Wonderful Moments...

Just a few moments ago I was sitting on the floor in the embrace of my husband with our sweet little girl on my lap and given a huge bear hug... I love to hear the giggle of that little girl and see her bright smile and my husbands gentle face pulled into a grin. I love those moments where you just have to smile and can be content :) What a beautiful feeling!!!

 Another such is when those little fingers are wrapped securely around one of yours. I love to rub my thumb over those little fingers, so small. It all goes by so fast! In less than a week my sweet little girl will be TWO!!! Wow I almost typed one but she has a year more experience than that. Oh how the years pass! It is not necessarily the amount we put into our lives but the quality of what we put in there!!!

So here are some pictures of what we have been up to lately...

Helping cook breakfast! She loves to stir :)

Borrowing dad's apron and showing off her whisk.

Got a little mess but she LOVES to help!

CUTE Pj's from Grandma Penny!!! They fit great!

She loves helping. It was "her turn" to use the vacuum.

More helping...

Our little mommy decided her elephant needed a diaper change :)

My funny, silly, smart little girl

I almost wrote baby... not a baby anymore. She is growing every day and seems to be far taller than I remember her being. She amazes me how much she grows and learns and how much she UNDERSTANDS!!!!

Last week we were drawing with our sidewalk chalk and I drew a sun and was talking about sunshine we then went walking as she is prone to do and we came to a sunflower. She looked at me and said " flower, flower" I told her she could go and see it and touch it gently so she did and she looked up at me and said " Sunshine flower :) ! " Oh my sweet smart silly girl how I love her :)

Her latest word or response when you ask her if she wants something " sure" Ha ha What? how funny.

Dan has expalined to her that somethings are bad to do so if she gets punished she tells us through and upset  expression "Bad do, bad do" He wanted her to understand that she is not bad but that somethings she does is not good.

Speaking of the getting bigger she can now open both the dishwasher and all the closet doors in our apartment... joy. Ah well part of life I suppose, it stops for no one.

And her understanding well... the house we are buy had some issues and she has heard as talking about it and while we were on skype with my dad she informed him "house bad" she had put together in her head that there was something wrong "bad  house" What an amazing little girl!!!

Now for some photos :)

Think she might be thirsty...

Elephant anyone?!

mmm Lime... want a bite?

Yep that's my lime...

Helping dad vacuum the couch...

Doing a good job!

I got it!

Love that face...

Happy Girl :)

I need to get a video of her laugh, best sound ever!

Another outside adventure! A Praying Mantis!!!

Monkey thought he was pretty cool.

She talked to him and kept asking "hand? hand?"

Mom decided to help him out, he thought he was going to climb the building...

His new home... can you find him :) ?

"O, O, O" Smart girl

This one she said "W!"

It is amazing how fast time passes. Growing up you heard all the "old people" tell you Oh enjoy life it goes by so fast. And being in middle school or high school you smile and nod and say uh huh but suddenly you have children and realize that time doesn't slow down and there is no getting i back so apparently I'm now an "old person" because I say Enjoy life because it DOES go by so fast!!!

Grandma came to visit!

Monkey being silly at Dinner... we ate at Big J's!

Eating her Pizza bomb and getting a sip of water

Trying to steal the Teddy we were delivering...

Getting some ice cream at THORES ICECREAM!!! Yum Only $1 a scoop tax included!

Samantha making the rounds to get icecream...

More grandma? Please?

Loves her Grandma Penny!!!

Sitting with Grandma

Getting teeth brushed

Making discoveries and Grandma's purse!!!

She loved taking everything out and putting it back again!!!

Adventures of a Monkey... lemonade anyone?

Lemonade anyone?!

 So we decided to use our lemons we got in our bountiful basket to make some lemonade!!! We couldn't agree on how sweet or sour but it was still good :)

 

Samantha decided she wanted to help so she got to roll lemons... or throw them in her case to get them ready to squeeze. She like smelling them too.

Straining out the seeds

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3 down and two more to go... it was really good lemonade :) Added some water and some sugar and there you have it!

Occasionally I have a snugly bug :)

The beginning of our sick day.... um EW!

Our sick day continued with LOTS of reading... and a few movies.

Trying to put her pants on...

Still trying to  get those pants on :) Getting to be such a big girl!

Climbing the stairs with dad.

Taking a walk.

Playing with the rocks.

Talking to the cows :)

And of course our walk wouldn't be complete without a little dirt!

We made a new friend

Isn't it pretty :)

She loved the cat and the cat loved her :)

We found a big bug on another walk of ours.

She loves story time at the library and coloring, craft time after :)