Saturday, July 5, 2008

Eyes like blueberries

Grandpa and Grandma De Jonge came and celebrated the 4th of July with us yesterday. Samara was in heaven. She woke up from her nap to find two of her favorite people in the house. We ate good food (I even bought myself a food processor yesterday in order that I might make pesto from scratch!), we had good conversations about vocational possibilities, and Samara had lots of 'Gamma' and 'Gampa' love. She walked around outside with them, threw stones in a drain hole and even learned how to toss helicopter seeds into the air to watch them spin.


On a side note, I'm just now remembering that Uncle Robb told us that 'samara' is the technical name for those helicopter seeds... From Wikipedia: "A samara is a type of fruit in which a flattened wing of fibrous, papery tissue develops from the ovary wall... The shape of a samara enables the wind to carry the seed away from the parent tree..." That definition of her name will be so appropriate about 16 years from now... I'm writing her high school graduation card in my head as I type...


Anyway - a couple of my favorite moments from last night... Grandpa and Grandma getting roped in to singing 'The 12 Days of Christmas' to Samara (she has a book of this song that she insists we sing to her...) and the moment that Grandma told Samara that her eyes looked like blueberries.

The only times all night Samara wasn't smiling
was when we were taking her picture...
but there are the blueberry eyes. :-)

No comments: