Channel Sam

6 Jan 2010 Uneven bars at the Little Gym

Jan 6, 2010

A trial class at the Little Gym in Newtown Square. I watched through the glass.

5 Jan 2010 Everything Dancing

Jan 5, 2010

Trina and Sam put on a show. Sam called it the “Everything Dancing Show” but it also involved humming. After four acts the show ended abruptly. Creative differences, I think.

4 Jan 2010 Teenager Games

Jan 4, 2010

“Bicycle Dorbie” jumps on “Teenager Dorbie”‘s head. “Are they fighting?” I ask. “No,” Sam says. “They’re playing teenager games.”

3 Jan 2010 Twin Sammies

Jan 3, 2010

Yes, we played with PhotoBooth today.

2 Jan 2010 Ice Skating Girls

Jan 2, 2010

Sam told me that these were all four year olds ice skating, except for two girls who are walking and one who is watching.

Not where we’re located at the moment, thankfully, though AC might be feeling that way as he’s right this minute spending the day at SFO waiting to catch a red-eye to the east coast, after his original flight got canceled because of the nor’easter that slammed us over the weekend. (Sam and I made it to PA just fine …

Thankful

Dec 19, 2009

This November we made a Thanksgiving tree. We started with twigs from the back yard, dirt and twine. Then we added felt and brown paper “leaves.” On the leaves we wrote things that we are thankful for. Sam is crazy about writing these days and insisted on writing her own gratitudes (with me spelling the words for her). …

Halloween 09

Nov 13, 2009

I’ve been neglecting the blog of late because I’m pouring all available nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, and adverbs into the novel I’m writing for NaNoWriMo. As of today the novel is 21,666 words and I need to get to 50,000 by the end of November. These words you see here? Renegades. They’re slipping through …

September Craft Digest: A Family Affair

Oct 15, 2009

All three of us got our craft on last month. The first rainy Saturday we spent making rubber stamps for our Letterboxing obsession. AC did the actual carving. Here Sam makes us a model for the butterfly stamp she wanted: My tulle tutus for Sam’s little “magical dress-up” birthday party. Try saying “tulle tutus” twenty …

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Oct 2, 2009

“‘What are you doing up there, Charlotte?’ ‘Oh, making something.’ she said. ‘Making something, as usual.'” Charlotte’s Web has been running through my mind lately, not only because the audiobook is still the daily soundtrack around here, but also because I’ve been feeling a little like Charlotte recently. After Sam …