Sam’s Story: Week 116

Happy Easter! This morning we learned an important lesson about this most blessed of all holidays: Don’t let your toddler eat her weight in chocolate as soon as she wakes up. Actually, we didn’t mean to, but she was just so fast. We set Sam down in front of her Easter basket and in the few seconds it took me to get the camera ready she shrieked “Ooh, candy!” had completely mauled her collection of chocolate eggs, jelly beans, and malted milk balls. As I write this she’s running around downstairs, completely strung out on sugar and yammering nonstop at her entourage of stuffed bunnies about how much “Sammy likes candy.”

Last week I mentioned that Sam had started to sing songs. This week I got some audio for you. It is, in fact, the first single from her debut album, Incoherent Babblings Sparsely Punctuated by Cute Songs. Also, she talks about Snakes on a Plane. Enjoy:

I’m a Little Tea Pot
Snakes on a Plane

Here’s some pictures:

As you can see, Sam seems to have had a pretty good time at her Easter egg hunt, though she took time out to pose for a group picture with friends Risa, Sabrina, and Renna. I also like this picture, which suggests that Sam is preparing for a life of lounging around all day, then getting all dressed up to grab a drink and go clubbing late into the night (which, for her, is like 7:15 p.m.).

Finally, my continuing research has discovered another thing that Samantha is scared of: snails. We’ve recently had a lot of rain here, and yesterday Sam and I were playing in the back yard when I noticed an abundance of the slimy little invertebrates. We made a game of it where I found as many as I could (which ended up being 15 or so), picked them up, and put them up on the wooden fence. Once they started coming back out of their shells and waving their eye stalks around in a kind of “What the heck just happened?” way, Sam got a good look at them and started whimpering. So add snails to the list of things that scare her, which already includes dolphins, piggy banks, the Pacific Ocean, and The Wal-Mart Picture Studio.

That’s it for this week. Fair warning for next week: the update may be a little bit late due to some unavoidable circumstances, but it’ll get up eventually. Just keep clicking the Refresh button on your browser until it does.