We had a rather busy day today. In the morning, G and I were outside playing and he got his first bee sting. He came running over to me c;utching his arm and wailing in that way that I knew something was really wrong. I'd been over by the bush where he'd been a few minutes earlier and had seen a couple bees, and sure enough that was what had happened. A little baking soda and water did the trick and in no time he was playing happily outside again.

This afternoon our neighbors invited us to Franklin Park Conservatory to see the butterflies. We'd never been there, and now I wish we'd gone before. It's lovely there. It was close to closing time so we hurried through most of it to get to the butterflies, but I really want to go back and spend more time in each of the areas.

At lunchtime today, something clicked in Gavin's brain and he can now count to 11. Before now his counting went "1, 2, 5, 2, 5, 2..." and so on. If we prompted him and helped him he could count to 5, but when it was just him, it was all 2s and 5s. Well this afternoon he was playing on the floor behind me while Jason and I finished eating and suddenly we hear "1, 2, 3, 4, 5!" coming from Gavin. We were so surprised, we almost didn't believe our ears. Then a few hours later, he surprised us even further by counting -- correctly! -- all the way to eleven.

While we were outside Gavin was looking at the sun, and saying "ow! ow!" I told him not to look at the sun, that it was so bright it would hurt his eyes. He thought about that for a second, then pointed to his eye and said, "Put bandaid in my eye."