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I got my monthly massage today! I specifically schedule them after I play piano for church because my inconsistent practicing means that some part of me is going to hurt afterwards. Today it was most of my left upper body. The massage therapist I had today did a very good job of working the aches out.

While Calvin is still going to bed later than I would prefer, he did go to sleep pretty easily tonight.

Calvin Moment

When I was young my mother bought my brother and I stuffed German Shepherd dogs. TJ’s stood up and mine sat down. Mom must have given them to us when I wasn’t too young as it survived in pretty good shape except for one paw being painted pink. For some reason, I still have the dog and she settled into living on top of one of our bookcases in the bedroom. A couple of days ago Calvin saw the dog and said, “ditty” which is currently his word for most non-human mammals. I obligingly brought her down from the shelf and introduced her to Calvin as “dog.” Calvin promptly became attached and now sleeps with her every night. It’s not uncommon for him to drag her around the house either by the ear or the tail. I’m a little worried he will think it’s ok to drag real animals by their ears/tails but the dog is about half his size and he can’t realistically carry it around any other way.

Today I introduced Calvin to the concepts of edible plants. I have a cherry tomato growing in a pot in our backyard. A couple of tomatoes had matured so I popped one off the vine and bit it in half so I could give Calvin a piece to try (whole it would have been a perfect choking hazard). Calvin really liked it so I harvested the remaining 2 ripe tomatoes and he helped eat those also. He then pointed to some of the green tomatoes and I tried to explain the concept of “ripe” to him. We then moved on to basil and I grabbed a leaf from my columnar basil plant for him to try. He didn’t like this nearly as much as the tomato. A while later, Calvin decided to pick some grass and try eating that. It belatedly occurred to me that teaching him to pick and eat random things perhaps wasn’t the best idea. On the other hand, I certainly never taught him to eat sand and he’s been trying to do that for months.

Simplification

Food Diary