Oh what a day! Besides the obvious niceties (running errands, happy stories, a trip to the blueberry patch) Lex surprised me by joining us for dinner tonight! Alan said he joined them for dinner last night, but I wasn’t around so it doesn’t count! :) Tonight he ate about three full carrots and half a cucumber (cumbercue, he calls them, just to make me laugh) and he sat with us the whole time. He even smelled the rest of the dinner and asked what was in it. Oh happy day!

Then… to top off the evening, he got his tooth out!! All by himself! For the past few days he’s been letting Alan and I wiggle it and gently pull on it. Tonight he said it was really loose and while we read stories he worked on it. He figured out that he could push it in such a way that it seemed to get looser, so he did. While we were laying down (lights out, all settled) he said, “I think it’s out!” Lights back on, lots of cheering and jumping about. Yay! He has been so brave lately. I really admire him and I’m so proud of how rational he can be, when given the chance. We are working on big (for him) changes around here and he’s holding up really well. I think I need to go squeeze him now! :)