The Latest:  Here is Maggie in action.  She's becoming quite the mover.  When she's not going for toys she's busy laughing at her older siblings, saying "dada" and trying to eat our food.  She isn't crazy about her own food, but I found out today she likes M&Ms.  (Don't tell Tricia)

Kate's latest:  As uncoordinated as Kate was in that last video, she's actually quite the little gymnast, following in her mother's footsteps.  Here she is jumping on the tramp and doing the balance beam.  When she's not busy with gymnastics, she keeps busy telling people about the disney princesses and the mean mean villains in the disney films that she watches whenever she can convince us to turn them on for her.  There's little mermaid and the mean mean shark, Belle and the mean mean beast, Cindarella and the mean mean cat, Sleeping Beauty and the mean mean dragon etc.  We can't decide if she likes the princesses more, or the mean mean people.

Sam on Doctors:  Sam has had a rough couple weeks.  His asthma has been acting up and he's been coughing incessantly for most of the last 2 weeks.  He's had 2 nebulizer treatments at the doctors office, he's on an oral steroid, inhaled steroid, albuterol every 2-4 hours, as well as a daily leukotriene inhibitor.  Needless to say, he has seen his fair share of the doctor and had his fair share of medicines recently.  It is obvious that he doesn't think too highly of doctors or their methods.  Besides stickers, he doesn't see them as a source of anything but pain and suffering. The other day we heard him playing with Kate.  "Kate let's play doctor. I'll be the doctor.  You can either have a shot, some medicine that you don't even like, or howabout just a poke in the nose."  Not quite sure where the poke in the nose comes from besides one more unpleasant thing a doctor could do to someone.  Kate decided not to play with him. 

When we took the kids for flu shots a couple weeks ago, we had Sam go first to show Kate how to be brave for her shots.  He tried so hard to be brave for his sister.  He cried of course during the shot and then when the drama was over we said, "See Kate, he's all better now.  Sam tell Kate how easy that is."  

"Kate", he said trying to comfort her, "it hurts really really bad."

Sam has been exhausted recently.  This is him last night falling asleep on me while we were waiting for Mom to come say prayers with us.  He also has a huge apetite.  He's the first one to clear his plate each night, and the other day wanted me to order him another hamburger at Wendys.  I think it's the roids.  Here are some other recent pictures:Going for an Autumn walk with Maggie.Playing in the leaves.