Anthony likes music.  In fact, we are finding that his interests may be very similar to those of our music-loving daughter, two years his junior.  When our daughter has been listening to Taylor Swift in her bedroom, for instance, Anthony has shown up more than once at her open door to listen--I guess there's no accounting for taste!  We have also noticed that, when we are playing music in general, Anthony makes a lot of noise at a fairly constant pitch, unlike the random noises he makes at other times.  An acquaintance at church recently also heard him doing this and commented to us that it appears he is trying to sing; that is the conclusion we have come to ourselves.

Another similarity we have found between Anthony and his sister involves eating habits.  Anthony will often leave any meat in a dish until the end of his meal, and won't eat it unless we urge him to do so.  Our daughter would also refuse to eat most meat if we let her.  Relatively speaking, we don't eat a great deal of meat anyway, and are moving toward even less, but what we do eat is almost always chicken or something else on the lighter side, and it is there as a balanced part of the meal.  So, for the time being, they are required to eat it.

Speaking of eating dishes with a minimum of meat, my wife made Pad Thai the other day.  When I dished some up for myself, I doused it with a little lime juice from a plastic bottle.  I then asked Anthony if he also wanted any Pad Thai--he had been eating another dish--and he immediately got up and brought his plate to me.  After I dished it up for him and handed him the plate, he made a shaking gesture toward the bottle of lime juice.  He apparently had seen me shake some lime juice out for my meal, and wanted the same for himself.