his new words from this weekend are "please" and "duck".

i have been trying to get him to say please if he wants something and he has been stubborn the last couple weeks and wouldn't do it, but this weekend he said please many times when he was asking for something. "please juice" yay Mikhai!!!

as for "duck"...we were reading his peek-a-boo book and at one page when i open it, he hollers "bubbles!" cuz the little baby in the picture is taking a bubble bath. well, on the page before the peek-a-boo part there are a bunch of rubber duckies and frogs and mikhai pointed at them so i said "duck" a couple of times. well, mikhai was into it and kept repeating what i said and pointing at the pictures! i had to take him to grama to show her and at first, he wouldn't say the word, but when i said it he would point at the ducks so he knows what we were talking about.

OH, OH, OH!!!!!! mikhai tried to dress himself on saturday. it took him a while but he got his shirt on with arms in the sleeves and everything! (grama and i kinda helped cuz we got impatient...lol.) he got mad that we put his pants on for him and he tried to get his socks on by himself. he's not quite coordinated enough, but he has the concept down.

nothing is safe in the house. light switches, doors, NOTHING. cuz mikhai can reach them all!!!!

our house is funk-tified in that all the light switches are about the height of a normal adult's hip. which means that if my son stands on his tip-toes, he can reach them!! and he thinks it's a blast to play with them.

along those same lines, he has gotten tall enough that he (if he works at it) can open doors. (you just thought you were safe by closing the door to the bathroom.) he's too smart dang it! lol.

here's a picture of Mikhai with his papa on the ATV. as if you can't tell from his face, he was having a blast!

10/6 - 10/7

Alcohol is not my friend any more. I went out of town with two girlfriends to go see FFTN play in Louisiana and Saturday night I had just a LOT too much to drink. I have repeatedly told my girlfriend to NEVER let me drink that much again. I think I would have been okay if we hadn’t had all that vodka after the show and at the after-party. Oh and the shots of jack daniels didn’t help either. Whew. Never again. I was sick all day Sunday on the way home. I think I threw up a total of like 7 times. I will NEVER drink that much again. There is nothing to benefit from being that totally schnockered. A little tipsy gives you a little courage (shame MI wasn’t around…lol), but how far gone I was, was just a total waste of time and good alcohol. But as my girlfriend says, I did get to dance with josh!!!

Yeah, I’m getting really bad about posting on a regular basis, but I HAVE to post about three weekends ago and my son’s new love.

September 30th we went out to richard’s place in BFE cuz they were having a party. Dad got out there Friday night and mom, krys, Stanley and I went out Saturday after we delivered a wedding cake that she made (THAT is another story and an almost dead dog). But we got out there about 8 pm. About the time that we got there, a band was getting set up to play. (CUTE drummer boy too…lol) but they’re playing and my son is just staring at them and occasionally you can see him start to jam. The night continues and Richard and Sharon go out onto the “dance floor” (this is just a cleared spot of dirt in front of the band). Next thing I know is that my son is walking up to Richard and Sharon and starts dancing with them. All the old people out there were just gushing about how cute he was when he did that. I danced with him quite a bit too. Just took him out to the dance floor and moved with him. He passed out about 10:30 and slept for an hour then when he woke up again I took him back out and we just kinda rocked to the music and I sang to him a little bit. We slept in a camper that they have and amazingly he slept the whole night. But then again he had a lot of fresh air and he was running around like there was no tomorrow. Before he passed out for the first time, while he was running around, he had to investigate every empty chair that he could find. If someone stood up to go get another drink or whatever, my son made a beeline for the chair and had to sit down for all of two seconds then he got down to go to the next one. Lol.

He woke up at 8 am (mom would have been happy for a little bit longer to sleep, but I survived). We played for about half an hour until he squeezed past my reach and tickled grama’s feet and woke her up also. after Mikhai played with grama and papa for a while we went outside while everyone else got up and dressed. Mikhai was running around again trying to discover everything for the second time in the daylight. Sometime later papa got up and walked over to the house, but instead of going inside, he got on the four-wheeler and cranked it up. He was getting ready to take krys for a ride but had to wait for her to get shoes on so grama says, “take Mikhai out for a little ride”. The first time my son was on the ATV papa took it easy, just going in lazy circles around the front lawn and driveway. When krys came out and Mikhai had to get off, he was not a happy camper. When they took off without him that little boy got upset. He stared after them as long as he could then listened to them for as long as he could. As soon as papa came back and was barely stopped, Mikhai was trying to get back on there with him! So seeing as how my son liked the ride, papa took him out into the pasture and went a little faster. You could hear Mikhai squealing as papa took off. He had so much fun. Every time that he was made to get off he tried to climb back on and do it himself…lol. We stopped and went inside for a little bit to eat breakfast and after I got tired of trying to chase him around the house and keep him out of things that he did not need to get into, grama suggested going for a ride. She took him out on the ATV again. Then papa came out and took him for a ride. Then he took krys and Mikhai. Then krys and I went (with her driving…oh God that’s scary!). grama said that when krys and I went out he got mad and wanted to go with us, but when I went out on the ATV by myself, oh boy did he get pissed. So when I came back I put him on there with me and we went out to the pasture, just the two of us. (I can't get enough of that little boy laughing, it's so infectious!) But we had a good weekend all around. When we left Mikhai was passed out before we were even a mile down the road.