Saturday, December 27, 2008

Samantha is 3 months old today!

Happy Birthday Samantha!

The last three months have gone so fast! She is now really grabbing and holding onto toys and my nose! She is so close to rolling over. She is definitely getting a little personality and a lot louder!

She had a great Christmas..Santa brought her a toy chest to go in her room and her grandparents sent lots of toys and clothes. She got a jumparoo, a mat with toys that hang over it, a huge teddy bear, a baby doll, a sweater and blanket made by her Aunt Kalena, wrist and ankle rattles...the list goes on and on. Santa got Lenny and I a Playstation 3!

We have posted all the pictures at this link - Christmas. Here are a few of our favorites and a video.




Friday, December 19, 2008

Samantha Update

So Samantha is almost three months old...whoa! Things that she is doing:

-Almost rolls over from her tummy to her back - she's almost there
-Trys to grab toys and sometimes gets them!
-Smiles a lot
-Sleeping through the night, not all the time, but enough for Mommy to be really excited
-Stares at anything red
-"Talks" to us - she's even tried to mimic some of the sounds we make
-Definitely recognizes her Mommy, Daddy, and Grommit
- Starting to put everything in her mouth
- She loves Christmas lights and Christmas songs (despite the fact that Mommy has to make up some words because she can't remember them)

She is so much more aware now and it's getting pretty fun. It will be hard to go back to work on January 5th. Christmas will be fun so I will take the time to enjoy it with her and Lenny.

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Amazing 24 hours

Okay so we had an exciting last 24 hours...

1. It snowed in Houston! A whole inch! We went for a walk in the snow and showed it to Samantha!

2. Samantha slept all night last night - 7.5 hours! So did Mommy - YAY!

3. The Space Shuttle Endeavor flew over JSC on the 747 this afternoon! We watched it from Ellington field - on the runway, so it went right in front of us! It was making its trip from California (where is had to land a week and half ago) to Florida to get ready for its next mission.

Sam and Mommy hanging out in the snow.

Our bench in the back yard with an inch of snow.

Lenny took this picture of the shuttle going over - it's attached to the 747 and you can see a chaser T-38 above the shuttle.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Two month pictures




Here are a few more of the pictures we had taken! I will put all of them up soon! All pictures were taken by Carina Olson of Kat's Photography.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Friday, December 5, 2008

More Pictures

Hi - it's been a little while, but we posted more pictures in the Samantha 0-3 months link to the left. Also I wanted to let everyone know that the pictures from my (Amy's) parents visit are in that same folder.

Samantha is doing great. She's sitting in my lap now :) She has graduated to 3 month size clothes - it's very exciting! A whole new wardrobe. I have been hitting all the holiday sales for kids clothes because after 3 months, we don't have much! She is a lot more interactive now - she smiles and gets close to giggling. She tries to reach out and grab things, but doesn't quite have the muscle control to really grab anything but my hair :) She is "talking" a lot more now too - she just loves to coo and make noise!

We are getting ready for Christmas - we put up the tree, which Samantha loves - she could stare at it for hours! I put a blanket on the floor next to the tree and she lays on her back and just loves to look at it and kick and get excited.

We had a big Thanksgiving at our house with our Houston family. It was a ton of fun. We had 12 adults and 4 kids. Surprisingly all the food was done at the same time! It was all delicious too! I made a really awesome batch of turkey soup the day after! I've posted pictures of that as well - Thanksgiving.

Thursday Sam, Steph, and I went to the Container store and REI. It was Samantha's longest/farthest trip so far. She did great and I think she really liked getting out and looking around. She was fascinated by the lights in the Container store. Steph is a good sport for coming along too - everything takes a little longer with a little one and her help was much appreciated.
I ended up buying a stroller at REI that is great - it's a super stroller that doesn't throw Samantha around when we go over sidewalk bumps. We have already taken her through the neighborhood to look at Christmas lights!

I have been having trouble posting video to the site...I hope to have that fixed soon - I've been getting a lot of requests.