Rain. Cooped up inside again today. I made up a phonics jumping game. One person makes the sound of a letter and the other one jumps upon it. I guess it was a success with Sam because I got tired of the game long before she did. I took a much needed break from jumping to take her picture.

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The house in the back of the photo belonged to the town undertaker in the 19th century.

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Sam, Mom-Mom and I went to work with Granddaddy at Laurel Brooke. Didn’t sell any houses today.

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Sam knows a couple of sight words, including “Yes” and “No.” She delights in pointing these out on the page when I read to her. Not since her toddlerhood has the word “No” been so interesting to her. Yesterday and today Sam spent a couple of hours doing “work” at her grandfather’s office. She loved it. Especially since …

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Mom-Mom got a tin foil hat today. And some highlights.

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Miss Judy helps Sam get into the “basket position” on the high bar.

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Guess where we went again today? My daughter is obsessed with chickens.

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On this sunny winter day, warm for this part of Pennsylvania, we went to Linvilla Farm for their 50% off vegetable sale and the wooden playground they have behind the store. But we stayed for the fowl. There’s something so peaceful and calming about feeding chickens individual kernels of corn.

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Monty, Bertie, and Gil. Monty’s ears didn’t take kindly to glue so he got stapled.

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Homemade pizza tonight. Sam shaped her own mini pizzas and bread sticks, which she called “bread crusts.”

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