One more...

I forgot this one from a few weeks ago, Sam has quite the imagination now and she is an expert mimic. She started putting her baby seat on the shopping cart just like we did with Baby Luke. She is so curious and is really starting to get some crazy logic. She has also started asking why, we are in trouble now!

Billy Bobs and other fun

It has been cold and rainy a lot lately, but that has not stopped our fun. Marshall had a Christmas party for families, so we went to that (1st Santa). Sam and I also went to the Mom's club's Christmas Party at Billy Bob's, think ghetto Chuck E Cheese. It is a bit expensive and some of the games do not work, but Sam had a great time on the rides.

She was a little unsure of this ride since it went kind of high.

She loved the carousel.
At the Marshall Party, she got to paint icing on a cookie, that was a big hit.

We had to get some of the Kelling presents shipped home. Sam has loved playing with her nativity set. She loves finding baby Jesus and the random chicken. Nick and I laugh at the roofless inn, saying the barn is a much better option anyway.

We finish finals tomorrow and have a few more parties this week.

Santa

So last year, we had a great Santa experience, this year not so much. The Santa last year was able to grab her from behind and we just got her to look at us. She did get upset when she finally turned around, but this year she will have none of it. She wanted to see Santa, but when we got in line she started saying, "No pictures, no pictures." And this is what she did at the Marshall party...

And this was at the mom's club party, she would not even go near him for a gift.

Here is a reminder of last year.

Winter snow is falling down...

So at midnight last night a 30% chance of flurries was predicted. We woke up to about 2-3 inches of snow. Many may recall the shots of Sam in the snow from earlier this year...

Well, she did not exactly cry this year, but she did not walk on the snow, either. She did like holding the snowballs Nick made. Here we are with a giant one.

She held a smaller one on her own.

Here is the family imprints. Sam would not actually step down, so Nick pulled her boot off to make hers.

The dogs actually enjoyed running around in the snow after Toby's initial hesitation.

More thanksgiving

So I had issues posting last night and did not get to upload all the pictures I wanted.

Here is Nick's Dad, Poppi, opening the gift Sam made at the paint your own pottery place in town.

Here is Sam with Nick's cousin, Megan, who was wonderful with Sam and even helped her open her presents.

Here is Sam eating a Popsicle. We were trying to get her to eat breakfast and I asked about a banana, cereal, etc and she said no to everything. And Poppi asked if she wanted ice cream, which of course she said yes. So I compromised and gave her some popsicle. Her very first one. She still is not a huge fan of ice cream itself because it is so cold. She will lick it and drink milkshakes, but no ice cream by spoon.

We took Sam to get her booster of H1N1 today. It was so sad, but she was a trooper. She would say something about I got a shot, leg hurts, etc and wanted to keep the bandaid. Glad we got that done. This time took only a couple minutes versus the 2.5 hours to get the first.

Thanksgiving

We went out to California for Thanksgiving with some of Nick's family. It was a whirl wind, including yesterday's 11 hours of traveling during which Sam slept only 20 minutes, beginning 5 minutes before we landed in Cincinnati. Here are some photo highlights of our trip, although I was too busy chasing Sam around to take many pictures.

Robyn's parents were there to watch Luke and Isabelle while she worked. They stayed through Thanksgiving. Their dog, pictured here, is named Sammy. Got a little confusing when someone yelled "Sammy, no", Samantha would be like what did I do.

Samantha had a great time playing with Isabelle's toys which Isabelle was great about sharing. Although the concept of not hers was not fully formed.


Luke is quite strong. Here is a little tummy time.

Hugs for Uncle Terence.

On the way out from Huntington to Cincinnati the pilot let her go up front for a picture, but she was not having it.

Happy Almost Thanksgiving!

A lot has been going on, so here are a few highlights.

Here is Sam waiting for her first concert, The Imagination Movers! She had a blast for the first bit and then wanted a snack.

Here she is eating a gogurt, gotta love blue yougurt mustache.

Here she is pushing her tricycle.

Here she is actually riding it.

This is from the top of her new box house (see video clip below).

Sam keeps entertaining us. She loves to sing. Here she is playing the guitar and singing.

Nick got an early Christmas present of a large tool storage drawer thing. So Nick made it into a new cardboard house out of it. We told Sam she had a surprise and here she is seeing it. Nice that even in this economy some people are upsizing :) She loves it.