After an iChat session last night with the grandparents where Isaac showed them all sorts of new rolling tricks, the hits just kept coming today. Isaac Anthony has learn three new tricks in one day, which has to be a record of some sort. He did the following today that he has never done before:

1. He made a monkey face with his lips and then blew air out from his cheeks.

This was completely unprecedented. It is not something we really do to him or in front of him. Also, he has not done anything like this in the past. Today he just did it.

2. Separate Legos.

This is more expected as he has been working up to this for some time. All of sudden today he just reached and slowly took the pieces he wanted off the tower I was building him. He looked at them and then PLUCK, PLUCK, PLUCK...he got them all.

3. Ate off the table.

He doesn't really like his high chair all that much and today I took the table part away and just scooted his chair right up to the big people table. He sat there a few seconds, looked around, and then he grabbed the puffs on the table and his drink. There was no lead up to this either as we have never brought him up to the table like that before.

He is holding out on us, I just know it. He can talk, I am sure.

Now if he busts out Liszt's Tarantella di Bravura:



then I will be surprised. Can you imagine his tiny, little chubby hands bouncing across the ivories? Hilarious.

Also, it was Mom and Poppa Dom's birthday today, so Happy Birthday to both of those wonderful people. And just so you know, the chance that any one person you meet is born on your birthday (which would include your children, assuming b-days are evenly distributed) is: .003% or 1 out of 367 (duh on the actual numbers, I just thought the percentage was neat). But here is a curious thing: you have a 99% chance of having a match with just 57 people, and a 50% chance with only 23 folks. Did you know there was a whole set of mathematical formulas dealing with this phenomenon?

I got the stomach flu on Sunday and through gritted teeth I helped Bianca clean up after the birthday party for her and her Dad. Around 9:45 though I was bowing at the throne. It was the worst I have felt since college. Coincidentally, I weighed myself on Friday and then this morning and there was a difference of 8 pounds. That is a bad two days.

Anyway, I am feeling better and hopefully Isaac Anthony gave it to me (he had some serious poopacalyse poops on Saturday). Posts will resume on their normal schedule.

Oh and yet another vote of praise for the Public Defender and especially my boss, Soudie. My clients mean a lot to me, and I enjoy them remarking and relying on my work and preparation, so handing my cases off, even for the most essential sick day of my working life (no exaggeration, it was awful), is something I loathe doing. Not because I don't trust my coworkers, but because I have a relationship with my clients and they count on me in a time of crisis. It stinks when I can't be there with them. Fortunately I have a great boss and coworkers and everything went off without a hitch. I am glad I can trust my most important things--my clients and reputation--to the people I work with and for.

In the late 20th century, Stephen Jay Gould, my favorite paleonotologist that did not discover a 44 foot T. Rex skeleton, devised this idea of stuttering evolution called punctuated equilibrium. The idea is that evolution doesn't necessarily happen gradually, but sometimes happens in spurts. Kids develop, it seems to me, in the same way.

Isaac, all of a sudden started flipping and flopping like a fish yesterday and now his is officially mobile. It is not a crawl or a walk, but a roll. Here are a few samples:





He rolls all over the place. Put him down and he will flop backwards then roll around. The record right now is about two rolls, but he is working on three and then I think the the training wheels will be off and he will be zooming around like felled oak down a hillside.