Dylan drew these today and asked me to post them to “the website on Firefox”. I was very happy to see these, because he hasn’t done very much drawing for most of this week. But today he was back to his usual form.

First up is a very sweet envelope with hearts:

Envelope with Hearts

Then we have a slice of pepperoni pizza - not that Dylan likes pepperoni pizza. He prefers cheese only, but I guess when you’re drawing, the pepperoni slices are more interesting than just cheese.

Pepperoni Pizza

And finally, there’s this really cute picture of fruits and veggies - I think maybe Dylan was thinking about inventing a new Wii game:

Fruits and Veggies and Wii

Dylan Reads His First Book

It was a very exciting moment around here. He did it all by himself while in bed last night (after he ran out of creative bedtime excuses) and we ran up - and he read it to us again! The book is called Mac, and it’s book 4 of the Bob Books set. (We’re not sure where book 1 and 2 went to, and he decided to skip book 3 and go straight to book 4).

He is very pleased with himself. Rightly so! (We took the picture today.)

I know … kind of a sappy title, but that’s what Dylan drew! Our little guy was sick today, but with a bit of Vicks Vaporub (which really has worked to ease his cough) he’s fast asleep now and probably already thinking about the “parade” that he’s decided he wants to play tomorrow.

One of the sweetest things about Dylan is that he insists on seeing everyone out the door when they leave. We all get this special treatment - he’ll race to the front door to give hugs and kisses before you go, and then you can’t forget to wave as you’re walking by the front windows, because he’s planted himself there, waving at you ahead of time.

When Ward takes Dylan out to clay class or for speech therapy, Dylan always insists that not only should Mommy get a kiss from Dylan, she should also get a kiss and a hug from Daddy. To prove his point, he drew this picture the other day:

Mommy and Daddy Kissing

Dylan’s been missing The Big Draw - he loved seeing his work up on “the website”, as he calls it. So I’ve decided to give him his own category here. Afterall, he does have quite a passionate fan club!

Dylan’s Day Yesterday

Yesterday, Dylan had a busy day. I had to stay home, of course, since I’ve got these deadlines (you know, the ones that have been coming out of my ears all week?), so it was just Dylan and Daddy. First they went to speech therapy:

Mommy: How did speech therapy go?

Dylan: Good.

Mommy: Did you have fun?

Dylan: Yes. (with a very nice emphasis on the “sss”, I might add)

Mommy: What did you do?

Dylan: I don’t remember.

(Yes, I think he’s trying on teenager-ese for the fun of it.)

But then after speech therapy, he did something fun - he and Daddy only had an hour before his chess lesson, so: “Mommy, I went to Ol’ McDonald’s and I got this!” (flourishing a little metal car which was part of his Happy Meal. Of which, Daddy reports, he ate the fries and nothing else.)

We had a more eloquent report about the chess lesson (which we’re doing with a group of homeschoolers and a private instructor - Dylan’s the youngest there, and we were a little bit hesitant at first because it’s a two-hour class. But it worked and he loves it.)

Mommy: Did you have a good time at chess?

Dylan: It was deee-lightful.

Dylan Draws: People!

He had a lot of fun this morning - he’s discovered that he likes drawing people! Note: he supplied all the titles.

Girl sleeping on a pillow.

Boy with a whistle.

Girl with hair.