And the trail ride

By Peggy | January 26, 2014 |

Sam loaded this video to his own YouTube channel. Michael shot it, and you can hear him at one point chiding the horse, Trevor, who didn’t appear to cooperate at the gate.

Tonight Sam talked about this ride in a way that he hadn’t shared before. I had walked by him sitting in the recliner on my way to my own chair in the living room and gave his knee a pat.

This is something that typically makes him recoil from my touch, so I rarely do it, but I try from time to time. He recoiled, of course.

But after doing so, he told me that he had strong reflexes and that it can be a problem when riding horse. He said that he has to try to control them, otherwise his body sends the horse the wrong signal of what he wants to do.

“Like when we were at the gate,” he said.

Posted in getting back on the horse, problem-solving, What Sam says

Letter to Santa

By Peggy | November 19, 2013 |

In 1993, Argyle still had a free weekly community paper, The Argyle Sun. Each Christmas they ran letters to Santa from the kids. Some children conveniently numbered each item on their lists, but a boy named Jimmy didn’t. The Sun still printed the entire 30-item list, in all caps, with the plurals attached by apostrophes.

Sam was only 6 years old when he “mailed” this letter at the Argyle Post Office and it later appeared in the Sun:

Dear Santa

My nam is SamW. I would likem more

Thank You

 

Posted in self-advocacy, What Sam says

Overheard in the Wolfe House #251

By Peggy | November 5, 2013 |

Sam (as contestant solves the puzzle, “The sixth sense of direction,” on Wheel of Fortune): I don’t think that should’ve been a Before-and-After.

Peggy: Why not?

Sam: Because when you have a sixth sense, it’s usually a sense of direction.

Posted in What Sam says