Survivor

I've been waiting to blog because I wanted to be able to say we made it one whole week without Sam. And here we are, alive. We really did make it. I can't promise that Bria and I retained all our emotional stabilities all week, but we are alive. And the better news is that Sam is coming to visit us two weeks from today. He'll be at a conference in Chicago and will stop through SLC for six days before he heads back out to VA. Sam is still working hard at the job search. He's talked to a lot of people and learned a great deal that will hopefully help him find a job. Until then, we are remaining positive!

Bria and I have tried to keep ourselves busy this week. Bria has taken it upon herself to dazzle and delight her grandparents with her endless tricks. She has developed some very impressive dancing moves, which I will try to capture on camera. She started imitating my mom with pat-a-cake. She did most of the movements for a while, but now she will only do "and throw it in the oven." Which gets her pretty excited.


She really loves anything having to do with tomatoes. She will eat them like apples and she will eat spoonfuls of pizza sauce, ketchup, and now salsa.


She also loves to make a mess, of course. She was playing with a water bottle, saw that it poured water, poured said water all over the floor, played with the water, and then wiped it up when I brought her a towel.




My brother, his wife, and their two boys came to town, and Bria thoroughly enjoyed reading books with her cousin Tyler and my mom.

Today Bria found one of Sam's Red Sox hats and has been wearing it around the house all day. She loves to put it over eyes and walk around blind, laughing. It makes me fairly nervous, but I did manage to snatch a couple shots before pulling it up so she could see.



So now we're just counting down the days (hours, minutes . . . ) until Sam gets here. We've done some video chats this week, which have been great. And Bria definitely started calling Sam Da-da (not to be confused with the movement), since every time she sees a picture of him, she yells it out and points excitedly.
We're trying to come up with some fun things to do here in SLC so we don't die of boredom; if you have any ideas, please share!