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| One of Mommy's gloves and one of hers. |
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| Clapping sounds funny when wearing gloves. |
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| "Gloves on. Can we go outside now?" |
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| Meeting Papa's new bunnies. |
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| "Hi Bunnies." |
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| Sitting on a hay bale, holding a wrench and watching the goats play- only at Gran and Papa's house. |
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| Wagon ride with Cousin Felton, accompanied by Dottie, the dog. |
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| Walking in Daddy's boots. |
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| Happy to help Mommy sort Baby Brother's clothes. |
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| Loving on Baby Brother's clothes- thanks to Cousin Felton and Aunt Whitney. |
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| Playing with the big girl bed that Papa made her. |
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| Insisted on three hair bows this morning. |
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| Let the wardrobe battles begin. A month ago- no hair bows. Now- have to have three at once. |
At her 15 month appointment last week, Sam got a clean bill of health though she's still not gaining much weight. She's been between 20 and 21 pounds since she was nine months old. But she's quite an active little girl and still keeping us on our toes. She loves to read books, put puzzles together, make her version of music, and especially play outside. We've tried drawing with chalk but she mostly just likes to hold the chalk, hoarding it from any other sidewalk artist. Her vocabulary is broadening daily. She can repeat most anything we say with a fair amount of accuracy- for a toddler. Here are some words she's most recently conquered: hair bow, eye shadow (likes to help with Mommy's make-up), shampoo, Hunter (our next door neighbor), flower, and squirrel. These accompany her regular vocabulary of words that she uses regularly: Sam, baby (in reference to her doll and Mommy's belly), read, see and chair (when she wants to watch what we are doing in the kitchen she drags a chair over to stand on), up, down, please, no, car, moon, water, diaper, home, school, and Amen (loves to bless the food several times during a meal). But she also speaks Samanese, her own language of specific words that she uses all the time but we have no idea what they mean. Sam can identify most body parts though knee and shoulder are sometimes interchangeable. Eye brows are currently her favorite. And she still enjoys learning and making animal sounds. But Sam insists that a lion trumpets like an elephant not roars like a tiger. Sam changes more and more every day and its hard to keep track of all her new accomplishments. We are looking forward to her next big adventure of big sisterhood. Not too much longer now til Baby Brother arrives.
