The Dance

As far as we can tell, this is some form of Spanish dance. Possibly flamenco?







This all occured at the home of my mother-in-law (Nana). I took the picture with my cell phone.

Oh, yeah, DRESSUP TIME!

The DEMON PRINCESS arrives by the back door, and surveys the order she will corrupt with her chaos. YES!!!!

The Aunt and her Mad Science

My baby sister Vicky came home from college this weekend to spend time with her boyfriend and to shrink her little niece's head.

Sam is blurry because she is IN MOTION. You really can't do much about that sort of thing. A four year old is a high-speed version of brownian motion. Vicky was having her perform some kinda equivalency test involving quantity and mass conservation.


See, there are the same number of green as red chips. But when the red chips are spread out, the four year old brain thinks there are more red than green. Normal, but wrong.


See? There really are the same number of red and green ships. Mmmm..... makes me want salsa.


The happy, yet perplexed, Samantha.


Can you tell these represent the same quantity of play-doh? Moments before this shot they were globes. At that time, Sam noted they were the same size. Despite the fact that Sam participated and watched the modification to the shape of this stuff, she was incapable of understanding that the resulting shapes were still equivalent.




Next time, I'll try to get a shot of my sister.
I was already 13 when she was born of my mother, and she is now a strikingly beautiful almost-20 year old woman.
Weird....

"Duck Park" on Sep 18

When your daughter is four, you sometimes resort to verbal shorthand in order to get things across. We have a number of fun parks to play in around our neighborhood, and I like to give Sam her choice of destination when we depart for purposes of merriment.
"Duck Park" is our name for the Shelby Township Municipal park and garden. It is so named because it has a large duck pond surrounded by some woods, as well as a fine compliment of playground equipment.
The picture of me was taken by her with my camera. Nice!
The picture of my burnt hand was done by me because I thought it might drive away the voices emanating from the wound that keep telling me to take up croquette.
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Finger in mouth because her hand got wet. We were there early, and much dew coated the playground.

Sam and Heather

This is Sam and Heather on Heather's birthday day!