Friday, October 20, 2006

I can't believe...

that Samantha is 9 mos old today! The time has just seemed to fly by...

She is getting so big!

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Today was Samanthas 2nd day of daycare...and she cried when I left. I feel like crap!!!! Hopefully her day will get better.

12:23 pm....

I just talked to my mom and they said that Samantha did much better today. She didn't scream and cry near as bad and she has sloppy joes for lunch! Sounds like a pretty good day to me. Mom said that when she got there, they had the little ones sitting in the floor and they were blowing bubbles and the little ones were trying to catch them.

Next week we will do it again.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Samantha went to day care for the first time on Monday. She is only going 2 - half days a week...to get a little socialization!

Anyway, I guess that she did really well until they tried to put her down for a nap. The she screamed so hard that she threw up on herself. I feel horrible about it! I know that she wouldn't take a nap because too much was going on around her. She doesn't want to miss anything.

I was so proud when we got there. She didn't even cry when I left...to be honest, I'm not sure if she even noticed. She made a friend ( a little boy) right off the bat. She was just looking at him, so I put her in the floor. He crawled over to her and she gave him her bottle. What a flirt! I think that we need to nip that in the bud NOW!!!

Well, she goes again tomorrow...hopefully it will go better.

OH...forgot to mention...when mom went to pick her up...she was sitting in the high chair eating tater tots! She is such a big girl and growing to fast for me! She loves big people food.

Friday, October 13, 2006

We got our first snow yesterday..... HERE are the pics. I am not ready for this cold of weather yet. It was 32 or so when I got up this morning with a windchill of 22. I want 70 for a bit longer!

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Well, I took Samantha in for her doctor appointment this morning. She had to go in so he could look at her feet. She turns them in and when she stands up, she will stand on the side of it. He does want her to go see a orthopaedic ped, so I am waiting to schedule that. The only bad thing is there aren't any here in Lansing, so we will either have to go to Brighton (45-50 miles away) or to Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan (about 70 miles away). I am actually leaning more towards the U of M. They have a lot of pediatric specialist there and I believe that may be where she will get the best treatment. The doctor doesn't think it is anything serious enough to need surgery, but he said she may have to either wear special shoes or may have to be casted. He said that we do need to get it taken care of because the way it is looking....she is going to be an early walker. She will be 9 mos. a week from tomorrow! Boy how time flies!

Well, anyway...other than that the appt. went well. At least for her...when they weighed her, we had to go to another room. Well, here she was naked as a jaybird and I decided that since I had her diaper off, I would just change it. As I am getting the diaper out of the diaper bag, she peed all over me. Well, it is cold here (32 as we speak and it is 12:45 pm) so I had a t-shirt with a fleece jacket on. I had taken off the jacket and was only wearing the t-shirt. I had to take the shirt off and here I am sitting at work, wearing only the fleece jacket. She seemed to think it was funny...she kept laughing...that could've been because Grandma Diana had her too!

Anyway...here are her stats for today:

Weight - 19 lbs. 13 oz (She is in the 75th percentile)
Length - 28.5" (80th percentile)

I can't believe how big she is getting especially if you compare it to her birth - 5 lbs. 10 oz and 18.25".

Take care and I will post more soon!

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Here are some pictures that my grandma Diana took yesterday and today....

Yes...the cow outfit is a halloween outfit, but Grandma thought that it would be warm....

Samantha is still going to dress as a fish!

I should also add:

10/9/06 - Samantha said mama...she has been chattering and going on for quite some time now...this is just the first time that I have actually understood her saying it. I got lucky...she was at grandma Diana's and I just happened to be on the phone with her at the time.

Today - 10/11/06 - I was holding her while getting ready for work and she said da-da! Jer was already gone to work, so I hope that she will say it for him tonight...he needs to hear it. She has really been a mama's girl lately!

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

I haven't posted pics in a while, so here are some new ones:

Samantha - here

Deer at the cabin, plus the one that Jer got - here

Fish that Jer caught - here