Just a few quick updates

These updates are for Auntie Em, who by the way Michael misses terribly, when we video chatted today he was trying so hard to get her to pick him up. 

Michael fell at the pool the other day and got a black eye. You cant really see it here, but if you look very closely you will see faint bruising along his left eye and cheek. One day he had the black eye and a black/blue bruise on his forehead... learning independence is hard work, my poor child!

Michael wandered off today while I was folding laundry. It had been pretty quiet for about 5 minutes and I started to worry, usually quiet means he is trying to play with the toilet plunger or brush, crawl into the toilet, eat catfood, or something equally harmful/disgusting or distructive. Instead this is what I found, a cute little guy reading to himself. He loves to read, he picks up the books and just babbles away as he turns the pages like he is reading. He follows me around dragging a book and saying "book! book!" If directed he will go get a book to read, and as soon as he has it he crawls up into your lap and snuggles. What a smart guy!

 This is when he noticed me watching him

 back to reading

 General craziness. He put this hat on himself, he is starting to really love hats, shoes, and socks.

 He pulled this polar bear puppet out of the toy bin and spent the better part of this afternoon reading to it, dragging it, and cudding (lying on it) it. I guess he found a friend.