Today is the first day of the rest of my blog...

About a month ago, I got a "Write, woman, write!" from Lynnie, who was annoyed by yet another long hiatus between posts. I'm been so busy being busy that I spend my precious free time upstairs with Sam rather than downstairs writing about him. He's already sadly resigned to my cyborg-like existence—so fully does he equate my presence at home with my fingers on a keyboard—I just can't tell him "Five more minutes, Bunny! I'm talking to Future Sam."

But when Lynn's comment came in and I saw just how long it had been since I marked something down for posterity, I immediately grabbed the camera and snuck up to Sam's room to see what he was up to. My plan was to snap it and blog it. But what he was up to was so much fun that I stayed and played instead. Let the record show, however, that I did capture the moment and gather the rosebuds and seize the day. I just didn't come straight back here and say so. That's what now is for, while Present Sam watches Bugs Bunny.

So. Last month, I found Sam flipping through one of his Jack Sparrow books, The Siren Call, looking for a picture of an island port or a pirate town so he could add some realistic detail to his Lego creation. If you ask me, the design he'd already come up with is cooler than anything we'd yet found in fiction, but Sam has a thing for realistic detail. So much so, that he's recently declared that, in addition to making and starring in movies and also being a drummer in an interplanetary band, he's going to be an historian when he grows up. More specifically, he'd like to make the "olden times" accessible to younger children.

His plan? Indestructible pop-up history books. He'll start with pirate times, but he'll also publish books about cowboys, knights, dinosaurs, and space travel. I think it's a good idea. I love a good pop-up. How cool is my director-actor-drummer-historian little boy?