firsts with daddy

samantha has been spending more time than usual with her dad, with me going back to work. they have really enjoyed their days together!

firsts with daddy include:

the swing at the park (she LOVED it!)

coloring with crayons and paper

playing soccer (sam gives a good throw-in and tim dribbles it back to her)

drinking cow's milk in her bottle (mixed with formula because she doesn't yet like it by itself)


tonight after her bath i was struck by how old she looks. she is getting big. she is close to walking by herself. she is almost one.

we will begin the birthday celebration tomorrow with a party in vancouver on Canada day. and finish the celebration on sunday - her actual birthday - with a Latimer 4th of July extravaganza. hopefully she likes fireworks. :)

what a difference a year can make. a year ago we were waiting and waiting for baby bud. tomorrow we will celebrate one year of life for Samantha Jean. the Lord has been good and we are thankful for her - our precious gift.

back to Purpose

today i began work again at the Lower Mainland Purpose Society (where i worked before my maternity leave). i am working part time at Purpose as a family therapist. overall i really enjoyed my first day back. my favorite part was catching up with co-workers and hearing about the progress of some of the clients i worked with prior to my leave. being away from sammy was easier knowing tim was with her.

for tim and sam the day was mostly uneventful. the high point was probably a trip to the park to play with faith (our dog). the low point was tim changing sammy's diaper and her wiggling so frantically she got poop all over herself. she ended up in the cold tub, which caused loud screaming and tim thinking maybe he should just go find a full time job after all (and have me stay home full time). samantha was thankful for the warm bath which followed and tim was thankful for the nap which followed the bath. overall though tim and sam loved their day together.

tim, sam and faith met me on my walk home - a very pleasant sight! and we had dinner with joyce and finley. a lovely end to a nice day.

too many posts - opps

so i realized this morning that i posted more posts yesterday than my blog likes to show - you have to click on "older posts" at the bottom of the blog if you are intereted in even more vacation pictures. :)

ok - i just changed the settings - enjoy the additional posts without any additional work.

family picture

a family picture taken on the last day - i particularly like the first one where sammy is pointing to the skies. enjoy the many, many posts of our vacation :)

cake

sammy LOVED the singing and the candles!! (much unlike her mom who used to cry at the happy birthday song)
so this cake is really for me?!

getting a good look

not pleased

samantha didn't like the cake... i have no explanation for this. but we can sing to her all day long :)

taking pictures after dinner

these are some of the best pictures of the ones we took after dinner. just love being together!!

celebrating sammy

we celebrated sammy's upcoming 1st birthday. these pictures are a bit out of order to here is sam walking to the car with the help of her dad, covered in water (she loves drinking from a big cup but often spills all over herself).
water, yum!

looking over the menu

we went to dinner on a wharf - waiting for the table

samantha can now eat off of the kids menu - she prefers grilled cheese or macaroni :)

a night out to celebrate gabe and see the ocean

we celebrated many things while on vacation (father's day, tim's upcoming graduation, sammy's birthday) - this night we celebrated gabe and his graduate degree. these pictures were taken just outside the resturant.

a family picture by the ocean
ellis, brooke, gabe, janae, tim, krist, sammy

cousins!

ellis and her daddy

sweet sammy and her mama

another go at a family picture

sammy enjoying the sand

first time in a pool!

samantha was happy this first trip in the pool but subsequent trips were met with hesitation. unfortunately for sammy jean her mother's love for the pool will override all of her discomfort - we will push through and find love (whether she likes it or not) :)

samantha LOVED the ocean

sammy jean loved her time by the ocean!!! i was very surprised by this because she was hesitant to get excited about the pool. but the ocean - was a different story - she LOVED it!! the ocean was beautiful (we were in anna maria island by the way) - warm, clear, mild with the waves - perfect for a baby :)

spending time with ellis and auntie j

vacation!!

we returned late, late, late last night from a wonderful week in florida with tim's family. here are some of the best pictures we took. these are from the airport - we had to wake up at 4 am to make our early flight. sammy did great for the travel but was a little spent by the end of the day. we were glad to get to the house we stayed at for the week after 14 hours of travel.

back to her old self!

thanks to all of you for your thoughts and prayers!! sammy jean is having a great day today. she is talking, singing, dancing, playing, eating - all things she was not doing one week ago. we are thankful for each of these things today.