Since I took on the position as the Creative Activities Coordinator for our 1st/3rd weeks MOPS group, I've had to start on the planning for purchasing and teaching the crafts. We don't have a craft though at our first few meetings, so it gives me a little time to get going on everything. I do have MOPS monthly Steering team meetings and went to one MOPS local leadership event. Though it can be a lot of work to get everything set for the crafts, so far I have found it very fulfilling to work with this group of Godly women in planning the year for our whole MOPS group. I am just hoping I can get more comfortable once a few crafts are under my belt. For NARI this month, in addition to a board meeting, general meeting and tour committee planning, I planned our annual golf outing this month and all went well, with 16 teams participating.
We celebrated Poppy's 90th birthday this month with a pizza party at their house! We had a fun evening and now Poppy is off towards the next goal - 100! Happy Birthday Poppy!
Samara's Moments and Milestones for the Month:
- First dental cleaning appointment-she did great!!
- PreSchool Open House - night before school started. All was great until we went to leave. She didn't want to leave unless she could take the fish in the tank with her. "But I would take good care of them!" she insisted and repeated over and over through sobs. Hoping the first day goes better!
- First day of PreSchool - so far she loves it. Brought her blue school bag, found her cubby and name with help and joined in for circle time on the rug. She seems excited to go each time, no tears at all!
- We have entered a phase where EVERYTHING is a competition or a race. We hear how she's going to win or "I beat you!" is said after every activity. She even says our dinner prayer quickly, then says, I beat you! We had to talk about how everything is NOT a race.
- At Lowe's with Daddy, she would walk right up to the Halloween tall blow-up decor and touch it. She told Mommy about it when home, "I walked right up and touched it and it didn't eat me!"
- She speaks very clearly and can say most anything, but it's so cute...she still says "laly bug" for lady bug
- After only 3 days at PreSchool she can sing parts of a few and all of the "apples in the tree" song. They are in preparations for the field trip to the Apple Orchard this month. Mommy went along to the field trip, Super Bee Apple Orchard. They got to go out and pick their own apples off the tree and then come up to learn about the apple sorting machine. It was a chilly day, but thankfully not raining! All the girls had fun (12 girls, 0 boys in her class) and we came home with some apples. We made apple cake and then apple crisp with them- yum!
- Spt 19th - first sick day :( She had a fever and was up at night saying she couldn't swallow. Had her stay home just in case it was strep throat or something. In the end it wasn't and she bounced back by that afternoon.
- Maybe with all of the new things going on, she sucked her thumb too much? She got a blister on her top lip. Was thinking maybe it would put a stop to the thumb sucking...it did not. Oh well, it's really only when she's tired.
- Sept 2nd - pulled self to standing in crib
- Early Sept - can walk and kick a ball, new favorite syllable... "b, b, b", can push self up from tummy to standing, walks hands and feet together until he's up!, 4th tooth on top is coming in, that makes eight chompers now. He will bite whatever part of you he can reach if he is trying to get your attention - beware, he can bite through jeans!
- Sept 11th - started a z/s sound today
- Sept 15th- first long car tip. We went to Moline for a baby shower for Jeff's cousin Todd &Teresa Green. He did well, thank goodness for Curious Buddies video on the way home! He had had enough of the carseat.
- Sept 19th- he is making more sounds and understanding more and more. If you say, go get your ball, he'll look for one and go get it if in sight. Saying memememe for Mommy (usually when unhappy or scolding for not paying attention to him). Has said Dada. He can wave hi and bye-bye. Working with him on signing please.
- Sept 19th- consistently sleeping all night now - thankfully! Bed by 8:30, up at 5AM for either a bottle then back to sleep until 8AM, or if he doesn't wake up at 5, then he'll sleep until about 7:15-but wants milk ASAP!! If home all day, usually naps at 10ish and 2:30ish. If we run morning errands, he just naps at about 2ish.
- Starting to be slightly unsure of others. Sept 19th was first day Gemma watched him all day without Samara there. Samara was at daycare and I was working our golf outing. We had to distract him with Curious Buddies when I left. Then he didn't want to nap for Gemma! Threw quite a fit but finally surrendered.
- Now loves for you to say "Gonna get you!", especially Daddy. He runs away smiling and laughing. He is still VERY ticklish and giggles like crazy. He has dimples in both cheeks - melts your heart! :)
- He figured out how to make this "frog kazoo" toy make noise. So, now he walks around with it his mouth, then stops and dances (bounced up and down) to his own tune.
- Late Sept. he figured out how to go up two stairs. And also switched from memememe to Mamama, still mainly for scolding and days Da! for Daddy when he sees him.
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