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Cute Overload

by John Cole|  April 4, 20119:48 pm| 38 Comments

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Estrogen overload incoming:

Samkitten tickles the ivories.

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  1. 1.

    demkat620

    April 4, 2011 at 9:53 pm

    Curse you John Cole and Redkitten!

    That babeh is too cute. Now I want one.

    Nope, gotta go. Can’t have baby fever.

  2. 2.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    April 4, 2011 at 9:56 pm

    Samkitten!!

  3. 3.

    Comrade Mary

    April 4, 2011 at 10:02 pm

    OhmyGAH!!! Kid has the moves, for sure.

  4. 4.

    CatStaff

    April 4, 2011 at 10:03 pm

    It should be against the law to be that cute.

  5. 5.

    Linda Featheringill

    April 4, 2011 at 10:03 pm

    Sam is growing and growing! And has a killer smile.

  6. 6.

    ColleenMary

    April 4, 2011 at 10:05 pm

    He is so lovely!! Now I want another one. My oldest just turned 13, and believe me, boys are SOOOOO much cuter at SamKitten’s age . . .

  7. 7.

    TaMara (BHF)

    April 4, 2011 at 10:06 pm

    Aaaaaahhhhhh!

  8. 8.

    Comrade Mary

    April 4, 2011 at 10:07 pm

    Aha! Now we know what to use as sure-fire TaMara bait!

  9. 9.

    lamh34

    April 4, 2011 at 10:11 pm

    that is pretty cute.

    have ya’ll seen this video of the twin boys (I think) having what seems to be a REAL conversation in their “twinsie” language.

    My sister’s are twin and my mother is 1 of 10, which includes 3 sets of twins, so I’ve been around twins all my life, but even so, this was cute, but kidna creeped me out too.

    Twin Baby Boys Have In-Depth Discussion

  10. 10.

    lamh34

    April 4, 2011 at 10:15 pm

    BTW, I love his “big” finish at the end…lol

  11. 11.

    LiberalTarian

    April 4, 2011 at 10:15 pm

    Wow. He is growing *so* fast … or maybe it’s just that time flies when you’re old. :)

  12. 12.

    Jane2

    April 4, 2011 at 10:23 pm

    Awwwwww…..he’s adorable, Redkitten!

  13. 13.

    gogol's wife

    April 4, 2011 at 10:28 pm

    He gets a sort of Philip Glass, Steve Reich minimalist thing going there at one point. He’s adorable.

  14. 14.

    soonergrunt

    April 4, 2011 at 10:30 pm

    The pure, unadulterated joy that a toddler finds in the simplest things.
    Simply wonderful!

  15. 15.

    vtr

    April 4, 2011 at 10:48 pm

    We have a tape of our own son Sam plating the same movement of Bartok’s Mikrocosmos. Same age. Never lose that video.

  16. 16.

    vtr

    April 4, 2011 at 10:48 pm

    We have a tape of our own son Sam plating the same movement of Bartok’s Mikrocosmos. Same age. Never lose that video.

  17. 17.

    Joshua Norton

    April 4, 2011 at 10:53 pm

    Poor kid. Stuck playing the lounge again.

    All that’s missing is a big brandy snifter with a dollar bill hanging out of it.

  18. 18.

    Gus

    April 4, 2011 at 11:05 pm

    Wow, I hope my kid is that cute at that age.

  19. 19.

    Shadow's Mom

    April 4, 2011 at 11:10 pm

    OK, SamKitten is one of the most adorable children on this planet. I feel so much better after watching that.

  20. 20.

    trollhattan

    April 4, 2011 at 11:20 pm

    Holy c*rap that kid is cute. “Duh doe?”

    Again!

  21. 21.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    April 4, 2011 at 11:41 pm

    Awwwwwww… who wants some apple wedges and a balloon??

  22. 22.

    asiangrrlMN

    April 4, 2011 at 11:48 pm

    SamKitten has grown so big and is as cute as ever, if not even cuter. Thanks, RedKitten. I really needed that.

