Almost 2!

Hard to believe my baby girl is almost 2. Here are a few facts about the toddler.

Favorite color: Green...she tends to pick a color and everything is that color. The color she has chosen for a long time is green. She really does seem to like it.

Favorite food: Fruit snacks (some call them gummies). She would live off of them. But in general she loves fruit, mac and cheese, and all the traditional toddler foods. But she also will eat celery, green beans, salad, and many other veggies. Just depends on her mood. She is a much better eater now though.

Favorite show: She is still a huge Elmo fan, so lots of Sesame Street. But she also loves Imagination Movers and is starting to like Little Einsteins. We try to keep it somewhat educational or at least not junk and she seems to like live action a lot better.

Favorite Super hero: Spiderman

Favorite Book: She likes most all of them, and recently she has been enjoying the Fancy Nancy series. We got her the quintet for Christmas and get some from the library. But a big favorite seems to be Apples on Top.

Other facts: She loves to be outside whether it is at the park, riding in the stroller, splashing in puddles, or writing with sidewalk chalk. She loves reading books. She has memorized large portions of them and "reads" them to herself. She has quite a memory. She also loves to sing and has memorized large portions of songs. She will also play her guitar or keyboard and sing along, generally the ABC song, but she will even make up songs. She has quite an imagination, pretending to do all sorts of things like comfort changing diapers or making us food. Everything in our house cries a lot and needs comforting, which was particularly funny when it was the plastic Spiderman.

This is Samantha in February 2009.

She still fits into the same sweater. Crazy, huh? Here she is standing on one foot. She is a bit of a ham at times and will ask me to take a picture of her.

Here she is with her brand new kid tough camera from the Pabons. Thanks! She loves it. Although we see that we need to pick up some more rechargeable batteries.

And Samantha loves to boss Samuel around and try and get him to do things her way. Mom says she is practicing to be a wife. Here she is helping to feed him.