I love your funny face!
pamelamyers | January 29, 2011
I love your funny face
Your sunny, funny face
Though you’re a cutie
With more than beauty
You’ve got a lot of
Personal-i-ty for me
No snow for Sam
pamelamyers | January 29, 2011
As I have mentioned before, we have a lot of snow right now and we are all pretty disgusted with it. Even Sam is not too thrilled with the whole thing. She is always a little wary when we take her out sledding until she gets the hang of it, and the other day Mark made her a snowball and brought it in the house and we couldn’t even get her to touch it! Mark went out to shovel (again) but before doing so decided to let Sam see what was going on outside. I absolutely love the look on her face. She is standing in the doorway looking outside and she appears to be thinking, “What the heck? Are you crazy? I’m not going out there!”
She is pretty much walking exclusively now, with very little scooting around on her butt (except when she is really, really tired). It took what seemed like forever since her first real steps on her own, but at 16 months, she is there. She walks very confidently now. I think she has finally realized that walking is fun and can get her places much more quickly and efficiently. She carries things, bends down and picks things up, and steps over and around obstances without any trouble now. She also regains her balance easily. I am sure that very soon she will realize that running is not that much harder than walking and then off she will go!
My little girly girl
pamelamyers | January 29, 2011
Sam can definitely enjoy some rough and tumble play, but deep down she is such a girl. And I think a girly girl at that. She doesn’t seem to really like to be messy, she is always very gentle when she touches things and with her toys, and she is super huggy and lovable. And she looooves jewelry! Any chance she gets she plays with my necklaces, watch, rings, anything she can get her hands on. For Christmas I had asked for a few pieces of “teething jewelry” which basically are necklaces made from baby safe materials so that when you are wearing them, and a baby starts to chew on them, it’s ok. There was a blue one that I thought looked really cool online, but in person it is not so great. Oh well. But Sam certainly loves it! It has become her necklace. We only let her play with it when we are around so she doesn’t accidentally choke herself somehow but we really have to watch her like a hawk because the minute she sees it in the morning she puts it on and won’t willingly take it off. She looks so proud of herself when she walks around in it.
Here she is putting it on over her pajamas. Not her most stylish moment, but adorable nonetheless.
As you can see, the baby safe chewing aspect comes in handy!
What a week this has been!
pamelamyers | January 26, 2011
Or should I say, what a winter! As I type this, it is snowing. Again. It snowed this morning, rained, then just finished sleeting for a while and now that we have a layer of ice down nice and slippery, it is snowing on top. We are expecting about another 10 inches. This has been the snowiest winter. By pure measurement, last winter was worse snow-wise, but it has snowed what seems like at least once, if not twice, per week for over a month. The newscasters call the storms we have been having “nuisance snow” which is a good definition because they certainly have been that. Every snow seems to come right during morning rush hour. Anyway, it has given us a lot of hectic mornings trying to get Sam out of the house so I could go to work, but she has been a real trooper. Sam never gives me too much trouble getting ready in the morning, putting on her coat, etc., and I am thankful for that.
She is definitely doing better, healthwise. Her cold is almost gone. In the last few days she has been back to her regular level of energy and her appetite, which took a real nosedive, is coming back. We had just gotten to a point where we felt she was eating a good amount of food at a meal, then with this cold she just wouldn’t eat anything, even her favorite foods. All day with Sam was a never ending battle trying to get in 2 bites here, 2 bites there until she had enough food for the day. She has been doing well but last night she unexpectedly woke up crying at 4:00 a.m. and wouldn’t go back in her crib. I held her and she’d sleep, but she just would not lay down. Not surprising I guess since I could hear her breath rattling around in her chest. I think the congestion has moved a bit and she can’t breathe right. I hope tonight goes better and we all get some sleep!
No new pictures since Sam hasn’t exactly been up to it, nor looking her best, but we will try for some this weekend!
Sam’s First Photo
markmyers | January 20, 2011
I was sitting on the floor trying to photograph Sam looking at the books in the bookcase; she really like to take all the books out one by one and look at them. Whenever she sees me with my camera now she has to come over to check out all the photos on the LCD. She knows how to push some of the buttons on the back to scroll through the photos which is so cute. Well, today I was holding the camera when she came over and discovered a new button, the shutter release! Her eyes got really big at the prospect of pushing such a large button so I had to let her do it. So here it is — Sam’s first photo! I just had the camera sort of randomly pointed at the ceiling but I actually like this photo, very artisitic composition! Good job honey 🙂
