Pull my finger

I've been teaching Michael his body parts and bodily functions lately. He's been really gassy of late and tooting a lot so I've taught him toot. He can't say it but knows what it means. Today, I was doing some situps on the floor while Phuong was putting his creams on before bed and he runs over and sits on my belly per usual. But then I let out a nice fart, which reverberated off of the wood floors and he laughed and laughed. Then he made his sign for 'more', and I was like look here boy, I'm spent, I've got nothing else, "all done". When that didn't work, he made the sign "just 1 more" with his index finger so I did some more exercises and worked up a good one a bit later. He was a bit aways from me so I held out my finger and when he pulled it, I shot that one off the parquet. He couldn't stop laughing and held out the 1 more sign again but unfortunately I was not up for the challenge and we had to chase each other in a circle and one of us got tickled repeatedly.

New Word

Michael has recently become fascinated with trains. He started calling them "choo choo" even though they're not steam powered. Every time he sees stairs descending into the metro system, he says choo-choo and cries if we don't go down to look at the trains. When we're waiting for the train to come, he gets really excited and says choo-choo until the train comes to a stop. If you even say the word choo-choo, he'll say it about 15 times in a row. Today he saw a real train on the way to Giverny and an animal farm which got him really excited.

We went to IKEA this evening to get some baby security items and he found the toy train. We had to pull him off of it and bought him one for his birthday. It's not as nice as a Brio but it only cost 11 Euro and he loved this one anyway.

Tuesday we're going to the Jardin d'Acclimatation north of the Bois de Boulogne. They have one of those mini trains like at Hermann Park in Houston so I imagine I'll be out 30 Euro in train tickets. Maybe he'll be happy just to look at it longingly from afar.