Samantha is sooo cute! Everyday she does a million things that make my heart melt. Here are just a few of them. There’ll be more soon, I’m can assure you!

1. Every Animal roars like a lion or tiger. Even the barn yard animal figurines we have. She really likes roaring.
2. Except for dogs. She knows what dogs say. When they speak, she listens, and answers! Arf! Arf! LOL!
3. She seeks out her books and sits and ‘reads’ them out loud to herself in her own language.
4. Sometimes she kisses the pictures of the leopards and tigers in her books.
5. She sings her own songs as she plays.
6. Samantha’s got rhythm. When the music plays, she dances with all her heart – even to the ring tones on Mummy and Daddy’s cell phones! She can also dance on command.
7. She likes to play ball with Rusty. Actually, one day while watching us play ball with him, she picked up the ball and ‘threw’ it for him. Since then she has been getting better and better at playing catch. Before that, she wasn’t interested.
8. When Rusty whacks her in the face with his tail, she laughs.
9. Recently, she started putting her own toys away. But, of course, they don’t stay in the box very long 😉
10. She rarely cries when she hurts herself. My little girl is TOUGH!
11. She plays hard and rough, but she’s also careful and precise about her movements.
12. When she wakes up from a nap, she’s all smiles.
13. She likes to pickup bouncy balls, drop them, and then kick them.
14. Putting her hand in a cup of water (or a fountain) is her favorite sensation. She loves water.
15. When we go swimming, she loves to ‘face plant’ into the water, and then come up with a big smile.
16. When older kids are rough with her she quietly observes then tries her new moves out on daddy.ouch.