Brilliant

Matthew demonstrated his genius the other day when we were holding him by the refrigerator. We have a lot of pictures up, and we asked him, "Where's Stanley?" and he pointed to a picture of Stanley! (We then asked him, "Where's Matthew?" but he didn't point to anything for that one -- I suppose it's too much to ask for him to recognize a picture of himself as a younger baby! He was probably thinking to himself, "I'm right here. Adults are so silly sometimes.")

And Jamesie did indeed demonstrate his clapping when his therapist was here. When we all cheered for him in response, he looked surprised but pleased. :)

We had beautiful weather this weekend. The local Garden Show was in our neighborhood this year, so we enjoyed the specatacle of crowds of people coming to look at the yards we walk by every day (although the gardens on display were mostly in the backyards, which we don't get to see). We strolled around with our friends, but didn't actually go see the displays, since you needed a ticket for that (and I'm guessing the garden owners wouldn't be especially thrilled with us dragging our stroller and dog through their prize plants.)

Today we did our part to encourage childhood obesity by taking the boys on an outing to Sugarland, a local bakery and gelato shop. But since they aren't big enough for cupcakes yet, we had to eat ones for them. Ah, the sacrifices we make for our children.

And speaking of eating, James had what I think was another record day with 805 ml, out of his intended total of 900 ml, so we're very pleased! Of course, we would have been more pleased if one of his meals hadn't been at 6 AM, but we'll take what we can get. I don't expect a repeat record-breaker performance tomorrow, because we have a long day at the hospital (the behavioral hearing test and a checkup), and that always messes up the eating and napping schedule.