Day 91: One Smart Cookie

The last few days have been so much fun with Samantha! We have been laughing and playing and exploring everything we can!

OH...did I mention she finally cut her first tooth! It's been about a week now, and that pearly white is sharp! My fingers have been bit a few times now...thankfully nothing else has been though. Certainly not looking forward to if when that happens!

For all the times I blamed teething for her not sleeping, being cranky and not smiling or laughing...she really did not fuss much at all as it came up. She became a little more clingy and a bit harder to get to sleep, but she still napped well and is still sleeping through the night!

Back to the fun though, Samantha has been babbling up a storm and after cruising with Cookie Grama's walker, has learned that everything is movable. She has been moving her activity table, her stroller, her high chair! If she's strong enough to move it...then it will move. It's so funny watching her do it though. She just doesn't look like she's big enough to be doing that yet. But what's new, she surprises me with something new everyday!

Today, while having fun at Nana's, she looked straight at her and said "Hhhh Nunu"! (Hi Nana) We figure "baba" means baby. She has Mum down pat and now we're working on Dada. She's such a smart cookie! Now we need to try and keep her from helping reorganize all the cupboards...

I'm also super excited to announce that Samantha is in a contest to be on the cover of Today's Parent magazine! You may remember our adventure with the modelling agency and how sketchy it was. I am so happy that this is a legitimate way to share her smile with the world! (cough cough...vote for her here...cough cough)

I also like that the contest is based on votes and judging. So, even if an entry has 300 votes, it doesn't necessarily mean they win the contest. It makes it seem a lot more fair to those of us stay-at-home moms that don't work in a huge corporate office with multiple email addresses.

Either way, I'm super excited to say that Samantha is #23 out of over 9700 entries! I think that gives us a pretty good shot! However, if you want to help increase our chances feel free to VOTE HERE (wink, wink). I'll keep you all posted on the contest status over the next month!