Aid's Best Friend

His name is Sam and he now lives in Rochester. I know I have talked about Sam and Emily often about how they basically saved me and Aid from complete loneliness when we first moved here. Somehow, my darling little boy has never forgotten Sam...even though they only see each other once a month....maybe. He LOVES LOVES LOVES Sam. It's crazy. He shares ALL of his toys, even his beloved animals and dinosaurs. They play chase and seem to read each other's cues well. And he suddenly knows the exact words to ask Sam to play something specific with him.

Sam and Emilie (and now Matilda!) came for a visit to bring Aid's birthday present. They were planning on coming to the party, but Em in her mommy wisdom realized that we would all enjoy the visit more just one on one. Sam and Aid could play and we could talk. And once again she was right.

She brought this ridiculous ridiculous present for Aid. I can't even believe it. I won't reveal the price, but she did find it for a steal. But it's still ridiculous. It's a V-Tech toy art pad camera desk contraption and we had fun putting it together and letting the boys play with it.


Ok. So you sit at the desk that has a camera attached to it.


It then puts your picture on the tv screen where you have a variety of things you can do to it. They didn't really get past putting the pictures up, but it was hilarious! Do you see Sam pointing in the background??




Shocking. The animals had their pictures taken....


Grant and Matilda meet.


"Uh....I don't know if anyone told you this, but that's mine....it's ok. You're cute though...."

As always it was great to see you guys. We will be coming to Rochester when we get back from Portland!