It has been a long time between posts - we have all stayed warm and now in July we are trying to keep cool! A week of heat wave temperatures, nineties and up, thank goodness we are coming around with water activities. Work has been a little arduous for me, trying to adjust to the hours of my part-time evening hours, ugh, finish at 11:30pm, home by 12:30, bed by 1 am ish, wake by 6:30 am. It is interesting to me that sleep deprivation has always felt fine at first, even perhaps a little warmly stoic with a nice fuzzy outline to things at the beginnings. However, now it feels like an impossible waking and a feet dragging morning at times. Henry is such an interesting boy at four years old, everything is for looking at and figuring out; the rides at Canobie Lake, the sprinkler and the pressure system, absolutely everything in Henry's world must be examined and figured out. He is destined to be an engineer. Eliot also has been doing well, we are trying our best to sort out his serves and how best to help him with his anxiety and rigidity. It is challenging as people in school tend to see Eliot as neurotypical for the most part. Eli loves to save his feelings for Mom at home, yeah!!! As it is, Tova sees some of his challenging behaviors and certainly Matt and I try to help him with identifying his feelings and learning some "coping skills" to handle his feelings. Eli is now officially done with diapers and we could not be happier, he has come a long way. Both numbers on the toilet, sound the trumpets! Matt is working like a maniac and has recently experienced terrible inner ear vertigo and is still going to work - how awesome is he? BOth kids defer to him more and more as he spends the evening hours with them in their hardest hours, a little tough training for all. Everyone survived and that is a victory. Summer is here and with it the heat I was discussing, we are getting better at pools, wading pools and even yes, wait for it SPRINKLERS!!!! ELi put his foot in the sprinkler yesterday as Henry said, "Look Eli, I will turn it down and you can wash your foot, see Eli, it's not scary" "we're twins, and so we love each other more than other people…” ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Men