an email

From: Alexa Ludtke
Subject: your crazy daughter
To: "Liz Howe"
Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 1:08 PM


Hey aunt liz,


I had an interesting time with Sammy last night at Wall-e! I went and picked her up at grandma and grandpas, she was dressed as a princess with a crown and everything! The crown was wayy to big for her and kept falling down to cover her eyes. When we got to the movie theatre and she was hopping up and down because she was SOOOO excited!!! I brought a ton of candy in my purse. She loved the sour gummy worms and wouldnt eat anything else.
Everyone told me i wouldnt be able to get her to sit through it. My mom said that when they went sam had to go to the bathroom and couldnt get her back in. So we didnt bring drinks in, we just had sour candy. After a while she said 'lexa kay im thirsty!' so i told her to stop eating the candy.

In the movie they play this movie clip from a musical. Wall-e dances for about 10 seconds and then they move on. Sam looks at me and says she wants to dance too. At this point the music has stopped but she already got off my lap. She stood up and started dance in front of the seat. Kinda shakin her bum and twisting back and forth. I start to giggle because its so cute. I guess she was really in the dancing mood because she started to dance her way out to the aisle. She starts doing twirls and point her foot and doing fast spins. I am loosing it laughing beause she is sooo serious and so into dancing even though there is no music whatsover. The theatre was pretty bright and she started dancing farther down the aisle. I was trying so hard to tell her to come sit back down but she was too far away and i couldnt breathe or see because i was laughing so hard and my eyes were watering. Finally i got up and got her to dance back to her seat. It was great. I know everyone in the theatre stopped watching the movie and was staring at this 3 year old bustin a move down the aisle with her crooked crown covering one eye.

She came and sat down on my lap and seemed satisfied with her dance break. She said 'lexa kay im not thirst anymore can i have some candy?' She got her candy. With 10 minutes left in the movie i noticed she hadnt talked in a loooong time. She was completely passed out. When the movie was over i carried her out to the car. She woke up when we were pulling out and asked where we are going. I told her we were going to meet alyssa and then they were going to go out to Namy and papas. I didnt want to drive another hour when alyssa was going out there anyway. I guess this was NOT the answer she wanted to hear because she flipped out. She was not going to let Alyssa drive her out there. She wanted to go to Namy and Papas RIGHT THIS SECOND and she wanted to go in my car. I tried to reason with her but she is 3. So I just said OK. On the way back to my house she fell alseep. I met alyssa at my house. We both carried passed out sam in her car seat to alyssa car. We were laughing because she was basically dead. Her foot go caught on the door and alyssa and i lost it. Sam started to smile with her eyes shut. Alyssa said hi and tickled her and she was laughing and i thought everything was going to be fine. I did the ultimate no no by kissing her and saying goodbye. She flipped out again started screaming and kicking. She looked at Alyssa and said 'no i dont want you i want lexa KAAAAyyyyy!' Alyssa was kind of offended but Sam pulled that trick on me the other day. She told me she never wanted to see me again and that Alyssa was going to come and play with her and she only wanted alyssa.

Anyways i shut the door and they drove off to the ranch. Im sure having a lot of fun with sammy though! Shes so cute i love all her outfits!

Love you and see you very sooooooooon!