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Art drinks from a regular cup now? Just one of the develops over the last few weeks since I have been out of the blogosphere. Some other developments include holding his head whenever he bumps it, which does a lot, and signing for more and/or when he wants something. He also can point to his hair, head, ears, nose, eyes, teeth, bellybutton and toes! He knows where his room is ("Let's go to Art's room!") where to go for upstairs and downstairs and also outside. We take a swimming class together but we haven't learned anything because the teacher is terrible. Really. She lead NO instruction.

He also has just gotten into real, official tantrums. They are short, but frequent - whenever he is removed from something he wants. And it happened overnight. On Thursday if we were going up the stairs together and he wanted to turn around and go down I could pick up and carry him to the top. He might have yelped but he would have gone along. On Friday he went balls-out screaming and writhing around with all his might.He has discovered the power of his own desires.

So, that's the scoop. Here's a couple pictures of our recent survey of the yard and Art's diligence in getting it ready for spring flowers.