Captain Big Brother

These boys sure do love each other. Because our church had General Conference on Easter Sunday (the most perfect way to spend Easter!) I had the boys wear their Easter outfits the week before.

Aren't they handsome?

Daniel would give him kisses all day if we would let him. For some reason, this picture reminds me of how little Daniel still really is. I always think of him as so old and big compared to Sam, it's good to remember that he's still little too!

After we snapped a few shots of the boys together, Daniel let Sam play with his Easter goodie bag from school. Sam was fascinated by the crinkling sound the bag made.

He was happy and contented for a good 5 mins with that bag. Within mere seconds he went from that to this:

Absolutely inconsolable crying and screaming. We've had a lot of that lately. Darn teeth make his life miserable. I keep having dreams that he wakes up with a mouth full of teeth and all done with teething. Sad that those are my best dreams.... Anyways, still no teeth.  

Enter Captain Big Brother to the rescue. (and no, I didn't have to ask for a hero pose, this is what every picture these days looks like)

This is literally seconds after the crying shots. Give Sammy his big brother and all is suddenly right with the world. Daniel has an arsenal of  songs and dances that keep baby ( and Mommy!) happy.

These little boys sure love each other, there is no doubt in my mind that they were meant to be brothers!

A Bike!!!

 

So, Bryan and I have kept wanting to get Daniel a bike for his birthday, but it's in Decemeber and we're always in Utah for his birthday and Christmas. As much fun as it would be, I just don't know if they'd let us bring it back on the plane! ;) Anyways, this spring we decided heck with it, a boy needs a bike! So we broke down and on the first warm day went to buy him his bike. Unfortunately, everyone else had the same idea, because all of the bike were gone! 2 days and a bajillion phone calls later we finally found a bike in his size that was in stock and it was even GREEN! Happy day. When we bought it there was an old man there who made sure we knew the trick for training wheels. He said that every few weeks you raise one training wheel about 1/4 of an inch. It gets the child used to not relying on them. Eventually, they don't touch the ground at all and they're riding free! I thought it was such  great advice. I wasn't really looking forward to the dramatic street scene when we took them off. :)

We picked him up a great helmet that got wonderful reviews (this picture was before we fit it correctly) Razor V-17 Youth Multi-Sport Helmet (Black Gloss)( a couple of the reviews are crazy!) I think he felt kind of cool because it was more of a skater helmet and not you traditional gargantuan kids bike helmet. He keeps asking if he's "stylish."

We got him all put together and he was off!

He needed some help learning to peddle. We soon figured out that even though we used one of these:

he never had to pedal on his own. So it's taken him a little while to co-ordinate all of that. :)

 

He's lovin' it!

Can you tell he's feeling pretty cool? He's talking to the cute girl upstairs, showing off his new bike. :0

Since it took us a few days to get the bike by the time we went out to try it, the weather had turned and it was freezing! Daniel refused a coat but Sam was NOT happy with the chill.