oh boy is he throwing some serious temper tantrums. he's got the screaming and stomping feet down wonderfully. unfortunately. i try to talk him out of them cuz usually he's throwing a fit because i won't give him his food right away (because it's still scalding hot - i know, bad mommy, huh?) or something like that. now once i can get him to finish the screaming fit enough to listen to me, we do great. i try to explain to him what we are doing or try to get him distracted by having him help me with something else.

(i have to say that my mom really irritates me when it comes to his temper tantrums. she'll yell at mikhai when we're at home and tell him to stop throwing his temper tantrums, but when we're out or she's talking to someone here at work "he doesn't throw them for grama and grandpa cuz he knows better. we don't let him get away with those. he only does that to his mom." whatever mother. it doesn't matter if it's you or me or papa, he's gonna throw one if he wants. he doesn't get away with them with me either. if he's throwing a fit because he wants something, i don't turn around and hand it to him so he'll shut up. ugh, she just always sounds so high and mighty when she talks about how she does such a better job than me at raising my son.)

he's been doing this a lot at night when he's hungry and then again when he's tired and ready for bed. i've tried the last couple of days though, to have him walk around the living room with me and pick up his toys and put them in his corner and he loves to be able to turn of the tv and the light. he gets so excited when i let him do those. then we head upstairs to give krys and mom & dad a kiss then we go into the bedroom. when we actually get in bed i hide his cup and make him look for it. "where is it?! where is it mikhai?!" his eyes light up and he starts flinging the blankets out of the way and moving my pillows to find it. he's so funny the things that he gets excited over. lol

mikhai is just amazing me with everything that he is learning. yesterday at breakfast his food was still hot when i gave it to him so i told him to help me blow on it and cool it down. so here we are, both leaning towards his food and blowing on it. it's so cute cuz he purses his lips and blows little spurts of air onto the food.

i've noticed in the past that he'll do this on his own without any prompting from me and i'm just amazed at how much he retains the things we teach him. he understands that the food is hot and if he blows on it, it cools down.

momma's big boy

a couple more words that i have noticed mikhai saying:

trash
dog
tana (that's me)
nina
okay
juice (everything is juice whether it be milk, kool-aide or water)
night-night (he actually says this very clearly)
poop
pee (we're just on the verge of getting ready to potty train him. he's watching ms. tee teach another kid and he's soaking everything up like a sponge.)
michael (my sister said he yelled at mikey and said his name clear as day)

i'll add more as i can remember them

i feel like a dork. i seem to have lost my DL so now i have to go at lunch today and try to get a new one. i need a new one anyway cuz it still showed my address from the apartment and my picture was me with longer hair (about 12" longer) so it needs to be done, but having to go because i lost it sucks.

okay, this week at work it is employee appreciation week and we have been playing games all week to earn "points" to get a prize at the end of the week. well, one of the "lovely" ladies up here is going to royally piss me off. she has had nothing positive to say about ANYTHING having to do with this whole experience. she has to question everything and then when it is explained, she has a derrogatory comment about what has been explained. or the rules of the game were not explained well enough for her pea-brain to understand and she's upset that her lack of understanding has cost her "points"



oh, and have i mentioned that she has the hearing of a bat!?!?!?! you can be across the room talking to someone and she will pipe into your conversation and you're just sitting there going..."huh, what? what are you talking about?"