i picked mikhai up from ms.tee's yesterday and she handed me his blanket and said that it needed to be washed. earlier in the morning while she was fixing breakfast, mikhai was just talkin to himself and playing and she decided to check on him. well it's a good thing he did because he had done some dirty business and was playing with it. she said it was all up his back, in his hair on his hands, all over the blanket.....so needless to say he got a bath.

she told me that if it had been done at my sister's house that she probably would have put him in the tub clothes and all...then she would have thrown the clothes away. yeah, she would have. and sis, if you're reading this, don't shake your head because you know it's true.

yesterday my nephew was officialy adopted by my brother-in-law. he may not be mikey's biological father, but he's been that little boy's daddy since he was just a couple months old. the ceremony was short and sweet. my sister blubbered of course. the lawyer asked some questions of my sister, how long have you and this man been married? and he has been living with your son in the house for this length of time? the father has signed a legal affidavit removing himself and all his rights from this child's life? you agree that it is in the best interest of the child for this man to legally adopt him? do you object? (uh, no.) then the judge asked my BIL pretty much the same questions, then...do you object? (uh, no.) then he asked the group of us there if we objected...that was a strong NO.

to end it he said that is was his "plea....well not really a pleasure to terminate parental rights, but it is always a pleasure to approve an adoption" we all walked up onto his bench to get a group picture of the day and then as we were leaving he told one of the clerks "now back to the mundane tasks of our day" lol.

hehe, before the ceremony we were in the van waiting cuz we got there really friggin early and mikey was just bouncin off the sides of the van and driving his momma crazy! she told my BIL that after this morning he can never get away. my BIL said, um, i think i'm leaving now. (just jokingly of course)

our family has found this great restaurant called Ton's Mongolian Grill. man is this place cool. its' kinda like a buffet, but everything is raw. you go through this line and select your meats and veggies and noodles, then you pour your oils and sauces over everything. after that you take it to the grill where these three guys stand in front of a circular grill and cook your (and everyone elses) food. they constantly walk around this grill moving the food. it's really neat to watch and the food is amazingly good. well, we have a tendancy to go there at least once a week so that should say something about how good we think it is...lol. but when you are done with your meal, they give you this little bowl of whipped ice cream.

now, on to the whole point of my post......krys eats like a bird and is finished eating before everyone else at the table, especially mikhai and wants to get her ice cream then. well he knows what that ice cream is. and he would prefer to have that over the real food that he is supposed to be eating. we have now banned krys from getting ice cream until mikhai is finished eating. after he's done we all get ice cream. or rather, mom and krys get a bowl and i get half a bowl because mikhai has eaten the other half.

grama has had to have this talk twice now with mikhai. the saturday before last (the 18th) mikhai fell somehow and busted his mouth right where the gums and the lip meet on the inside. poor little guy bled like crazy. grama told him then that there was to be no more blood. (yeah right) so this past saturday (the 25th) we were at my godmother's house and he falls down and hits his mouth on a chair leg. he started crying, no big deal. until he's rubbing his mouth and his hand is coming away bloody. oh great. he did it again. this time his tooth split his lip and he had a fat lip all weekend.

grama keeps trying to convince him that his head is not a bouncy ball to throw against furniture. he has a goose egg on the corner of one eyebrow where he whacked the corner of the coffee table. not cool.

i got to listen to my mother whine because mikhai refused to say good night to her, but insisted on saying "bye papa" over and over and over again. (hehehehehe) all the way home from work the other day all i heard was "your son is a terd. 'bye papa, bye papa, bye papa' why can't he say bye ama!?" i just laughed at her. then my sister called me to tell me that my son i wrong. what?! she said that she picked him up from ms. tee's and he didn't want to go to her. he kept trying to get back into ms. tee's arms. and he cried the entire way to her house. my sister said he was wrong for doing that and he's not supposed to decide he doesn't want to go with someone yet. she said he's not old enough to do that yet. or rather, she doesn't want him to be old enough for that.

my mom told me yesterday that if she wasn't in the delivery room with me on the day that i had my son that she wouldn't belive that he is only 10 months old now. with all the shit he is doing and how he acts, you would swear he is at least 18 months. sorry, the pain of the birth was only 10 months ago, not 18.....