pamelamyers | November 28, 2011
This Thanksgiving, as well as every Thanksgiving, I had so many things to be thankful for. I am thankful for Mark, my husband, my anchor, my rock. For Zephyr and all the love she gives me and for reminding me to think of things smaller, but equally as significant, as myself. For my family, who gives much more than they receive in return. For our jobs, our health, our home. For my friends and for all of the kindnesses received from complete strangers who see a harried mother trying to wrangle a small child. But mostly, for our Sam. Samantha, how can we begin to put into words how thankful your daddy and I are for you? For your very presence in our lives? Each day we spend with you we talk about how lucky we are, how you have enriched our lives in ways we never imagined. Happy Thanksgiving, Samantha. We love you so very much!
Here is Sam after checking out our turkey. She loves to hang onto our backs now and get a piggy back ride.
At dinner, Sam didn’t eat one bite (not a surprise, our picky girl remained picky). But she did have fun playing with her food and stabbing her roll with her knife. She also learned to toast and happily clinked her cup against all of our wine glasses!
Here is the happy Myers family, looking exhausted from all the cooking!
Sam’s favorite part of the day was hanging out with all of her grandparents. She gets so excited when she sees her Grandmom and Poppy and her Mom Mom and Pop Pop. She kept asking for her cousin Maddox, Aunt Krissy and Uncle Adam, but we told her she’d see them soon and that we know they missed seeing her as much as she missed them.
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pamelamyers | November 27, 2011
We had such nice weather the weekend before Thanksgiving that I decided to put up all of our outside Christmas lights. Sam had no idea what I was doing since Mark had her out most of the time, and that night we decided to surprise her and light everything up. The lights were Sam’s favorite part of Christmas last year, except maybe for snowmen, so we knew she would be excited. Mark took her to the end of the lawn down by the sidewalk and we counted down 3 – 2- 1 and I turned all the lights on! Stringing lights is always so frustrating, but the expression on her face made everything worth it.
This big lighted balls are hanging from our dogwood tree. Every time we go outside Sam asks to touch.
The snowmen are new this year. We just had to buy them for our little angel.
Sam had so much fun running around the yard in the dark touching everything she could get her hands on. We’ll post a picture of our house as soon as we take one so you can all see what the fuss is about!
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pamelamyers | November 23, 2011
Recently we got a new front door, one that actually has a lot of glass in it, and it lets so much light into our formerly very dark living room. We also got a full view storm door so that we can leave the main door open and let the light in. Zephyr loves it (although it took her some getting used to — I think she thought there was nothing there) and Sam likes it too since she gets a great view of the goings-on on our street. Here are some cute pictures Mark took.
Sam really hates loud noises of any kind. Any time she hears something loud (including the hair dryer) she puts her hands up over her ears just like this. I am not sure what she heard here, but this is a very classic Sam pose.
Sam looked so cute in her new Elmo shirt that I asked her to smile and she just wouldn’t. Finallly, I said, Sam, smile like this, and I smiled and sort of tipped my head a bit, and the little mimic did exactly that!
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pamelamyers | November 20, 2011
It is that time again, autumn in Pennsylvania, and yes, that means a lot of leaf clean up. We hadn’t done on bit of raking this year so boy, did we have a lot of leaves. Last year, we had hoped that Sam would really like playing in the leaves but she was so scared! We did manage to get a few good pictures of her, but they were hard won. This year I had thought she would do better since once in a while Sam enjoys crunching through some small piles of leaves in the yard. Success! Sam loved the leaves and crashing through them, throwing them up in the air, and as you will see, burying her daddy! She even grabbed a rake and pitched in with the clean up. She does have a shovel….I see some snow clean up in her future. 🙂
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pamelamyers | November 20, 2011
Yesterday Sam discovered the joy of candy buttons. I looooved those as a kid, and well, yeah, let’s admit it, I still love them. There are just certain candies that never get old. Sam wanted them so badly in the store but we didn’t think she even understood that they were candy. When I showed her that you could eat them once we got home, she dug right in. She just sat on the couch and peeled off one by one and ate every single one. Once in a while, she would show me a button and say, “Paper. Off!” and I tried to explain to her that eating a little paper is just part of eating buttons, but she didn’t go for it. I had to help her peel the little bits off. Well, someday I am sure she won’t care.
Tonight I was putting her to bed and we were reading, “I Am A Bunny” by Richard Scarry. She has been pretty obsessed with this little book about Nicholas the bunny and we read it every night. I so clearly remember reading this book as a child and just loving it. It was one of my favorites. Being able to read it now to my own child is quite an experience. I told Sam tonight that this was one of mommy’s favorite books when she was a little girl and I asked her which page was her favorite. My favorite was the one with the dandelions and I admit to hoping it was her favorite too. I told her I’d turn the pages and she could tell me when we came to her favorite one. Sam was so quiet the whole time until we got to the page with the frogs and she quickly yelled out, “Favorite!” It was so adorable. I expected her to just point to a page, or say, yes, or something like that. Yelling “favorite” was just too cute. Ok, so she didn’t have the same favorite page I did, but the fact that she loves the book too is enough for me.
Everyone always says you see the world differently when you have a child because you see everything through their eyes and it is true. You experience everything all over again like it is new for the first time. You get to learn about things all over again, to see every detail, to really take it in. I am loving every single “old” thing that I learn “new” with Sam. I am learning to slow down, to experience each moment, to not rush the days away. That is one of the biggest things my daughter has given me. It is quite a gift to be given a new outlook on life. To really experience things. Sam is helping to keep me young, at least in my mind, and I can’t really ask her for much more than that.
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