Okay, Okay so I'm sooo excited. Jake's not. But, well...He'll live. We're going down to Southern Missouri to go to the Lake. We're leaving tomorrow and I just can't wait. Jake of course is like...."But Sam's going camping for his birthday, I wanna go camping...yada, yada, yada." And sympathetic me is going, "Quit complaining we're going tubing on a lake...that's way better than sitting in a tent. Tents don't have air conditioning you know!" So anyways, I think he's secretly excited about it. We're going to stay with my Grandpa and Phyllis and we'll get to see my Uncle Bobby and Aunt Elsie (Who are the nicest people in the world). Jake will pretty much lose it when he sees Bobby's beautiful red Shelby that took #2 at the mustang nationals. It's gorgeous...I don't remember what year it is, but it's amazing...I can hardly contain myself around it! Anyways, I'm just excited as of late...because of this trip, and because my girl Jadie is getting hitched to her awesome guy! I can't wait for that either! Fun Fun Fun. Life has been crazy-crazy, but it's been great.

He's so stinking cute! At least all of his adventure's keep him happy and me entertained.

I'm thinking I'll keep taking pictures of today's craziness until the camera freaks out again... Then maybe Jake will understand why the laundry never gets all the way folded....haha!

Much to my dismay, Gideon discovered toilet paper about a week ago. He doesn't really make too big of a mess of it because he spins it around so fast, so I usually just let him spin it. But then, "What on earth is that shiny silver thing on the toilet!?!?"
So he grabs it...and pulls down. HE FIGURED OUT HOW TO FLUSH THE TOILET!!! So then, he does it about 18 times, and I'm like...."Hey, How about not Bud" But he's totally intrigued by the sound it's making...
So then he figures out, that there's something going on under the lid, and commences in trying to open that up so that he can watch what it does when he flushes. I decided that I really couldn't handle him adding toilet pool parties to his list of daily activities, so I had to take him out of the bathroom and shut the door....What the heck am I supposed to do here?!

So, I finally got Gideon dressed, sat him down in the middle of the living room with his toys, and ran to get dressed myself. I come back to the living room, and this is what I see...
Gid standing up tall next to the piano reaching as far as he possibly can just to play! And he walks alongside it just so he can hit a bunch of notes...
I think I'm going to be dealing with a piano and guitar playing, skateboarding and motorcycle riding, absolutely adorable prodigy boy! Not that I mind ;o)

Who even cares about DVD's anymore? Let's play Dad's (actually I think it's Andy's...hmm) guitar. I don't really think he can hurt it...although all the knobs and that little switch have been moved and wiggled about a billion times by little Gid fingers...

As soon as he wakes up, Gid yanks at his onesie and is determined to spend his morning comfortably naked. So that's why he has no clothes on, it was about 7 this morning. Anyways, He began his day with the destruction of my newly organized living room...
So here he is, mighty proud of his accomplishments. But this is only the beginning!

Okay, Okay so I haven't posted....
I've been really busy, and I'm currently protesting my camera. Every other time I try to upload photos now it decides to go crazy-go-nuts and delete ALL my pictures. It's sad and depressing so I've decided I'm not taking any more pictures on it, because then I'm just so disappointed in the adorable blog that could have come forth if it hadn't been for stupid-camera-ness. So, I've asked for one for my birthday next month...you should all tell Jake that would be a GREAT idea... he told me he was getting shirts printed for my birthday. HAHA. He's soooo sweet. Anyways, maybe I'll steal Mom's camera or something...I'll consider it. Love you all.

MY dad got gid this great submarine for in the bath. It plays "It's a Small World After All" over and over and gets really annoying after about 3 minutes....but it squirts water out of the periscope and Gideon thinks it's the greatest thing EVER. He really just loves anything in the water.
All soaped up...He's just so dang cute.

Zach loves to torment Gideon. He really really loves him, but you know how teenage boys do annoying things to cats like put tape on their tails and stuff like that...Zach likes to try and irritate Gid to the same degree...because it doesn't really hurt Zach if it makes him mad, I just have to deal with it...which Zach thinks is HILARIOUS!!! So...anyways....We've been taking Zach to swim team practice every morning, and Zach of course thought Gid would want to wear his goggles...
At first he didn't think they were so bad...
Then he had to have them off...
Here's a shot of the man himself....we told him he was a wuss for not getting a real speedo to practice in... Although, none of us are too sad about it because he would more than likely run around in nothing but that....he's not real modest.