Channel Sam

30 March 2011 Last Day of Explorations Winter Term

Mar 31, 2011

29 March 2011 Back on the Road Again

Mar 30, 2011

28 March 2011 Raggedy Ann

Mar 29, 2011

This is my childhood Raggedy Ann sitting next to a Holly Hobbie doll. I used to play with these a lot. I never, however, played “battle” with them, as Sam did today.

27 March 2011 A Silly Conversation

Mar 28, 2011

With Granddaddy, all conversations are silly.

A trip to Pennsylvania would not be complete without a game of baseball or two. Granddaddy had to reteach Sam how to play, since her time in the UK seemed to have erased her memory of the quintessential American game.

24 March 2011 Water Madness

Mar 25, 2011

In April Sam will begin a month-long, biweekly swim class at Charlottesville new city pool. I thought it would be a good idea for us to check it out beforehand, so we went this afternoon for “family swim” hours. The pool facilities are gorgeous. Sam kept referring to the family pool as a “playground” and this picture …

23 March 2011 Scarf Dance

Mar 24, 2011

Please Mind the Gap

Mar 23, 2011

This video is likely of interest only to me, but I wanted to preserve it, because it is so representative of our time in the UK: a train ride through green and wet countryside, Sam gazing out the window, and my reading of a book (in this case, Watership Down) interrupted by the automatic train lady voice reminding us …

21 March 2011 Bookworms

Mar 22, 2011

20 March 2011 First Day of Spring

Mar 21, 2011

This is Sam’s poem for the first day of spring (I have normalized the spelling): Flowers Grow in the Spring twirling in the sunshine Look at them