Samantha's first blog

pamelamyers | December 22, 2010

Since this past weekend, Mark has been taking a lot of random pictures of Sam in preparation for getting our family Christmas portraits.  There were so many “test” shots that looked too cute for words, that I have to post some of them.

We strung lights ALL OVER our house this year since Sam is so enamored with them.  You can see how happy they make her.

I love her little face when it is looking right at me smiling, but sometimes I think the pictures where she is pensively looking off into the distance are sweet.  I don’t recall what she was looking at here, but it captured her attention.  Zephyr maybe?

Here she is happily playing with the string on her horse pull toy, completely oblivious to the fact that Mark needed her to model.

Oh, you need my attention?  Why didn’t you say so?

No matter how much Sam has changed in the last year, one thing that hasn’t is her love for snowmen.  They were her favorite last year, and they are this year too.  I love the little tongue sticking out.  She does that when she concentrates, and Mark does too (although he doesn’t stick his out quite so far!)  She is just like her daddy in so many ways.

She is looking at her Christmas stocking here, perhaps wondering what goodies Santa will stuff it with….

These pictures were taken tonight while testing some poses.  I am sure Mark won’t like these photos, but I do.  In fact, I was having some trouble getting these pictures to post, and a minute ago Mark came down to help me, and he said, why are you posting those?  Ha. I knew it.  Anyway, I just like them because we don’t have a lot of family photos with the three of us, and I think we all look really happy.  And we are really happy. The last week or so has been really stressful with all the holiday planning, running out of time, the usual, so you wouldn’t necessarily know it, but it is nice to see proof that we are one big happy family. 🙂

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pamelamyers | December 22, 2010

Sam is getting to be such a big girl now, it is hard to believe she is not a baby anymore.  Mark and I were looking at pictures from last Christmas, and she is so little!  Sam doesn’t even look like the same person anymore.  Every day she does things that show us how fast she is growing up and it reminds me to cherish every second because time goes by before you know it.

Last night, I was feeding Sam some oatmeal and for the first time she kept grabbing at the spoon because she wanted to feed herself.  She is defnitely not capable of actually holding a spoon on her own without spilling food everywhere, but she had the desire to try, that’s for sure. I let her hold the spoon and I sort of held it with her and guided it to her mouth.  She looked so happy with each spoonful!  I bought her some toddler forks and spoons so I think at mealtime it might be time to let her start practicing.

I had mentioned before how she is starting to imitate us a lot.  Well, now she imitates Zephyr!  When Zephyr meows (which she does quite often….) Sam meows too.  It is sort of just a modification of the “Owww” sound she has been making, but you can tell she means it to be a meow since she looks right at Zephyr when she does it.  The other morning, I went to get Sam up from her nap and Zephyr was upstairs napping too.  Zephyr heard me coming and jumped down off of the bed and meowed really loudly. Immediately after that, I heard a soft, “meooowwwww” come from Sam’s room.  She is so adorable.

Our little one is STILL not walking, which I thought would have happened by now, but she is content to cruise along holding onto furniture, her push walker, or us (whatever is handy).  She takes a few tentative steps on her own, but is not confident enough to really walk on her own yet.  We’re working on it!

Oh, and one more bottom molar is poking through, this time on the left.  I figured it out when I was trying to clean her teeth and she bit me. Yikes!  I will be glad when she is done with the teething, and I think she will too.

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