Dancing like Gene Kelly

We've watched Singin' In The Rain several times lately. Samuel is particularly impressed with Moses Supposes. Today during a skype video call with Grandma Susie and Grandpa Jim, Samuel showed off his hoofing skills.

The Walrus and the Carpenter and the Samuel

Samuel has been hearing either "The Walrus and the Carpenter" or "Jabberwocky" before bed each night. Tonight when I started, I realized he could fill in words... so I got out my phone and started over. This is the unedited, completely impromptu result. (...complete with some word swaps and other mistakes, him stopping to ask if he could "see" our recording on my phone (nope, just audio), bonking his teeth on his bed in the middle, and then giving up toward the end and just lying quietly to listen (despite my attempts to re-engage him.))

Here's the original text, and here's The Walrus and the Carpenter and the Samuel.

The fact that it's unedited also means it's too long and drags on a bit. Hey! Better uploaded then awaiting editing that'll never happen, right?

[EDIT: I updated the file from m4a to mp3, so it should work in your browser now, Mom. :)]

Another Haircut

This is the shortest we've had Samuel's hair cut.

Birthday Party

Samuel was invited to a birthday party at the Children's Discovery Museum in Acton, MA.

Halloween

The Saturday before Halloween (Oct. 29), we had big storm that knocked out power to more than 300,000 people, including 90% of our town.

 

Samuel and Matt went sledding in all our snow.

We went to the mall while our power was out.

Samuel and I made monster cupcakes for his Halloween party at school (which was postponed).

Trick or treating was also postponed for almost a week. Darth Vader had fun even though I'm not quite sure he knew what to make of it.

Firefighters were walking around handing out glowsticks, which Samuel liked.

Swim Lessons

Playing Outside