Charlottesville VA

12 August 2013 Reluctantly Leaving the Pool

Aug 13, 2013

11 August 2013 Brother

Aug 12, 2013

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.

10 August 2013 El Seed

Aug 11, 2013

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

9 August 2013 Edamame Flowers

Aug 10, 2013

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

7 August 2013 Truthfulness

Aug 8, 2013

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 …

6 August 2013 This Was the Best Tomato Ever

Aug 7, 2013

The three of us actually fought over it.

5 August 2013 A Couple of Firsts

Aug 6, 2013

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 …

4 August 2013 Bear Laundry

Aug 5, 2013

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

2 August 2013 The Cemetery Garden in August

Aug 3, 2013

1 August 2013 Pulling Teeth

Aug 2, 2013

No, not really. Sam’s dental health is great. But the saying is apt anyway because getting Sam to open her mouth for the dentist was pretty darn difficult.