Sam has delighted her father by loving the same childhood book that he did, a book by Dr. Seuss called, "Sneetches" that has a story about pale green pants. Sam now wakes up from her nap talking about "Spooky pale green pants with nobody inside 'em!" and how the pale green pants were crying and then they stopped. She will also wake up requesting to “watch Harold and the purple crayon and the shining moon!” Then I will hear about the squirrels and the rain and Harold runs to save them and climbs a ladder, all in one breath and as fast as she can say it. Most of it is a direct quote from the show. Tonight she grabbed my hand and “Mommy, go for a walk, and the shining moon came with us, a walk with the moon, Mommy! Hello, Moon. Come on, moon, come with us, keep up, hello moon, come on moon!” She likes “Harold and the purple crayon” shows produced by HBO for kids. They are pretty good. Scholastic made some that aren’t nearly as fun or interesting. Scholastic stuck completely with the original, straight from the book’s pages, and completely ignored all the great things you can do with television.

At night I sing Baby Beluga to her and she now sings “bada bum bum” when the rhythm needs a little extra oomph. Then we start giggling together. She’s a funny kid. We also sometimes sing Baa Baa Black Sheep, Twinkle Twinkle, the Shema, and Michael Row your boat ashore, otherwise known by Sam as Hallelujah. She loves singing Hallelujah for some reason. Maybe because it has no hard consonants? I don’t know.

I went over this evening to visit our neighbors that are moving (I’m sad they are moving and trying to ignore the whole concept). Sam informed Anne that Tucker ate acorns and he was a naughty boy. She yells this and says it at least four times to make sure that Anne understood her. Poor Anne didn’t know what to say. Sam was very chatty with her, but then Anne has always been very kind to her and likes her. Anne has known Sam since before she came out, and now Anne is moving away. I don’t like change.