Sam ended up taking 8 weeks of classes here. We’re both sad to leave it.

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Sam’s North Carolinian grandparents gave her a subscription to Highlights High Five magazine for Christmas. Sam loves these magazines. Each issue includes a kid-friendly recipe. Today she wanted to make the February “banana dippers” recipe. The recipe calls for peanut butter but we substituted sunflower seed butter. …

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Refurbished snow ladies after yesterday’s new snow. When I asked Sam what their names were, she said, “They’re called “Soldiers of the Sun.” Apparently the pine cone at the bottom of the soldier on the right is a sword.

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The best way to get Sam to open her clenched mouth at the dentist’s office? Tell her to be a lion.

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so this week’s class at Tyler Arboretum, “Flowers in Winter” met in the old barn.

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When he doesn’t want his picture taken.

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I know, this week it’s either snow pictures or Sam’s drawings, but hey, both are in plentiful supply around here. Just now while I was writing up yet another packing and storage list (movers are scheduled to pack up our house in California on Thursday) Sam sat down at the table and whipped out this drawing. We were …

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I wish this photo captured just how fast Sam was spinning down the hill on the new sled her father sent us. It was just too fast for my fingers. But this is how she stopped at the bottom of the hill: She’s named the new sled “Cheetah.” Thanks, AC!

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Sam’s rendition of this page in Katharine Holabird’s Angelina Ballerina:

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Storytime at the library was followed by toy time. Here is Miss Julianne, the new children’s librarian, asking the girls about their towers.

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