Picture Time

Photo Contest

I got an e-mail this morning that Samantha has been in the running to become one of Parents.com (Parents Magazine) weekly Reader’s Choice finalists! The photo with the most votes this week will go into their semi-final Reader’s Choice round for a chance to travel to New York City for the Parents Cover Contest Photo Shoot!! Woohoo! That would be just amazing! Voting ends 6/6/10.
Please vote for our little sweetie!
Thanks bunches!

Here's the link:
http://photos.parents.com/category/vote/photo/305108

Caution: Cousins At Play

On Friday, We were finally able to get Noah and Samantha together for a play date. My Mother In-Law and I took them to the park. I think it would have been more fun for Noah if Samantha was a little older. Since she can't do too much...But I think/hope they had fun together.
I also think Grandma loved having 2 out of the 3 grandkids together! :o)

Pulling Up

Samantha has been trying to pull up for about a month now. But she FINALLY did it on April 21st. I got a video of her doing it on Saturday, May 1st.
ENJOY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlP7WpmTlr8

Updates

Just writing to give you all updates on Samantha and Seth. Not much to say about me. lol.
Seth (poor guy) has had a very tough, long month. He has been sick since beginning of March. It's kinda a long story. But he found out that he has pneumonia. We went for a check up last week and they took a chest x-ray to see how the pneumonia is. He finds out that it hasn't gotten any better and that it has actually gotten a little worse. But the doctors aren't giving him anything for it. They told him to wait 2-3 weeks and if he still isn't feeling well to go back to the doctor. Well... I am NOT going along with that. I called another doctor to get a second opinion. I can't stand seeing my husband like this. I hope he gets back to his normal wonderful self soon!!!!!
As for Samantha. Oh man! She's just growing so dang fast! And she's just too smart for her own good!
She has started doing just regular crawling, finally. She normally just does an army crawl. But she has figured out how to use her arms and legs together.
She's sitting like a pro. Totally unassisted.
She can go from crawling to the sitting position and then go from the sitting position to the crawling position.
She just started pulling herself up. She can help herself stand up too.
Samantha has about 2 naps a day. Usually around 9-10am she starts getting sleepy and she sleeps until 12-1pm, then around 4ish or so and sleeps until I wake her up at 5. I give her a bath around 8-9 o'clock. Then she usually passes right out afterward. Which is around 9-10. She's sleeping through the night and wakes up around 7-8 in the morning. We are VERY lucky and VERY thankful!
She stays at her Grandma and Grandpa's house 1-2 times a week. Which she loves! And Grandma and Grandpa love it too. And I'll admit it, I do too. It's nice to have an evening with just me and my husband and it's very awesome to get to sleep in. But I do miss her when she's not here at home. It's actually kinda boring(don't tell Seth, lol)! I always feel like I need to be doing something for her! But I know Grandma has got it covered!!
This little girl is just so wonderful! I remember before she was born I was always cranky in the morning, I never wanted to get up. Now, I get up and go to her room and tell her good morning, beautiful and she smiles and waves her arms with excitement. It just warms my heart and starts my day off right.
We have been TTC #2 for a couple of months now. No sign of this happening anytime soon. Although we have pretty much skipped this month because of Seth being ill. We're still giving a shot though. Seth and I discussed that if we can't get pregnant on our own by August, I'll be getting on clomid again. Samantha will be 8 then. We'll see how it goes. Wish us luck!
I will leave you with some adorable pictures of Samantha. Couple of them are of her pulling up and the other is her with Daddy's hat on.

6 Month Pictures

Today we got Samantha's pictures taken(since we do every 3 months or so). Every time we(Grandma and I) go, I always get nervous. She doesn't do too well with strangers so I get scared that all she would do is cry. But I love the photographer there she's very patient with Samantha, thank goodness! lol. And she does very good work. Samantha did a fabulous job. She just had to warm up to the lady a little bit. :o)
Here are some of my favorites!
Enjoy!

Day at the park

Today I took Samantha to the park since it was so gorgeous out! We went straight for the swing. She just absolutely LOVES swinging! After swinging for a little while we just sat in the grass with our bare feet and soaked up the sun! It was funny to see Samantha's reaction to the grass. But she didn't mind it at all. She plucking the grass and almost ate some. lol. Then we did some sliding and went back to the swing. Then we went for a short walk. I had a wonderful time with my little girl. I always love seeing her have a good time! :o)