I was straining with Ian to get his coat on while listening to the events of the day spouted by Jillian, the day care-giver who is usually there in the evenings… she said
“Charlie came up to Ian with a toy saw and grazed Ian’s forehead and Ian said ‘He cut my head off.'” I looked at Ian and he nodded his head in verification.
Me – “And what did you say to him about that?”
Ian – “I said ‘No thank you.'”

When we got Ian’s hair cut the other day, he seemed excited and said “We’re going to get my hair cut! We’re going to the hair cut store!”

Just a night or two ago “the boys” went out to pick up pizza for the family, and Ian tried to steer me elsewhere as we walked back to the car. “We’ve got to go to the bench so you can sit next to me.” I didn’t understand where he meant until we got in the car. He said to turn where I was planning to anyway… “Right there! In there!” Turns out he wanted to sit next to me in another full-size chair in our local mexican restaurant, where we had been a week prior to that. It was not easy to explain why we couldn’t bring our italian food into the mexican restaurant.

Nina’s been getting a little more quiet and giving great big smiles lately. You can tell she’s growing into her body a tiny step at a time. It’s great to see those big smiles.

Ian’s fits are still ridiculous at times, but he does seem to be maturing in some way, like Nina. He’s still testing his boundaries but once in a while now I catch him looking like he’s realized that he might not need to test that particular boundary again. And I’m learning to be more patient, which is also helping.

Seth still appears to be doing ok. I still have the feeling we’ll be back at the vet shortly.

I pre-orderd an Apple iPad. Time will tell how useful that purchase is.