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2 March 2014 Laundry Legs

Mar 2, 2014

It’s hard for me to believe as I post this now that just a few hours ago Sam and I were hanging out in the back yard watching the laundry flap in the warm breeze. It’s raining now and 20 degrees colder. Tomorrow we’re supposed to have a snowstorm. As Homer Simpson once said, “Lousy Smarch weather.”

1 March 2014 Watching for Spring

Mar 2, 2014

Actually, we were watching a guy load gravel into the back of a pickup truck at the local garden center, but in our hearts we were watching for spring.

28 February 2014 Little Zombies

Mar 2, 2014

I didn’t quite understand why Sam went immediately from reading Dead City, a novel about a girl zombie hunter, to reading Little Women, but I found the juxtaposition highly amusing. Apparently Little Women came up enough times in the first book to pique Sam’s curiosity. Little Women has always been one of my favorite …

27 February 2014 Breakfast with Emma Bear

Feb 28, 2014

Emma Bear got the works today: fried egg, bacon, a vitamin, AND she got to wear some fancy new duds. Note the little rag doll tucked inside her shirt? Sam’s bears have their own lovies.

26 February 2014 Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue

Feb 27, 2014

25 February 2014 The Plunge

Feb 26, 2014

Sam takes “The Plunge” at the snow tubing park at Wintergreen.

24 February 2014 VoilÃ une gomme

Feb 25, 2014

Skit in French Club today. Sam was playing the part of a dragon who helps a student pick up pencils, erasers (“gomme”) and books that have fallen out of his backpack. She looks dragon-like, doesn’t she?

23 February 2014 Sam’s Stack

Feb 24, 2014

I like that Sam’s growing independence includes making pancakes.

22 February 2014 Cabbage Patch Birthday Party

Feb 23, 2014

Isabella and her friends, both animate and inanimate, celebrated her first birthday on this unbelievably beautiful spring-like day. How did Sam know that it was her doll’s birthday today? Because Cabbage Patch Dolls come with birth certificates apparently!