What a weekend!
pamelamyers | December 14, 2010
Well, aside from the Christmas tree decorating and the Rose Tree Park visit, we have had quite a weekend. Sam had a stomach bug that wasn’t a lot of fun, and she gave it to me, which was less fun. 🙁 But she is feeling a lot better now, as am I. We are both on the mend and hoping that Mark can ward off any germs!
In other more upbeat news, Sam has been doing some really cute things lately. Where to begin? Well, first, she is learning to do some adorable things. My mom bought her a drum for Christmas which she sort of uses, and sort of not. Lately though she has been trying it out more and more and is actually getting good at it. She usually only uses one drumstick. A few days ago, she starting drumming with both drumsticks at the same time and Mark and I cheered and clapped for her. She started clapping for herself! She did it really well too, actually making a little bit of a clapping noise. The funniest thing about it is that I think she believes that clapping is part of playing the drum. Each time she drums now, she stops mid-drumming and starts clapping, then drums again, then claps. Once I was drumming her drum and she was facing away from me, and she started clapping then too. It is so cute. I sing to her every night when I am in her room giving her a bottle and last night while I was singing she starting clapping for me like she was saying, “Good job Mommy!”
Another cute thing is that she mimics really well now. I was getting her out of her highchair last week and while I was lifting her, she pulled my hair. I yelled “Ow!” really loudly because it hurt like heck and almost immediately she started saying, “Owwww!” in what Mark told me was a pretty good imitation. She’s been practicing too….sometimes she is just sitting on the floor playing and you hear her saying, “Ow, Ow, Ow”, like she is trying it out. I haven’t mentioned that Joe, Sam’s Poppy, got his carpal tunnel surgery last week and has some pretty nasty stitches in his right hand and wrist. Today my mom told me Sam looked at his hand, pointed, and said, “Owwww!” She knows an owie now, that’s for sure.
Sam also popped another tooth that I had no idea was coming — a bottom molar on her right side. This kid is getting a lot of teeth.
Well, that’s it for now. More news coming soon — Sam is always doing something interesting!
