Hello??? Am I here????

Wow! It's been over two months since I've posted anything! It's been a CRAZY two months, full of family visiting and all of us being sick for what seemed like a month! I'm posting some pictures so you can sort of get an idea of what we've been doing ... because I know you don't want to see the 275 pictures I just took the other day out in the backyard! :) I think I've inherited my mother's illness of taking tons of pictures to make sure I capture that "cute" moment! Just so you know, I did end up deleting pictures that didn't turn out great and ended up with only 80 something pictures from the other day. We're all finally well again ... Michael is working on 4 back molars all at once, so it seems he's constantly being given tylenol or motrin. Poor guy, sometimes when I forget to give him some he gets so miserable!

I've been feeling the need for some structure to our days lately. While we were all sick, we got too used to watching videos and I'm sick and tired of Tigger and Pooh, Curious George and the Wiggles. Not to mention, I'm sure there's more I should be doing to help my son learn!!! :) So, we started "school" the other day. How crazy and obsessed is that? He's not even two yet and I decided to start getting him excited about school already! What's that mean???? School consisted of a coloring page, and he was supposed to color everything red. So, there's a bunch of red scribbles on the page ... and everytime I asked him what color he's using he said "blue". Why is it that he can remember what color he's looking at in his Thomas the Train books, but can't figure out what color crayon he's holding????? Okay, so maybe he's not ready for preschool yet! But, he was pretty darn excited to show EVERYONE the page that is now up on the refrigerator and tell everyone that there is a "melon water" (watermelon), "sku bus" (it's actually a truck, but since he was doing "school" he called it a school bus), a "heart" and a "bayooooon" (balloon). Oh, and there's a "kitty" on there and the crayon is "blue". (it's really red ... remember, it's a red them today!) So ... I guess we need to work a little more on our colors.

He loved having Tony's mom come visit at Christmas ... he calls her "Nana". Now when he sees blankets we used on her bed it's "nana's blanket" and he's always talking about "nanas cookies" and "nana hugs". Nana, could you hurry up and come home so I don't have to explain that you can't give him a hug because you're in Arizona???!!! :)

Alright, enough stories for now. Oh wait! I have another story ...

One day when Michael was sick, I put in a call to his doctor to ask a question about an "owie" he had. When I was on the phone, I mentioned his Dr's name and when I got off he kept saying her name and asking about her. So, to get him off my back I told him that "mommy called Dr. Gill to ask her about your owie. To find out if you need another medicine, or if you can just take the medicine mommy already has here." So we go through the day, and the Dr. returns my call during his naptime. I get my questions answered and move on. Michael wakes up from his nap and a little later comes to find me in my room and says "Dr. Gill? Owie?" How in the world does he remember? We talked about this hours ago! So I respond with "Dr. Gill called and said you could just use the medicine mommy has" ... he says "okay" and turns and walks away. Silly little boy!

Alright, now I'm done with the stories ... I'll let you get to the pictures!

This is a picture my mom took while Michael was looking in the mirror in his bathroom.

This was Nana's bed at Christmas time. It took me a few days to clean it up after she left so Tony would go in there and lay on the bed while Michael played ... it's in Michael's play room. Michael and Nana made up a new game to play on her bed called "fun". You sit on the edge of the bed and then fall back and laugh and say "fun!". This is Tony and Michael playing "fun" after Nana went home.


Michael and Nenny (aunt Jenny) reading in Nana's bed.

Tony and Michael at the Christmas parade ... it was cold!

Michael and his suitcase that came with a "raff" (giraffe). He loves that thing! He's constantly walking around the house telling me he's going on a trip!