Three Good Things for the day:
- Samantha and I played fetch with the cat this morning. (He’s better at fetch than the dog is.) Sam is madly in love with that cat and her squeals of delight made my whole day.
- Samantha made her first apparent attempt to color IN something. Instead of just scribbling over the pictures in the coloring book, I could see her trying to stay in the lines. I’m really enjoying coloring, myself. I had forgotten how satisfying it is to fill in all that empty space.
- Good Thing: I’ve lost 2 more pounds. Bad Thing: I found out the same way I did last time – by stepping on the scale at Sam’s doctor’s office, where we found out she has double pink eye and a double ear infection.
Talking with my friend, Chris, last night, I realized that I had never properly introduced Jinx to the Internet. Here he is, Sam’s favorite, the crazy monster who chews his own tail, Ji-Ji Baby.
I couldn’t let Toby in today since I had Sam with me, but I see many fun weekend afternoons in our future. I’m so happy for Toby. He’s never gotten over having to leave our hilltop home in Lexington, where he roamed free with the cows and horses. Here he is with his favorite, Flash. They would chase each other along that fence while the other two huffed and pretended they didn’t know those two goofs. We took to singing, “Secret Lovers” every time they played. Ahh, I miss that place too.
Whatever the reason, it’s our favorite game right now. I get to lie on the couch and just watch them play. Toby usually brings the ball back to me, not to Sam, so I tell him, “drop it,” and then hand it to her for the next throw. I’m trying to teach her to give him the “drop it” command, but she can’t get the syllables straight. She is, however, getting the hang of giving him other commands. She can tell him to fetch, which she says very clearly. She also delights in telling him he is a “bad boy.” But the best one is when she tells him to sit, which she pronounces, “shit.”
