Samuel Job Mashariki Carrasco

Sam’s three-year-old cousin Kyle is spending the night. Kyle is Aunt Shirley’s grandson. He’s from Brooklyn, out in Cali doing the west coast thing.

Sam was extra emotional today. I think it’s the medicine. We quit giving him the decadron two days ago, but it usually takes another few days before it gets out of his system.

Sam has sonic hearing. He can hear the corn cart when it’s a block away. He’ll hear the horn - queak, queak - and immediately perk up. He loves eating two and three big ears of corn that are slathered with mayonnaise, butter, and parmesan-type cheese. Slathered.

Here’s a shot of Micah, Sam, and John John, son of John and Tina Williams. Micah is about to shove that whole piece of chicken in her life. She lives boldly. Sam is deep into his Nintendo DS. At any given moment of the day, that’s what he’s doing. John John is appropriately perplexed.