Lunch -- I'm sorry, I forgot about the crackers until after he already had his lunch -- but he ate a biscuit, few bites of nuggets, & milk. I will try hard to remember next time you want Mick to have crackers for lunch.

niknotes -- Misunderstanding about the crackers: they are simply a back-up plan to the cafeteria lunch. I will be too happy for him to eat anything he wants from the cafeteria. I just suggested that on days where the menu looks bleak to me, when I don't think there's any hope of his eating from the school menu, then I would like to save the $1.50 and only buy a milk to go with his crackers and peanut butter. No sense wasting money if there's practically no chance he'll try the food, at least at this point. Maybe once he's had chicken nuggets and pizza and bread a few days at school, he'll try more foods. I wrote a note to Mrs. Kris to try to clear that up.

Tonight, Mick practiced his ABCs with Da. He has a wooden puzzle with pictures for each letter, and he was pointing and saying, "F is the first zabba-zabba-zabba Frog!" Zabba-zabba-zabba must mean "the first letter in the word..." He accepted that interpretation and repetition at least. If he didn't know the word for the picture in a particular letter, it became "zabba-zabba-zabba Harko." And over the last couple of days, I think he's been trying to tell us about the alphabet and initial letters, because he has said very clearly "octopus" and "xylophone" which are not usually part of his conversations. Sean and I agree that "xylophone" supports the alphabet-practice theory. Octopus may have come from a Spider-man coloring book or video, but it is the picture inside the capital O, and xylophone is inside the capital X. Mick is confused by the lower-case letters, a bit, not all of them. But when in doubt, it's an "f" or a "p." Jack and Mick played a computer game together: Sesame Street ABCs. I took a picture of them sitting together in the computer chair. I'll probably e-mail that.