Karl and Angela Rees

We were all very sad when Karl went back to work on Monday.  Vacation sure is nice.  But it was all back to routine stuff this week.  Angela took Thomas to playgroups and classes and shopping while Karl worked hard.  We probably watched too much TV in the evenings on account of Karl’s recent Battlestar Galactica fixation.  Thomas went to nursery without Angela for the first time today, and appeared to do very well.  And that was our week.

Our Thomas story this week involves the concept of “trash,” which we’d never taught Thomas—although he does call trash cans “dirty.”  Thomas had just finished a box of raisins in his room.  He said “done,” and then took the box to the kitchen.  He opened up the cabinet under the sink as much as he could (it’s safety-locked to theoretically prevent access to the trash can), managed to slip the empty raisin box in the trash can, and then went right back to playing, all without any fanfare and in fact without even knowing we were paying attention.  He’s since done this with other “trash” items as well.  It’s amazing how much kids learn from example.

Thomas “appears” to be counting to five.  In fact, he spontaneously starts counting when he sees numbers or when we ask him to count.  We say “appears,” because even though he knows what numbers come after what, we have no evidence that he understands the concept behind any numbers other than “one”—as in “one more,” or “can I have one?”—and maybe two.  But knowing the order of numbers is a good start.

Also, Thomas likes the “wheels on the bus” song and “itsy-bitsy spider.”  He asks us to sing those songs by name and does some of the hand signals right on cue.  Karl thinks he was even singing the last line of the song—“all through the town”—to him when Karl got him out of the crib yesterday morning.