BACK FROM COSTA RICA!!!!

So we spend 1 month in Costa Rica immersing ourselves in Latin culture and Spanish language. We had so much fun and met so many WONDERFUL people!  Samuel is basically fluent and can speak Spanish now! How exciting!  I am so amazed at how fast he has learned everything!  We lived with a family, we took the public bus system everywhere and lived like Ticos!  The school I attended was AMAZING! The professors were great and the location and environment for learning was incredible!  I just hope we cna get back there soon.  Here are just some of our fun pics from Costa Rica. 

 POAS Volcano

 Zoo Ave

 At our host family house....We miss you Amira!

 Samuel playing with the peacocks at zoo ave

Two Funny Monkeys

Lucas is such a rough little boy! He loves to roll and play and be thrown all over the place! A little too scary for me!

Samuel

Summer Fun!

Having fun w/ the kids!  Samuel has just started his first year in a Spanish Immersion Pre-school program called Spanish Schoolhouse!  He LOVES his school and all of his teachers.  He has learned so much just over the past 3 months (he attended the summer camps).  He can pretty much understand everything you ask or tell him in Spanish.  Just like a little sponge. 

We are all planning a trip to Costa Rica in October and we will be there for 1 month.  We are all going to learn and study spanish and maybe we will run into Diego and Dora while we are there! Daddy will hold down the fort here in Texas for us and we will miss him SO much but hopefully he will get to visit us a few times.

Lucas is now 13 months old and running all over the place like crazy!  He knows what he wants when he wants it and is not afraid to let you know.  His favorite game is "ball" which was also one of his first words.  He also loves to dance and sing songs......"bababababababa" is the way he sings at the moment! More to come later!  He has a bunch of teeth and likes to bite....what's up with that?

Lucas Survival Swim Test

LUCAS TURNS ONE!!!

Ok so it is for real when they say that the second kid gets jipped....(is that how it is spelled?)  Anyway, poor Lucas has not had any photos displayed or any news about him in the past 9 months.  So here is an update!!

 Lucas just had an awesome birthday party with all his friends.  We had some pools, sprinklers, slides etc.  All the kids loved it, we think???  Lucas also completed his first year with Jennifer De la Cruz and INFANT AQUATICS.  He can now go under water and flip like a pro! I will post his video soon.  Lucas took his first steps on Monday July 26, 2010!  And he doesn't just walk......he RUNS! His first word was BALL.  He is obsessed with balls and wants to throw them back and forth. 

Today we were all sitting at lunch eating and Samuel announces (as he normally does while we are eating at a public restaurant) that he has to go "poo poo". David tells Samuel, "Ok, let's go." And they head on to the restroom.

David takes Samuel into the stall and helps Samuel with his pants. Samuel climbs up onto the toilet and goes "number 1"

Then Samuel says, "all done"

D: Samuel, I thought you said you had to go poo poo?

S: (Shrugging his shoulders and turning both hands up to the ceiling) MY BOTTOM SAYS NO


He will be VERY happy when he is a teenager and we bring this up.

TOES???

Samuel asked Daddy to open his box of hot wheels this morning.  After opening the box Daddy went through the cars asking Samuel what each one was:

D:  What's this one?

S:  Ambulance

D:  This one?

S:  Fire Truck (and so on......)

D:  How about this one?

S:  I don't know. What is it?

D:  It's a Tow Truck

S:  IT PICKS UP TOES?

Playing by the light of the Night Light...

All was quiet in the Clubb household after Samuel was "asleep" in bed.  Then suddenly, a loud crash from his room.  I went to his room, only to find him standing in the middle of his room, holding a stuffed animal and surrounded by a sea of toys...

Daddy:  Samuel, what are you doing?

Samuel: (very sheepishly):  Umm, Umm, Umm, something in here made a loud noise...

Daddy:  What made a loud noise?

Samuel: (again, very sheepishly):  Umm, Umm, I don't know...it just made a loud noise...

Daddy:  Samuel, get back in bed...

He grinned like a sly little fox, and ran and jumped back in bed...

I think he was actually convinced that he outsmarted me....I wonder what that loud noise was?  Hmmm?

HUGE!!!!!

This little "toddlerism"  happened just last night and I will remember the exact conversation for YEARS to come!

We were getting ready for  a bath last night and Samuel was running around; trying everything he could to NOT get into the bath.  I asked him to take off his clothes and instead he would run up to me from behind and then push on my bottom. At some point I was able to lean down and get his pants off.  During all this running around, Samuel said something to me about running and hitting my bottom.  Then here is where that led to:

M:  Yes, Samuel you have a bottom too.  You have a little bottom

S:  No mama. I have a big bottom.  I am a big boy so I have a big boy bottom.

M:  Oh yea, Samuel that's right.  You have a Big Bottom b/c you are a Big Boy!

S:  Mama, you have a HUGE BOTTOM!!!

I am not feeling so great about that right noW.  The truth really does hurt!

THE HAIRCUT

SAMUEL WENT WITH HIS DADDY AND PAPAW TO GET A HAIRCUT A FEW WEEKS AGO.  hERE IS HOW (ROUGHLY) THE CONVERSATION WENT:

S:  Daddy are we getting our haircut?

D:  Yes, buddy we are.

S:  ARe you getting your haircut too?

D:  We are all getting our haircut, why?

S:  But Daddy,  I have more hair than you....you don't need  a haircut.....you don't have any hair.....

Needless to say David was depressed all day.  How do they know just how to hit us where it hurts....even at this young age?

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010!

So with the new year upon us I have decided to change our blog content a little.  Since Samuel has been talking so much this past year, David and I find ourselves cracking up constantly with some of the things Samuel comes up with.  I decided to share some of Samuel's "TODDERLISMS"  WITH EVERYONE.

SO TO BEGIN......

YESTERDAY SAMUEL WAS PLAYING IN OUR BATHROOM WHILE I WAS GETTING READY TO LEAVE. sAMUEL HAD A PLASTIC MUSICAL FLUTE-TYPE INSTRUMENT IN HIS HAND AND WAS USING IT TO 'REPAIR' THE BATHROOM CABINETS FOR ME.

SAMUEL:  "MOM I AM FIXIN' THIS FOR YOU'

MOM:  YOU ARE?

SAMUEL (VERY SERIOUSLY, SAYS):  "YES MOM, THIS (SHOWING ME THE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT) IS VERY 'DECALET'"

OF COURSE WHAT HE REALLY MEANT WAS "DELICATE"  BUT I AM SECRETLY HOPING THAT HE CONTINUES TO SAY IT THE WAY HE DID YESTERDAY....SO FUNNY!

David thinks Samuel looks like he's up to NO GOOD in this second photo!