Sammy Notes

Good weekend! Really enjoying some warm weather which has come our way.

Shot off water rockets with Sam. Went well above the height of the house.

Cleaned out the garage while Sam played around, pausing only briefly to set some things on fire using a 3'x4' Fresnel lens.

Sam is doing really well with Joshua. He is patient with him and enjoys trying to interact. Joshua is often in a chatty mood and happy to exchange burbles and incoherent phonemes back and forth. The greatest challenge here is keeping Sam from being in Josh's face.

The greatest thing in Sam's world, though: Using Christmas money from Grandpa Gene, Sam has now received in the mail an ant farm! It has LEDs which gradually change color, and about a dozen and a half ants at the top of a container filled with gel. They have already begun digging down into it. Sam is THRILLED to watch their progress and has all but named each one.

We let him put it on his night stand to look at as his gently drifted off to sleep, underestimating the looking and overestimating the drifting. Finally, well past when he's usually asleep, Susan went in and sang to him a little, beginning with "The Ants Go Marching One By One". :-)

Btw, the ant farm directions say the ants are all female. Sam has named them all Rosemary. (I asked why all the same name and Susan countered, Can *you* tell them apart?)