Update!

Its been a while since I've updated on Samantha!

Friday was the last day with the boys and I think it's going to be a little harder on her than she might think!

We have been working hard on shapes and colors with Samantha.  She knows yellow and blue with her colors.  If its not yellow, then everything is blue, but she also knows blue by itself.  When it comes to shapes we know star, heart and diamond (thank you twinkle twinkle for two of those!).  Funny that she knows some of the hardest shapes (according to what she would be tested on).  Personally, I think they are easier than trying to differentiate circle and oval and rectangle and square.  We'll get to those!

In other news, she starts the babysitter's on Tuesday and I sure hope these next two months go smoothly.  She can be a handful when she wants to be and I can only hope for her best behavior while I'm not around!
Sam has gotten pickier about food.  The things she loved, not so much anymore: eggs, oatmeal, cheese, crackers, graham crackers, bananas, oranges.  Sorta annoying but we'll work on it!  Guess its time to try new things.  Have no fear, chicken nuggets and fish sticks are still a favorite!

She does love her some salad though.  I think its pretty hilarious that the only two veggies she will eat are broccoli and salad.  Whatever works!  :)

Okay, guess that's all.  Nothing new other than that.  We are so ready for nicer weather in StL so that we can get OUTSIDE!

Have a fabulous week!  I'll try to update about my job sometime this week. :)

Shin Splints and other randoms

I have been running the last couple of days and that's all it took for my shin splints to come back.  This means I need to go out and find some athletic tape, tape them up really well, and hit the road again!  There is nothing like a little pain in the shins to bring back the nostalgia of gymnastics...

On a different/same note, a really good friend was going to run the 1/2 marathon this April and found out this week that she has a stress fracture in her foot.  She has to be in a boot for 4 weeks.  That basically is right up to the marathon.  So, I told her that I would run/walk it with her so that she could still do it but not alone.  She's Her boss already paid for it, so she doesn't want that money to go to waste.  So, I have to do a little running to keep up with her.  :)

I hope you all had a fabulous Friday!  I had the day off as the boys went to Louisville to visit family.  Greg left early this morning for Colorado so it's just me and my girl this weekend!  Today, a really good friend of mine came in from Chicago and we had lunch at the restaurant up the street and finished it off with Ted Drewes.  There's nothing like St. Louis frozen yogurt and warm sunshine to remind you that spring and summer days are right around the corner!  :)

Sam's new favorite thing is to walk around the block.  And in fact, just one block usually is not enough for her.  When we get close to home, she tells me "uh uh" and starts backing up.  The girl loves to be outside and loves her exercise.  She takes after her Momma!  :)

Grandma and Papa Levine are taking Sam tomorrow evening.  The SIL and I are headed out for some drinks and to enjoy some girl time.  I am really excited except I don't know how long I will last.  I am just not the "party girl" that my MIL labeled me so long ago.  Kids will do that to ya. :)

I toured that other pre school today.  I am so conflicted. One was a home turned into a daycare and I really like their philosophy.  The other was bigger, and definitely a school setting.  They have an elementary-12 school attached to it.  Both are REALLY close to home.  I have no idea which way to go.  I am so struggling with this!!!

Random post over.

Success!

Sam did beautifully yesterday!  I still had the boys yesterday, so productivity was at its minimum.  :)  Greg dropped her off and said she did really well.  He said that he was fine until he turned around to walk down the stairs and saw her quietly watching him go down.  I told him I would have lost it.  He just said that he had to remind himself that I knew the woman watching Sam and I knew she was in good hands.  He had to trust my choice!

Sam did well, though.  It wasn't until I rang the bell and the sitter announced that it was me that she started crying.  Go figure.  here's hoping that that ends!  But she was so good when we got in the car and so happy. I love that!  So here's to 1 1/2 weeks left with my little girl and then my world gets rocked!  My goal is to not shed a single tear when I go back to work.  We'll see if that happens...

Testing...testing...

Well, we are two weeks away from the start of my job and Sam is trying out the babysitter's today.  Well, more like the babysitter is trying out Sam!  She is a fellow SLMer and I was nervous that adding another toddler to her mix might be more stressful than she imagined.  So we are trying it out for a couple of days just to see!  Today will be a true test because Sam woke up at 5:30 (normal wake up is between 7 and 7:30).  She's super cranky and still has an awful cough.  I really want her well before she starts full time somewhere!

Here's to a good report when I go pick her up in a few hours!!!  :)

Working Out

I haven't worked out in a while and its really starting to affect me.  You know how when you are dormant for too long you get stir crazy?  Well, that's how I get about not working out for quite some time.  I feel icky and tired all the time and just not motivated.  I know I should get to the gym, but the idea of waking up at 4:45 to get out in the cold is not very motivating.  ;0)

I hope this weekend and next week encourage me to get out and at least run.

Greg would not be very happy with this post.  He feels that my gym membership keeps him from having his own.  Men.  :)

New Car

Not a new one. But a new one for us.  I don't know if I have mentioned this before, but the Pathfinder we got last year has just had a bad omen.  It wasn't meant for us.  It was a shady deal and on top of it so many things have happened (like the tree falling on it, and the ice that shattered the windshield last week) that it just doesn't seem meant to be.

So now we have to decide if we go for the same kind of car or go for something smaller that fits our needs.  We still want an SUV and this winter has proved that it is necessary (especially living in the city).  But, do we go for a Pathfinder and up our payments, or do we go for something smaller and keep the same amount on our loan?

I would like to go smaller, but Greg is all for the Pathfinder again.  I just don't know.  :(  Decisions, decisions.  All I know is that if I have a bad feeling about a car like I did for our current Pathfinder, I will speak up a little louder this time!  :/

J-O-B Say What?!

That's right.  A job has found me.  I have found a job!  WOO!  Its been a really long year, but I'm thankful that I have found one that I am so happy about!

I will be working for an endodontist and my title will be administrative assistant, but by his description I will be doing so much more!  He just opened his practice in July and currently only has one other employee who is his dental assistant.  She is currently doing all the things that I will be doing so I will get much of my training from her.  I can't wait for March 1 to roll around!

Now I need to find a daycare that I love.  This is going to be harder than I thought.  Well, that's not true.  I knew I would be picky.  I think what's going to happen is I am going to have to put her somewhere until she's two (just two short months) and then put her in somewhere I am comfortable.  I looked at somewhere on Friday and while I wasn't happy with the curriculum, I thought the teachers were okay.  I have a tour this week and one next, so I am not going to make any final decisions until then.  So, my hope is to put her in the place I looked at last Friday and then move her to another daycare.  My goal in all of this is not to get too stressed out.  I know that I want her to be in a center setting vs. a home setting because that would be the case when she turned 3 anyway.

But yes, that's the good news!  Come March 1st, I will no longer be a WAHM!  WOOT!