The Powells Place

I need your help!

Samuel has a new playroom (it will eventually become his bedroom once he is out of his crib-hopefully not anytime soon!). It is a nautical theme and we're working on getting curtains for the room. Below are some of my fabric choices and I need your help in choosing the best one!

I LOVE this fabric, but of course I waited too long and the discount fabric store I found it in no longer has it and cannot get it! I have exhausted all of my options in trying to find it anywhere else!

Some of the fabrics up against the bedspread. The curtains will be on the opposite side of the room, so the patterns won't compete with each other!

A few things to keep in mind: All of the stripe fabrics will be vertical (all hanging horizontally right now). The walls are painted a light grey/blue and the bedspread is also blue (I like the blue stripes, but want to introduce something else in the room but BLUE!)

Proud Mommy Moment

Samuel is really talking up a storm these days. He blabs on at the table while eating his food (most of which makes no sense, but he talks, laughs, points and laughs some more!). He is constantly pointing to things he knows and says "dog" "ball" "eggie" (for Veggie Tales) and is 24/7 saying "mommy" "dada" or "mada" if he doesn't know which parent he would prefer, so he puts us into one entity! His vocabulary is ALWAYS growing and sometimes I am amazed at the words he knows.

Case in point!

As many of you know I love my couponing (Definitely not anywhere as extreme as the women on TLC's Extreme Shoppers). Tonight we were pulling into the parking lot of our local grocery store. Mind you we visit at least 2 times a week, and sometimes more if we're having a HUGE coupon event. Every time I point to the sign and say "Teeter, Samuel this is where we buy our food". He will point and say "da" (for that). Tonight, Ryan was with me and as we are pulling into a parking spot Samuel points to the sign and very clearly says "Teeter". He proceeds to say it about 15 times before we walk in the front door!

Now is when I am not sure if I should be proud or embarrassed! I have decided that it is best to be the proud momma of a sweet boy who knows a great place when he sees it!

Fun outside

We have had some beautiful days here lately and Samuel and I have taken full advantage of our opportunities to go outside! Here are just a few fun photos of our adventures!

Samuel holding out his hands to catch the frisbee!

Still holding out his hands, it is SOOOO funny to watch him "hold out his hands"

Another shot of Samuel holding out his hands

Samuel LOVES blowing bubbles, not so much interested in catching them or letting mommy blow bubbles! He's so cute!

He loves his car, and his favorite part is that it has a piece in the floor that lets him rest his feet while mommy runs all over the yard pushing him!

Sorry abut the lack of pants...the first chance he got to "blow bubbles" he thought he'd dump out the container to make sure there were bubbles inside!!!

The last week

We have had quite a lot happen in the last week. Our last post was about the AWESOME swing set that we put together just before Ryan and I left for San Antonio. We had a great time at Chick-fil-A seminar and missed our little man so much. When we came home we found a few "new" things that have added a little newness to our lives! First, Samuel somehow picked up his very favorite phrase "I want dat" while point who knows where. It is a little cute but mostly very whiney, but it is a step in the right direction of talking. He says "Dada" SUPER loud anytime my phone rings, he hears a car outside, or anyone walks in the front door regardless of who it is. It is so cute!

I think my favorite thing that Samuel did this week was to order HBO and Cinemax on our TV. We happened to notice the letters HBO on the TV the other day when he was sitting on the couch (mind you he turned the TV on himself and somehow found himself ordering these wonderful chanels for us). We received our bill on Saturday, and low and behold we are now the proud owners of those $20 each/month chanels! I went down to Charter today and thankfully they removed them, and quickly asked me (a little condescending) "do you know how to put child locks on your TV?"

Anyway, just wanted to give you a little update on the comings and goings of our crazy little household!!!

Hours of Entertainment

Samuel's RuRu and Granddaddy (Ryan's parents) came for a visit and surprised us with a sweet and amazing gift! Samuel's first swing set. We had been looking at some and decided we'd wait until next year, but they found this one and we just couldn't say no!

Hard work!

The only battle wound, and of course I got it!

Yeah, he reads directions!!! THANK GOODNESS!

Having too much fun!

I just love this little guy! He went up the stairs and down the slide over and over!

Loving having Granddaddy pushing him!

Happy Heart Day

Ryan and I celebrated our Valentine's Day early due to the fact that Ryan has to close that night. We also sent our families a sweet little collage of pictures of Samuel. Just thought we'd share it with you too! Some of the pictures are fuzzy, still can't fix my stupid camera! Hope you enjoy!