a couple things

Art had his three year check-up and he's in great shape.  He's a little over 40" tall (96th percentile!) and weighed around 37 pounds.  He's a big boy, but we didn't need the doctor to tell us that. 

The nurse had him do vision and hearing tests, but she said that it's not really vital until kindergarten, so if he isn't able to follow the directions no problem.  She showed him a card with four shapes on it and he had to identify them; circle, square, house and heart/apple shape.  Then he sat on a stool and was supposed to identify the shapes on the chart accross the room.  Now, I know he has great vision because he picks out the craziest things far away while we're driving.  Still, he didn't identify the first few lines of the vision test.  Then, when they were pretty big, he could tell what they were.  "Square...Circle..." Pause.  It was that heart/apple thing.  She skipped it because he didn't really know w hat that was. Neither did I, really, either.  It was kind of weird.  Then she pointed to a house shape and Art said, "Egg."  Ok!  We're done with that one! No big deal. 

The hearing test was quite the same.  He wore the headphones, she told him to raise his hand and say, "I hear it!" if he hears the beep.  She would push the button and he would just sit there.  She'd say, "Can you hear that?" and he'd say, "Yeah."  Then you just say, I can hear it!  She tried again.  Same thing.  One more try...  No response from Art.  She said, "Hello?" and he said, "Hello."  Ok!  No biggie.  Moving on...

Meanwhile, in Lewis's corner...

Lewis is definitely right handed!  When given a choice he will use his right hand to pick things up.  He also can use his pincer grasp to pick up small things like cheerios or baby "puffs", but he is not interested in eating them.  I've tried many times, and I will keep trying, but even if he likes it when I give it to him he just doesn't seem to want to pick it up and put it in his mouth.

But we do have some progress on the crawling front!  This morning Lewis pushed himself backwards on the floor!  This is a good first step towards crawling as he realizes his arms can move himself.  On the rug he also lifted his butt up in the air and walked his feet a little bit.  He didn't move anywhere, but this is progress!