Morning loveliness

| October 28, 2013

Mark hasn’t taken any morning photos of Sam for a while but he got the urge this past weekend and Sam was in the mood. It is hard to pass up good lighting and a cooperative child. He managed to get some really good shots on both days.

How she looks so happy and so spunky in the mornings amazes me. She certainly didn’t get that from us. Neither Mark nor I are “morning people.”

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She has the most expressive face. You can just see the thoughts racing across her brain.

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Mark was near the door trying to get good light and the wind came up. She is really due for a slight trim to her hair, what will be her first, but when I see it doing things like this it makes me not want to cut a millimeter. That gorgeous hair!

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I could just kiss that face! How could anyone resist those little lips? Ok, boys, back off!!

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She really is such a good little model. Sam hadn’t been sleeping well, but she just keeps on going and smiling.

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What a perfect final shot for this post.  Bye bye!

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Giving thanks

| October 28, 2013

Sam came downstairs this morning and wanted to just hang out on the couch for a while and watch TV. She asked me if she could lay under her owl blanket, which she uses all the time. She said to me, “I am never going to give my owl blanket away”. She has been saying something like that all time lately, “I am never going to give [x] away” probably because I keep telling her if she doesn’t start playing with her million toys that she never plays with, I am going to give them away to kids who have no toys. Anyway, after she said it, I said, “You love your owl blanket don’t you? You got it for Christmas last year, remember?” and she asked me if Santa brought it to her and I told her yes. Then she said the sweetest thing. She said maybe we could write a letter to Santa and tell him thank you for my owl blanket.

I always knew that Sam was a sweet, sensitive girl, a girl who truly cares about other people’s feelings, a girl who is polite, says please, says thank you. But for her to think to say thank you to Santa was more than I ever expected. I told her that would be very, very nice indeed since I don’t think Santa gets many thank yous. But he did today. And this Santa’s helper won’t forget.