Saul can go up and down the stairs, and it's so cute, it's like he's a toy robot with two settings: up and down! And he loves to go down, stop midway on the stairs, go back up, peek out at me, and then race back down (perhaps a robot on "random"). He is so fast and unpredictable in his explorations that I am constantly losing him, and the house now seems to be a castle with an infinite number of rooms, and no time to close all their doors before a Saulchik slips inside. Yasha, good man, can go up, but with Saul being so mobile, Yash often ends up missing out on all the action if it's below him, and whimpers till mama carries him down. He's too scared still to let me teach him to do it himself. He has turned into such a sweet character, hugging legs not only when he's sad or lonely, but just from a full heart. And we call him Yasha leg-hugger, not that it's an interesting nickname, but it's notable that he does it often enough that it's his main characteristic at the moment! He smiles and laughs with his big eyes and high forehead and anti-gravity hair.... and clings!
Saulie is quite a crazy dancer--he bounces up and down and left and right and hams it up--and a musician, too (don't laugh); he has become an expert harmonica player. I never know if it is Saulie playing or Ezra, because Saul is good and tenacious, too. He reminds me of Ez, not just because he looks most like Ez, but because his curiosity is written on his face and body at all times, as it was with Ezra at this age.
It's sort of okay being blue-house-bound, really. I have to remember how much I'll miss it, and how sadly vaguely (um, double adverb??) it will all be imprinted on my memory. I wish I could take a magic memory pill to bring all my good memories to the fore, and make them bright and flashy and vivid... but there's magic enough in this life and the next, so I won't worry.
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