happy birthday sammi, jan 8

Happy (actual) 2 year birthday, Samantha!!! We debated and debated about what to get her for her birthday, and finally decided that she would most enjoy spending the day with mommy and daddy (not in the studio), and picking out a couple of presents herself!

We started the day off with new crayons for the bathtub. We usually take baths at night, but we wanted her to use her crayons for the first time on her big celebration day. :) She LOVED them! This was taken after a little tickling from daddy...how sweet!

My friend Becky had told me about The Bounce Zone, which is a place full of those HUGE blow-up bouncy play things. Sammi got her first trip there on her birthday!

It didn't take long for her to get warmed up and bounce all over!

These bounce things are amazing. Full of slides, ropes to climb, and mazes to run through, all while bouncing.

Sam even enjoyed shooting some baskets!

This photo gives you a better idea of the place...and this is one of 3 rooms!

We were going to take her to eat at Red Robin, but she fell sound asleep as soon as we got in the car! We went home for a nap and lunch before heading out again.

Of course, once we got home, Sam didn't want to go back to bed, so we settled for giving her a 20 minute car nap (instead of her usual 1.5-3 hr nap) and fed her a lunch full of her favorite foods...noodles (she picks them out of the sauce and meat, oh well) and edemame!

After lunch we went to Claire's to let our girly girl pick out some new jewelry, hair bows, and princess slippers.

Needless to say, she had her hands on everything! It was so fun to watch her!

Our last stop was to Toys R Us to let her pick out a toy. She picked out Elmo Live, which we later discovered is a very cool toy! She also played with other toys and read some books while we were there.

When we got home we played with all of her new things and got Elmo working.

Her favorite item from the day was definitely her princess slippers!

She got worn out fast so we headed up to bed early.

The poor little birthday girl...when we were getting ready for bed, Dan thought she felt hot so we took her temperature and it was 101.8! We gave her some IBUProfen and took her to the doctor first thing in the morning. The little monkey had double ear infections! So, we are on medicine now and doing better. Even though she must have been hurting on her birthday (she did seem really tired all day), she was a trooper and we had such an awesome day together!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SAMANTHA!!!!! WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!!