Daddy and His Soccer Star

Sam play soccer every Saturday morning at The Factory in Wake Forest. Ok, it's not an actual game of soccer, but he's learning some basic skills, balance, coordination and working as a team. It doesn't hurt that his best buddy is also in his class. So here is Daddy and his little soccer star after a hard morning of practice.
Aren't they the cutest athletes?

Cool Sammy

Sam loves to wear his sunglasses - as I'm sure you've seen in previous posts. But this time he put them on all by himself and was so proud! This may be another one of his new trends:

A Picky Eater - and a Tricky Eater

Sam is a picky eater like most toddlers - he'll eat the basic toddler diet which consists of mac-n-cheese (his fav), grilled cheese, spaghetti, chicken nuggets (but they have to be shaped like dinosaurs) and dinosaur or ABC123 pasta. Sometimes he's so picky he doesn't even want to eat those. But we've recently learned a new trick that can motivate him to eat his food.....threatening that mommy or daddy will eat it.

See here - we went to Red, Hot and Blue for dinner - Sam always gets the mac-n-cheese and it comes with 2 oreo cookies. After getting all or most of his mac and cheese down, we'll let him eat the cookies. He usually only likes the creamy filling - you can't blame here there - but we'd like to see him eat the actual cookie too. Here he is deciding what to do with the outer cookies:
And here he is cramming them in his mouth when we threatened to have mommy eat them:
Now if this would just work with spinach or steak!

Sam and his sunglasses

Sam likes to wear his sunglasses - especially when his daddy has on his. David does this trick when we go inside where he puts the glasses on backwards - still over the ears, but around the back of his head. He says this is so he can keep up with them without them getting damaged....ok. So sometimes Sam wants to put them on top of his head like daddy. It's not as easy as it looks - here he is giving it his all.