You started back at Nancy's daycare this week - it is you and two other kiddos. Tyler and Tatiyana. You seem to have adjusted well to being back there... Probably better than I did!  I was soooo bummed out Sunday night at the thought; Amber has been so great with you...I wanted you to stay with her. However, like I said...you are perfectly fine and happy as ever being back with Nancy! 

Daddy and Mama signed up for life insurance the other night... It's scary and terrible to think about...but we want you to be protected regardless. After losing Ma...you can never be too safe. That's why I have also signed up to be assessed for my risk of breast cancer; Mama is considered high risk because of Ma's young age at her diagnosis...so I am taking all steps to prevent it as much as possible. I'm going to the clinic in October to be tested for the "breast cancer gene" and will take additional steps if necessary. Also, I've started dieting and exercising like crazy bc that prevents cancer risk. As of today...I am down eighteen pounds since May!  I'm doing it for you, little mister!!!! 

More positive notes... You continue to crack us up constantly!  You loooove putting in performances. Sometimes you pretend like you're "sad" until we ask you and then you bust up laughing. Also, you love "meeting people."  You shake people's hands and love when we say "Nice to meet ya sir!"  You laugh and laugh. 

You can recognize a star and a triangle!  We still work on new words and animal sounds...but we've also started shapes and colors. You are doing pretty spectacular!  

Boy, oh boy. You are such a toddler these days. :) You are in the stage where you love to explore, touch, eat, jump, run, throw... Any and every thing is subject to your path of destruction!  The dog's water bowl has been dumped over hundreds of times, things have been thrown in the toilet, you have stood and jumped on the coffee table, you have pushed the water dispenser on the refrigerator so it sprays every where, you pull every thing out of the drawers, you chase and torture the dogs, you climb every where.... You're just a complete and total toddler boy.  Don't get me wrong, I find a lot of it funny. I try not to let you know that...but it is so hard to not laugh when you're being purely ornery. You aren't being bad...you're just a normal toddler doing silly things.  In the same breath...you're still very much a little baby boy.  You still cuddle with me a lot... I hope you never outgrow that.  Mama loves her baby boy and I don't want you to ever get too big for me. 

You played "Where's Lathan?" with Daddy tonight and you'd jump out from underneath the blanket and say "There he is!" It is so clear and so stinking cute... You're first actual sentence.  

Current words: Mama, Daddy, dog, duck. Quack, don't, lets go, stop, no, shoe, sock, There he is, goat, wa-wa (water) stuck, truck, car, Dave, aCoy (MaCoy) star & more. 

I am sure there are others but that's all I can remember right now.  I really do think you learn something new everyday... Whether it's a new word, or a new task like "brushing your teeth" on your own or "brushing your hair" without any help... It's just so neat to see your little mind constantly at work.