Or adored adopted son is now 4 1/2 years old.
He is a brilliant beam of life.
The things he says and does are out of this world.
I often look at him and wonder how this small person is so huge in every aspect.

Enough with the generalization.
Here's incidence.

I've been near various beaches 4 times this summer. Each time the temp has been in the 60's. So if someone says global warming to me I will leave you laying on the cold ground in the fetal position to retain warmth.
In frustration I was venting my anger over cold crappy weather while driving at the weather man.
I bellowed that the weather man was nuts, and that every time I wanted to go to the beach he wasn't cooperating, it was all his fault.
So my four year old in the back seat sided with me by saying, "yeah the weather man has weather in his brain, and its spinning around like a tornado or dvd."
I promptly gave him a five finger hand slap, then laughed for several minutes at his analogy of the weatherman.

We are the luckiest parents in the world, and so are you.
We spend every waking moment with our child.

Both of us work, so our son is in day care. He sometimes cries when going being dropped of at daycare which is heartbreaking. But he quickly gets over it.

We were lucky and have a wonderful affordable daycare near us.
They teach the kids very well. He learns structure, getting along with kids his age, they go for walks, play in the yard, make art everyday, and have in house outings.

Everyday we ask him what he did, or he just volunteers, "I played with my friends",
then names all of his friends.

Flag Day

Every day with our 2.5 year old is the best day of our life!
The things he says are astounding.
No professional writer could compete with a childs observations.

Our 2.5 year old has an obsession with flags, when he see's a flag
he always says loudly "Flag", and he will point & tell us he saw a Flag. You don't realize how many flags there are everywhere until he points all of them out.
He knows & says USA, Canada, England, Japan, & our state flag. He spots the smallest miniscule flag on a box that we'd never have noticed & he has to tell us he saw a flag & then show us the flag.

 When we go shopping in stores we avoid the flag
aisle just as much as the toy aisle, because he wants to hold and wave the flag.
Then we end up buying the flag, or putting it back & tending to his curled up bottom lip and a lot of tears.

After the Boston Marathon terrorism that had occurred, the flags were all flying at half mast.
And as we drove past a flag at half mast he said,
"Flag not working".

If this is your first child be aware of the illness syndrome.
We personally were not for warned, or we were just being optimistic and thinking that our
little one would just always be happy and healthy.

Our son was born healthy, and remained so until we had to utilize a daycare facility.
He was soon riddled with colds, ear infections, frequent pediatric visits, all night monitoring, & hospitalization.

This will take a toll on you, emotionally, physically, and financially.
You will miss a lot of work, sleep, family functions.
You will be worried, A LOT, about regaining and remaining healthy.

But just remember, our health care system is good.
Most kids are resilient. The human body has fought these illnesses
forever and we are still winning the battle.

We were lucky, our son has beat the illnesses that he contracted, and he is once
again happy & healthy.

Its kind of strange that for a micro-organism to survive it has to wreak such havoc on
another living creature. The micro-organism in trying to procreate/survive can totally
upset the lives of intelligent, compassionate creatures.

We had our second Mothers day as a family, and it was great.
Our son is now 18 months old.
We visited our out of town parents last weekend, so we were able to
have the whole day to ourselves as one happy family.


Our son has the best smile on the planet, and all it takes to get him to smile and laugh is to go out in a big field of grass and let him run. He still falls a lot so that is why we go out in a big field, so he can run in any direction, unencumbered, and free.

We're lucky that are son's first major cold wasn't until 14 month old. but even then it's a stressful worrisome ordeal. You well learn how to become an amateur doctor. Many curve balls will be thrown at you, but with proper vigilance and loss of sleep you will persevere.

Tip: when using the internet for medical advice, you have to consult multiple resources, as there are many conflicting arguments. You should follow the advice of a good physician and use the internet as a source of added knowledge.

Woo Hoo getting ready for Christmas with our one year old son is great.
He cried when he sat on santa's lap, it may have been the camera flash that scared him.

WARNING MALL SANTA'S
The mall Santa wants $25-$30 for a picture and you cannot use your own camera.
Go to Bass pro shops!!! totally free, and you can use your own camera with the option of buying their picture, with no pressure.

The mall Santa was a money gouging rip off. And they did not tell us of their policy until after waiting in line 45 minutes, and you get right up to Santa then you have to leave dejected with no Santa picture!!!
The mall just lost our shopping business!!!