We had to buy a new camera. It had disappeared for a few days and I had looked high and low for it. I finally asked the most obvious person (Andrew) where it was and of course he knew. He came out of the bathroom with it. Thankfully there were no "bathroom" pictures on it, but it won't focus properly and it makes a funny sound when you turn it on. So, one more thing Andrew has destroyed. Oh well...
Maicol has had many better days lately. I think that some of it is our reaction to his moods - quick consequences for being disrespectful. I think some of it is just more time being with us and very slowly beginning to trust. Last week he was interested in what time of the day he was born, so I pulled up the referral documents and was looking for it. He began to read over my shoulder the information that explains what events brought him to the point where he was declared abandoned and adoptable. He wanted me to read it and I did and explained some of the things he wasn't clear about. He remembers very clearly many of the circumstances described. While he has known some of this information before, some of it was new to him. I think that in the past he really had not seen any reason for him to be adopted. He felt like he was ok and didn't need a mom and dad. Going over some of this information has helped him to better understand where he was and why he is with a new family now.
Juan Pablo has become a "please Mom" and "thank you Mom" boy lately. Yeah!!! He has been spending less time sitting on his bed for refusing to do things. He has also been encouraging Andrew to be good too.
Andrew is fascinated that he has 10 fingers and 10 toes. I'm not sure if we just never mentioned that particular fact to him or it's that he can count and understand what 10 is. Whatever it is, he has been counting them for us recently. He didn't want to eat bologna tonight (which I have discovered they used to eat and love) because it's made of "guts". I also discovered that he has been putting Cheetos in the overflow holes in their bathroom sink. Why? He is just so funny! He is also learning the "2-vowel rule" in reading.
Nothing else exciting that I can think of. Thanks for reading.
Karen
Juan Pablo and Andrew being silly.
We made a cake one night last week just for fun. They decorated it with colored sugar and then we put candles on it and they took turn blowing them out. Whose birthday was it? We don't know - but I'm sure it was someones!
Juan Pablo's lego creation.
We have had about a month of snow. This was the beginning of it. Heavy, wet beautiful snow!
5 comments:
Cheetos in the sink? Funny! Uh, sounds like something my Drew would do. As I read this I was thinking we should get our boys together some time since they are a lot alike, but the destruction might be epic.
Love the Lego "Mom"! And the cheerios in the sink is so funny. How do they ever think of these things?!
Brooke is coming home this weekend for 2 weeks of spring break. So maybe we can work it out for a visit when I take her back!
We do the "go sit on your bed" too. I have to use it almost every night with Claudia. As soon as it is time to go to bed she starts getting very hyper. If I don't make her sit on her bed until her turn to shower, she will work herself up into a complete tizzy and then won't be quiet and go to sleep!
Haha, Andrew is so funny! What happened to the camera is one of those things you'll probably never know, but don't you just wonder what happened and what the thought process behind it was? I am glad to hear that Maicol is getting to the age where he can understand some of these concepts and begin to process them more fully. I love the silly picture. Too cute.
lol; your andrew sounds a lot like my diego! ha! even ben said last night "im so tired of my things getting broken"...in such an exasperated voice!
love the lego mom pic; that would make a cute mothers day card. that had to melt your heart...well, maybe not right after the camera incident, but hey you gotta pic now that you can go back and look and be awed at a later time, right?
love the pics!
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