RSS 2.0 FeedJanuary 6, 2011, Bellmore Life
Sammy is 1 year old!
Bellmore Life catches up with the first baby of 2010.
BABY + 1 = HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Brown-eyed Samuel Knee revels during his first birthday party, held on New Year’s Day. He gets along well with everyone, says his mother Naomi.
Little Samuel Knee, Bellmore’s First baby of 2010, just celebrated his first birthday last Sunday and loved every minute of it, by the looks of things.
“He just loves everyone and he’s got such a good temperament” said his mother Naomi, a teacher at Plainedge High School who recently gave up coaching three sports to spend more time with Sammy. “I wasn’t getting home until after 6:30 in the evening” when coaching volleyball, track and basketball.
She has taken up advising the school Key Club, however.
Motherhood is marvelous, she told Bellmore Life of her now one constant job. But, “I’m so tired that I didn’t even watch the ball drop on New Year’s Eve,” she admitted.
A HAPPY AFFAIR: Holding Sammy is his granddad Saul Lerner, the Central High School District’s director of physical education, athletics, health and driver education. Mr Lerner sees his grandson every day, as a daycare center rents space at Brookside School, where Mr. Lerner’s office is.
Sammy is a “wild man,” she said of her one-year-old. “He wants to do whatever we do. And whatever we have on our plate, he wants ours, even if he has the same food on his own plate,” she said with laughter in her voice.
He climbs, he reads and he explores, she said. Does he climb into bottom kitchen cabinets? we wanted to know.
“He takes everything out of bottom cabinets,” she said, but he hasn’t started crawling into them yet, Naomi said.
Instead, she and Matthew, Sammy’s dad, are having loads of fun crawling on the floor, playing with Sammy. “Our pants have rips in them” at the knees, she said.
She said that Sammy is not a crier, has a good temperament and eats well. “He only cries if he doesn’t want to nap.”
He’s also good with family and friends who come around, following them and doing whatever they do. “We had a repairman in one time and he went up to the repairman and motioned the same motions the repairman did.”
As a teacher whose father Saul Lerner is an administrator on the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, she says she hopes as Sammy grows up she can instill in him a sense of perspective, that he can work hard to achieve what he wants but that he accepts the fact he won’t always be able to get everything he would like.
“We aren’t materialistic in that sense, and we hope we can pass that down to Sammy.”
