Words, Words, Words!!

Wow!! That's all I cay say about Samantha's vocabulary & language in the last few weeks. I am continually amazed at how much her language is improving!! Here are a couple of cute video clips of her saying some of her newest words.

"Crackers"

"Up"

She also says "Pa" when she sees Marc's Winnie the Pooh figures, "Ca" when she picks up one of her play cups, "Taty" when Tigger walks into the room, and she says brother but I can't figure out how to type it so it sounds like she does. The only thing that gets confusing is when she says "Ba". That sound could mean ball, book, boo, box, just to name a few. ;)

Budding Painter?

nd pWe decided to spend part of the rainy day on Saturday doing some finger painting. I have discovered it is hard to do a messy activity with 2 kids when I am home alone. Since both Marc & Samantha were going to covered in paint, we did it on a day that Daddy was home to help.
When we first started Samantha wasn't sure what to do. We helped her a first, and then she did a little on her own. She wasn't really "into" finger painting. We will try again another day and see if she liked it better another time.

Both of the kids' pieces of artwork are hanging up on our slider door. They look beautiful! :)

A Visit from the Tell Family

We had the honor of having the Tell family over for a play group last week Thursday. ;)
Chrys decided that since she was coming "to the north" to visit her Grandma, she would come a little further and spend a few hours letting our 5 kiddos play together.

We had lunch almost as soon as they got here. While I made good-ole mac-and-cheese, Marc gave Aunt Chrys the "grand tour" since she hasn't seen the house since before Samantha was born. While Marc gave Chrys the tour, Samantha was thrilled to be allowed to play with the cars with Ty & Lexi.As soon as I got done making mac & cheese, we all sat down to eat together. We had a very child-friendly lunch of mac & cheese, applesauce, and chocolate chip cookies. Yum!After lunch we got done with lunch, we all went out to ejoy the beautiful sunny weather. We had our sprinkler, pool, and bucket of "outside" toys out. Marc had fun in the sprinkler for awhile, then he carried water from the sprinkler in a caution cone, over to the other side of the yard and dumped it on the ground. He had the most fun hitting balls with his bat.Samantha played in the pool most of the time.......then she proceeded to crawl out of the pool and over to the bucket of toys.We all got our fill of sun for the day and had a great time catching up!! :)

Play Group at Sarah's

We had a play group at our "Miss Sarah's" house on Wednesday last week. This was a play group from preschool. There were 2 other families besides us. Sarah's daughter Ainsley is going into kindergarten at the same school as Marc this year, so I wanted them to get to know each other a little better since they were going to be going to school together.

We ate lunch then, since it was warm, we got the water fun going. The water was too cold for Samantha so she sat and played with her toys, crawled all over Miss Erin (another Mom) and ate snack crackers.Marc had a blast running through the sprinkler, playing with water squirters, and splashing in the small kiddie pools.When I told Marc it was getting to be time to go, he said, "but I want toplay inside with Ainsley for a little while before we go". How could I resist...so we stayed a little longer so they could get to know each other a little better. I think they will havw fun next year. :)