And...Check!

Freestone loves to check boxes. In fact, his practicing is more about checking boxes than making music. Today he designed boxes that were all different sizes of rectangles. He then went on to design a practice chart for Ptolemy. See, he has to say "dada, mama and lala" twice each. The "pppppp" represents that raspberry thing babies do, and Tolly has to practice that ten times. Freestone worked tirelessly with his baby, trying to coax him to make the sounds so the boxes could be checked. Ptolemy did OK, although he was much more willing to make the sounds before Freestone called it practicing. At the end of Tolly's lesson, Free suggested, "Maybe that could count as my practicing!" Nice try, kid.

Now little P-Town is incrementally better at making sounds, although he won't sleep more than 20 minutes at a stretch, can't swallow baby food, refuses to sit up and hasn't even taken the LSAT yet. I'll have to have Freestone make some more charts. One thing Tolly IS good at is making literally every moment of our lives a complete joy through his mere presence. We are so, so, SO glad he's here.