March 27, 2000 - Monday
Although Harry's uncle had to leave yesterday, Harry's aunt is staying with us a couple extra days and today helped tend to Harry while his mother was off at work. I stayed at home as I usually do mornings, but with her looking after Harry, I wasn't bound to pay as close attention to all his little, and sometimes big, noises. For me, that meant a morning of actually working from home more than just during Harry's 45 minute nap.

And, Harry made the most of his time with his aunt, showing her his full range of moods and vocalisms. With all the stimulus he had and all different places he saw over the weekend, I quite expected Harry to be easily bored this morning and anxious about where his next thrill would come from. He proved me sage indeed. With a relative lack of new sites and sounds compared to the last two days, Harry gave his aunt an earful at any hint of a malaise in her morning agenda for him. At times it took both our intellects to decipher Harry's cryptic desires and instructions. Thankfully, after a nap and a good serving of milk, our delightful boy emerged and treated his aunt to a wonderful exhibition of his best singing and laughing.

I suppose when he's looking for stimulus like this he's quite receptive to new activities and that's an encouraging sign of his development and curiosity. The problem is that thinking of new activities for a young brain are not always so easy for older brains and can be tiring work. Ah, but when everything comes together, it can be such pure happiness.


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