Samantha's first blog

pamelamyers | September 25, 2011

This has been the rainiest few weeks we have ever had, it seems like.  We haven’t been able to get Sam out as much as we have wanted to.  Today, the rain let up and it was actually a pretty nice day.  Mark and I took Sam to the playground so she could play on the slide.  I was so upset that I missed her very first slide by herself on Thursday and Mark wanted to get her back there as soon as we could so I could see it.

Sam has always been such a cautious little girl.  She never rushes head first into anything.  She thinks and explores and examines and finally, maybe, she will decide it is ok to do or try.  We have been trying to get her to go down a slide for months, at least, and she just wouldn’t go on her own.  All of the sudden she decided it was time.  Mark said she pushed his leg out of the way and down she went.

Here is our very grown up little girl on the very big slide!

After all the sliding, we hit the merry go round.  This is also something Sam was never really comfortable with. Not anymore!  She loved spinning round and round.

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pamelamyers | September 25, 2011

We had Sam’s birthday party the day after her birthday.  We kept it small this year, just her grandparents, her Aunt Krista, Uncle Adam and her cousin Maddox.  Since even with that small group, it is 10 people, we made a turkey.  Sam was a big help.  She was so funny.  The turkey was done earlier than we expected, so we took it out of the oven and tented it with foil.  As soon as Mark covered it, Sam started saying, “Hiding!  Hiding!”  I love that she is wearing all her new beads that Mark and I gave her.  She had just opened them that morning and couldn’t resist putting them all on.  And I mean, “all”.

Sam and Maddox had fun playing outside after dinner while we cleaned up.

Sam got so many nice presents — among other things, lots of clothes and pajamas, some Elmo books, a jewelry box from my Aunt Barbara, a cradle for her baby dolls from her Grandmom and Poppy, and a tricycle from her Mom Mom and Pop Pop.  We can’t wait to see her tooling around the sidewalk in the spring!  Her legs are just slightly too short to reach the pedals yet, but she will be riding it in no time.  We purposely picked a trike that was a little bigger so she can enjoy it longer.

Here is Sam’s cake!  Her party had an Elmo theme since he is tops in her book.

Sam just loves the singing and the candles for birthdays.  We have had a lot of that lately with both of her grandmoms and then her mommy.  She was so glad it was her turn!  Poppy was nice enough to put her up on the table so she got a great view of her cake.

The proud mom and dad with their very special birthday girl. 🙂

Sam really liked her cake.  After each bite I gave her she’d say, “Mmmmmm!”

One of Sam’s other presents that turned out to be one of her favorite things, was her tea set that Krista, Adam and Maddox gave her.  I think she watches Grandmom make a lot of tea because she knew exactly what to do!  She was pouring us all tea and handing out cups in no time!

Sunday morning, most of her balloons had deflated a bit, so they were down low for Sam to drag around the house. She loves balloons.

Maybe she needs some help navigating the house here.  I don’t even think she could see!

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pamelamyers | September 25, 2011

Sam’s 2nd birthday happened to be on a Friday this year which was convenient since I am off from work that day.  Although, let’s be serious, I would have taken off for my little girl’s birthday no matter what day of the week it was!  Anyway, it was really nice being home with her and being able to spend the whole day lavishing attention on her and letting her know how special the day was.  Mark was working at home, which was also great, since we all got to have lunch together, and Sam got to pop down to see him a few times during the day.

Sam started her day by cleaning house!  She uses her corn popper like a vacuum cleaner.  Oh, yes, those are my slippers she is wearing!  I love the outfit she had on, it was so fall-like.  Sam adorned it with her stickers as you can see.

Her big gift from Mark and I was a table and chairs.  She loves little chairs.  Our Carter’s store has a set and Sam spends more time rearranging the chairs and pushing them in and out than actually sitting in them, but we knew she would love it.  I think the expression on her face and the big smile says it all.  She had Grover sitting down in no time, then later Raggedy Ann and Andy.

Sam quickly got the idea and settled with a good book.

She does this all the time now when we are reading — she grabs the book and says, “Hide!” and covers her face. She stays that way until I tickle her mercilessly.

After a pizza dinner, one of Sam’s favorites, we had doughnuts in lieu of cake, since her party was the next day.  Sam picked out her very own doughnut at the supermarket that morning, one with “M’s” (what she calls M&Ms) on it.  She liked that we were singing to her.

Here are Mark and Sam blowing out her candle.  Sam did make a good whoosh but she needed some help.

After her doughnut, and after putting on her pajamas, it was present time!  Sam loves to open presents, so we got her a bunch of little things so she had packages to open.  Her table and chairs were nice, but they weren’t covered in wrapping paper!  Here she is opening her little Sesame Street figures — Elmo, Cookie Monster, Super Grover and Oscar the Grouch.

All in all, Sam had a great day and so did we!

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