O happy morn! I got to sleep until 5:30 this morning! Forgive me. I was just reading snippets of Walt Whitman and it seems to be warping my brain. Why doesn't someone create a children's book out of real poetry with nice pictures to go with the poems? I would love to read something that actually is well written.

Anyway, Sam is still not sleeping in the morning, but the past two nights she has slept through the night. Pretty amazing.

Samantha is pulling herself up onto everything, but isn't as confident getting down. She gets stuck sometimes. Case in point. I just had to pull her off the stereo where she has pulled off the tapes and is yelling, I think, because she isn't sure how to get down. Hard to tell what the yelling is about sometimes.

Samantha had her first Halloween party yesterday. Sue and Steffie and the twins were here. Samantha was very tired with a fish painted on her face and rice cereal sticking her hair straight out on one side by the end of the evening. I think she really enjoyed her day. She wore a circle of fabric with fish all over it, and the fish on her face was a fish jumping out of the fishbowl. It was pretty fun. I might take Sam around to visit some of the neighbors I know. I'm going to try to post pictures on the site when I get a chance. The pictures still have to be downloaded. not enough hours in the day! Oh, Ella had a costume too, a little witch's hat that went really well with her orange and black fur.