Sam and Muffin

| November 7, 2009

Just the other day, I was sitting on the couch with Sam just relaxing in the morning.  Muffin came over to sit with us, which has become a habit of his. I thought it was so cute when Sam reached out and touched him.  At first I thought he was going to leave, but then he just picked up his head to see who was touching him and then put it back down again when he saw it was Samantha.  The cats have been so good to her — I really anticipated a lot of hissing, growling, and running away when we brought her home from the hospital, but that never happened at all, not once.  Here are some pictures that Mark managed to snap before either one of them moved.

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This last picture isn’t with Muffin, but I just thought Samantha had a cute look on her face. She is laying on her play gym which she is finally starting to enjoy.  She hasn’t quite gotten the hang of actually grabbing or touching anything that is hanging above her head, but she does like to look at everything now, and she pays attention to the bee which plays music and she smiles at the things hanging above her sometimes.  She loves her mobiles now too, and is always looking out the window when you hold her.  It is amazing how aware she is now of the things around her.

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Thanks McAllisters!

| November 7, 2009

Pam was outside today and saw the mail lady carrying over a huge box. We couldn’t imagine what was in it since we hadn’t ordered anything recently. We brought it inside and saw that it was for Sam. My cousins in Monaca, PA (out by Pittsburgh) sent Sam a whole store worth of super nice clothes plus other goodies like a scrapbook, bibs, and socks! Check out the photo below, there must be over 20 different outfits of various sizes up through 18 months! Sam was elated and couldn’t wait to try on one of the outfits. Here she is sitting on her big pile of new clothes.

Thanks so much Mary, Jim, Heather, Missy, Stacey, and Sharon! We hope you can see her sometime soon. Pam and I are talking about trying to come out this summer to see everyone.

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