Happy 1st Birthday Samantha!!

First Birthday Party

Samantha has celebrated her first birthday one time and 3 more parties to go. The first one was at Her grandma McKnight's. Grandma made brisket and Ham and both McKnight and Holman sides came. Michelle made a #1 cake that was pink of course. Sam is not a big fan of cake she does not like the frosting on her hands. She tried to keep up with A.J. and played with Nick. She got lots of neat toys and was ready for bed early.

Halloween

Happy Halloween!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Samantha was a bumblebee. She loved her costume and wore it all day long. She went to Nebraska city to See grandma and grandpa Merritt. She had lots of fun there, She got a doll that looks just like her in her costume. Then she came back to Plattsmouth to see grandma McKnight, She got a sugar cookie.
She liked her cookie and had more sugar in one day than in her whole life combined. Then Michelle moved on to visit the great grand parents in Plattsmouth before heading home. At home she left her costume on and walked over to the gate by the door every time a trick or treater came. She enjoyed all the kids coming to her door. She had a very exciting day. I think Michelle enjoyed it more though She was so cute in her costume and I think Sam knew it.

Alexa & Samantha

Samantha and Alexa got their pictures taken at the Picture People today! It was funny, because if Samantha was unhappy, Alexa with Smiling and if Alexa was unhappy, Samantha was up and running away--she did not like sitting still!! We did get a couple cute ones of them together. It was too cold and damp to go to the pumpkin patch, so we skipped that activity, besides-all the picture taking wore out Sam & Alexa!

Slam Dunk!

Sam has been practicing her basketball skills. Grandma Merritt got this basketball hoop for Sam and she really knows how to put the ball in the hoop. she's planning on showing up Uncle Chris the basketball season! Watch out!

Tomarrow Sam is meeting her friend Alexa Tonjes at the mall for a few "friends pictures" and then it's off to the pumpkin patch in Gretna. As we all know....Sam loves her pumpkins! Alexa and Sam are only 1 month apart. So, it's always fun when they get together!

Rumblin', Stumblin', and Fumblin'.

Samantha it trying to run everywhere. Se will just take off and go. at top speeds she can only go about 5 steps before she bites it. but at a moderate pace she can now go and go. She is very tipsy and has bumped just about every thing possible. She even when face first in to the floor tonight, She did not enjoy that. She also likes to head but things. People walls fish tanks, you name it she will head butt it to see if it will move. I need to do more baby proofing, it is hard to keep up. More teeth have come in. The top (E &F) and one more on the way (D) She has gotten them all out of order and is still lop sided on the bottom. But she loves to grind them because she can see that it makes us nuts. Enjoy the pictures.

Back Home

Michelle and I had a great trip to las Vegas. I learned a lot at my CE classes and we saw lots of great things at the convention and in the exhibits. We did not get as many free tubes of tooth paste as I though we would but did get some neat stuff. We got some rubber duckies that have teeth for Samantha. We had fun and our feet hurt. There were around 50 thousand people attending the meeting. The convention center was huge. We did not win much in the casinos but when you only bet 25 cents it is hard to win big.

Las Vegas Here We Come!

Michelle & I are leaving for Las Vegas on Monday bright and early. We are going to the American Dental Convention. I am going to do some CE and Michelle is going to do some shopping while I'm in class. we get back on Thursday. Michelle's mom is going to take care of Sam while we are gone. It will be the longest we have left Sam for. She probably won't even miss us!

11 Months Old

Sam turned 11 Months Old this week. Hard to believe that she will be 1 next month. This is one of her 11 month pictures Michelle got taken. She also got another tooth this week! She learned that she can grind her top tooth with one of her bottom teeth and she does it all the time! She is driving us crazy. She's been extra clingy to us this week. It seems like she always want to be held! We're still trying to get her to talk more. Michelle is working on getting her to say MaMa. She kind of already says DaDa. We went to a Syracuse v. Falls City football game on Friday night to watch Michelle's cousin play football. It was kind of cold, so we left at halftime. Sam enjoys the cool air, but she mainly enjoyed licking the zipper on her coat! We won't be able to take her out in very cold weather or her tongue could stick to her zipper! Michelle's brother Chris is probably done for the football season due to his shoulder injury, so we now have Friday nights free for a while (until basketball season starts in December).

Samantha's Tunes

Samantha is exposed to lots of different kinds of music these days. The whole child development group talks about classical in the womb. the baby Cd's are full of crappy Mozart and batoven(yes I know I cant spell) It would be fine if it was the real thing but they dumb it down and make it suck. So I have made Sam her own CD's to develop her little brain. Right know in her cd player that we listen to before bed is a jazz cd. we sample a bit of everything. Dizzy, Miles, David Brubeck, and Maynard. Lots of trumpets, and Herbie Hancock. She really likes the up tempo stuff and Starts to dance around a little bit. She has also had a cd that is full of Rock. Some Ben Folds, Cake, Reel Big Fish are some artist and some songs like little bitty pretty one, Hush, and Hey baby kind of going with a baby style. Here favorite songs are "Omaha, Nebraska", "Hay ya" Particularly the shake it like a Polaroid picture part. Most importantly The marching band is in heavily rotation. She has hear pregame from the womb on. So any suggestions about the Music choices for Samantha are welcome. And yes debbie there is one coltain song on that cd, Giant Steps.(but it is at the end) I would also like to say thanks to everyone for reading and I hope it is enjoyable any suggestions are welcome. And thanks to Steve for Starting his own blog and getting me addicted to reading about his day to day life. I will put a link on as soon as I figure it out.