Day 1594. The pictures of Sammy and Tammy are from yesterday. I just love watching Tammy play with Sammy, just the two of them, just as I love watching Emmy play with Sammy by himself. They are just so cute with him, and Sammy loves the attention and laughs and giggles the whole time. Tammy wanted to draw with Sammy, and they played Catch and Hide and Seek.

Day 1592. It was a typical morning. Samuel was up first, then the others, and eventually Randy got up to make them breakfast. They're not big breakfast eaters, though. Then he took them downstairs to play. It was finally quiet, giving me some extra time to sleep. At 9:30 am my alarm went off, and I got up, as I had a student at 10:30, and it was a class where I needed to prepare more.

Day 1591. This morning I had set my alarm for 8:15. At 9:30 we all left the house together to go ice-skating - or rather for Tammy and Emmy to have their second extra-curricular class during the Christmas holiday break. We took two subways and then walked to the ice-skating rink. On that walk I took this picture of Sammy holding hands with Tammy on his left and with Emmy on his right.