Sam and her Poppy
pamelamyers | June 20, 2011
My parents came over before dinner and Sam, of course, helped her Poppy open his Father’s Day gifts.
Here’s your hat!
Happy Father’s Day to a great Poppy!
More Father’s Day pics
pamelamyers | June 20, 2011
All Mark really wanted for Father’s Day was to spend time bonding with his little girl. So that’s what he got!
It was breakfast time, so they shared a favorite, Cheerios!
Sam decided, mid-breakfast, that it was book time. Mark loves reading to her since it is really a great bonding time. She just snuggles in and lets herself be read to. On this particular occasion, Sam wanted to sit up and be, shall we say, interactive. She almost kicked him a million times and kept turning all the pages herself.
She loves her pop-up books! This particular one, our friend Teresa brought over from England on her last trip. Sam loves it!
Here Mark was saying, “What does the sheep say? Baaaaa”, and they were both baaaaing together.
We got Sam dressed and took her outside to try to get a few good pictures of Mark and her together. She was hamming it up the whole time, as you can see.
Finally, Mark gave in and hammed it up too. If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em!
One last snapshot of Mark and his favorite girls – Sam and Zephyr. I would like to think I am one of his faves too, but someone had to take the picture!
Father’s Day Festivities
pamelamyers | June 20, 2011
Here are some of the pictures from Father’s Day. I had all of Mark’s presents nicely piled up on our coffee table. Someone ever so helpfully threw them on the floor. Is that an “uh oh” face, or what?
Sam could not wait to tear into the gifts. She has the most mischievous smile. I told her to wait for Daddy but she wasn’t having it.
Sam is so good at opening presents now. It is such a big change even from Christmas.
Mark needed some new clothes so that was most of his gifts.
I don’t think Mark got to actually open one gift.
Sam had this shirt custom made for her Daddy.
Daddy’s little helper. 🙂
We’ve moved to the couch. Wait! There are MORE presents?!
The last box was a new iPod. I think that’s the only gift Mark opened himself.
This was Mark’s last gift – Sam’s buried treasure. We recently had a new step and walkway put in and with all the digging to lay the new concrete, we have a lot of loose dirt. Sam was playing, of course, and found this quarter, her buried treasure. Mark wanted to keep it because (a) Sam found it so it makes it special and (b) because it is a 1972 quarter, his birth year. Well, of course Sam dropped it and we looked everywhere and couldn’t find it. Mark was pretty sure he knew the general area where she must have lost it, but no luck. Later that night while Mark was busy I went outside to see if I could find it and I could not believe my luck, but I did! Sam and I put it in a nice ring box and wrapped it up special. She was happy to share her treasure with her Dad.
I wrote a Happy Father’s Day message outside in chalk for Mark while we were playing with Sam, but she thought it needed some embellishment, hence, the purple. I think it looks a lot better than what I drew, don’t you think?
