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Do you remember 'Goodnight Moon'? Well we read it to Joaquin frequently and the first line says, "In the great green room there was a telephone and a red balloon...." Yesterday after a trip to Trader Joe's Joaquin took his green TJ's balloon into his room and said, "In the brown brown room there was a green balloon!" Mommy had to sit down she was laughing so hard. Clever, huh?

This is picture is one Joaquin drew yesterday for Jonah. (Rachel this is coming in the mail along with Jonah's towel.) First he drew the black jagged lines on the bottom and told me he was writing "M" for mommy. We like to make J's for Joaquin, D's for Daddy and M's for Mommy. (Yes, I realize my name actually starts with B, but I didn't want him to confuse the sounds.) However this is important b/c this is his first time attempting to form them on his own. It's a really long m, but still! Then he made a zigzag with every color on top and told me they were a rainbow. Finally he took some more brown and black and scribbled on top of the rainbow. Then he informed me that these were stormclouds and they make noise. I asked him the name of the noise just for fun and he said, "Thumpter!" I'm so excited that he's starting to really make pictures now. It's an important evolution from making scribbles and then making up something they look like (usually a snake) which was his modus operandi up till now.