Lex ate almost an entire bowl (grown-up sized bowl, not a little kid snack bowl!) of snow peas before dinner (Eve ate the rest) and this evening, as we were cuddling on the couch watching TV because he couldn’t sleep, he ate a ton of baby carrots!  I was sharing the carrots and when we got near the end he took a the rest as a big handful!

I think that is more veggies than he’s eaten in the entire rest of this year!!  Add that to the watermelon at lunch, pear at snack, and smoothie popsicle for dessert and I think the boy got his nutrients for the day!  Finally!! 

Lex has taken to using the tablet in place of books at quiet time.  At first he used it for Starfall or Khan Academy, but then we discovered a cool note taking app called SuperNote and now I get love notes most days.  Here was his first one.  He made it one day while I was at work and he was home with a babysitter.

Here is the picture on page 8.

Here is his next note.

Here is the picture from page 9.  I can’t find the pictures he took of himself (that time, we have plenty others!) and the sound on the video is very quiet but you can just barely hear him saying “I love you.”

Lately he is working on a long note that has taken him many quiet times.  Each day he works on it but refuses to let me see.  I try hard not to peak. :-)  However, while exporting those images I happened to see this one too.

I think he loves me!

I have two thoughts for you this evening, both about Lex.

First, we were out and about this morning for his piano lesson. We’ve established a bit of a routine with lessons, then walking around town finding pianos, then getting bagels for lunch. Today we had gotten lunch and were about to settle on a bench to eat lunch, when this big group of people came up to the nearby piano and started remarking over it. Lex, all on his own, started talking to them! He told them why the pianos are around town and that there was an accompanying Valley Quest. They were interested and responded well to him. He had a little trouble making eye contact and keeping himself facing them, and I’m sure they had a little trouble hearing him, but overall I was completely surprised and impressed with his actions. He was brave (by his standards) and confident and knowledgeable. He is growing up!

This afternoon I encouraged them to do a summer journal entry since we’ve been so busy doing things and they haven’t done a journal entry in awhile. Eve eagerly drew a picture of the Home Depot car at the races, but Lex decided he wanted to make a 3D car instead. He is an ambitious boy! He drew it out on paper, all one piece, like an exploded out top view. If that makes any sense. Then cut it, colored it, folded it and taped it together. Then he experimented with 3D wheels, with no luck, so he resorted to flat wheels attached with fasteners so they really turn. He was so proud of his project! Tomorrow he plans to make an interior. I’m not sure how that will go, but he has ideas!

He went to bed tonight with a to-do list running through his head for tomorrow. Practice the piano, do some Khan Academy, play more of his Transformers game, learn to mow the lawn (Alan’s idea!), make more paper cars, make a paper Nascar race track… there was more I can’t remember now. I know Alan also wants to take him to Home Depot for some project shopping. So much for a down day before Splash Camp starts again on Monday!