Sam updates

• I’ve been AWOL on this blog. Chock it up to the new move and a fair amount of transition. Here are some Sam updates:
  He’s still his normal charming self.
  He loves reading. Some favorites are Baby Baluga, Baby Toes to Baby Nose, etc.
  He’s made friends at church and GA, on campus, and elsewhere.
  He’s loving nursery school (“Three Jade Nursery School”), which is part of a local community center close to our language school. He has three or four classmates and three teachers. He’s pretty excited to be there.
  He’s been home with a cold the last few days. We both had the same thing. He’s been sleeping odd hours, however, and we wanted to give him time to adjust before we send him back.
  He gets fussy when: anyone leaves and he doesn’t get to go along, when he’s tired, when he’s sleepy
  When he’s sick he prefers to sleep on top of one of us.
  He can made some new noises now. He has a “pig” sound, a lip buzzing sound, and an artificial sneeze and cough (which make him laugh).
  He doesn’t say a lot of actual words but is throwing in some new ones now and again (“juice,” “again”). Pretty much fun to watch. We’re curious how Chinese learning will interact with this. We keep hearing that initially language learning can slow things down, but that in the long run the kid will learn both.
  He makes some pretty fun movements. He dances, stands up and down, stomps, walks backwards, and can turn in a circle.