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pamelamyers | November 6, 2012

Today is election day and we are voting in the Presidential election. I was trying to explain to Sam where we were going this morning before I dropped her off at Grandmom’s house. First, I tried telling her I had to go vote.  I told her this a few times but still, she looked at me very confused and said, “Mommy, why do you have to go on a boat?”  I cleared up that confusion and explained, the best I could to a three year old, what voting was.  I explained that we have to go and pick the person who makes all the rules we have to follow.  That we pick someone and hopefully, the person Mommy picks, will win. Suddenly, very excitedly, Sam said, “I know!  How ’bout….we pick an orange person!!”  Hmmm…not sure how to respond to that, but I guess orange is closer to red than blue, so….That’s our girl! 🙂

Sam was so patient and good in the long line we had to wait in to vote and kept everyone smiling with her smiles.  Both my mom and I let her push the big green VOTE button on the machine after making our choices so she was very proud of herself.  Now tonight, we wait to see how everything turns out.  Well, not Sam so much as Mark and I.  We’ll have to fill in Sam tomorrow but I suspect since the candidate, no matter who wins, is not orange, or Elmo, she won’t really care!

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pamelamyers | November 5, 2012

Today my mom and I had Sam at the mall doing some Christmas shopping. In Macy’s near the kids’ section, there is a large red and white mailbox where kids can put letters to Santa Claus along with some postcards pre-addressed to the North Pole.  Sam loves mailboxes and mail in general, so she was very excited.  I explained to her what it was for and then told her we could take one of the cards home to write her letter.  All night she was bouncing off the walls waiting to do her letter. When I finally told her it was time, she ran off to get her crayons and as she was climbing up on the chair I heard her say, “Santa, I wuv you…” She is so sweet. 🙂

Sam finished her scribbled message and we put on her “stamps” (stickers). I promised her we would mail it soon.  Here is her letter. I hope Santa is feeling the love and brings her lots of presents!

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pamelamyers | November 2, 2012

With Hurricane Sandy gone, we were all very anxious to get outside in the air.  It is still very cloudy but the sun is trying to peek out and at least, thankfully, it is dry. On Halloween day, Mark cleaned up all the leaves that had fallen in the storm from our driveway and sidewalks and even cleaned up the front yard.  He assembled them at the edge of the lawn for leaf pickup this week and, like all leaf piles, it was a kid magnet.  Sam couldn’t wait to get out there and crunch crunch crunch in the leaves!

She is always a happy little girl but I think even she was getting a bit down from being inside so much.  The smiles on her face were wonderful to see.

Collecting leaves is a very big deal to Sam.  She is constantly picking up random “boofibul” leaves every single time we go outside, even just to get into the car.  This time of year is her favorite because she is so fascinated by all the colored leaves.  Here she was showing me her array and telling me all the colors she found.

Her favorite was a red dogwood that she kept wanting to show Mark.

Off she goes!  There are more leaves to crunch!

The beloved dogwood leaf again…

Examining her treasures.

As many leaves as have come down, there are still more on the trees.  We will be raking or blowing leaves for ages yet, and happily, Sam will have a lot more time to collect her favorites!

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pamelamyers | November 2, 2012

Sam loves cakes and brownies and such and recently I promised her we would make cupcakes together.  I have been waiting for Sam to get old enough to bake with me and she has reached the age where she can actually help, so I decided we’d finally make some.  She always hides when I use my stand mixer because she thinks it is too loud, but when it came time to actually fill the cupcake cups, she was right there to watch.  Standing on her chair to help me, she had a million questions about why I was doing what I was doing and she ever so helpfully pointed out every single time I spilled some batter.   Her favorite part, of course, was helping me put on the frosting.

Sam wanted her very own knife and picked out which cupcakes she wanted to do.

More frosting was going in her mouth than on the cupcakes, but who can blame her?

When I tried to pick up the ones she already semi-frosted she kept yelling at me, “No Mommy!  There is already frosting on there!”

Overall though, I was very proud of her.  She took her time and really tried to do a good job.

On to the reward – eating!

Christmas cookies will be right around the corner.  I can’t wait to see what we will do together then.

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pamelamyers | November 1, 2012

This Halloween was the first when we could actually get Sam to say Trick or Treat when she went door to door.  Well, sort of.  She went running around the house yelling it, and said it all the way down the block, but when she actually got to someone’s house, she would be shy and not say anything.  A few times I got her to say it, and she would say thank you if I prompted her, so that is something.  Sam was so excited — the entire day she was bouncing off the walls and kept saying every five minutes, “I’m ready!!” even though it was way too early and not even dark out.  Finally, at a little before trick or treat time, we gave in and dressed her in her costume and went out.

Before we stopped in next door to our neighbor Joe and Debbie’s house, we took an official Halloween portrait in front of their decorations.  Joe and Debbie gave her lots and lots of goodies (as usual) and then we were on our way!

Mark took her out first while I waited at home for the trick or treaters.  Then it was my turn to take Sam out.  We went to one neighbor’s house and he was sitting outside holding a bowl of candy all dressed up like a Frankenstein monster.  I swear, I thought it was a dummy he was so still.  We took our candy from his bowl and when we turned to leave, a group of kids about 7 or 8 years old went up to him and we heard screaming!  He had jumped up at them and scared them to death!  I am so glad he was smart enough to not to that to Sam (I will have to thank him later….) but Sam thought it was pretty funny that the kids got spooked.  She kept saying, “That was scary!” but with a little grin on her face.  I am sure she would not have thought it was amusing if it happened to her!

After a while, Sam starting asking me why we were going to another house. I told her it was so she could get more candy and she replied, “But my bucket is full!”  Boy, has she got a lot to learn about Halloween greed!  She asked me to hold her bucket since it was getting heavy and we eventually headed home.  Time to count the loot!

Sam always likes to dump everything out to see what she got.  She had to show Mark every single piece one by one.  “I got this…and I got this…and I got this…”

She was one happy little frog!

We took her out of her costume and I tried to get her to go to bed. It had been a long day and she was exhausted.  She wouldn’t put her pajamas on because, in her words, the trick or treaters were still coming!  I guess they aren’t allowed to see her in her pajamas…Actually, it was fine keeping her up because she had so much fun giving candy to all the older kids who came later.  I think she enjoyed it as much as trick or treating. She would carefully put a piece in every bag and if I tried to take the candy from her, or put it back in the bowl, she got very possessive.  She kept telling me I could go in the kitchen because she could do the candy all by herself.

I really was never a big Halloween fan once I passed the costume years but seeing how much fun Sam has, and how cute she looks in her costume every year, makes it a pretty darn good holiday.

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