Well as usual, when it rains it pours with Nathan. He never does only one new thing at a time. Just in the last few days there were three that really impressed/got to me.

Last Friday during our weekly Shabbat dinner, Danielle and I were telling Nathan about how it was Shabbat and he spontaneously started singing Shabbat Shalom at the table. So looks like we have a new Friday night tradition in our house. Then on Saturday when we were on the way up to Pennsylvania for a Birthday Party, Nathan was entertaining himself in the backseat just idly chatting as he normally does when out of nowhere he sang the ABCs all the way through all by himself three times in a row.

Finally, this morning as he and Danielle were leaving the house, I told him, as I do every morning, that I love him and this time he looked up and said “I love you Daddy” in response. Which was the first time he’s ever done that unprompted.