Mands: 14

“HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM!,” Tony echoed after he handed Marlaina an iridescent pink “Birthday Princess” crown. That’s right everyone, it’s Marlaina’s birthday today, June 12th! Happy Birthday! Woo-hoo! and a Yippeeeeeeeee, Vunderbar, Supercalifragelisticexpialidocious (sp?) birthday week also to Morgan (whose birthday was Friday!

Today was a fun day for Tony. We went on two car rides: the first to the bank and to get coffee, and then to Lowe’s and shopping for Father’s Day. An early Happy Father’s Day grill for Anton was accompanied by another early present delivered today; a hardbound book dedicated to Anton, written and illustrated by his son Dominic! Pretty cool.

Today the laxative (sp?) properties of Jill showed their muscles when Tony was delivered to the living room spouting such niecities as “Eee – Uuuoooo,!” and “Stinky-Winky!” Right Away, I knew what must be done: it was a full, smelly, GREEN!!!! dirty diaper but we slayed the dragon with numerous wipes and a fresh, clean replacement diaper!

On a more serious note, Tony and I had a lovely walk during whitch his hands and face became thouroughly soiled with, well, soil! Tony rediscovered the joy of sticks after about a month-and-a-half hiatus. This time sticks are back with a vengeance and are unbeatable when paired with a newfound disregard for the fear that was: DIRT: YIKES GET IT OFF ME!!!!! Now his wardrobe will suffer as he gets dirt and even leaves on his skin and or Turtle and just moves on! This transformation is wonderous for him, bad for his laundry.

Today we tried some motor imitation unsuccessfully but trudged through intraverbals: phase II. I could only get most responses out with a visual or echoic prompt. I suspect not only distractions but also the first day back on a new phase as culprits.