April 2011

April was another good month! As you can see from the last two posts, Samara is over 9 months old now and she had her first Easter. Still a healthy, happy girl! She has four teeth now on the bottom, her hair just keeps getting longer (and lighter- weird!) and she gets faster by the day. She loves to feed herself finger foods - bananas, cooked peas or carrots and peanut butter toast being some of her fav's. Some days if it is a food she can't feed herself she wants nothing to do with it, even though it may be homemade baby food I blended just for her! She still walks really well along furniture and walls, and has even taken 13 steps on her own! During April she really figured out crawling so when she wants to get somewhere fast, she drops down and off she goes. She can even crawl all the way up the stairs by herself (with Mommy or Daddy right behind just in case of course).
Her first Easter was fun! We went to 8:00 church at Lord of Love, which was early for us, but we all made it and Samara was good during the whole service. She enjoyed her breakfast bottle during the service, which helped. :) She was dressed to the nines in her dress and matching shoes that Gemma made. It was cool that day so we had to add a little pink sweater. She had her first Easter egg hunt at Pennell's for just a few things and her new pony!! No, not a real Pony, people - just a stuffed rocking horse, but she loves it. It plays a song and talks when you squeeze its ears. Daddy has attached a rope to the front so she can "ride" around the house, and surprisingly enough she enjoys that too!
She LOVES to read books! She will pick up a book, walk over to you and sit down in your lap - like okay, you know what to do. It is so cute!
She has really started saying Mama and Dada so that you can understand it, which is very cool. If she is in her crib longer than she wants to be sometimes she will start in on mamamamamama - like she is yelling at me for taking so long! She gets very excited when she sees birds or hears a dog bark outside and overall just really likes to be outside. Sometimes we will have a meltdown at the front door if she is at all tired and I say that we are not going out. Hopefully this is not a preview to her two's! We have gotten together with some of our friends that have kids several times so it was fun to see how she reacted to other kids. She wants to touch their face and just laughs sometimes. Some of them are older than her so if they took her toy she just voiced her displeasure (shrieking loudly) and usually their Mom or Dad made them give it back. We got to visit the new addition to the Coler family - Capri Janae. Samara was not really impressed and much more enjoyed playing with Cooper and Camry - and their DVD player buttons.
She had her first real sickness during April, where her fever got up to about 102 - just enough to worry Mommy. Pretty sure she got sick from going in for her well-baby 9 month visit. So, then it was back to the Dr. where they said it is a virus that will probably have fever for three days then turn into a cold. It did, she got well quickly, but not before sharing her germs with Mommy, Gemma and Poppa. We are all just now starting to feel better. Mommy even learned she is allergic to amoxicillin - good to know, but not fun to learn! Daddy somehow avoided it all!
So, another month gone by with lots of pictures taken to try and remember everything, even though I know I won't. Just trying to enjoy it all and we are!
pics to come soon - once I can get them to upload...