-- Breakfast this morning at the corner diner: corned beef hash for me, cornbread pancakes for Matt, toast and grits for HBP. Yum!

-- Thanks to Kayla for wishing us a happy 4th (and, um, for reminding us that it's today)!

-- Hosea can now say duck ("Dut!"), A.J., Dada, hi, and Mama. Oh man, he's cute.

-- He can also climb onto the bed, which adds a whole new dimension of holy-moly to the day. He only knows how to get up, and seems to like getting down via the kamikaze route. Sheesh.

-- He can also stack objects and put them in containers. He can also wave hello, shake his head "no" (which he does *all* the time), sign "more" and "all done" and sometimes "food". He'll walk if you hold one hand, and run if you hold both. Seriously, Scotland peeps, you won't even recognise him.

-- One week!

--I love my family. A lot.