Goofing

Sam is a goof. Here are some random things about Sam:

He likes to pounce and roars like a tiger. His favorite toys are foam swords that he plays knights and when he gets you, he says “Touché”; or he’ll play pirates but he gets to be “Mr.” Hook (little did anyone know that Captain Hook was once a gentlemen). He likes eggs for breakfast; oatmeal makes him gag. He cuts with scissors and he’s good at it—too good. He named the sock monkey Grandma Joyce made him, Bernice Peanut. His latest favorite movie is Shrek but Cars was his first favorite movie and the first movie he went to see at the theater was Wall-E. Now he calls Ava, E-Eva because she was Wall-E’s love. When I told him Conor was going to Norway, Sam said, “No, Conor comes here on the airplane. Norway’s closed.” Seems as though Sam gets direct reports from the embassy there. His bedtime favorite song is This Old Man—he sings along. His first lullabies were Mercedes Benz and King of the Road because those were the only songs that I knew all the words but then Uncle Scott pointed out they songs about drinking and smoking so I added All the Pretty Little Horses until I found out it was a song sung by slaves to their white charges and the lyrics include “The bees and the butterflies pickin' at its eyes.” So even though there is a “paddy-whack” in This Old Man, I’m sticking with it. His favorite book at bedtime is Horton, Where the Wild Things Are and Noah’s Ark Pop-up Book. Daddy’s favorite book to read is Caroline Kennedy’s Collection of Poetry. I think this puts Sam to sleep. And so he is right now. Sweet Dreams.