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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Also best purchase for 2010. We got more snow today. I never thought we’d be leaving a snowy eastern United States for better weather in the UK.

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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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This morning my father drove me and Sam up to an immigration facility in northeast Philadelphia so we could submit our “biometric data” to the UK consulate in support of our Tier 1 visa application. “Biometric data” made me think on the one hand of technologically advanced body scanners that could calculate blood …

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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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Compare to last Monday’s picture.

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

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