It's been a year and a half since I've posted anything here and so much has happened. I can take Tani to the High Point Cafe and we can actually sit and talk. He walks much faster now and doesn't seem to mind taking the stairs up to our apartment - he had to for a month because our apartment elevator was out but climbing stairs doesn't seem so herculean to him anymore. He loves running through the Morris Arboretum on a beautiful Fall day, especially if his friend Aidan is with him. Grandma Diane and Grandpa Arthur came to visit a little over a week ago. Mom brought Tani the latest Shel Silverstein book Everything On It, a book of silly poems that Tani loved!! She read to him a lot, which is one of his favorite activities. Dad played the board game Race to the Roof with Tani. While they were playing, I was in the other room and heard Tani let out a terrible scream. When I asked what happened, I found out that Tani had drawn a card that sent him back to the Start of the game. Dad let him roll the dice a few times until he got another card that sent him back close to the Finish line. The other day I was walking with Tani and he asked me what the word "Omniverse" meant - this word is used in the They Might Be Giants song "There's Only One Everything". He's starting to ask me words I can't easily explain - yikes, he's not even five yet. I got a new iPhone and downloaded a meditation timer app called "Equanimity". It lets you set a timer and chimes a bell - when the time is up it chimes three bells. As the time passes, a white circle begins to fill in black until the time is up. Tani really likes this app - he can set the timer for a minute or two and actually watch time pass in a way he understands. What a bonus! I think he likes this app even better than "Angry Birds" (he remembered playing this with his cousin Max and asked me to install it).
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