9 Months ( I know, its late since she's almost 10 months old now)

After swimming



High Five!

"I did good mama!"



Splashing away with Kami (believe it or not, Kami is 2 years old...Sam is just as big as her hahaha)


Splash, splash, splash wether Kami likes it or not


Trying to get a bunch of babies on the podium all at the same time for a picture...not so easy

Sam with her little friend Abby (6 months old)



Gold medal winner!


I just wanna go swimming already!



I'm ready to go swimming now mommy


The little miss is growing so fast! We went to her 9 month appointment. She now weighs 23lbs and is a tall girl. She's in the 95th percentile for her weight, 75th percentile for her height and 80th percentile for her head (she's a genius! hahaha) She is a very busy baby and sometimes too smart for her own good. She's a crawling maniac. This girl is fast. She is also standing and walking by hanging on to things like the couch or tables. She has already mastered going up the stairs. She has a nice daily routine that we try to stick to as much as possible. She loves to watch Mickey Mouse Playhouse in the morning while eating her breakfast. Mickey and Minnie are her favorite. She dances to any music (which I love of course). She has those 2 bottom teeth and has 2 more that are starting to come out on her top gums. She eats pretty much anything from pasta to chicken and ground beef and asparagus and avocado. Likes bananas, mangoes, nectarines, apples, grapes, watermelon. Loves her green veggies, green beans and peas being her favorite but she will also eat spinach. Fish, rice, couscous and tomatoes. Like I said, she'll eat anything. She's pretty funny to watch too because she chews like she has a full set of teeth.

Swimming lessons are now over and she loved it. Samantha is totally a water baby. She is not afraid at all. Goes underwater and kicks those cute little feet. She loves to splash, splash, splash. Her class had a 6 month old, Samantha who was 8.5-9 months old at the time and the rest were all 13-17 months old. She was one of the only ones that never cried, well she cried once when the teacher took her to demonstrate how to teach a baby to swim to the stairs and the teacher forgot how old Samantha was and that she doesn't stand up on her own yet so Sam swallowed some water and didn't like it but otherwise, she was great the whole time. The teacher kept saying that she forgets how old Sam is because she is as tall as the 13-17 month old babies. It was kinda funny.

She is still a talker, always has to be the loudest one in the room...total attention hog! She says momma, daddy, hi, hey, yup, up, larry and moe. (Larry and Moe are our cats Joey and Milo...don't know why she calls Joey "Larry" but its pretty funny) She loves to chase larry and moe around the house. She is great at giving kisses, nice gooey open mouth kisses. She gives High-fives, claps when you say "yay" and does "so big" like a pro.

I think that's all that's new with our little monkey. She is just a fun little girl that always keeps us entertain and is just so full of love and happiness. I still get teary eyed when I look at her because I still can't believe that I finally have this beautiful, amazing little creature in my life. Those big blue eyes of hers just grab your heart, especially when she looks at you with that big smile of hers.


Samantha swimming. It might look like I'm pulling her toward me, but I am not. I am just putting slight pressure on her shoulders so that she doesn't try to roll onto her back.



So in this video, Sam had been swimming really well then the teacher comes to see how she's doing and Sam gets distracted and bumps into the hand rail. Her swim after that one she does really well. Check out her face as she's about to "jump" in the water in her second swim