A friend of mine sent me this clip...check it out. It's pretty funny I think!
http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/128659/Veritas_Ultrasound_HD.html

At night, Michael is so cute. He loves this new Spot's First Easter book where you look for eggs under flaps of paper. The first 2 times we read him the book, we had to show him where the flaps were. Then we didn't read it for 2 nights and we picked it up again last night. Well, our bright little boy went straight for the right flaps on all the pages! I was amazed!

I know I'm his mom and of course I am going to be proud...but I really feel as if Michael's a bright little boy. You only have to show him something once, MAYBE twice and he can mimic you and figure it out if he has the capacity. It is really neat.

And yes, I know he is quite funny looking sometimes and he has a receeding hair line at age 1, but there are times when he is quite the looker and absolutely precious!

Love,
P

Lately, Michael brings me his stuffed penguin animal and actually gives it to me because he likes the voice I make with it and the animation I do with it. I always use the penguin and make it "peck" michael in the chest area and he just thinks it's so funny. He grabs the penguin and hugs it and laughs. It is really adorable.

Michael's Favorite Toys

• Hallmark penguin
• Baby Einstein singing duck
• Fisher Price Blocks
• Singing teddy bear holding a ball
• plush baseball
• winnie the pooh ball
• squeaky rabbit
• pop car
• his books
• drinkable yogurt plastic bottles
• Gerber babyfood plastic containers
• business card wallet
• my wallets/wristlets
• anybody's purse with things in it that he can yank out
• washer
• cabinet next to the oven filled with pots and pans
• Elmo in the Clap Your Hands book. He's enthralled with Elmo's eyeballs
• Paris pratique
• Carte Orange plastic sleeve

Michael's Favorite Books

• My Personal Penguin
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Goodnight Moon
• Spot's First Easter (HE LOVES THIS BOOK right now)
• Good Morning, Good Night - A Touch and Feel Bedtime book
• Playtime Peekaboo
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear
• Le Dinosaure
• Le Pingouin
• Where's That Monkey
• Pat the Bunny

Michael LOVES music. Any time I put one of his CDs on he gets excited and goes to the media cabinet and dances. He can tell the difference b/w his Cds and say, Dave Matthews! ;o)

Today, he started zerberting the couch and laughing.

Michael is really fun and I felt it was time for a much needed update. We were so worn out from America, then we came back, unpacked, then packed up again and headed to Venice, then Brian had 2 business trips sprinkled in there...we finally feel settled back in and I have time to blog again!

Love,

P