A Must Read!

For my birthday I asked Michael for a book - a book that my cousin had mentioned to me once and I had heard about from watching TV. A book that I finished in 1 day because I couldn't put it down. A book that ALL MOTHERS need to read.

The Book --- Louder than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism by Jenny McCarthy.

I decided to read this book because of all the controversy out there about vaccinating your children. And what an eye opening, page turning, heart wrenching experience it was.

I highly recommend it - regardless of the fact that your children are healthy - read it for those mothers you know who have an autistic child, and experience life in their shoes for a while.

First Of Many

I am truely blessed that my child has not been one that has been sick much. Sure, we've had the occassional runny nose and cough, but nothing serious and nothing that merited a prescription. That is up until yesterday. I took him to the doctor since he's been battling a runny nose for a week now and it was starting to look a little yellow. Diagnosis -- a bonafide ear infection! It caught me off guard since he hasn't been pulling his ear or giving me any signs that it may be hurting.

The doctor then asked me if there was any medicine that I preferred she didn't prescribe. Uhhhhh, well no, seeing as he hasn't had to take a prescription before. This stopped her in her tracks. She looked at me and said - "21 months old and he's never had a prescription?" As if I'm gonna lie to the doctor!!! I almost told her if she didn't believe me to look thru his chart - see, she's not our "normal" doctor, he wasn't in, so we had to see one of the partners.

She then said - "since this is his 1st prescription, I'll prescribe the good tasting stuff." Well thanks doc, but shouldn't you do that for all the kids? Not just the ones that have never taken a prescription before. I mean really -- if the "good" stuff was always prescribed a mother's work would be a little less hard -- we wouldn't have to fight our children to get the medicine down. So for now my little man is still a good medicine taker - that is until he gets the "not so good stuff" because it's not his 1st prescription!

That's Daddy's Boy

I wish I would have had a camera taping Mikey this afternoon as I was changing his clothes. His daddy would have watched it over and over! As I slipped a new shirt over his head he looked at himself in the mirror and the animals on the front of the shirt and began his animal sounds. Lion -- ROAR; Giraffe -- he makes a weird nose for the giraffe even though giraffe's don't make noise ---- then the GATOR. Does the gator get a sound - nope - the gator gets a big clap, like he's at a UF football game doing the Gator Chomp. It was priceless and his daddy would have been SO VERY PROUD!

Mikey Likes It!!!!

OK, OK, I swore I would never use that line when I named my child Mikey for fear of scarring him for life BUT he likes it, he really likes it!! School that is! The 1st 3 weeks were rough - he'd cling to my leg and cry when I'd bring him to his classroom and it would break my heart EVERY time - but this week it clicked for him. :)

Tuesday he walked in like a pro - went straight to the teacher and started his little jargon conversation. And today as soon as he was dressed he stood by the garage door doing a little jig like he couldn't wait to get out of the door and to school. I am so happy for my boy -- he has a place to call his own, with his own friends and his own little world. He will definitely need that once baby #2 arrives.

And although it stings to not experience this new part of his life with him, I am happy he is developing a little independence. Mommy is so proud of you Mikey - I love you!

Move Over Picasso

Move over Picasso - I have a new favorite artist - Mr. Mikey Davis!!!! :)

My little man brought home his very 1st art project from school and of course I love it! It is proudly being displayed on the fridge. I can't wait to get more. I know in the next week he will be bringing home another because today he painted and came home covered in orange paint. Taking after his mommy I think in the art department! :)

Sunday Family Outing

Sunday we decided on a little family outing -- a picnic lunch, some bubble blowing & a little soccer playing with daddy. What more could a boy want?

Mikey & Mommy

I'm going for it, Daddy!


Pass it Daddy, I'm open!

Well It's About Time

Today has been one for me that will get recorded in Mikey's baby book - why you may ask -- well let me start with a little history...

When Mikey 1st started babbling he did the normal sounds, dada, mama, ohhhh, ahhhhh - things of that nature. However he soon lost all interest in saying mama. We knew he could say it cause he would let one slip every now and again, but he flat out refused. I got used to it and stopped asking for it.

In the last 6 months or so, my name has become "Da". I get "Daaaaaaaaaaa Dis!" all day long when he would want something. And when people would ask him who I was, the answer is always - Da. If you were to show Mikey a photo with me & Michael in it, I am Da and Michael is DaDa - so at least he distinguished between the two of us.

Now, on to today. I'm probably jinxing myself by writing this blog but oh well. For today - one glorious day - I have been MAMA! It has been wonderful -- Mama dis; Mama eeeezzz; Mama, mama, mama! I have not made a big deal of it cause I know the moment I do I'm back to Da - so I have just gone with the flow. I have, however, repeated it whenever he says it -- "Mama eeezzzz "-- "Yes, that's right Mama, please" -- which hasn't seemed to bother him.

Hopefully this is a new beginning for us. Who knows maybe tomorrow I'll wake up and be Da again - but for one glorious day I got to be Mama for a change and I loved every second! :)