Samantha's first blog

pamelamyers | January 12, 2015

Julia came over to play with Sam yesterday and, in addition to their usual antics, and dress up, of course, they played at something new. Usually the two of them wind up in Sam’s bedroom for a while and I tend to leave them on their own. Yesterday, I needed to go upstairs anyway, and I noticed Sam’s door was closed tight. I tried to open it and they blocked me out with pleas to not come in yet. Eventually, I was allowed in. The two little mischief makers had completely upended Sam’s table and had chairs and stuffed animals and a hundred other things all over the place. After the initial shock (and the dismay at the impending clean up) wore off, I was told it was movie time. This was their theater. The table is the screen, you see, and all the stuffed animals and dolls were there to see the show. The girls thoughtfully gave everyone a seat, even me.

Sam has a tiny popcorn box so she was completely prepared.

Sam narrated the show, which was a fascinating tale about a girl and her quest to find her friends. It turned out well, thankfully. I wasn’t in the mood for a sad movie.

The movie seemed never ending and I cut out at intermission. It was a good thing, since I think the goofballs were done being serious about their show!

I swear, 5 year old minds are amazing to me. I wish I still had that kind of imagination!

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pamelamyers | January 10, 2015

I was cleaning out our coat closet and asked Mark to please go through the mountain of hats and gloves he has. As he was sorting, we found this balaclava that he sometimes wears for shoveling snow. Yup, it gets that bad here sometimes. Sam couldn’t wait to try it on. She called this her “bandit face”. I personally think she looks like a little Ninja. I just needed to put her in an all black outfit.

One other day, she came wandering in the room wearing what she calls her “Daddy clothes” (jeans, black shirt, work boots) and a mustache taped to her face (courtesy of Mr. Potato Head). She sat in Daddy’s chair to complete the look for the picture. How she comes up with these things, I have no idea. She does have quite an imagination! I never know what she is going to do next.

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pamelamyers | January 3, 2015

Mark and I wanted to take Sam somewhere fun on our break so we decided on the Academy of Natural Sciences (or, as everyone calls it, the dinosaur museum, because let’s face it, nothing else matters!) Sam really didn’t know what to expect. As soon as we got there, from the ticket counter, you can see the dino bones on display. The T-Rex is prominently displayed up front because he is the most recognizable I suppose. We asked Sam what she thought of all the skeletons and she said she didn’t expect the dinosaurs to be so big! I guess it’s hard to imagine the scale without seeing them for real.

After all the bones, there was a green screen room where you could pretend to be in dinosaur land. Mark and Sam jumped right in! Eek, look out!

The tried not to get chomped by a dinosaur but Sam didn’t look scared one bit. Look at those teeth!

There is a cute area for kids where you can dig for fossils. They give the kids tools and let them loose. Sam dove right in seeing if she could find anything interesting.

My little paleontologist. 🙂

She used one of the brushes to uncover a great fossil!

The museum also has a big butterfly house. There were some amazing ones I had never seen before, very different than the Monarchs we generally see.

In the kid zone, Sam made some fossil rubbings to take home…

…and explored what things look like under a microscope. Daddy’s fingerprint was funny! Sam also liked feeling all the animal pelts and skins. The alligator was her favorite.

After seeing all the exhibits, one last stop at the mechanical dinosaur that Sam liked. She was a little unsure if he was real or not. We assured her, he is not. Roar!

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