So (knock on wood) Meredith has adjusted to her new bed and goes to sleep fine (no crying). 

It's "bring your favorite jungle animal" to school, so Meredith got to take her monkey, Oooh Oooh.  This morning she ran right into her class and introduced the baby dolls (her favorite toy to play with at school) to OohOoh.  So home friends and school friends meet.

Meredith remembers a LOT.  Instead of me reading *Madeline* to her last night, I prompted just a little bit but asked Meredith to "read" the book to me.  She knew the WHOLE story.  I really didn't have to prompt much at all.  She knew the whole beginning, all the parts about the emergency appendectomy, everything.

Meredith also remembers things that happen during the day, and comes up with her own perspectives and observations.  When you ask her what she did at school, she tells you!  (And I can usually understand it, although sometimes it takes some context).  She loves to sing songs without any prompting at all, and she'll announce something (like, "Mommy needs a haircut!  She has ponytail.  I have haircut.  Daddy has haircut.  I have ponytail.")  She often makes comparisons between objects or people, and has started labeling all her animals as boys or girls.  Her sentences are getting more complex, and her thoughts run multiple sentences long.  Also, she has been quite agreeable lately - we'll ask her to do something, and she'll just say, "Okay!"  This is a huge improvement from "No!"