30 July 2010 Busy Lizzie

July 30th, 2010

Busy Lizzie

At last the Busy Lizzie has bloomed.

29 July 2010 Jeep Hijinks

July 29th, 2010

Jeep hijinks

Hamza, Esme, and Sam go for a ride at St. Ann’s Well Gardens.

28 July 2010 Rest in Peace, Ren

July 28th, 2010

Picture for Mom-mom and Granddaddy

Mom-Mom and Granddaddy’s cat, Ren, passed away yesterday. Sam’s been drawing pictures of him so we’ll remember him.

27 July 2010 Merry-go-round

July 27th, 2010

Merry-go-round

26 July 2010 Bathroom Reading

July 26th, 2010

Bathroom reading

Today I stashed a bunch of sentences around the flat, and wrote a one-word clue for each one. The game: Sam would pick a clue at random, then use it to find a sentence. Once she’d found and correctly read aloud the sentence, she would get the next clue. The clue for the sentence above was: Sink. When put in the correct order, the sentences made a story. We ran out of sentences and clues long before she got tired of the game. Then, predictably, she wanted to make a sentence hunt for me. I was amused to find a scrap of paper in my bed that read, “Tex will skip.” Skip what? Why? Where? I am anxiously awaiting the rest of the story. But will I find the next installment in the bed, the sink, the tub? Luckily Sam can’t read or spell “toilet” yet.

25 July 2010 Gull

July 25th, 2010

Gull

24 July 2010 Pooh-sticks Bridge

July 24th, 2010

Poohsticks Bridge

“And that was the beginning of the game called Pooh-sticks, which Pooh invented, and which he
and his friends used to play on the edge on the Forest. But they played with sticks instead of fir-cones,
because they were easier to mark.”

–A.A. Milne. The House at Pooh Corner. Chapter 6.

23 July 2010 Morning Ship

July 23rd, 2010

Morning Ship in the Sea

22 July 2010 Sam and Maryam

July 22nd, 2010

Sam and Maryam

21 July 2010 The Living Room

July 21st, 2010

The Living Room