Griffin is starting to count. He "counted" to ten yesterday and to twenty today. "Counting " means that he tries to say the number when they are counting on Sesame Street - there's a little pause after each number they read during a counting segment and he tries to repeat it. He skips some, but does pretty well overall considering he's just started. This a.m. he did say 8 and 18 after 7 and 17 without being prompted. And he's trying to hold up his fingers too - the number of fingers doesn't necessarily match the number being discussed, but it's a first step. He's been talking a lot about Big Trucks too, when we ride in the car. Apparently the bigger they are the louder he has to say it. This weekend we went to a kid's music concert/Halloween party, church, and to Six Flags where he rode a (stationary) horse on the carousel and played in a giant room full of balls. There was fun to be had at each. And there was also one major meltdown per event. We take the bad with the good. He just gets so excited and has so much fun that he hates to leave. Except for church; he got really upset in the nursery and we had to be pulled out of Sunday School. He was ok until another shirt of people came in to watch him. He also had a little episode Friday night at daycare. Every 3rd Friday they watch the kids for $30 and we went out for sushi. We stayed till 8 or so just about 10 minutes too late as he had a crying meltdown.