tidbits

Just a few notes from today:

1. He slept through the night last night (or I never heard him cry), so maybe the tooth pain is better.

2. He played a few original compositions on the piano tonight and asked to sit on the stool so that he could play better. He did this by pulling the stool out from under the piano and saying "Chair up" and pointing to me and then the piano stool.

3. He helped us grocery shop tonight, holding a frozen pizza for a while while in the shopping cart and then holding onto the bag of cereal in the car. We chose a shopping cart that had a couple of steering wheels on a front-facing part that was designed to resemble a space shuttle type aircraft (at Winn Dixie), so I was surprised that he gave up driving for even a minute to hold that pizza.

4. He has learned what the names are for articles of clothing and says "pants" and can point out shirt and pants on himself and his new Ernie that he got for Christmas.

5. Just now, in his sleep, I heard him say "shoes" and then "pants", so I went in to check on him. He was lying down and blinking owlishly and went immediately back to sleep, so I can only presume he was dreaming about getting dressed. It was almost as cute as when he laughs boisterously in his sleep.

It was a pretty normal day, by our standards. But it was a good one, nonetheless.