Delenn is more responsive and Logan pops his top

Last Thursday Dad took Logan and Bradon to Squiggles since it was a
cloudy and cool, wet day after a night of thunderstorms and
lightning.... funny since Dad just read Logan a book about the Bernstein
Bears getting through a thunderstorm the night before. Afternoon and
Mom took Logan to play at the playground while Dad kept Delenn at home
for the first time by himself for some Daddy & Daughter bonding time.
As Delenn gets older, she is definitely getting more responsive to our
facial expressions. She is also very slowly getting more receptive to
letting Daddy hold her. This could be because she does seem happier
being upright to laying down on her back. She also sleeps more
contently on her side. Bad thing is that if Dad holds her upright for
too long, he might inadvertently break her into the habit of expecting
it and then Daddy will be in trouble for making Mommy and Daddy's lives
more miserable at night.
Back at the playground, Logan was told to stop by Mom after he started
running away towards the road. Logan was very good and stopped
immediately. Goodonya Logan for learning to listen.
Logan continues to be conscientious about his baby Sister and can be
very loving, giving her little toys and stroking the top of her head,
hands, and chest. However, he still doesn't notice, however, when he's
in play mode, that there is something small that is living and breathing
and that needs to be watched over and can be easily stepped upon.

Then Friday's claim to fame event was in an unholy temper tantrum the
likes of which few creatures have ever witnessed. Just before nap time,
we received a phone call. That prompted Logan to hop up to the phone
and start playing with the buttons, which included mute and the hangup
switch, and caused our phone conversation to be shortened abruptly.
During this short interlude, Logan noticed that there was a lollipop
sitting next to the phone. Well, he was going to have the lollipop come
hell or highwater. We explained that he could perhaps have it after his
nap time, but would not be allowed to have it yet. To a two year old
time means nothing and patience is absolutely not in the vocabulary.
Logan proceeded in popping his top all over the house, up and down on
the floor, bawling out the seven seas worth of tears, and becoming
incoherent and utterly deranged to the point where no reason, no matter
how well laid out, could be presented. We don't have to tell you that
it all ended well as he was in sheer delight after his nap when he was
finally presented with the tempest inducing lolly.

Saturday morning the whole family went out to enjoy Logan's swim
lessons. Afterwards, Dad went and bought 3.66 x 7.1 meters of
artificial grass to pretty much cover the area of our backyard where
only sun-heated rocks exist. Also, Dad had bought some shade cloth to
keep it tolerable enough for fun to play in our small backyard area.
Only problem was that they didn't sell shadecloth with eyelets (holes by
which you could place rope around to tie it up. Dad spent a few hours
on that job! It was an expensive weekend as things ain't cheap in
Alice and the artificial grass alone cost $910! The shade cloth and
eyelets cost $220. Ugh! But now our backyard is at least a factor
of four better and is so much more pleasant now that we are getting into
the summer stride. It's also so nice that Mom has been our gardener
and over the years has made a wonderful shaded area with all the lush
vegetation around. Speaking of which, 7 years ago Mom bought an orange
tree (it said orange tree on the label). Well, finally we started
getting oranges this year... at least a hundred or more of them! Only
problem is, they aren't oranges! They're grapefruit! And Mom doesn't
like grapefruit. Poor Mom.

Sunday night at bedtime Logan and Dad read 'Green Eggs and Ham' as we
have done many times (among hundreds of other books). Only this time
Logan did a great job of understanding the rhyming scheme and Daddy's
pointing to finish the sentences for Dad. He also was focused in
hitting each key on the piano keyboard going all the way up the scale
vice just banging on the keys and hitting them haphazardly. None of
this means he is always focused. A good deal of the time he isn't all
there :-)

Monday morning Mom took Logan and Delenn to the swimming pool to play
with Holly, Bradon, Nicholas. Logan did more arts and crafts after
spending a good long time, a couple of hours, coloring the day before.
The kid is getting to be quite diverse in his interests, yet can
sometimes be a pain in his relentless desire for specific things he sees
and wants.

Today, Tuesday, the family went out to Kindermusik and Kindergym. We
took Bradon along and had a great time. Logan brought into the house a
few cicada shells and continues to be enthralled by them. He also keeps
coming up to Daddy and Mommy while pushing his big dump truck around and
proclaiming "I'll be back" kind of like Arnold Schwarzenegger, only he
doesn't know anything about Arnold.

Delenn was so much more active today and really mobile (in a 4 week old
kind of way). It was fun to watch and she absolutely bends over
backwards to keep her head upright every chance she gets, to the point
that Daddy sees her red-faced more often than not.