Day 3

Hallelujah Max slept through the night. I have this theory that when Max is sleeping poorly, he'll do it for a few nights in a row, but then even he gets tired, so he has to put in a good night eventually to rest up in order to sleep poorly again. Therefore tonight should be ugly again.

In blogging every day, it's interesting how I can take some time to talk about the little things that made my day with Max...things that I would totally forget otherwise. Max did two things tonight that were awesome.

1) we had been home for 30 minutes or so when Max went over to the foyer and grabbed his boots. He wanted to put them on. He arranged them (horribly, but upright) on the mat and then lifted his leg to insert his foot on his own. Now, there's a way that he lifts his leg to get in a box, by leaning forward at the waist and lifting the leg closest to the box straight back, kind of like an arabesque (hopefully I've chosen the right term). You know, the logical way to go about doing things. Well, he didn't do it like that this time. This time, he lifted his leg straight forward at the waist, like a goose step or Hulk Hogan getting ready for a leg drop. As if it wasn't funny enough watching Max try to get into his boot that way, he then walked over to the door so that he could hold on to something while lifting his leg the box way to get into the nearest boot...which was now 4 feet away! Seeing him stand there thinking he could get his foot into a boot 4 feet away was priceless.

2) after the boots were on, he went and asked to be let downstairs. There's really nothing to do down there for Max...although it's where the vacuum lives and therefore, it's desirable to be down there. So we head downstairs, we play with the vacuum a bit and then I turn on the TV to watch a bit of the inauguration stuff I taped. Two minutes in, Max hits something on the DVD player to turn it on, so the TV screen is now showing the DVD splash graphic. After fiddling with the buttons on the machine for a bit and not getting anything to happen, Max does the following without significant delay between steps:
a) walks over to the part of the entertainment unit which stores our movies
b) slides the door open
c) gets into the West Wing Season 2 DVD box
d) pries disc 4 out of the holder (not easy to do)
e) walks over to the player and slides the disc under it
f) steps back
Totally crazy. I know we watch a lot of TV and all, but most of it happens after Max goes to bed and CERTAINLY watching DVDs. I'm really struggling to think of when I've inserted or removed a DVD from the player around him. In any case, like the time Holly saw Max go to the door with keys in hand, he totally knew what he was trying to accomplish here.

So that was our day. I don't think he'll be up when Holly gets back tomorrow, but it will be great to see his face when he sees Holly at 3:30 am Thursday...er...I mean 6:30 am.