The sweet life:): 2011

Friday, January 28, 2011

Samantha signs "more"!

For those unaware, I took America Sign Language in college as my "foreign language" credit. I don't remember too much from it but the basics. We heard that signing to infants can lead to early communication between the baby and the parent and even had a session with our parenting group devoted to sign language. Well, we have been signing "more" since Samantha was born and I think she has finally caught on! We also do the sign for "bottle" and "all done" and "father" and "mother". Those are still in the works:) Enjoy her signing "more" for "more yogurt" :)

Monday, January 10, 2011

Samantha's friend Macy - First Birthday Party!

We attended the First Birthday Party of one of Samantha's friends Macy from our Beaumont Parenting program over the weekend and had a ball! The party was at the Troy Community Pool where Samantha had been taking her swimming lessons. After the naming ceremony (which was beautiful) she had a blast at the party eating goldfish crackers, swedish fish, pizza and of course frosting from the birthday cupcakes (not so much the cake though!). We then got to go swimming! Rob went in the pool with Samantha and she was loving every minute of being back in the water! What a wonderful place for a first birthday party! Here are some photos from the party:

Traditional Jewish Naming Ceremony - was just lovely!

Samantha loved the fare at the party!

Macy and her first birthday cake!

My little fish!

Weeeeee! Going down the slide with Daddy!

Ed, Sofia, Rob, Samantha, Paul and Jack - all the Dad's with thier cute munchkins!

Thursday, January 6, 2011

High Five (Said like Borat :) )

Samantha is learning something new daily - check out this video of her skills at high fiving:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg9khjASeDA

First Birthday Party and Second Christmas!

We had a wonderful Holiday Season - kicking off with Samantha's First Birthday!

The birthday girl was not feeling the best at her party - just getting over being sick - but we had a ton of fun at her 2 birthday parties. We had one with Family during the day and one with Friends in the evening.

Samantha's First Birthday invites! (Front and Back)