT same thing later in the day. The first one Samuel started doing was saying "mmm-hmm" and nodding his head (I have since learned that I do this ALL THE TIME!). Now he has started saying "good" when I ask him things like "how's your diaper?" "how are the peas?" etc. Here's the little booger:

We also received SUCH a great gift yesterday. Ed works with a guy named Charles who has two boys. They are growing too old for all of their Thomas things, so he passed some down to us. He dropped off a BIG Rubbermaid tub of tracks, motorized trains, and other accessories yesterday. Samuel was SO pumped. Here he is in the middle of our new train mania basement:

And, finally, some pictures that Ed asked me to put up for his friends. I'm not sure what they've been up to lately, but I hear Ed howling with laughter every now and again as he reads posts on their Yahoo group. This is a Kingdom Hall with lots of windows and Dave with berry on his butt: