1. Metaplay: Dominic and Ella are currently playing with the giant LEGO Yoda clock and the giant LEGO flashlight dude, who are themselves playing Go Fish with each other.
2. At a run: I know that this change has happened as more of a continuum, but it sure feels as if Dominic, on his fifth birthday, stopped running like a teddy bear/drag queen and started running like, well, a boy, even with a decent amount of speed.
3. Ella rearranged her room. By herself (with encouragement from D). I still don’t know how she managed to shove the bed around, and the scratch marks on the floor are pretty heinous, but I was so impressed with her initiative that I didn’t make a big deal about them. I did talk her into putting her bed somewhere other than right in the middle of the room, and helped her out with that, but when the dust settled, we had found a superior arrangement from everything in her room, with less wasted space and more room to play.
4. Ella, upon hearing from me that there is going to be a LEGO Xbox game based on the Hobbit: “There’s a happy warmth oozing down my spine!”
