Remember that? We don’t have a TV anymore, but Sammy knows what videos are, and she knows that she can see little videos on our digital camera. She does not always believe us, however, when we tell her that we are shooting still pictures and not videos. A couple of weeks ago, AC was taking still photos of Sam and she …

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She likes to wear dresses now. And also boots. [{.imagelink}]2 You can see this month’s pictures here in the gallery.

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Me: Sammy, how many toes do you have? Sam: One, two, three, four, five, Sammy, eight, nine, ten.

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Lately Sammy will run up to me or her father and say, “Australia is? Sam’s room?” She just loves pointing out the land down under on the world map in her room. It used to hang on her wall, like a normal map, but a few weeks ago the picture hook broke, it fell down, and I have just been too lazy to fix it. When I …

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One of Sam’s favorite things to do now is to help me “cook” in the kitchen. What this means really is that I am training her to be my sous-chef. She dumps vegetables in the salad bowl, puts scraps in the compost tub, tries to spin the salad spinner, and insists on juicing lemons and limes by herself. (“Sammy do that!” …

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AC and I did one of those simultaneous parental double-takes two evenings ago in the back yard. Sam walked down a short flight of rail-less concrete steps all by herself and counted each step as she went: “one, two, three.” “Did she just walk down the steps all by herself?” “Wait, did she she just count to three?!” …

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Joyeux anniversaire, Benjamin! We’re sorry we can’t give you bisous in person, but wish you a wonderful first birthday and a stupendous second year!

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We spent the morning of this holiday at the ER– Sam woke up with rapid breathing and lethargy. She’s had a cold the past couple of days and has been downright miserable. The doc heard wheezing in her lungs, and a truck load of phlegm. They also did this interesting test which measured the oxygen in her blood using a …

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At Mom-Mom and Granddaddy’s house, Sam has a giant plushy Penguin which she loves to hug, kiss, throw down the stairs, and generally push around. The other night, though, poor Penguin was falling a lot. Fortunately Sam was there to pet and stroke him. A couple of notes: At the beginning of the clip, I prompt Sam to …

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When I was a kid, my father, brother and I would spend summer evenings playing whiffle ball out in the backyard. Occasionally my mother would join us and we’d play “pitcher, batter, catcher, guts,” rotating positions after each out. Guts was the outfielder. No teams– it was each person for him or herself, and we used …

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