April showers bring pilgrims

After racing out to the warmest April on record, we've had slightly cooler weather lately, with lots of rain. Including today. Overnight temps over the weekend were around or below freezing. Rhonda covered up some plants.

John has been very lovey-dovey lately. He wants to give us hugs and kisses. He asks "do you love me?" or "are we friends?" Never really seen this from him before.

Last night he was rather tired, and was time to turn out the light. He wanted to keep doing his LeapPad. So, he said "I want it to be morning." (meaning, he wanted to be done with sleeping so he could do LeapPad again) Then, he said "Can I make the sun go up high, and pull down the moon?" Ha. clever boy.

We still have issues with pushing other kids. I think it's related to the sensory integration issues. John doesn't really push out of anger or a desire to hurt. I think he has difficulty processing things when he is in a busy environment, lots of kids around, that may not be strictly structured.

I am currently enjoying the book "Everything and more: a compact history of infinity" by David Foster Wallace. It's a math history of sorts, about Cantor's work with sets and his developments on the concept of infinity. Wallace does a lot of good work explaining all that went before Cantor. It struck me that this is how the frontier of human knowledge advances, little by little. People work on solving the problems of their day, and come up with solutions. (Like calculus) Flaws or difficulties are found, and so more work is done to solve those, etc...