Roaming Buffalo Serves Up Stone Soup

At school on Friday, Sam, also known as Roaming Buffalo to his fellow natives in the classroom, cooked up some delicious soup. Every year, his school hosts a Stone Soup Luncheon. The kids sign up to bring an ingredient of their choice. They get to chop it up, mix it with other veggies, and serve the parents. In addition, they learn about native americans and get to pick a name for themselves. Sam selected "Roaming Buffalo." We found it very appropriate and his teacher told me the second I arrived to pick him up. She thought it was hilarious as well.

Here is Roaming Buffalo with his best pal, Ben (whose native name I do not know)...We also call them the Dynamic-Up-to-No-Good-Duo:

Here's Kim and Isabella, deep in conversation:

These are the wonderful ladies who deal with Sam's relentless questions...(L-R) Rosemary, Lisa, Mei, amd Lorena:

Sam loves Alexandra...she's hilarious:

Check out that placemat...we love our boy so much

The Soup


Roaming Buffalo with his official native headdress:

A family photo attempt....

On our way back home form the luncheon, there was a heavy storm and a serious accident. Sam held his hand out so Isabella would, as he stated, "Not be scared, Mami, because I'm her big brother and I'm supposed to protect her."

Uhhh, Houston: We Have a Crawler

Izzy B crawled for the first time today. Sam spotted her going from the baskets that carry books over towards the bathroom. He was screaming with excitement. Below is how we enticed her to do it again...Sorry about the poor quality :(

Simon Says

Here is some cute video of Abuelita and Isabella...I can't tell if Isabella is copying Abuelita or if Abuelita is copying Isabella. Either way, it's cute to hear Abuelita's excitement each time Izzy would clap and shake her head "no."

Halloween Bonanza -Part 4: The Trick-O-Treating Video

Below is some video of Sam's excitement with trick-or-treating...sorry about the "shakiness" of the video...

Halloween Bonanza - Part 3: Pre-party Antics

Our good friends, the Feehans, invited us over to their place in Kentfield for a Halloween pre-party. We really enjoyed ourselves and had a great time trick or treating with the kids in the neighborhood. It's normally a quiet place but Halloween is a special event and the neighborhood comes out in force. By "force" I mean candy, costumes, shaving cream, alcohol, food, and overall up-to-no-good antics. It's awesome.

Despite my multiple attempts to get pictures of our kids smiling in their costumes, this is all they had to offer me:

Oh, and this is Sam's "mean" pirate face:

Below is the cutest picture of the evening....


Once the paparazzi photo shoot was over, we headed over to the Feehan's. There, Isabella got the party going in the right direction:



Although we had chili and muffins for dinner, we had a witch for dessert. She was tasty.


Here is Pirate Captain Samuel and his favorite gal pal, Minnie Mouse:




Ever the persistent mother, I tried (in vain) to get a cute shot of them and, alas, I had the same poor result as previously noted above:



The Crew: Pumpkin Rex, Dora the Explorer, Minnie Mouse, Pirate Captain Samuel, Isabella and her poodle skirt, and Ellie the pumpkin:

In an effort to demonstrate to the chidren how they would feel if they ate too much candy, we used this pumpkin as an example and visual reminder (for those visual learners in the group).