Luke's weekend away and more

If I only had the metabolism of my 14 year old self or of Quinn. He has such great instincts about food. If it tastes good, I'll eat it. If I'm hungry, I'll eat. The only emotional eating he does is nursing and the advantages to that are too numerous to count... so, I don't think of that as the boy sitting and eating ice cream, though he does love ice cream. Today he and I played with his ice cream set. We also did puzzles. He's becoming quiet adept at them, especially the train one. And, he was terrific about helping me pick up the puzzles when we were done. He's taken to remembering to say "bless you" when someone sneezes and I'm trying to work in the word "manners" into his vocabulary. We recently purchased a Clifford Manners book so we'll see how that goes. I should be modeling making his bed, but for now, I'm doing it myself. There's something very satisfactory to the orderliness of his room. The only thing I'd say is that we need to introduce to toys to him on a better rotation basis. Given the toy and the right mood, he'll play independently and happily for stretches of time, but typically things are so neatly appointed that we "expect" him to seek out new things. For example, he has this gorgeous easel from Makoto that isn't used very much because we haven't stocked it with anything interesting- no paper or crayons or markers. Must get better about this. I do love that Quinn takes enormous pride in selecting books for reading and he has taken to requesting more books at night if he's still awake and bored but I've turned out the light. He doesn't mind the longer ones, though I sometimes think the ones with fewer words on each page are more interesting to him. Either way, he likes to hear me read and is a good listener. We've gotten so that we can do the matching quite well with his Pixar book and he can find the images we seek. He does love that book:) Last night Quinn got his first Bob the Builder movie. He's been seeing a preview for it for a while now on his Wallace DVD and we finally indulged-- for the bargain price of $4.75. Mom will be picking Quinn up around 5 tonight. I hope tonight goes well. I worry that she won't be up for the late night calming, but I'll hope for the best:) I know that I will have a good time with my Asha sleepover:) Quinn had a delightful time running and playing with Riley and Ryan today when they came to pick up Luke for their weekend away. Quinn did very well with his good-bye and the house is nice and clean to start the big weekend. Speaking of, I should do some more laundry.