Samuel & Jonathan Antman

No captions this time. You’ll just have to use your imagination. :)

I’ll skip the part about how little time there is to take photos of the boys, etc., etc., and just get to it.

The theme in this post is: black & white!


To start, I love this series of Sam hamming it up for the camera.





I barely escaped the vicious attack about to unfold here.





Sam is starting to get more comfortable around the camera, even sometimes asking me “take my picture!”. Which is great, because I can start getting shots like this one.





Sam sitting on his throne.





This is what Sam looked like right after coming home from his fancy new haircut. Grease Lightnin’!





Potty training!





The boy in blue.










Love these next couple in the park.










You can see the fascination in Jonny’s face in these photos – nobody has the power to bring that out like Sam does.










Except of course when Sam goes messing with Jonny’s head – then it goes downhill from there.





Jonny really gets a kick out of the camera for some reason. I’m not complaining.





This is Jonny’s equivalent of a Where’s Waldo scene.





The rare, rare photo of both both looking at the camera and actually _hugging_. Amazing!





This is an old one from Halloween – Sam dressed up as Captain America, showing off his guns!





This is my first try at an animated gif. Got a handful of shots of Sam running towards me so I thought it would be fun to animate it. He loves his new Curious George zip-up hoodie from Grandma & Grandpa.

The boys are growing like crazy! Sam has turned into a jabber box who talks constantly, and Jonny is all smiles. On to the photos!




The old levitating-baby trick!

Our red-headed little baby.

Here’s Jonny modeling the lovely quilt made for him by cousin Prima!

Jonny’s favorite comforting pose.

The ever-elusive shot of the two boys together, both looking at the camera.

Story time!

These next few are at the pumpkin patch.

After some pretty major life changes (new job, new house, new baby), and one major obstacle (my computer was damaged in the move and had to be resurrected back to life), I’ve finally had the chance to take and post some photos of the boys. Sam is now 3 and Jonny has reached the 4 month mark, and it’s getting really fun to see everyone interacting with one another around the house. While opportunities to get Sammy and Jonny together for a photo-op have been few and far between, I did manage to get a handful in this batch. I’m sure there will be more to come.

Sammy & Jonny frolicking in the grass in the backyard.

It’s not that rare for Sam to give Jonny kisses, but it’s almost impossible to catch on camera. This was my lucky day.



Look at the smile on Jonny’s face — he absolutely loves watching Sam and is fascinated by everything he does.

I imagine Sam is thinking “see dad, I’m being nice!”

Some of you may remember a certain photoshoot with Sam and an octopus a couple years ago where he showed his full spectrum of emotions…

Well, we decided to bring old Octi back to see how Jonny would react to him.

Well, there you have it. 2 out of 2 children have a love/hate relationship with Octi the Octopus.

This is Jonny’s sleeping position of choice these days. The stick-em-up pose.

Jonny’s really enjoying the new view of the world he gets when he sits in his (formerly Sam’s) bumbo seat.

Sam loves playing in the backyard, riding his bike, running through sprinklers, and playing with the hose spray nozzles. Summertime is definitely here.

No child was harmed in the making of this photo.

A rare photo of mom, Sam, and Jonny all looking at the camera with nobody blinking. This is what I get to come home to every day.

In case you haven’t noticed, this blog has now been changed to the “Samuel & Jonathan” blog. As much as Sam would probably like to be the main focus around here, he’s quickly learning to share the spotlight. On to the photos!

Jonathan is nearing 4 weeks old, and he spends most of his time sleeping.





Every once in a while he’ll take a second to strike a happy pose.





And of course in the next second, the angry pose.





He was very interested in the camera shutter sound — a sound he’ll get used to hearing quite a bit around here.





Meanwhile, Sam’s been spending some quality time in his new favorite chair in his bedroom.





I’m telling you, he *really likes* this chair.





Sam kept slapping this wall with his hand (naturally!), but this was a rare moment where he stood still.





A couple morning shots of Sam in his pajamas






I love these next couple of shots of Sam & mama. So sweet.








Holding back the paparazzo





Look at those curls!





Here I caught Sam staring intently at a water fountain.