Brady's Bits.....

Haven't had much to share for a while of our conversation snippets, cause when Brady is battling a sinus infection, there's not a lot of conversation going on :) Hopefully we'll get some answers from his CT scan tomorrow.

With my school discouragement and real concern that Brady is actually getting anything out of going there, combined with some really grumpy behavior as of late, which I have decided could be medication related, I decided to just take him to Miss Lulu for the past couple of days. He was so cute there today, he read a couple of phonics books, traced his name, colored, did some patterns, worked on biggest and smallest, did some cutting, did some math worksheets matching groups of objects to numbers, a couple of puzzles, and last of all we played this fun Eric Carle "Head to Toe" game that he loves. For the different cards you follow the directions and do actions to pictures from the book - which has been one of his favorites for years. Some of the cards have other activities to do - Say your name, tell the date, give your friend a high five, do a silly dance, sing Happy Birthday (he LOVES this one! although he's never sure who's birthday it actually is ;), what is your favorite flavor of ice cream etc...

One of the questions is "What is your favorite color?" Once a long time ago, Brady told me his favorite color was yellow. I blogged about it, cause it was so exciting. Well, he hasn't mentioned a favorite color when asked for quite some time, but today he piped up with "ORANGE!" So, apparently his favorite color this year is orange :) It's a good one, I better go get him some orange shirts to reinforce it LOL And, he ought to really like the orange swimshirt he has this year ;) It was fun to hear him answer that question, I hope to hear more answers to open ended questions soon :)

Brady's been asking a lot more questions too. It's not uncommon for him to ask "What's this" or "What's that" or have him point something out and say "LOOK mom!", several times a day now, and he is always excited to get an answer :) He used to just ask so HE could tell you the answer, now he really wants to learn the answers to things he doesn't know :)

And, to make my day - he was working hard and finished something and gave LuLu a big hug, and then he said to her "I give mom a big hug!" and ran over and gave me a big ol' squeeze. I just love this boy so much! How could my life EVER be complete without him? For all the woes with education, I have never ONCE regretted having him in my life. He completes our family, he brings things to it that we would not have if he hadn't come with that little something extra. And, his hugs and smiles of pure joy, his sense of accomplishment when he completes something hard, even if he's fought doing it all the way, is something that most people can only imagine feeling.

I love my little goofy, darling, funny, silly, sometimes a little difficult and stubborn, amazing, wonderful boy!!!!