markmyers | October 31, 2009
Today our house was invaded by a scary dragon! Well, not so scary really, just extremely cute! I think I will call her Samanthasaurus.
Way to collect that candy for Mom and Dad! Reese’s cups are one of my favorites!
The sleepy dragon had a nice first Halloween, but she crashed pretty early.
pamelamyers | October 30, 2009
Today was the first day that I really believe Sam was smiling at us : ) She has smiled before, but not really in reaction to anything. I think the books call those “spontaneous smiles” as opposed to “social smiles”. Well, tonight, Mark and I were hanging out with Sam listening to music and she was definitely smiling. She was propped up across my legs, and we were listening to Diana Krall’s “All for You” album (a great mix of bopping jazz and soft standards) and singing out loud to her, making her little hands play air instruments, and moving her little legs like she was dancing, and boy was Sam all smiles! It was so cute to actually see her smiling at us in reaction to things we were doing to her. Mark had thought earlier that day that she smiled at him while she was sitting in her bouncer chair, and I think he was right!
Every day she just amazes me more and more. I keep thinking I can’t possibly love her any more than I already do, but then she does something and I think, ok, so I can love her a LOT more. I remember my boss Greg telling me a story about one of his daughters when she was a baby and how he had the worst day and was so exhausted and was up in the middle of the night I think feeding her and he kept thinking, oh my God, please hurry up and eat I just want to sleep, then he looked down at her and she was staring up into his face completely mesmorized, and he thought, ok, so this is what is really important, this is what it’s all about. Now I know exactly what he means. Those little smiles meant more to me than any other even remotely good thing that happened all week : )
markmyers | October 29, 2009
Sam’s little head of hair is just so cute. It’s tough to catch the true color of it, sometimes it looks really light, others pretty dark. Here she is just after getting a bath though and you can really see how red her hair is.
markmyers | October 25, 2009
I love the outdoors (much more than cities) and really enjoy going for hikes in the park. Today the weather finally cleared to we took out for her first little hike in Rose Tree Park. Of course, she didn’t really hike so much as kick back in her cool off road stroller. She had a very nice time although was a little cold until we bundled her up in a blanket.
markmyers | October 24, 2009
Today we went to visit my parents at their house for the first time. Krista and Maddox were there and we had a nice visit and then all went out for Italian. The weather has been miserable out, we went outside for pictures and luckily had literally five minutes without rain before the sky opened up.
Here are the proud moms showing off their new babies in matching outfits! They didn’t buy these on purpose (or so they said) it just worked out this way.
By this point, Sam had enough of pictures so was striking a celebrity pose 🙂
