We decided to shake things up a bit this week and have a picnic dinner tonight. It was windy, but fun! More photos are in the album. I think this is the first shot of the four of us in one frame! Dave is working a lot and doing schoolwork each night, so we have to make the best of a few minutes here and there for fun. This was a good time. Sam went to the museum today with our friends, so he has been talking nonstop (once again) about volcanoes and lava, and playing native Hawaiian instruments with sticks…He was such a good boy today, and very funny. I enjoy him so much. I’m so grateful I get him all to myself every day 🙂

I’ve been bad about doing photo shoots of Ben, sorry! Here’s the latest picture, albeit a self-portrait snapped last night while Dave and Sam were mini golfing. Ben enjoyed watching their antics 🙂 Sam likes to hit his ball then dart off to grab Dave’s and drop it into the cup for him. He sees putting as a waste of time I guess! He loved all the little hills to trot up and down throughout the course. He’d sink the ball then exclaim “Off to the next hole!” and trot down the path behind Dave. We also did some bumper boats – Sam split a gut laughing as he squirted water from the little “gun” in front. Dave has to go into work today so we’ll have to come up with some more mischief…it is the weekend, after all!

We went for a late afternoon jog to the farmer’s market, then to Coldstone for dessert (Dave was in class tonight). Sam wanted to jog ALL THE WAY HOME (his emphasis). So I said ok! thinking this won’t last long. He did the whole way – just over a mile - with lots of funny little arm movements and new jogging styles, like “pedal jog.” That’s when you jog like you’re biking, but don’t move your arms (obviously – you don’t move your arms while biking, right?). Your legs travel in circles, though. Tough to do for me but he did a good job pedaling! 😉

           

The boys and I ran the Lanikai 8K today (5 miles). Dave was a real trooper and acted as race crew 🙂 Despite a few hiccups, like the sign-up location moving at the last minute to a spot 1/4 mi from the start, we all got to the starting line in time. Just barely!

But I want to do this with two kids in a month or so? Am I totally nuts? I am so glad I took this picture although it was the LAST thing I wanted to do upon finally returning home after 6 weeks of travel across 2000 miles and 10 different homes. Our space-a trip was long on the return as well, and the last (third) leg of our flight ended up not going. So we had to take a shuttle to Phoenix and buy a last-minute ticket home. Oh well – Sam knows where Phoenix is now and those are some fond memories. He often talks about flying on the KC-10 and taking the big trip with mommy. And they say kids don’t remember stuff until they’re three years old. . . I bet he’ll remember that trip for a long time 🙂 Thanks, mom, for reminding me with this picture 🙂

Sam gets to pick out the strangest fruit or vegetable he can find at the commissary each week. We’ve eaten some different stuff…but this week was by far the weirdest thing I’ve ever picked up – a gobo root (above).

I thought it was a fluke last week when he did it, then he rolled again a few days later and mom caught it on film. Today was the third or fourth time. Go Ben!

Here are Sam and Anneliese mixing up the ingredients for ice cream at Sam’s “Big Brother Party” on June 21. We had so much fun! There are pictures and several movies in the album this month thanks to mom capturing some of Sam’s craziness. Mom leaves today 🙁

Here’s what we’re learning about this week…see mommy’s Lego creation??? 🙂 Very proud of myself! Helicopter landing pad and everything…and that was before we got this book out of the library today!

My silly baby is very very gassy. He eats too much I think. Like all of us Krugs – we like to eat. That’s why I run! Ben eats too much for lunch, we think. We can’t figure out why else he would be so gassy. I have varied my diet and driven myself nutso trying to figure out if it’s me or him. So today he finally fell asleep on my lap – totally flopped on his belly (to push the gas out) while I worked at the bar on my laptop. Kinda nice, but also kinda hot here!

We had such a great time with our friends yesterday at the beach park. We had a really impromptu party to celebrate Sam becoming a Big Brother. He looked forward to it all week, helping me plan the menu and games to play.

Sammy exclaimed “I did a miracle!” the other day as he was making “coffee” for us late Friday afternoon. Mom and I were sitting outside, I was nursing Ben, and Sam was holding court by the teak lounge chairs in the bright afternoon sunlight. He then went on to describe how he turned water into coffee 🙂 “I take coffee and put it in the pot then I get water and put it in and cream and then I heat it up on the microwave and then it turns into coffee!” Mom had read to him about the wedding at Cana where Jesus turned water into wine the week before. Sam really has a fantastic memory and it’s so fun to hear how he recalls things then adapts them to his own world. He also built us a coffee cart out of Legos – the cart drives down our street on Friday afternoons and sells coffee, much like an ice cream truck. Fantastic idea!