Isaac said, 'Dadadadadada'.

Dylan sleeps in big boy pants (not nappies).

Most days, Dylan gets dressed in his room or the play room.

DADDY: Where do you want to get dressed today?

DYLAN: [Cheekily.] South America.

DYLAN: Oh. My nipples are very pointy today.

Isaac is sitting up.

Dylan at his last day of nursery.

Dylan and Isaac at Barney's in St Barnabas Church.

DADDY: I made a mistake.

DYLAN: Why did you make a mistake?

DADDY: I'm imperfect.

DYLAN: Why are you imperfect?

DADDY: I don't know.

DYLAN: Why don't you know?

DADDY: I'm imperfect.

Isaac enjoys being thrown up in the air, whereas just a few weeks ago he did not.

After a long hiatus, Dylan has started calling Mummy 'Meena' again.

Dylan had his first sleep-over (at Damien's) and his last day of nursery at Active Learning.

Dylan pretends the scars in pavements ('sidewalks') are train tracks. The scars are everywhere, like the utility covers that Dylan spotted in August. And like the utility covers, Daddy had never noticed them before. The scars are probably the result of digging to lay pipes, with asphalt filling. They are up to ten yards long and about eight inches wide. This width, eight inches, is perfect for Dylan's scooter wheels. His scooter is the engine, and a parent's bike or pram acts as the carriage. There are only rails and no ties on these tracks, Dylan observes. Every twenty yards or so, the scars intersect large rectangles. Dylan calls these rectangles 'level crossings'. He talks about level crossings several times each day. Daddy is not even quite sure what a level crossing is.

After some thought, we explained to Dylan that he cannot have a new swim suit until he outgrows his present one. At such time, we explained, he can be given a suit 'appropriate for girls' (i.e., a purple and green unisex wet-suit).

Today we bought girl's clothes for Dylan, as promised. He wore his girl's clothes while shopping for Wellington boots. All afternoon Dylan passed for a girl. Quite naturally the shop assistant fetched girl's Wellies for him. Even though Mummy explained that we wanted boy's shoes, the assistant continued to refer to Dylan as a 'she'. The assistant assumed that Dylan was a girl wearing boy's shoes that were intended to become hand-me-downs for Isaac, who was of course wearing his boy's clothes as usual.

Later Dylan asked to wear his girl's clothes to Clown Town, where older children often play, but we persuaded him to wear his Spiderman outfit instead. At Clown Town we met Damien.