So it has been a long summer of no posts about Sammy. I know. We have been so busy playing that I just didn't want to take the time away to write about it. But I will resume.

In addition to "no", Sammy's favorite word is "prolly." If the answer to your question is no, he will say "Prolly not." Or if he knows we can't do something today, but we could maybe do it tomorrow, he says "Prolly tomorrow."

Sammy loves to play pirates, especially Capt Hook vs. Peter Pan. He gets his sword out and give you yours and says, you be Cpt Hook and I'll be Peter Pan. I never get to be Peter Pan. And then if Daddy plays, I have to be Tinker Bell. He especially loves to pretend that his playground is a pirate ship. He steers the wheel and commands the crew to man the deck and pipe up the cannons. The cannon is his periscope and the plank is the swirly slide. He loves to make people walk the plank, especially Emu.

We redid his bedroom in pirate decor and painted the walls a sea blue color. He got a big boy bed from Pop Pop and Emu. It is the pirate ship in his room.

Sammy likes to go to the mall and get e prize from the Disney store, then go to PFChang's. He likes the filling for lettuce wraps and he has to use chop sticks. It is pretty hilarious watching a 2 year old use chop sticks to pick up fried noodles, but he's getting pretty good at it.

If he doesn't want you to do something, he will tell you, no, you don't want to. So if for example I said let's color this picture, he would say, no, you don't want to color, you want to play pirates.

Sammy is at home sick with Daddy today. He has a really bad cough. We were discussing taking him to the doctor this morning and I told Sam to watch the cough and if it gets worse, take him in. So right before he coughs now, he says I don't want to go to the doctor, and then coughs.