November fun!

Fall is such a fun time here.  There are so many events.  But we have been taking it a bit easy lately.  Not sure if I am fighting a cold or if it is just allergies.  The humidifier has helped, but I still have a bit of a cough and so I have been home more.  Nick even taught for me Tuesday since I had almost no voice.  What a great husband!  But we still have a lot of fun and I am feeling much better now.

Sam has been having a great time dressing up.  She loves being a princess.  And it is hard to convince her to ever wear pants.

We also had our good friends over that we swapped care with last year.  They now have a new baby and Sam was really good with her.  She enjoyed holding her in the chair and being sure she had something to chew on.  She even played some peek a boo.

 She also had a blast with Samuel.

They did a lot of drawing, including in a book.

We got great news that Sam's teacher does not have cancer.  She had her thyroid out, so it will be a bit of a recovery, but we are so thankful that she does not have to deal with cancer.  Sam has had a couple of harder days at school, crying a bit and saying she wanted me.  I am not sure if the new people in the room as subs or just the change is causing it or if they were just some tired and cranky days.  Hopefully she will recover and go back to being excited for school.

And a couple of cute Sam stories.  We often watch the news in the morning.  I just turn it off if it gets too disturbing.  Sam now has learned to identify the president.  She called him "Bama" for a little while, but she now knows he is President Obama.   He was with the VP one day and when she asked who he was I said he was the President's friend.  So now she asks where his friend is if Obama is alone.  I also had to explain who the president was.  She knows a little about how we live in America and now knows that Obama runs the country.  She said the other day that she wants to run the county, but not be president.  So I am thinking chief of staff, maybe speaker of the house :)

The other story is also news related.  There was a kind of sad story about a dog that got dragged behind a car and was now being adopted.  She asked what happened to the god and I told her a mean man had hurt him.  She said that someone needed to find the mean man and put him in time out.  I could not agree more!  She is a wise little girl.