Good news from the Dentist yesterday morning... his teeth wiggle only as much as regular teeth should!  His left front tooth will be gray.  But wahoo, good news!  Oh and he is cleared for straws, biting food, and no more medicated mouthwash on Q-tips to hold Michael down!  Yah!

Fun thing from today...
We were walking to get the mail, and Michael was looking for ants, as he often does on our walks outside.  And we found this one ant, all by itself, wandering around in a chaotic pattern.  I commented to Michael that the ant doesn't know which way to go.  His response to me was, "MAP!"  If you know anything about Dora the Explorer and her faithful friend, Map, you will catch his reference.

Over the last 2 weeks, Michael has been using 2 word sentences and working on stringing multiple words into sentences/conversations. His 2 fav ideas to talk about are, 'cross guads, ding, ding, ahead, watch out, window, YAAAY, no train' and 'bas ball, hit it, ball, bat, Johnson (our friend on mommy's softball team), hit, soff ba (softball), run, made it'.  He CONSTANTLY talks.

He had his last day of school on Tuesday and we went to school for the End of School pot luck today.  His teacher, Ms. Tracie, his biggest comfort person at school, was there.  Others from his class, Ms. Kellie, Ms. Cristina, Ms. Margaret, Jacob, Tommie, Ryder and I am sure, Sophia, and Kiara were there as well.  He had a good time. We will miss them all over the summer :(  Ms. Tracie said he could come visit, and maybe should to keep him accustomed to school. Everyone that we talked to was sad he wouldn't be back until August.  They really love what they do and all the teachers always have arms and kisses waiting for these kids.

On the porcelain front, little man is really working hard on potty training.  He much prefers daddy to mommy to put him on the potty for daytime, at home trips. Which is somewhat frustrating, because momma is still the one home with the little (screaming) man most often. But things are definitely improving.  In fact, we have been working on big boy underwear during the day.  Really only 2 days, honestly. The first day was this Monday. We adventured with undies from about 9am to nap time around 1pm, including a trip to HEB.  That morning was all with the same pair of undies; in the afternoon, momma washed about a half dozen undies and shorts. Today, the morning was too much out and about in the morning to push the issue, but from after nap time around 3:45pm until bath time around 7:30pm, he kept the same pair of undies. And that included 7x #1's and 1x #2, which he went to the potty and called 'tee tee' & 'poop' for 2 separate visits.  He is really growing up fast.

Until next time...

Michael swinging at The Little Gym 5/22/12

This was Michael's 2nd class and he figured out how to hold onto the bar and pick up his feet to swing a bit.

Mother's Day 2012

My little boy's presents to me... A rollie pollie, a dandelion, and a rock. I was surprised it wasn't a 'spent' dandelion. Those are his favorite to give to me :)

I also got a big bag, that I asked for, a "Squeeze the Day"-lemon to lemonade shirt, and cookies from my boys.  My day was good, because even though my boys were a bit under the weather, they did there best to stay in good spirits.  I am very blessed.

Mother's Day 2012

Mother's Day 2012

Mother's Day 2012

We went to eat at a local Taqueria. Michael provided entertainment for us and the waitresses;) He truly should have been our honeymoon baby. He has always loved Mexican style music.