Saturday, December 13, 2008

Happy Birthday Samuel!!! ... and a funny story!

Nine years ago, my sister gave birth to a precious baby boy. His name was Samuel Wyatt Young. While perfect to us, God decided that he would rather have him in heaven with him. It is hard to ever understand why God would bring such sorrow to our family but we know it is for his glory. My sister and her husband blessed their church with a set of swings in Samuel's name. Today we dedicated the swings with the entire family. All the kids had a great time playing on the swings and the playground equipment. Even the BIG kids climbed up on the jungle gym.
They had so much fun just being kids.


Check out this sweet face.



Baby brother loved to go HIGH!

All the kids getting to SwInG!


Sweet Boys!


Henley and Marymae doing the spider.


I couldn't help but wonder what this big brother was thinking.


S-W-I-N-G



Elisabeth always the mother hen....


......taking care of the Baby.
We ended the day by going to see a Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. It was a musical playing at the local theater. It was so good and the kids loved it. Beck was a little scared of the ghosts. During intermission, I took him to the bathroom. After doing his business, I told him to wait one minute so I could go. I began to sit down and he says at the top of his lungs, did I mention the bathroom was crowded because it was intermission, "mom why do you have to poop?" I didn't have to poop he just didn't realize that girls always have to sit. So I said "I don't have to poop girls have to sit down to go potty. " Then he says really loud and silly "I see your WIENER!!" Let me just make sure you know. There is no wiener. I am no cross dresser. I tried to say really loud "Mommy doesn't have a wiener. You don't look at mommy." I was so embarrassed. I did not want to leave the stall. Of coarse I had to very quickly so no one thought I was pooping. When we got back to our seats, I told Josh he had to take him to the potty from now on.

6 comments:

Camille, Blake, Pierce and baby Asher said...

Very sweet about Samuel and I love the pictures. The story about the bathroom cracked my husband and I up... so funny.

Amy said...

Great story and sweet post dedicated to baby Samuel. What a great way to remember him!! By bringing joy to other children. I LOVE IT!!

Angie Campbell said...

I love the swings and the dedication to Samual. That is very sweet.

I laughed out loud at your little bathroom incident tonight. Aren't boys hysterical?

Jenny Wims Sullivan said...

Wonderful pictures...you are a great photographer.

Jackie said...

I had to comment~ the bathroom story gave me a laugh for the day!!!

And what a sweet way to remember Samuel!

Jill said...

i did laugh out loud...so funny!
and i love the swing set idea. what a wonderful way to celebrate samuel~