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Samantha has a new love ... Barney. She can be doing almost anything else with anybody and she wants to switch gears and go into the office to watch Barney at the Farm. It is not like we make a habit of this but it is something we do in EMERGENCY situtations. She's glued for at least 30 minutes which gives us a chance to catch up on ... well...

Farmington Hills Library

One of our favorite weekend activities these days is a playgroup time called Musical Movement for 1s and 2s. It is a fun developmental learning hour with songs and dancing. Samantha is all over it. The last time we went a bunch of other mommies, dadies and babies we knew also were there. Lots of fun each time.

We are having so much fun watching Samantha grow and experience new things. Even better is when she remembers having fun doing an activity and looks forward to doing it again!

We're walking...

Very few parents are not shocked and amazed at their children's first steps. We are no exception. Samantha has been threatening to walk over the past few weeks with a few steps here and there. Over the last few days, though, she has been doing increasingly more on her own and is actually seemingly prefering to walk as opposed to crawling or scooting along on her bottom. This is shocking and scaring the heck out of us. We're constantly trying to make sure she is not falling or at least that we are close-by when she does. We finally remembered to take out the camera and get a little bit on film.
Samantha is 16 months and really starting to enjoy her world. She mimics books and uses a few words here and there. She is very opinionated and not afraid to tell you if she is unhappy or would rather do something another way. She is a little angel.

Passover 2009

This year we had Samantha as an active sedar participant. We were at Larry and Naomi's house for both sedars. The first night was family and relaxation with all the kids. Breaking in, if you will, everybody for the more "formal" sedar the second night. Samantha was very excited about the whole experience... especially the food. :) Naomi and Larry went to great lengths to make these sedars more perfect than even year's past. Bravo!

Some of the best times

Just relaxing and trying to update the blog. I know that we've been delinquent. I took some great Sunday pictures around the house but am having trouble with the SD card and uploading them. These are some of the non Xrated getting ready for bath that I was able to put up. She had even more fun in person. Ginger just had to get into the action.