What has Sam been up to?
pamelamyers | July 15, 2011
Well, wearing this cute little hat for one!
Believe me, getting her to wear a hat this year has been an uphill battle. Last year she wore a hat, and sunglasses, all the time. But then again, she was a little tyke and didn’t know that she had a choice in the matter. Now, however, she does know and she is very happy to assert her will. For the longest time, every time I would put a hat on her Sam would immediately take it off, throw it on the ground, and laugh. We had some major battles about the fact that Mommy did NOT find this funny, and she WILL wear a hat. You can imagine how many of those arguments I won. Yeah, not many. But for whatever reason, the novelty of throwing her hat off has worn off somewhat and she will wear it pretty regularly. It actually seems that she is getting the whole point of wearing a hat now because Mark has seen her in the bright sun tugging the brim down over her face.
As for the rest of our latest news, things have been going really well. Sam is getting bigger and smarter and funnier every day. It seems like from one day to the next she is learning how to do more things. She surprises me all the time by what she figures out, what she understands, and what she can do. Mark and I have noticed that she is like me in one way — when she is attempting to do something and it isn’t quite working out, she gets frustrated fast and throws a bit of a fit. I am like that. Well, I don’t throw fits, but I get frustrated quickly. I am trying to teach her that it is ok when things don’t always work, you just try again.
Her sleep habits have been a little off in the past couple of weeks. She has been waking up early and yelling, about 5:00 or 5:30 a.m. For a while, I was going in to get her, but it was getting old having to wake up so early. So, Mark and I decided to let her cry it out. Sure enough, just like in the past, she pitches a fit for a few minutes then gets quiet and hangs out in her crib. She has been waking up at 7:00 a.m. for a long time now, and sometimes we can only get her to 6:30 these days, but we are hoping things even out soon. She still doesn’t seem to make it past 7:00 p.m. for bedtime, so maybe she just needs less sleep. She has been fighting going to bed a little too at night. Not so much crying as asking for one more book, one more song, one more hug. Eventually, I have to just tell her, Sam, you are going in your crib for night night and that’s that! It is funny, it took me a while to figure out what she was saying but I finally did. Sometimes, I stand up after holding her in the glider and walk to her crib and she yells what sounds like, Dit Dit Dit! She is actually saying, Sit. She wants me to go back to the chair to read again or to sing another song. At least she has been a good napper sleeping about 2 hours at a time. That only took her, oh, almost 2 years to accomplish. 🙂 Wow. Pretty soon she will be 2 years old. How did that happen?