Samantha's first blog

pamelamyers | March 15, 2012

Sam has gotten to that adorable age when she is really into make believe.  One of my favorite parts of that is how she treats her stuffed animals like they are really alive.  She talks to them and holds them and handles them like they are real.

As we posted about a million years ago, Boo Boo is her favorite in the whole world.  She won’t sleep without it and is pretty obsessed with the little guy.  She goes to Boo Boo for comfort and gets very upset when he is missing.  When she comes into our bed, Boo Boo has to come too. One particular morning, I was getting ready for work and she was playing in her room. I could hear her talking but wasn’t really paying attention to what she was saying.  She called me in later saying something about Boo Boo.  I came into her room and looked in her bed and didn’t see him.  I asked her where he was and she told me he was sleeping.  I didn’t know what she was talking about until she showed me where Boo Boo was….all tucked in to the bed she has made for him on the floor.  She put her bee pillow and her blanket, that she uses every night, on the floor and tucked him in tight.  She was so proud.  I told her she was very good to Boo Boo and that we should let him sleep.  Boo Boo stayed there all day snug like a bug in a rug. 🙂

Sam has done such cute things with her animals.  The other day, she took her monkey outside when we went to play.  She insisted he had to sit in her stroller.  She tucked him all in and made me help her strap him in.  Hey, who am I to argue?  We buckled the monkey in.  It’s hard to explain, but there are these little plastic rings on the top of the shoulder straps in her Bob stroller. I have no idea what they are for other than to maybe make it easier to pull the straps to tighten them, but when Sam was a baby she used to chew on them.  She gave one of the rings to her monkey and said, “Here, monkey, chew on this” and put it right over his mouth.

The other day, she was cooking in her kitchen with her tiger.  I wasn’t really watching her every move but apparently, tiger was very helpful because I clearly saw her finish with her pots then look at her tiger and say, “Thank you, Tiger” then she gave him a kiss.

I am so very happy that Sam loves animals, both the real ones and the stuffed variety.  She is such a sweet, sensitive girl.  We are raising her to be that way, to be sensitive to others, to understand that animals are as important as people, and it seems to be working.  I am so proud of the way Sam is growing up and the little girl she is turning into.  One of the things you always have to wonder as a parent is, no matter how hard to try, is my kid going to turn out all right?  And as far as I can see, my little one is turning out just great.  I love you, Sam!

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pamelamyers | March 13, 2012

I haven’t said anything lately about Sam’s progress in her big girl bed.  Well, she has been doing pretty well.  She has been going to sleep ok, and sleeping through the night.  Our only problem was that in the morning when she wakes up, she refuses to just stay in her room.  That was our whole goal.  To get her to wake up at her ungodly hour of the morning and just play with her toys instead of waking us up.  No go.  When Sam wakes up at 5:00 a.m. or whenever, she insists we get up too.  She yells, she cries, she complains.  Mark or I wind up going to get her and bringing her into our bed for an hour or so until we feel like we can manage to begin the day.  I never wanted to get into the habit of letting her sleep in our bed.  That is a really bad habit that is hard to break, and I only let her do it once or twice when she was sick.  But, and hour or so I think I can handle.  And I really don’t mind.  I never do go back to sleep, but I would rather lay in my bed in a semi-coma than have to be downstairs.  Sam handles it pretty well.  She squirms around a lot, but she is pretty quiet and hangs out until about 6:00.  We were hoping that when daylight savings time came and we pushed the clocks forward she’d sleep until 6:00 or 6:30 — success!  Changing the clocks worked.  Our only problem now is that she doesn’t want to go to bed until 8:30 at night….If it’s not one thing it’s another…

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pamelamyers | March 11, 2012

Sam’s hair is getting so insanely long that if we don’t brush it first thing after she wakes up she looks as if she has been caught in a tornado!  Well, this day, we were not so lucky getting hold of her with a comb.  Mark loves this photo of her “big hair”. 🙂

My little goofball showing off…

I really can’t get over her hair!  How did I get this little redhead?!

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pamelamyers | March 7, 2012

Sam is so in love with her kitties.  My mom’s cats, Blackie and Bella, are nicer to her than Zephyr is, especially Blackie.  He is so tolerant of her, putting up with all her squishing of him, her shoving her toys in his face to show him things, and her friendly torture that she thinks of as hugging.  Bella is getting more used to Sam.  Zephyr has actually been the hardest.  She is taking longer than all of the other cats to come around.  I think it is only natural since she is the one who has cause to be jealous.  My mom’s cats know that Sam is just visiting and don’t feel quite so put out.  We have tried so hard to pay as much attention to our little cat as we can.  We love her so dearly and don’t want her to feel second best.  But…as you can imagine, it has been hard.  Sam has to come first most of the time and we have to pay attention to her.  Usually, if one of us is with Sam, and Zephyr is around, the other tries to be with Zephyr.

We have tried to let Sam touch and hug and get to know Zephyr as much as possible without forcing Zephyr to make nice.  Zephyr has never, ever hurt Sam or even been aggressive, but most of the time she would rather Sam just stay away.  She is getting better all the time though.  We praise her when she lets Sam do things to her, and we have been trying to let Sam help take care of Zephyr by combing her, giving her food, and putting ice in her water so that Zephyr sees Sam as helpful and not a pain in the butt.

This day, Sam was so proud that she was helping to feed Zephyr and I was so proud of my little cat for letting Sam help.  I want them to bond and be friends and this day was a very good step.

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pamelamyers | March 7, 2012

Our little Picasso was hard at work again!  It has always been sort of sad to me that she has very little interest in coloring for some reason.  I personally love to color and couldn’t wait to whip out the crayons with Sam when she was old enough.  She just isn’t that into it for some reason.  I think partially, it has to do with the fact that you have to press down a bit to get the color to show up, and she just doesn’t have the hang of it yet.  She got some washable magic markers for Christmas and she does love those, although, I will admit, I don’t give them to her very often.  They do, as advertised, wash up really easily, but she makes such a mess, grabbing all the tips all the time that I can’t deal with it.  So, not so much magic markering.  She did discover finger paints recently.  Yeah, I know, they are MORE of a mess, but I can’t inhibit my daughter completely!  Here is our little artist working hard.

Look how daintily she has one finger in the paint.  She is so funny.  She likes the painting, but after every dip or two in the paint she asks us to clean her fingers.  Alas, my tendencies toward excessive neatness have carried over onto my poor child!  I hate having messy hands, to the extent that I am weird about eating certain food because it causes too much of a mess, and I think I have projected into onto her a little bit.  Well, I am working on not letting her get that way, I want her to explore, have fun, make a mess, and be a kid!  Sam, you keep on painting, and spilling, and making a mess — have fun, kiddo!

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