a girlfriend was watching mikhai this weekend for me and she took him to the Botanical Gardens and took some pictures of him. here are a few of my favorites.

i see that i am seriously slacking in the update department here.....

brief update on what is going on.

mikhai is potty training. he's doing wonderfully!! he wears big boy underwear ALL day with no accidents. he knows if he needs to go. there have been several times that he gets really quiet and when i go looking for him, he's sitting on the toilet. that's'a my boy!!!! lol. he goes poop in the toilet too (yeah, i know this is prolly tmi for some people, but it's a major accomplishment, or so i'm told) i think it's been well over a month since he's had a poop accident in his underwear. now peeing in his underwear...that's another story. we had a serious potty training set back this past weekend. i think most of it has to do with the fact that we haven't been home for the last week and a half. but we go home tonight so i'm hoping this weekend will be a lot better. i did so much laundry this weekend....i'm tired of it!!! lol.

our house is going to be even more cramped that it normally is for the next several months. my mom and her infinite "sucker-ness" has agreed to let my sister, her husband and two kids move in for a while until they get a place of their own here in town. i don't begrudge them the help from my mother. hell, she's done it for me.... my son is happy with the situation too. his "u-wick" is there all the time now. in case you don't know mikhai's language, that is uncle rick...lol. he's in love with their two sons too. one is 13 and the other is 9 and mikhai just loves to play with them. they're boys and they will chase each other around the house and horse-play. you can hear mikhai's squeal throughout the house most days. i love it. i always love it when he laughs.

seeing as how there are four more people in the house now, mikhai has moved back into my room. the day that i put his bed back in my room, i was making his bed and put his sheets and blankets on it and i put his pillow at the head of his bed and mikhai walked to the bed, grabbed his pillow and said "no". he then put it back on my bed and said "sleep here". well. alrighty then. if you say so.

my baby boy is the sweetest little man. we'll be playing and he'll kiss me and give me squeeze loves and say "lu-ya too". awwwww.... that's enough to just melt a mommy's heart.