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This is the cat Sam calls Brother. AC has lately taken to calling him Walter, after the title character in The Secret Life of Walter Kitty. That’s one of those picture books we must have read to Sam hundreds of times. We still quote the book to each other.

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(Title is an obscure reference to a villain from The Tick animated series from the 90s…) This sunflower is over 6 feet tall!

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We planted edamame seeds in the garden in early July. I didn’t expect the flowers to be purple!

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I don’t know what was so funny about food for bears, honestly. On our way to Sherando Lake, Sam, Susie and I dropped off a couple of bags of kale and squash from our garden to donate to the Virginia Wildlife Center. They rescue and rehabilitate (when possible) injured or sick wildlife. Currently they have several bear …

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We’re recently back from France so of course Sam is now obsessed with Chinese. It’s my fault. While we were in France I asked her what other languages she might like to learn. Chinese came up. So this week we started doing Play & Learn Chinese with Mei Mei, a dvd we got from the library. We also are using some free …

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The three of us actually fought over it.

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At her last summer swim lesson today Sam swam a lap for the first time, full length of the pool. She was pretty darn happy about that. Later in the day, she got her first bee sting. On her foot. 🙁 But no allergic reaction beyond the sting, so yay! Poor kid, between stinging nettles in France and stinging bees in …

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Molly and Emma Bear needed some clean clothes after their trip to Europe.

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