Samantha's first blog

pamelamyers | April 20, 2016

Samantha has been to so many birthday parties this year. We haven’t missed one. I always feel like if we don’t already have plans, I should let her go. It is a good chance for her to play with her school friends and since I am so horrible at arranging play dates, it is rare that she gets to play outside of school with any of her friends. She always has a great time at the parties and it’s not so bad for me. I just get to sit around for 2 hours talking to the other moms. This past weekend she went to a party at JK Gymnastics, which I thought she would like. The girls all were led through so really basic gymnastics stuff (no flips or somersaults or anything). They walked a low to the ground beam, did some work on some bars, jumped on a trampoline, etc. When they stopped for lunch, I asked Sam if she was having a good time and did she like it there. She looked right at me and said, in a very excited voice, “I want you to sign me up!” I couldn’t believe it! She actually wants me to sign her up for something! Hallelujah! Mark and I have been asking her for ages if she wants to take dance, karate, anything, and she has had no interest. She keeps asking me this week if I have called to sign her up yet and I haven’t, but I’d better get on it. Gymnastics, here we come!

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pamelamyers | April 18, 2016

At school, Sam’s class has been learning about wildlife and fish. They actually got some fish for the classroom, which Sam is very happy about. Here is a picture of one of the tanks. There are a bunch of them with one or two fish in each.

Her teacher sent home a paper recently asking us to sign for permission for our child to take home the class pet for one night. Um, what? Oh….the class pet is a stuffed fish. Whose name is Bubbles. Well. Ok. Sign us up. The idea is that you take Bubbles the fish home and do some sort of activity with it then it goes back to school.

I went to pick up Sam after school today and she was beyond thrilled to show me that she is the first one in her class who got picked to take Bubbles!!! Here is Bubbles.

Bubbles has a journal where Sam was to write about what they did together and attach a photo. Her teachers took Bubbles home over the weekend and during the week. Bubbles went bowling, made a cake, and learned to drive. The pictures were pretty funny. Sam has good teachers. They really know how to do fun things for the kids.

Before we even got in the car to come home, she told me that she was going to send Bubbles to space. Ok…Poor Bubbles got shoved in the rocket ship right away and blasted off!

That is the picture Sam wanted to use for the journal, but we took this one too. The stars and planets are the stick on kind that glow that kids stick on their bedroom ceilings, but I am a crazy person and wouldn’t let her stick them on the paint so we made a posterboard. Yeah, I’m nuts. So sue me. I worked hard on those darn clouds in her room. They’re staying.

Later, Mark and Sam took Bubbles outside for a bike ride and to get some air.

Bubbles has an odd sense of humor…

Sam worked on the journal before she went to bed. It turned out rather nicely. I think her teachers will be very pleased!

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pamelamyers | April 17, 2016

It’s planting time again! Now that it’s spring (technically, although the weather isn’t exactly spring-like) we need to get the veggies in the ground! The lettuce, broccoli and brussels sprouts are always the first things in the ground before the tomatoes and other good stuff which I can’t plant until May. The weather did warm up a bit for one day and a ton of rain is on the way, so it’s a perfect day for planting. Sam wanted to help, of course, since she loves digging in the dirt. She’s a pretty good helper though, I must say!

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pamelamyers | April 16, 2016

I always sneak a peek at her before I go to bed. My sweet little girl.

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pamelamyers | April 11, 2016

We always have a lot of bunnies in our yard, a fact that we are all grateful for, after all, they are so darn cute! Sam gets much closer to any of the wildlife than we do, probably because she is small and thus, less threatening. Today we had a visitor and Sam got pretty darn close. Is it the Easter Bunny coming back for a visit? We’ll never know!

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