Six Month Samantha

Samantha turned 6 months - about a month ago. She is such a sweetheart, she might actually be made out of marshmallows. This week she started clapping - loves Patty Cake - and last night out of the blue, she started babbling. This girl has a lot to say and it has been pent up for a while. Her pteradactyl screams gave way to 5 hours of constant babble last night - in full on sentences. No matter that it sounds a LOT like "Daddy" and "I do it!!" - both we hear a lot of in our house lately. She is almost a full-on sitter upper now, grabs things with her little swiper-like claws, and shows virtually no interest in rolling over, so she is getting a little bald spot in her stately locks.

Her she is with Daddy in the Public Garden.

Don't worry, she was happy - in spite of the face I captured here. I am becoming a worse photographer.




Just a little dress up...time to start the Halloween costumes.


Ha! She is s a little yogi. And with any luck, I will catch our swiper with her big toe in her mouth as she often poses.


Here she is with her "Half Birthday" Cake - which she did not get to eat. Because we only sporadically have started her on solid food and feeding Chocolate Banana Cake with Sour Cream Chocolate frosting would have been wrong. And my idea for a "half cake" was kind of half baked since it just wound u p looking like I made am (ugly) layer cake and cut it in half, rather than frosting it as a half like I did. It was not the desired effect I was going for, but the recipe will live on in history. It may be the cake my grandkids talk about as it will become part of our family lore - it was THAT good.


We went to the Children's Museum a while ago. Charlie & Elliot played. Sam just hung in the canoe.


Blanketing out in Harvard Square.


Our bookworm loves to read - well, loves to hold books in her hands and turn pages - which is an excellent precursor to reading. I liked that she let me read the Improper Bostonian by myself.


Not only is she a good reader, she likes to compute on her mini laptop above. She has yet to really discover her kitty Sheffield, even though he is often near her, like right next to her.


This is Sam on her actual 6 month birthday - Already outgrowing her Sam shirt.