Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Look what John gave me for Valentine's Day!



Samantha and Tara



Valentine's Day


This is the HUGE Valentine's Day card Samantha made for John and me....

New Haircut

Samantha said she wanted to get her hair cut short. We went yesterday after school and it was a surprise for John. She picked the style out and everything. It was so much fun watching her!

My Child Doesn't Wear Socks In February!



Wednesday, February 18, 2009

I Love Lists and All About Samantha

And so does Samantha. Her latest list is a pig list. It is a list (in order) of how she loves her pig:
1. Bacon
2. Pork Chops
3. Ham

Samantha also is Student of the Month at her school! She was so excited to come home and tell John and me as well as to get her certificate from the principal today.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Windy Weather and Wheel of Fortune...

Samantha is obsessed with "Wheel of Fortune"! It's kind of cute how she runs to the TV to watch her program each night like a little old lady. The other night she went running in to John's den to tell him that the cable box had locked up right in the middle of the good part of her show. John tried so hard not to laugh at her.

We had a wind storm last night. Lots of blowing and gusts that made a lot of noise and freaked Samantha out. This morning I found our neighbor's trash can blown over in our yard with bologna in our bushes. Yuck! And, she's not the type to clean it up either...

Friday, February 6, 2009

Dads and conferences...

We had Samantha's parent teacher conference last night and it went really well. I love Samantha's teachers. She has been so lucky each year to have such amazing teachers.

While we waited to be called in for our conference we chatted about my dad or BaBa as Samantha calls him. His name is Bob and when Samantha was a baby she heard my mom call loudly and always twice to him so much that she said : ba ba as one of her first words... so, we have always called him BaBa. Anyway, she asked me why BaBa always pokes her, pinches her, grabs her with bbq tongs and picks her up by the seat of her pants. I told her she had no idea! I told her all about the things BaBa used to do to me when I was little:
  • My 2 front teeth had just come in. Mom went out to do errands and when she came home I was crying. She got me out of my crib and saw that my 2 front teeth were gone. She asked Dad about it and he said I had gotten out of my crib, he put me back in but I hadn't stopped crying... and no, he hadn't noticed that my teeth were gone.
  • When he was putting an exercises bike together for Mom he told me to stick my finger in the spinning front wheel and I did.
  • Once when he was changing a light bulb he told me to put my finger in the socket and I did.
  • There were many many very well packed snowballs.
  • He would hide in dark rooms and grab me when I'd walk by.
  • He tried to tip over a port a potty I was in when we were skiing.
  • When I went to college we had these Opus penguins with our names on them on our dorm room doors and Dad drew a widow's peak on the forehead of my penguin. (I cried & Mom yelled at him.)
  • When I got married he told John that I had a no return policy so he was stuck with me.
  • When we danced at my wedding he tried to pull the pearls off the back of my dress while the photographer was taking our picture.
  • When I was in pre-school I was a clown for Halloween. We have all these happy pictures of me in my clown costume with my big orange balloon. Then there are the pictures where I am crying with no balloon. Mom asked him why he popped it and he said he wanted to see what I would do... duh.
  • I used to slide down the stairs on my butt and one time Dad let me sit on his lap and we slid down the stairs. Then he sat on my lap and slid down the stairs.

This is only the list I could think of while were were sitting outside Samantha's classroom. I'm sure there are many other things! I called Dad on my way to work this morning and reminded him of all my memories. We had a good laugh.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

A ham continuation...

So, yesterday on the way to school Samantha said: "Some people have pigs as pets. They say pigs are really clean. I don't know about that but if I had a pig I would cook it in a pot like that woman did in Fatal Attraction to the bunny. Then I'd eat it and lick all the ham off it's bones like a big ham lollipop."

Monday, February 2, 2009

It's February Already!

The weather here is wild. We had a winter storm with lots of ice an snow last week. Samantha had 4 snow days last week! All of our trees are covered with a coating of ice. I know it is so bad for the poor trees but it sure does look beautiful when they sparkle in the sun. Yesterday we had our front door open and the sun shining in really warmed things up. John was out trying to clear out the sewer drain by the road for all the melting ice to run off and not back up in our yard. Samantha built a snowman and I sat in the doorway and watched them.

I actually watched part of the Super Bowl! I think the only reason might have been because Ryan was over. But, I did see the Steeler's guy do that really cool thing where he ran really far with the ball... farther than anyone ever has in the Super Bowl. Huh...

One of my favorite things is sitting in the car with Samantha in the mornings before school. We talk about the silliest things! Today Samantha went on and on about her love for bacon. She said, "I feel bad that they slaughter them but I sure do love those pigs!"