pamelamyers | March 26, 2016
Sam tied her shoes on her own! Whoo hoo! She has been practicing for a while now and I have been trying to show her, but no luck. Then all of the sudden yesterday she just came down the stairs in her sneakers and they were tied! Let’s see if she can keep doing it or it was a lucky break. I hope she finally got the hang of it. Way to go, Sam!
pamelamyers | March 19, 2016
Yesterday was the last day of school before spring break and Sam’s class had a big spring party planned. I hadn’t told Sam that I had signed up to be parent volunteer because I wanted to surprise her when I showed up. Well, best laid plans and all that…
Early in the morning, around 3 a.m. I would say, Sam came into our room like she always does. This time she brought an upset stomach with her. To make a long story short, she was up for the rest of the night, and the entire day on Friday throwing up. Every hour. All day. I have never seen her so sick in her life. Poor kid. She was so sick of being sick but she made me proud at how she handled it like a real trooper. She just carried her trash can around the whole day, played, and did everything I asked her to do. She was more upset about missing the party at school than about being sick. I assured her that I would email her teacher and ask that any little treats the kids were going to get be put aside for her until after the break (they always come home at holidays with pencils and other assorted doo-dads). I took care of her as well as I could, pushing sips of water, and giving lots and lots of hugs.
Eventually, the whole thing wiped her out and mid-afternoon, while watching a movie, curled up in a chair with Penelope, she fell sound asleep. It was a good long nap, about an hour and a half, which she needed. It was the first nap that kid has taken in years! I think it was very sweet of Penelope to curl up with her and keep her company. She really loves Sam so much.
Thankfully, today she seems to be back to her old self. The vomiting stopped around dinner time and she slept through the night. I am just glad it was only a 24 hour bug. One thing that struck me is that Sam commented on how she liked her sick day because I was so nice to her. I did everything she wanted me to do and I talked nicely to her and was so sweet with her. For a minute, I felt horrible. Like, am I so awful other times? But then I told her that it is easy to be nice to her when she is calm and sweet and not a maniac who is screaming at me to bring her things and fighting with me all the time. But anyway, she is right, I was really nice to her and she was really sweet with me. I wish it could be like that all the time, without the illness being involved. Something to strive for, I guess.
pamelamyers | March 17, 2016
Today was St. Patrick’s Day so I made sure that Sam was all ready for school in her green. When she got home the weather was decent so she played outside and just had to climb her tree. Lucky. That about says it all, doesn’t it?
Zach and Penny were not too happy we were outside and they weren’t. I love this! Zach is almost as tall as Sam is!
pamelamyers | March 13, 2016
Yesterday was the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade in Springfield. Sam loves a parade so we took her. It was a good distraction from what has been going on around here. It was a typical parade, full of lots of people walking and some cars, and fire trucks. We got a good spot, but Sam was complaining that she couldn’t see so I held her pretty much the whole time. Of course, in the 10 minutes I think Mark held her when I wanted to put her down for a while, the newspaper came and took their picture. Again. Sam and Mark were going to be in the paper. Again. Almost a year to the day from when they were in the paper at the sledding hill. Well, she is a cutie pie, and who can resist taking a picture of an adorable redhead on St. Patrick’s Day?
And I did make sure she was appropriately decked out in St. Paddy’s Day gear!
Mark was nice enough to run and get us ice cream from Sam’s favorite soft serve shop on the block where we were standing.
My favorite parade going pair. 🙂
We stayed for about 2 hours and Sam was cold and tired of standing, so we went home. She was so cold that Mark lent her his vest. She was a bit overwhelmed by it, to say the least, but she did say she was warm!
