Little Miss Sammy

California Grammy and I are on the same page again! I have had "Blog" on my Getting Things Done list for awhile now. So here I am :-)

Sammy is taking a nap, David is having a meeting with some of the co-op parents, and I am blogging while watching Project Runway. David has been extremely busy with his responsibilities with Sammy's pre-school co-op. Unfortunately, our pre-school is getting kicked out of our space at the end of the year, so there is lots of work to do.

February has been an interesting month. It is hard to believe that back in the day we used to worry that Sam was going to be a pushover: she would stand back and watch as someone took her toy away; she would so quickly comply with our discipline (I remember putting her in time out and she would put her hands up on the wall!). It is apparent that we worried needlessly. She has no qualms with telling us exactly what is on her mind lately - and it is usually 180 degrees opposite of what we need her to do. ("Sammy, please go get your shoes so we can leave" will provoke "No, I don't want to go" and "Sammy, the sky is blue" will provoke "No, it is green", etc.)

She may be looking a bit cowed in this picture, but this is a picture of The Yes/No game. It consists of these two standing on a log and one of them (truth be told, it is usually Sammy) will start "No!", the other one will shout "Yes!" and repeat, ad infinitum.

Though I don't get to spend much time at the pre-school, I get the sense that Sammy loves it.

The last few years, David and I have gone on an executive retreat where we get our taxes done, our budgetting, and our filing pared down. It has been so beneficial. Last years retreat was our least productive, so this year we asked Grandma Helen and Grandpa Yak (Sammy's way of saying Jack) if Sam could stay with them for a weekend. I think everyone had a wonderful time. Sammy and Grandpa went down to the beach every day and made sandcastles and buried her feet, Grandma got to show Sam off at church, and David and I went to a cottage on the Oregon Coast, buckled down and got busy. It felt really good. Here we are taking a break:

We had a decent morning today - the sun poked out from the clouds for a bit so we got to work in our backyard: here is Sammy with a little worm.

And just so you can see here cute little Mariner's outfit here is another picture:

When Sammy isn't saying "NO!", she is keeping us entertained with her recitation of about a dozen different nursery rhymes: Baa Baa Black Sheep (her favorite), ABC's, Ride a White Horse, Yankee Doodle, Rock-a-Bye Baby, It's Raining It's Pouring, Rain Rain Go Away, Old King Cole, Jack and Jill, Humpty Dumpty, and (my favorite) Finkle Finkle Little Star. She really is a lot of fun!