We were watching Mr. Rogers and a neighbor, Bob Treau, came over to give Mr. Rogers a gift – a portrait drawn with pastels of Mr. Rogers himself! Mr. Rogers was all aflutter and said again and again, “I didn’t know you knew how draw like that!” Then Mr. Rogers drew a childlike rendition of a face saying that when he was a child that’s how he would draw a face. Bob said he did, too, but then he learned that eyes go here and the mouth goes there, and so on, until he was drawing a rough sketch of Mr. Rogers again!

I said, “Let’s go draw a face!” and Art said his usual, “But I don’t know how.” I reminded him that neither did Mr. Rogers or Bob Treau when they were little, and they both learned over time by trying again and again. Look! Art did it! He drew a face!!!!

The face Art drew has arms and legs, coming out of it’s head of course, and the mouth has teeth. I’m so proud of him! And grateful to Mr. Rogers for his compassionate program. It provided a leaping off point that my best love and encouragement just couldn’t do.

Art and Lewis really love going to our ECFE class. When Jess and I left to go chat with other parents Arthur was standing near Lewis and yelled loudly, “BYE!”. Such confidence in separation is rare and to be celebrated!

–Sent from my handheld device.–

lately we (and especially Jessica) have been enjoying watching lots of lots of birds feed at our new bird feeder. Just this morning Jess saw a bird with new markings and raced upstairs to get her bird identification book. “It’s a red bellied double necked pistol whipped warbler shmorbler!” She’s able to identify each one. It is actually pretty fun to see lots of different kinds of birds outside our window. The birds can empty the entire feeder within a couple days.

Now I realize this isn’t something everyone will care about, but Jess and I certainly do! And it’s our blog and we can do whatever we want!! Ahhh ha ha ha! so here’s a mid-day pee report:

And, purely for your entertainment, here’s Google’s transcription of the message:

“Hey it’s me and I’m just calling to say that Louis Pizza Hut again. Hi blessed paper off and just having the leggings approved and a long sleeve shirt, and he’s just a walk around for an hour and a half and then I just say, hey, let’s try to use the Patti and he said down. I think did so you know that’s kinda cool. Alright, I’ll talk to you later. Bye.”