It was back in March, but I’m just getting around to putting the videos up. This one is worth the wait.

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Guess who got picked for a bit of audience participation?

Video from November.

Sam: “I’m going to put a banana peel on your head so you can be King of Banana World.” He then added, “You can have monkeys as pets!”

Yeah, yeah — I know I don’t update enough.

Sam is doing great. How’s that?

He’s reading second-grade books by himself (current favorite: the Nate the Great series) and doing “subtraction to 20.” (The sequence in school is addition to 10, subtraction to 10, addition to 20, subtraction to 20.)

The other day he said, “I feel bad for the kids who are still doing addition to 10.”

We got hit with about eight inches, which in Richmond is cause for panic. The snow came Sunday night, and schools were closed Monday and Tuesday, then opened late Wednesday and Thursday. Weather wimps.

Still, it was Sam’s first major snow in at least three years.

Although Sam decided that he really didn’t want to play, we got two weeks of flag football in this fall. He was number 2.

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While we were all driving somewhere, Sam started talking about airplanes crashing — then he clarified it as airplanes crashing into buildings.

We had no idea where this would come from.

“Maybe they’re talking about 9/11 at school?” I ventured.

“What’s 9/11?” asked Sam.

“Never mind,” Karen and I said at once.

Sam's Photo Galleries

Sam's Videos

Daddy's Boy
(1.3MB WMV file)

Sam and Friends on the Swing
(3MB MPEG file)

Sam Goes Down the Stairs
(4.8MB MPEG file)

Sam and the Laundry Basket
(8MB MPEG file)

Sam Plays Ball
(3MB MPEG file)