My Southern Girl!

Sam has always been pretty good about eating a variety.  She loves fruit and typical toddler foods like french fries and fruit snacks.  But some of her preferences are surprising.  Like the other night she ate multiple helpings of edemame, passing up mac and cheese and chicken and ranch.  At the junior spook event she picked a boiled egg over a pumpkin muffin, although she only ate the white part of the egg.  And the other day I was listing off snacks and she over rode me with a request for carrots and ranch.  But a funny one lately was when she asked for grits for a snack.  My little southern Belle.  I was so proud :)

 She continues to love dressing up.  Tonight was her GT cheerleading outfit.  She was too cute saying, "Go Cheerleader!"

              

She has been really expressing a desire to have a say in what she wears, which translates into wanting a dress every day.  So I sometimes have to be clever in getting her in pants on cooler days occasionally since I can only do so much laundry.  The other day I talked her into her elmo shirt, but only if I dug out the elmo socks and let her wear the pink leggings.  She really worries about matching and what matches an elmo shirt better than elmo socks.

 She never wants to be left out, so when Nick was watching a quick clip on the ipad, she had to see it too.

And the other day we both wore dresses and our black boots.  Sam loved being like Mama.

Sam has been having a bit of a rough time with all the changes at school.  Her one teacher should be back Monday, but the other is now on maternity leave.  Sam has been crying again when I drop her off.  Hopefully it will just be a short term issue.  Of course, school will get back to normal right after the holidays, which will be right before home life goes into turmoil.

Some other cute things are what she says.  We floss her teeth some with children's floss shapes.  She keeps calling it "Moss."  She has also picked up the phrase, "I tell you what..."  As in when she is trying to get her way she will say, "I tell you what Mama, I will watch a show and then clean up my toys"  or "I tell you what, I will eat just one piece of candy."  She seems to think it should have magical powers.  She is a pretty good negotiator.