Sunday, January 22, 2012

Yes we do have a video camera

So we purchased a video camera last year in anticipation of capturing videos of Samantha and being able to share them with our family and friends that are not able to see her. We've done pretty good on the first count, but apparently have been hoarding those videos over the past year. I blame it on blogspot being a difficult website on which to upload videos (or maybe I'm not as tech-savvy as I once thought).

Anyhoo, we've posted some recent videos of Samantha on Youtube and wanted to share the links with you if you're interested.

She's such a fun little girl. It's been amazing (and incredibly entertaining) watching her over the last few weeks as she has gone from having to be coerced into crawling to now walking around like crazy (albeit with a slight wobble). My new favorite activity with her is chasing her around...it's as fun as I imagined it would be.

Dinner Time:

A few of her first steps:

She can walk:

Calming her down before bed (my favorite):

A little trick:

Rody:


Saturday, January 14, 2012

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9.....

We are working on learning how to count around here. Even after 9 months she still isn't grasping the concept? For some reason after counting to 4 she switches to counting in Spanish. I blame the new toy she got for Christmas that counts in Spanish.

Sam's newest tricks:
Walking (not for long distances and like a drunkard, but she is pretty steady on her feet)
Drinking out of a straw (the girl loves water. I mean, she loves it.)
Clapping (well, it is more like putting her hands together, but basically the same thing)
Making kissy faces and fishy faces
Regularly pooping in the tub (this is her meanest trick)
Playing the piano, scales are her favorite
Pulling books off of shelves (over and over and over again)
Growing teeth (she finally has 2 on the bottom peeking through)

This is Rody, he is one awesome bouncing horse

Tomato anyone?

My parents came to visit last week and we went to the zoo



We also went to Old Tucson, a little town where some old westerns like John Wayne movies have been filmed.
Don't mind Chris in his scrubs, he had to meet
us there from work, got called back into work, and then came back again. Don't you think a cowboy hat should replace a scrub cap as the new thing?


We also went on a hike at Sabino Canyon.
It was a bit chilllier than expected but so beautiful.

It only took Samantha mere minutes to fall asleep on grandpa's back
We pretended like we were on the beach in San Diego. I mean, we were only missing the ginormous ocean, smooth warm sand, and our swim suits.

Mr. Smartypants....

So I like to think that I am somewhat of an educated woman. I finished college, graduating with a Bachelors degree and did so with good grades. Chris does a good job at reminding me that I am not. Like this morning when he was recounting a story from work yesterday:

Chris: Then this nurse went on a diatribe...yada yada yada

Linzi: A what? What was that word?

Chris: A diatribe.

Yep, he is good at reminding me that I don't study the dictionary enough like he does.

Do you know what diatribe means? Tell me I am not the only one. Please.

And let's pretend like I didn't have to ask him how to spell diatribe while writing this post.