He can climb to the top of the dome at Rose's school, lower himself until he's hanging, and drop.

He's starting the drive toward monkey bar success. First he leaned out, took a bar, swung out, and dropped. Then at Rose's school, I held the glider bar steady for him, and he leapt and grabbed it with both hands. Today, he swung out with one hand on one ring, and got the other onto the next ring. What I want to point out is we have this story about David that he doesn't want a learning curve, he just wants to be good at things. Swimming is a key example of this; he has said as much. But here he is taking the slow steady steps to learn. And by the way, he has taken some big leaps and landed hard, so he keeps trying even with failures.

He can fold an airplane. You know we've been spending a lot of time with the how to fold airplanes book. David can't read, but he's obviously absorbed the directions. He may not make exactly the plane in the book, but there's no question he's got the basic idea. . .better than I do.

David can tap me on the shoulder when he wants to get my attention. He has really really learned to tap when I'm talking and he wants to talk to me. He hasn't learned how to tap gently. He hasn't learn how to wait patiently when I say just a minute. He hasn't learned that he doesn't have to tap when it's just the two of us, and all I am doing is paying attention to him, but he has really got that tap down.