1. He gets an insane amout of delight from running off with the toilet plunger.
2. He is constantly singing, and he picks up songs very easily. Often I will hear him singing a song that I didn't even know he knew, and I can recognize the words and tune from his singing (B-I-N-G-O, Latter-day Prophets, I've Got Rhythm, This Land is Your Land, etc.)
3. If someone is having something, Sam wants to have some too. He usually insists, "I hap some!" And then if you try to cut whatever it is into little baby pieces, he cries out, "NO! BIG!!!" because, you know, Sam is already SUCH a big boy.
4. At prayer time, he folds his arms like this:
5. He loves praying and most of the time insists on saying the prayer ("I say it!"), and if you tell him no, he just says it anyway . . . louder than the other person who is praying.
6. He is the best in our family at saying "thank you."
7. He is also very good at recognizing who has helped him. He will often come up to me and say, "Henry gave it!" or "Ellis gave it!"
8. He is following in Henry's footsteps by spending a lot of time lining up cars . . .
and being really proud of himself.
9. He's following in Ellis' footsteps by LOVING and learning about and lining up the presidents.
10. He also has jumped on the bandwagon with the recent Star Wars obsession at our house. He knows most of the characters' names, and he loves flipping through the Star Wars Character Encyclopedia and randomly saying, "He's good; he's bad." He also calls Yoda "Yodee." :)
11. He calls anything with chocolate in it "hot chocwit"
12. He has a special love for people who are smaller than him, and he likes to give them lots of hugs . . .
. . . until they start playing with the thing he wants, of course.
13. He has recently started saying the word "Chicago" ALL the time. In Nursery, the teacher showed a picture of Jesus. Sam identified "Jesus!" and when the teacher asked where Jesus was, Sam quickly replied, "in Chicago."
14. Some of our favorite words and phrases that come out of Sam's mouth right now include:
"Jess!" (yes)
"Nopa." (nope)
"Hee go." (here you go)
"I wanna hold you." (please hold me)
"I'm strong." (I'm heavy, and you must be strong to be carrying me up the stairs)
"That tickles!"