  23. 23.

    CatHairEverywhere

    April 5, 2011 at 12:00 am

    That smile! What a cutie! I love the “uh oh”

  24. 24.

    Anya

    April 5, 2011 at 12:00 am

    That’s so awesome. Sam is so cute. I want one.

  25. 25.

    Mnemosyne

    April 5, 2011 at 12:16 am

    I think John’s biological clock is ticking …

  26. 26.

    Elizabelle

    April 5, 2011 at 1:01 am

    The charisma of that kid!

    Samkitten rules.

  27. 27.

    quantum cephalopod

    April 5, 2011 at 1:32 am

    Do you happen to watch The Simpsons? Samkitten appears to say, “D’oh!”(of Homer fame) at least 2 or 3 times.

    My kind of kid!

    :)

  28. 28.

    FreeAtLast

    April 5, 2011 at 1:44 am

    Does anyone know why I see Christian pole-dancing instead of SamKitten? Help! I need a dose of baby-cute.

  29. 29.

    Yutsano

    April 5, 2011 at 1:50 am

    @asiangrrlMN: That kidlet has better finger technique than I do. I haz a jelus.

  30. 30.

    aimai

    April 5, 2011 at 6:53 am

    @lamh34:

    I agree about that film. I loved it. I think they took down the one where the two boys stand on their heads simultaneously. Sam Kitten is adorable. I also love the phase they go through when they try to do things super fast–to surprise you–and they just revel in this sense that they are mastering the world around them. They can evoke a response in you! Its incredible! RedKitten I highly recommend “The Philosophical Baby” by Alison Gopnik. Its an easy read but do read it now. It explains a lot of what you see, developmentally, from zero to bout two and a half. I read it this year and my children are 12 and 14 but it brought it all back and made that experience so much richer.

    aimai

  31. 31.

    PurpleGirl

    April 5, 2011 at 7:00 am

    Another voice exclaiming how cute Sam is and how big he’s getting.

    I have a feeling I’m going to come back a few times to see the video — it’s a definite antidote to the newer postings and threads.

    Redkitten, thanks for sending this to John to post.

  32. 32.

    RedKitten

    April 5, 2011 at 7:56 am

    Glad everybody enjoyed it. :) He’s a pretty neat kid. Yesterday he discovered the childhood joy of drawing in the dirt with a stick. I’d forgotten how much fun that was.

    I get a kick out of his look of consternation at the end when he gets his thumb stuck in the keys. And I have no idea what “Dut-doh!” means. It’s not “uh-oh”, ’cause he already knows how to say that. He also says it when the doorbell rings, so I’m thinking that “dut-doh” is his version of “ding-dong”.

  33. 33.

    canuckistani

    April 5, 2011 at 9:33 am

    What a ham! Kids are great when they’re showing off for the camera.
    That one is, anyway.

  34. 34.

    Linda M

    April 5, 2011 at 9:35 am

    This is way cuter than that video of the twins. He’s really connecting with the camera and the picture-maker.

  35. 35.

    Svensker

    April 5, 2011 at 10:00 am

    Awwwww. Squeeze him till he pops for me. My own cutie pie is 6’3″ and he still isn’t wild about getting hugs in public.

  36. 36.

    Ash Can

    April 5, 2011 at 10:44 am

    SQUEEEEEEE!

  37. 37.

    WaterGirl

    April 5, 2011 at 1:53 pm

    Wow, what a cutie! SamKitten absolutely adores whoever is filming him. When SamKitten flashed his big smile, I found myself smiling right back at him.

  38. 38.

    RedKitten

    April 5, 2011 at 2:24 pm

    That would be me. :) And yeah, the feeling is mutual.

    I was giving him big, wide-eyed smiles to egg him on, but didn’t want to talk and spoil the video. I’m kind of surprised it turned out that well. Normally nowadays when I haul out the camera, he wants to look at it (and by look at it, I mean press every single damn button on the thing while simultaneously smearing his peanut-buttery little paws all over the screen and the lens.)

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