Channel Sam

20 May 2011 Running from the Waves

May 21, 2011

19 May 2011 Swinging

May 20, 2011

Sam swings in the backyard with Aunt Rika and Uncle “Silly.”

18 May 2011 Pink Rider Bikes Cape May

May 19, 2011

16 May 2011 Big Foot, Little Foot

May 17, 2011

Can you tell they were running?

12 May 2011 Welcome to the Bent Spoon Garden

May 13, 2011

That’s its name because when we were preparing the garden bed we dug up a bent spoon. Also a pair of sunglasses, a broken pencil, a piece of a belt, some pennies, and other things which I mentioned previously here. Oh and the nozzle on the hose that Sam is wielding oh so provocatively? We dug that up out of the dirt …

11 May 2011 Flower Cups for Fairies

May 12, 2011

“Mom! A fairy came and ate one of the flower cups we made!” Flower cups for fairies was one of several elaborate games that Sam played with her new friends Charlotte and Lydia at the park today.

10 May 2011 Elementary Back Stroke

May 11, 2011

Sam passed level 3 of the Red Cross preschool swim classes at the city pool today. Not only did she manage the “elementary back stroke” for 5 body lengths but she also tread water for 15 seconds! The city’s classes are nowhere near as good as those offered at Brighton’s Prince Regent Pool, but it was obvious today that …

5 May 2011 Strawberry Fields Forever

May 6, 2011

or at least 8 acres of them at Critzer Farm at the foot of Afton Mountain.

3 May 2011 Mud Pyramid City

May 4, 2011

Part two of making mud bricks. After we mixed up the mud yesterday we poured some into various different moulds, i.e. junk, that I happened to have lying around: egg cartons, plastic apple sauce containers, a plastic hummus container and a huge yogurt cup. We left all of these out to bake in the sun and today’s weather …