Today we had Julie, Robert and Ashlyn over to hang out.  Before they arrived in the morning, Logan, Connor and I decided to take a walk while Stuart worked on the yard.  Logan suggested that he pushed Connor in the stroller while I used the water gun to shoot any spiders that I would find.  I was ok with that idea, so we started our walk.  Logan was pushing the stroller quite well, I just had to occasionally remind him to stay on the track.  He kept asking me if I found any spiders as he walked and pushed.  He would stop sometimes to come forward to check on Connor, and sometimes he would use Teddy to tickle Connor to entertain him.  Once when he had to push up a slightly sloped sidewalk, I heard Logan mumbling “I am strong.  He is a big boy!”.  We walked around the blocks twice, and Logan pushed the stroller almost the entire way.  He was very good!!

     We had a nice time hanging out with the Changs.  Ashlyn warmed up to us quickly, and started playing with the boys.  She played with the cars and the blocks, and she seemed to have the most fun with the push carts, running around the house.  After playing for awhile, Stuart and Robert went out to pick up KFC for lunch.  As we were eating our lunch, Connor became very tired, his eyes were closing as he was eating his cantaloupe.  So we decided to excuse him to take his nap while the rest of us finished up.  I offered some cantaloupe to Ashlyn, and since then, she started calling me auntie in Chinese.  It was very cute!  Logan and Ashlyn resumed playing for a bit longer, then the Changs decided to take off as it was naptime for the remaining two kids.  Logan had a great time having visitors in the house.  It took a bit of time before he calmed down to go down.  Both boys slept for 2+ hours.

     Another breakthrough this weekend was Connor’s milk drinking.  He was still not drinking any whole milk with either sippy cup or straw cup at school or at home.  I had already discarded all the BornFree bottles, so basically Connor has not had any whole milk for almost a month now.  But this weekend (both Sat and Sun), he was willing to drink a little bit of cold milk with a straw cup.  He was making goofy smiley faces while sucking gently, and he did not let the milk back out like he used to.  He only drank around one ounce both days, but I was very pleased with that progress.

     Finally a big event happened at dinnertime tonight.  We were having turkey pasta and veggie for dinner.  Stuart and I had baby broccoli and Logan had carrots as that was the only veggie he would willingly eat.  Out of the blue, Logan asked Stuart to try his “tree”.  He was happily munching on it while playing with it.  Stuart and I were so surprised; we both did not dare to make any comments as we did not want to ruin the good thing.  Logan even took and ate another one that I offered to him.  This was the first broccoli that Logan ate on his own in his entire life!