Tony has recently been going through a fascination with Christmas. In fact the first thing that he asked for was the Elmo Christmas DVD. He refers to it as “El-mo Santee Clause.” He watched movies like this the throughout the day, ranging from Wiggles, Christmas to Nightmare before Christmas.

He got a new toy today from the “mystery bag.” It was a cowboy with a horse, which he named “daddy.” He kept it by him basically the entire day. While he enjoyed his new toy, I asked him the normal questions, “A chair is for us to…”. I asked him several like this to which he answered correctly.

Later in the afternoon Danielle came over. We went outside but not without putting on the necessary bug spray. We drew on the sidewalk with his bucket of chalk. While he did this I drew some pictures(star, heart..) which I asked him to identify. It only took him a second to respond with the right answer. After finishing with the chalk, we hopped on the bus. He sat in the front seat and pretended to drive. We tried to convince him to take a wagon ride, but he seems to be relunctant to leave home without his mom for more than 5 minutes.

After Danielle left, he manded for chips. They were no where to be found. We were out. Marlaina redirected him and said that we would go to the ‘store.” Tony got extremely excited. He continued to say store over and over again. We got in the car and he behaved the entire 2 minutes of the car ride. As soon as we pulled into the parking lot, he started talking to the store, telling it hi and asking what it was doing there. When we went inside and put him into the cart, he began to accommodate himself, putting his cup in the cup holder and turtle in the space in front of him. The first thing we did was go to the chip aisle, where he became increasingly excited. He said yes to every kind of chip imaginable, from veggie chips to spicy ones. As we walked through the store, he contently sat and ate his chips, knowing very well that we were shopping for him.

When we got back to the house, it was Wiggles Christmas back int the DVD. This was on replay for the rest of the day. He had a lot of energy even though he continuously rubbed his eyes and yawned. After hours of playing and Wiggles Christmas, he had to be hauled off to bed.

(Dad/Anton’s note: Tony seems particularly smitten with spending time with Jennifer. Not that he doesn’t love his other girls as much…because he truly does…but we had to literally drag Tony away from his room and Jennifer this evening to go to bed. And HORRORS, his Elmo Saves Xmas tape died in the player, and Tony was so tired and so peaceful, he didn’t even bat an eye when I suggested Elmo’s Wild Wild West tape. He was half-asleep (lids at half mast) by the time I shut the light off and partially closed his door. Amazing day for him.)