Sam and Zephyr

| April 17, 2011

Sam, as I have mentioned, loves the kitties, both ours and my mom’s.  She never really gets to touch Zephyr that much, but she is always trying.  Of all the cats, my mom’s cat Blackie, is the most amenable to being petted and even hugged.  Muffin always liked Sam when she was a baby (I think they’d get along great now if he was still with us).  Bella, my mom’s other cat, doesn’t really like or dislike Sam, she just sort of doesn’t care one way or another, but that being the case, she doesn’t spend a lot of time with Sam.  Zephyr, well….I think Zephyr likes Sam in general, but is a little jealous of Sam, which is not surprising.  She has always been a bit of a princess and doesn’t like us paying too much attention to anyone but her.  Sam has being trying so hard to pet Zephyr and hug her. We have really been working with Sam to teach her how to properly pet animals, and Zephyr has been getting a lot better at letting Sam touch her which is very sweet.

This morning Sam was sitting in our bay window watching the squirrels eating the bread we threw out when Zephyr shocked all three of us by jumping up into the window to join her!

As you can see, Sam was so excited!  Zephyr was doing her cat best to look bored and nonchalant. 

I am hopeful that they will be great friends.  As long as Sam can keep her little mitts off of Zephyr’s tail….

There’s showers, so where are the flowers?

| April 16, 2011

We have been looking for some outside toys for Sam to play with in the yard when we take her out because otherwise she gets bored.  There is always her beloved swing, of course, but she can’t swing non-stop (try telling her that though).  Besides her shovels, she has a bunch of other little toys including a watering can.  She carried it around a few times but I don’t think she actually knew what it was.  (I have a watering can in the house, but since every plant I try to keep dies on me, mostly from my lack of watering, I don’t think Sam quite got the idea.)  Anyway, this weekend I decided to show her how it works and filled it with water.  I have created a monster.  Sam LOVES pouring the water out of the can and kept asking me to fill it again and again.  Now if I could just get her to pour the water anywhere but on herself, that would be great…

Happy Sam

| April 12, 2011

Tell me this little girl was not hamming it up for the camera this weekend! I swear she was posing intentionally for me, trying out different expressions and doing a casual little lean on the wall. I can’t get over how cute she looks. 🙂

This is her one hand on hip, one hand posed charmingly oh-so grown up look.

Sam makes the funniest faces.  I have no idea what this expression was about.  I think she was figuring out what pose to try next.

We swear she knows she is unbearably cute and she actually tries to be whenever she can.

Pam scrubbed and vacuumed up our porch this weekend so that it is all clean and ready to go for the nice weather.  Although Sam has been joining Zephyr out there a lot, it is such a mess with all the pollen and dust that collects that we can’t even sit on the chairs.  Now that it is cleaned up, we can finally go out there and enjoy it.  Of course, the minute Sam saw Pam sit on a chair, she had to do it too.

The novelty soon wore off, however, and Sam tried to get down.  It was a little high up though, so she tried to shimmy her way off.

Sam is my favorite little model.   She certainly makes buying all the camera equipment I have worth every penny I spent.

Playground Bound

| April 12, 2011

We took Sam to the playground after dinner one night to give her something different to do.  There were a bunch of teenagers playing volleyball that totally captured her attention (she kept yelling “ball!” and trying to go over to them).  Once we managed to distract her from them, she was happy to of course, swing.  She thought it was pretty funny that mommy was swinging too. I think she thought it was a toddler-only activity.  I had a blast too! 

Daddy decided to swing as well and Sam was thrilled to have the company!  We always managed to be on an opposing swing (when she is back, we are front, and vice versa) and she liked passing us by every time.

I love looking at her little grin.  There is nothing better than seeing her smiley, happy face having a good time.

Next stop, the sliding board!  These particular ones are way to big for her to do alone, so we helped out. She  wasn’t scared, but she didn’t seem like she knew quite what was going on.  By the second or third run though, she was quietly giggling when she reached the bottom.

The merry-go-round was not such a big hit.  She didn’t hate it, but let’s say she wasn’t in love with it either.  I think she’s not used to the spinning motion yet.  But she’ll get there!

Sam’s Swingin’ Session Year 2!

| April 12, 2011

Once again Spring has sprung and it’s swing time!  As you can see, Sam loves her swing as much this year as she did last year.  Look at that little face!  Is that a happy child or what?

I love how her hair blows when she swings.

This is usually the expression you get when you first let her go. I pull the swing way, way up towards me and then let go, and she smiles and laughs and kicks her feet.

Swinging was always one of my favorite things to do when I was a little girl, and Sam obviously takes after me!  I cannot get over how big she looks now compared to last year.  For a blast from the past, click here.